HOCKING VALLEY COAL FIELD. 947 
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STRUCTURE OF MIDDLE KITTANNING COAL(N%) 
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The additional coal is here bony and inferior, and it is separated from 
the normal seam by 8 inches of clay and shale. The line between the 
two phases of the seam is thus seen to pass through this property. The 
coal of these mines, coming almost entirely from the lower benches of 
the seam, has a good name in market, but it does not mine as large 
nor show as much strength as the coal of adjoining sections. 
The Furnace Coal Company’s territory, known commonly as the 
Manly mine, lies directly east of the New York mines, and shares in 
the general character of that property, except that a larger proportion 
of it contains the thicker coal. The line of division is found in the 
entries of this mine also. In the southern portion of its land, the seam 
acquires its full volume and value. 
The Shawnee Valley and the Fannie Furnace mines are next 
reached. Both of them hold the Great Vein in good condition. The 
body of coal that begins here and that oceupies Sections 21 and 22 of 
Salt Lick township, has been worked almost continuously through Sec- 
tions 19, 20, 27, 28 and 29 of Coal township. Within these limits are 
eight large mines, and they unquestionably send out the best coal for 
lake shipment that at present is reached in the entire field. On the 
Shawnee side of the ridge, the mines are the two named above, together 
with the N ewark, the XX Furnace, and the Upson mines. The double 
seam is here, in some respects, at its best. There is less waste in the 
coal than at any other point where it reaches 10 feet or more in thick- 
ness. Aside from the regular slates, there is not more than a foot to be 
