HOCKING VALLEY COAL FIELD. 969 
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The thickness of the mineable part of the seam is thus seen to 
range between 6 and 7 feet. As usual, a band of about 6 inches 
directly above the second slate needs to be rejected. This portion is 
here not only soft, but is also whitened with sulphates. No account 
whatever is made of the upper portions of the seam. The cannel is 
in a few places curly and clear, but generally it is very coarse and 
slaty. The rider seam is also altogether worthless. 
The Helen Furnace mine at Orbiston does not thus far come quite 
up to the best records of the valley. The sandstone has proved intru- 
sive in many of the workings, cutting down the coal to 5 or 54 feet. 
There is, however, a large acreage on this property where the coal is 
undoubtedly of standard proportions and quality. 
4, THe NELSONVILLE DISTRICT. 
Under this head a brief account will be given of the remaining 
mines of the Hocking Valley field. A few of these are in reality 
located in the Monday Creek Valley, but their coal comes from the 
same body that has been so long worked and so widely known as the 
Nelsonville coal. In some cases the entries of the Nelsonville mines 
have been driven through the hill to Monday Creek Valley, and the 
works established in the latter are merely removing the coal more con- 
veniently than by the original entries. The number of separate mines 
in this district is larger than in the previously named divisions of the 
field. Not less than 20 mines are equipped as shipping banks, but some 
of them have but a small output. The leading mines of the district 
-are the following : 
The Lick Run Mines. The Longstreth Mine (C. & H. C. & I. Co.) 
‘The Laurel Hill Mine. The Brier Hill Mine. 
W. B. Brooks & Sons’ Mines. The L. D. Mine. 
C. L. Poston & Co.’s Mine. The Floodwood Mines. 
The Nelsonville Mining Co.’s Mine. The Hamley Run Mine. 
Johnson Bros. & Patterson’s Mine. 
