HOCKING VALLEY COAL FIELD. - 9F9 
looked for. The Lick Run mine has lately passed into the hands of 
W. P. Rend & Co., on a long lease. 
South of Meee Run and west of the river the seam rarely 
yields more than 5 feet of clean coal, and it is found increasingly 
liable to trouble in this direction. There are many fine bodies of coal 
that will give a long and prosperous life to the mines established and 
to be established in them, but the sandstone is much more apt to 
descend, and thus reduce and deteriorate the coal than in the northern 
portions of the field. In the vicinity of Floodwood, on both sides of 
the river, a good deal of harm has been wrought to the seam in this 
way, and still large and valuable bodies are intact. 
Figure CX, which follows, shows the structure of the coal in the 
New Floodwood mine on the east side of the river. This mine was 
opened to supply the furnaces that have lately been built here, but, as 
they have not been put in blast, a small output has gone forward to the 
general market. The coal is reached by a shaft of about 30 feet. 
FXYGURE OX 
SLERUGIURE OF NEESONVILEE GOALAT 
HOCKING COAL &!I RON CO'S 
FLOODWOGD MINE, — AT FURNACE. 
UGH aes OU aca en pagee een penne 
Coal-upper baeneGhi ssc eee 
Decl cineca) (cB = 9 ae a ec ea ee RR 
Coal-upper 4mches bony — - 
ASS G * SES LCE oye a al i I UY ek 
Canl—bottom benéh_— — - — 
The structure represented is the average of the measurements 
in three rooms and one entry, as furnished by Mr. J. H. Mullins, 
manager. The coal appears to show a different distribution between 
the two lower benches from that which generally obtains. This mine, 
as far as worked, has been found subject to considerable irregularities. 
The coal runs down at the top, through the intrusion of sandstone. 
The removal of the whole of the top bench is not unusual in the main 
entry as far as it has been driven. No fault can be found with the 
