1058 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
A feet of the seam are represented here. The third samples come from 
the Russell Brothers’ mine, already referred to, and represent the 
southernmost extension of the basin that is now worked. All of the 
seam is represented in this analysis, and the samples are the only ones 
that do full justice to the mine from which they were taken, as they 
came from solid coal under deep cover. 
Waterloo Coal—Lord (Sampled by C. N. Brown). 
No. 1. Charles Neal’s. 
No. 2. Thomas Cooper’s. 
No. 3. Russell Brothers. 
iL 2. 3. 
INEOISt UTR REE oe ts Re Be Se ee 6.44 6.98 7.13 
OEMS GON OTE AONE TNARIETE 505000060000 000000000000 000000008 37.56 36.65 35.52 
HX GGHCAT DON Micecarcss toasts ctecseesedesecesnseceseulecsosenssens 49,42 50.14 49.64 
UNITY depends een eC 80de 1086000 HER I50000E00G00IIII3 GOS OGCIOOUSGUGSO 6.58 6.23 7.71 
Total ees ees eR OS, Sel Sane Bea es ae 100.00 | 100.00 100.00 
S.cDRETAWU? cconnecaoacecospe00% mien bite eae 1.16 0.57 | 0.56 
These results are very gratifying and assuring. Although the 
moisture and ash are higher than in most of our best coals, they do not 
exceed the percentages in the Jackson Shaft seam. In sulphur, the 
Waterloo seam runs as low as any other Ohio coal, being very much 
freer than the coal of any other Freeport basin in the State. It is an 
open-burning seam, at least sufficiently so to give promise of its suc- 
cessful application to iron smelting, in the raw state. Actual trial is, 
of course, necessary to determine this adaptation, but it seems probable 
that this field is the one on which the failing iron manufacture of Law- 
rence county can depend for a new lease of life. No coal south of the 
Monday Creek field shows so little sulphur. | 
Several railroad surveys have been directed to the Waterloo Coal 
Field within the last few years, but none of them has advanced beyond 
the preliminary stages of road building. When the proper time comes, 
and proper facilities for distribution are secured, it is safe to predict 
that this last of the Upper Freeport basins of the State will make an 
jmportant contribution to our coal supply. 
