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This shows a ‘coal very high in both ash and sulphur, and very low 
in fixed carbon. Such a coal can not successfully compete with coals 
having from 50 to 57 per cent. of fixed carbon, 3 to 7 per cent. of 
ash, and from 1 to 2 per cent. of sulphur. The roof is usually a 
tough shale, making, when properly treated, a very good cover. Some- 
times there is a thin coal just above the main seam that is left for roof. 
The coal is high enough to be drained without the use of machinery, 
but usually a layer of hard white limestone is found in drain trenches 
at 1 to 4 ft. under the coal. 
The coal mines fairly well, and will bear considerable handling. 
Most of the mines visited were small country banks that were scarcely 
driven in beyond the outcrop coal. Through most of the second district 
there is a bone coal or tough streak, from 2” to 6” thick, near the center 
of the seam, which, if not carefully picked out, seriously injures the 
coal by increasing the ash and sulphur. Beginning on the Muskingum, 
and following the Meigs Creek coal south-west through the First dis- 
trict to the Ohio river, we find it often wanting, and at other places thin 
and of little value. It sometimes thickens to a few feet over one or 
two sections, but does not hold far. The coal crosses the Muskingum 
river at McConnellsville, Morgan county. It is here from 23 to 3 feet 
thick, and is 250 feet above the Ames or Crinoidal limestone, and 82 
feet above the:Pittsburgh, which is here 28” thick. 
In the southern part of Malta township, Morgan comm, the mark 
of the Meigs Creek coal is found on the highest ridges, but it has never 
been opened. The Pittsburgh coal is quite thin through this township. 
Through Union township, Morgan county, the Meigs Creek coal is 
found as a strong coal mark, at 90 or 100 ft. above the coal, which is 
here reported 30 inches thick. There is a small coal found between 
the Pittsburgh and Meigs Creek coals. 
Through Penn township traces of the Meigs Creek and higher 
coals are found, but neither of the seams has been opened. 
Nothing of the Meigs Creek coal was found through Homer town- 
ship, although the ground is high enough to hold it. 
