HOCKING VALLEY. a SOG 
The following table of the analyses of the coals from this neighbor- 
hood will sufficiently indicate their character : 
1. ae 3. 4. 5. 6. 
Specific gravity ....---- 1.300 1.295 1.313 1.323 1.299 1.306 
Moisture) 2---/---------- 5.60 4.95 5.06 4.68 6.42 5.34 
Ashes scasieca see tesec' 2.03 5.29 6.70 5.96 5.04 5.09 
Volatile comb. matter .. 29.92 31.05 30.86 31.28 33.87 31.40 
Fixed carbon .......... 62.45 58.75 07.36 |- 58.06 54.17 58.17 
Motalvenss sae ccis cose 100.00 100.00 99.98 99.93 100.00 100.00 
Salphur 252 2k 0.79 0.64 1.10 0.77 0.89 0.88 
Sulphursinicokemes cis. clsecisiooece 0.54 0.54 OST. Peeks sek Pe ae 
Permanent gas)---- --- 5 -| <<< 2. --.- 3.60 3.30 SHI) IooSoduSudd 3.48 
No. 1, Benjamin Saunders’s bank. 
No. 2, average 2 samples, A. Saunders. 
No. 3, average 12 samples, Richter’s bank. 
No. 5, average 5samples, Sands’s bank. 
No. 6, average of all the above. 
Professor Andrews says, in regard to these analyses: ‘The samples 
analyzed were all selected by myself, and my sole aim was to secure such 
samples as most fairly represented the seam. In some cases, each foot of 
coal in the vertical range is represented by a sample.” 
If my conclusions are correct as to the true relations of the coals about 
Moxahala, a local section there would differ from the general one given 
above, in this respect: the Great Vein (lower part) would be reduced to 
four feet seven inches; the sandy shales above increased to some fifty 
feet, and patches of coal inserted above and at the base of the Mahoning 
sandstone. 
THE NORRIS COAL. 
At an average elevation of about forty-five feet above the Great Vein, 
is a coal which, in all its characteristics, bears a great resemblance to 
Coal No. 6 in other parts of the State. It is here regarded as No. 6a. 
Going south from New Lexington, it makes its first appearance near 
Moxahala, above the Mahoning sandstone, and has been mined for many 
years near the little village of Oakfield. It extends southward through 
this field, but in places, as in the Akron Iron Company property, seems 
to be cut out, and its horizon is occupied by massive sandstone; and again, 
in other places, it passes into a bituminous shale or disappears alto- 
gether. Its best exposure is at the old Norris bank, near Millertown, 
which has given it its name. The following is a section of the coal, in- 
cluding strata: 
