HOCKING VALLEY. 683s 
No. 83 gives the average of eighteen samples from this seam, in the 
immediate valley of the Hocking and about Straitsville. 
No. 4, an analysis of the Ashland, Kentucky, furnace coal. 
No. 5, an analysis of the Brazil, Indiana, furnace coal. 
1 2 3. | 4 5 
WLC Teer iene cee yaa ot kt 3.85 4.59 6.22 6.65 5.46 
INS Sc5 Eo te 6.94 6.01 | 4.66 4.53 1.80 
Wolanilorcombustiplonmattonn are: 33.61 | 32.50 | 32.55 | 34.54)| 38.75 
PKC CICAT DOM ssc Mal naeetes says aicsteraets 59.60 56.88 56.57 54.28 53.99 _ 
Moralseee eee c neem tenes o. 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 100.00 
Sulla ty eee el Ll 0.96 O22 | Os TOTAL ONT 
Sulphur remaining in coke........-.. 0.40 0.46 hae es RN Sa besscace 
Gas per pound (cubic feet).......-.- 3.38 4.43 Si OU ss Carers ats esr epee 
As the analyses, condensed in column No. 1, are from chips brought 
up in the sand pump from drilled wells, it 1s quite probable the amount 
of ash is increased by the presence of shale from the roof of the coal. 
In all other respects the coal is fully up to the standard of this coal, and 
it will. be observed that there is an important improvement in the di- 
minished amount of combined water. The sulphur is also quite low, 
and the greater part of it passes off in the volatile matter, leaving a ccke 
almost free from this impurity. The analysis o! the borings from the 
well on Green Run, showed 0.60 per cent. of su) phur, while there re- 
mains in the coke only 0.054 per cent. 
The following is the result of the analysis of a specimen from the 
lower bench of the Shaft coal, made by Spencer B. Newberry: 
DS COS ASR INE RCEY 5 IS: yey eres Sh a Ae aR Se oO 6.11 
Volatile gonatoresfiy SPOKE LS) bens ea te Si Re hia yc Es ais eg lant lant 35.22 
VOB SEL GaN OY OD aires A ae A NN a ag yO gS IGG CP Bi) 
INET OY, SEES es Ras aes ee Eo CER RUE eC Re ARC NT A NN 7.48 
100.00 
SOUY OPTI O O m etsy a SR rats ECs ESE Ores ts CLAP Dn ete as Pa ER 1.02 
In the coke used in the Cleveland iron district, asia Mr. Bell re- 
ports the average amount of sulphur to be about 0.60 per cent., or nearly 
twelve times as much as that remaining in the Green Run coke. 
All the wells sunk in this field, disclose the coal at its proper horizon, 
and there are no indications of erosion. At Chauncy, it has been mined 
by a shaft 100 feet deep, for more than thirty years, is from six to seven 
