686 # GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
that it will be seen that the coal of the Great Vein of the Hocking Val- 
ley and that of the upper or Bayley’s Run seam are more than ordinarily 
free from sulphur.” 
This coal in a raw state will be found an excellent fuel for all domestic 
and manufacturing purposes where its melting character is not objec- 
tionable, and it gives promise of furnishing a better coke than any other 
coal in the state. Experiments have been made in a small way by coking 
it in a single new oven not thoroughly dried, at Shawnee, and under 
these unfavorable circumstances, the product was a hard, bright metallic 
coke, evidently containing little sulphur, which is highly commended 
by good judges of coke. The following is the analysis of it, made by 
S. B. Newberry: 
Garboneeeesweee ee eruerree aie BHO DOO MO DISCO OH EOS HHO OkS Saabas packers en es 86.95 
INN se sGo cosa odods on ocusibnemaoumodu radon GoUotE wi eye Sete Sib ie ewerere Sectetettetatance 13.05 
CRG heal ease eee Meh ye LY Seat Sat oa ae ae Feld al eS ao ea Roar Senne pay ener 100.00 
Sulphur .----- -----+ 2-2-2 ene ee ee eee er cons ee ee eee ee wees 1.68 
This specimen shows a larger percentage of sulphur than the average 
analysis of the coal would indicate, and probably larger than the average 
of the coke. : 
So thoroughly persuaded is Prof. Andrews, who has carefully explored 
this region, of the excellent coking character of this coal, that he says 
he is inclined to believe that in the future the Bayley’s Run coal in the 
Lower Sunday Creek region will be even more valuable than the great 
seam underlying it. It has been mined for local consumption in some 
half dozen places, and in all of them appears of excellent quality. 
Above the Bayley’s Run coal are several thin seams of coal, none of 
which have been specially explored, and none of them disclosing out- 
crops which give promise of a workable thickness until the Pittsburgh 
coal is reached. The latter belongs to the upper Coal Measures, and is 
found in the hills east of Sunday Creek at an elevation a little less than 
five hundred feet above the Great Vein. It ranges in thickness from four 
to eight feet, is a soft, melting coal with a high heating power, but con- 
taining apparently a rather large per centage of sulphur. Its character 
and location will prevent its being mined, except for local consumption, 
for very many years. There is doubtless much valuable coal on this hort- 
zon, but it constitutes a part of the reserve supply for consumption in 
the indefinite future, when the more valuable coals are approaching 
exhaustion. 
IRON ORES. 
Prof. J. P. Weethee, who lives near the town site of Ewing, has de- 
voted much time to the study of the iron ores of the lower Sunday Creek 
