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where it may be worked from Carrollton to the county line without 
difficulty. The bed varies somewhat in thickness, but seldom falls below 
four feet, often reaching five and occasionally even six feet. It is rarely 
of bad quality, but for the most part contains too much pyrites to be em- 
ployed in the manufacture of gas or, unless washed before coking, in iron 
smelting. The coke is usually compact, so that there 1s every encourage- 
ment to test its value, washed, as soon as an outlet is afforded. In the 
Sandy Creek valley the bed is generally too thin to be of much impor- 
tance, but in some localities, in Brown and Augusta townships, it attains 
a thickness of four to four and a half feet, and the quality is good. 
The following is an analysis of R. B. Hamilton, Brown township—No. 
1, upper bench, No. 2, lower bench: 
No. 1. No. 2. 
STOOGING GIANT 55650065504 660605 cdades 056000 6oa000 S065 Taye} 1.281 
WIOTEAUNRS SEUSS ee Lee Bue abo ear DSO eO re acr ene eae 2.70 3.00 
INV SOs NECN Ste G5 8 a art SSS Ree ease Ree 8.40 3.00 
Volatile combustible matter -...--....2--.-.-.-----...- 33.90 33.00 
Morel GAAOKOMN sooesdbad4 S655 onasieSoosd ao USoeIG ob Sea BEeae 55.00 61.00 
100.00 100.00 
Sully aunnpeere acre Peete Satna Ntsc eye cists Favors veinale selene 6.12 1.76 
Sulphur left in coke ..--..--....-.--.-..----------.---- 3.43 0.85 
Saliphunstornminoesotqunencoke mass sei eesiee eerie eee es ea 5.41 1.32 
CaS TEP OWING, Tn CMOS 1d cc seca dassades sdedon souade 3.40 3.64 
DANS IADR ae tonite re ders yey Cia aVavave yee lavave jan a(tic uilehatav tater aelGhad feng 2ShSNs Brown. White. 
GOK® scseco soedaassss 6060 6000 600000 onaGoe dsb506 64a seEK Compact. Compact. 
The coal mined by Mr. Davis, six miles south-east of Minerva, has the 
reputation of being the best mined in the vicinity. 
Ivon.—In the shale underlying the Crinoidal limestone in Union, Lee, 
Center, and Monroe townships, there is always more or less iron ore, 
sometimes plate, sometimes blackband, but usually in small nodules or 
evenly disseminated throughout the mass, which is often twenty feet 
thick. When concentrated in one layer, the ore is rarely more than four 
or six inches thick, and of by no means good quality. One can not fail 
to regret that so many reckless assertions have been made respecting this 
ore. Wandering geniuses, anxious to acquire a fleeting reputation for 
knowledge, have gone into ecstasies over this mass of dark shale, and 
have pronounced it the finest exposure of blackband that they had ever 
witnessed. In the neighborhood of Cannonsburg and other villages 
intense excitement has been aroused by these statements, whereas the 
