. Cassier's magazine. THROUGH THE PULASKI COAL FIELD all operations except those at New Riverhave been practically abandoned. Thecoal, as shown by chemical analysis andits physical characteristics, has rather astriking resemblance to the deposits inthe Lykens Valley region of Pennsyl-vania. In fact, it is almost impossibleto tell the two apart. Its lustre is notso great, however, as the usual run ofPennsylvania coal, nor is the fracture sodecidedly concoidal. It is more tenderand carries more volatile combustible,but it gives absolutely no smoke, exceptwith very careless firing; chimneys areen
. Cassier's magazine. THROUGH THE PULASKI COAL FIELD all operations except those at New Riverhave been practically abandoned. Thecoal, as shown by chemical analysis andits physical characteristics, has rather astriking resemblance to the deposits inthe Lykens Valley region of Pennsyl-vania. In fact, it is almost impossibleto tell the two apart. Its lustre is notso great, however, as the usual run ofPennsylvania coal, nor is the fracture sodecidedly concoidal. It is more tenderand carries more volatile combustible,but it gives absolutely no smoke, exceptwith very careless firing; chimneys areentirely free from soot, and the ash iswhite, though in some places there issufficient iron to give it a reddish ordinary domestic uses there is littleor no clinkering except where fires arevery heavily forced. Certain constit-uents of the ash seem to melt and formjust the right amount of clinker to givesatisfactory results for steam boiler chemical composition is shown by VIRGINIA ANTHRACITE COAL IN THE MINE the following results obtained from sam-ples selected by the writer:— Price Mountain BrushMountain Pulaski Per cent. Per cent. Per cent Volatile Combusti- ble and Moisture. Fixed Carbon. 79 6 The above represents average resultsobtained from analysis made by thewriter and by Prof. Robert C. Price, ofthe Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Thecoal seems to carry a considerableamount of occluded gases; but only atone point, viz., on the south side ofPrice Mountain, at Merrimac Mines, hasfire-damp been discovered to an ap-preciable extent. The coal outcrops on the flank of themountain, usually pretty well towardsthe top. So far, five seams have beendiscovered, running in thickness aboutas follows:—No. i, 5}4 feet; No. 2, 2feet 3 inches; No. 3, 6 inches; No. 4,4^ inches; and No. 5, 2 inches. is mined in the Price Mountain field;but in the Brush Mountain and Pulaskifield both No. 1 and No. 2 seams
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