Boone County, Part 1

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Page 560 - BTU, represents the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit in temperature.
Page 560 - Along both the proximate and ultimate analysis is also given the BTU result as well as the ratio of the total carbon to the oxygen plus ash. It has only recently been insisted upon that oxygen has about the same deteriorating effect as ash in all coal and the above mentioned ratio, proposed by Dr.
Page 581 - Total 100.37 There often appears a stratum of fire clay over the Williamson Coal, varying in thickness from 1 to 3 feet. The section measured in the WP Croft Opening (330) on page 373 of this Report, gives the thickness of the fire clay as 3 feet. Underlying the Cedar Grove Coal, there usually occurs a soft bed of gray fire clay from 1 to 3 feet in thickness. This clay is mined in order to increase the height of the haulways where the coal bed is thin. Since it is soft, it is easily mined and removed...
Page 200 - Sandstone. Bakerstown (Barton) Coal. Pine Creek (Cambridge) Limestone. Buffalo Sandstone. Brush Creek Limestone. Brush Creek Coal. Upper Mahoning Sandstone. Mahoning Coal. Lower Mahoning Sandstone.
Page 44 - Chimney Rock" columns on the summits 50-80 905 Shale, dark gray 0-10 915 Coal. Coalburg, multiple bedded, splinty layers sometimes containing cannel coal on top 5-10 925 Fire clay, impure and sandy shale 0- 20 945 Coal, Little Coalburg 0- 3 948 Thickness Total Feet. Feet. Shale and Impure fire clay...
Page 209 - Shale sandy, iron ore lenses... . . .' 1 6 Coal cannelly visible . 1' 2" Coal, soft (dark slate floor) . . .3 1 . . . 4 3 The writer collected a sample (898H) of the bottoi bench at the above opening for analysis, the composition of which, as reported by Messrs. Hite and Krak, is published in the table of coal analyses at the end of this Chapter under No. 965. The results show a high-grade coal as regards the sulphur, phosphorus, and ash content, but about 11 per cent. more volatile matter and 500...
Page 23 - Observer.] NOTE. — Relation of gage height to discharge probably not affected by Ice during 1911.
Page 582 - Possibly the best road materials within the county are the gravel deposits along the valley of Coal River and its branches, principally at the mouths of tributary streams. These gravel and sand deposits, if placed on the roads, will make good road material, as has already been proved in several of the counties of West Virginia. BUILDING STONES. The sandstones of Boone County should furnish an almost inexhaustible supply of fair building material. The following is a list in descending order of the...
Page 621 - Gordon East up West Fork to Browns Branch (Single Spur Line). Feet. Gordon, north side of West Fork, 1000 feet east of junction of West Fork and Pond Fork into Little Coal River, in rock; copper bolt stamped "USGS-808...
Page 1 - June 15, 1914. PART I. The History and Physiography of Boone County. CHAPTER I. THE HISTORICAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT. LOCATION AND HISTORY. The portion of the State of West Virginia discussed in detail in this Report, Boone County, lies between the parallels of 37° 45' and 38° 15' North latitude, and the meridians 81° 30' and 82° 00' West longitude from Greenwich.

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