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Show Coal in the Philippines. The coal measurer, are made up of aller-natlltg aller-natlltg beds of shules, sandstones, clays and black lignite or llgnlto-bltumlnous coal, bf Bides a few small bands of limestone lime-stone In their lower horizon. As many as five 'lift' rant beds of fuel have been 1 distinguished. These measures Increase In thickness, hut apparently grow more and more barren of coal toward the north shore, A little southwest of Calanuga bay the eastern one of the two major Indentations In-dentations on the north shore, a Spanish I company has operated within the past ten years, llrst mining coal by nie.-tii-. ..i i -pt hhIvc Spanish labor, and later (11X13-4) with the help of Japanese Here the maximum thickness of coal seams exam- ' Ined Is about five feet, but near the south shore, toward the western end Of the Island, Isl-and, twenty feet of coal was penetrated by a drill: and at the apex of the anticline on the (Jrgera pertenencia thi re is an ab-i.ormal ab-i.ormal accumulation of over thirty feet of mineral fuel. However, the greatest normal nor-mal thickness of any seam on the Island, im ii.su red at the surface by me, did not exceed eight fe'et. Of the Just-slated thickness at t ho outcrop out-crop was the 'HIk Tree" seam, from which B sample jpl of ten tons gave highly high-ly satisfactory results when thoroughly i tested on board the United States army transport Wright, late in April Compared Com-pared with the "Klshlma" coal from Japan, Ja-pan, tried almost simultaneously under Identical conditions, the Patau ,,,,4I was found to contain i per cent mor lump I to produce the same speed of 1.1.3 knots per ton P' l' hour, to yield less dark smoke, and to leave no linkers Instead of many, ' and only l.n per tent of dry refuse in- stead of 19 per cent. There was also less I work Involved In firing with the Batan I fuel, owing to Its superior cleanliness .,w I ash content, and little waste. o. H. Reinholt In Engineering Magazine. |