EXHIBIT 25






                                POWER OF ATTORNEY




                                                                      Exhibit 25

                          ATLAS AMERICA PUBLIC #9 LTD.
                                POWER OF ATTORNEY


KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned officers and/or
directors of Atlas Resources, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation which has
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, under the provisions of
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, a Registration Statement on Form SB-2
relating to certain securities of Atlas America Public #9 Ltd., constitutes
and appoints James R. O'Mara and Tony C. Banks, his/her true and lawful
attorney-in-fact, with full power of substitution and resubstitution and with
full power to act without another, for him/her and in his/her name, place and
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign such Registration Statement, and
any and all amendments, including pre-effective amendments and post-effective
amendments thereto, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and
other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission and all states and other jurisdictions wherein such Registration
Statement and amendments thereto may be filed for securities compliance
measures, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them
full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as he/she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying
and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or his/her
substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.


                                     
Dated:    August 17, 2000                   /s/ James R. O'Mara
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                                           James R. O'Mara, President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director


Dated:    August 17, 2000                   /s/ Tony C. Banks
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                                           Tony C. Banks, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and a Director

Dated:    August 17, 2000                   /s/ Michael L. Staines
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                                           Michael L. Staines, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer


Dated:    August 17, 2000                   /s/ Frank P. Carolas
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                                           Frank P. Carolas, Vice President of Land and Geology


Dated:    August __, 2000
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                                           Jeffrey C. Simmons, Vice President of Operations


Dated:    August 17, 2000                   /s/ Barbara J. Krasnicki
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                                           Barbara J. Krasnicki, Secretary