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WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

1907

Brooke County

Page184

The Pittsburgh Coal in Brooke County

These are NOTES only, not the complete information found in this record. The detailed records give the analyses and structure of the various mines. This book is in the Wellsburg library, on the open shelf, in the reference section.

  1. Two miles and a quarter south of Wellsburg and fourteen miles north of Wheeling is located the BIG FOUR mine of the BROWN COAL COMPANY, 340 feet above the Ohio river. A.B. Brady measured the section of the coal of this mine.
  2. The structure of the LEWIS MINE, one half mile south of Wellsburg and 335 feet above the river is given by A.P. Brady.
  3. In southeastern Brooke county the Pittsburgh coal outcrop goes under Buffalo Creek about a mile east of Bethany. The coal has been mined for many years in this vicinity and the mines supply the farmers of southeastern Brooke and northeastern Ohio county with fuel
  4. One-half mile southeast of Bethany on the BARCLAY farm on CASTLEMAN run is a mine operated by FRITZ DOWDEN.
  5. The JAMES BELL mine is located three-fourths mile east of Bethany on the little run to the north of the pike.
  6. BETHANY COLLEGE owns a mine just back of the campus and at the western edge of town. This mine was locked at the time visited and count not be examined. An attempt was made to secure an average sample from the blocks on a recent dump at the mine platform and the following analyses were made from this material etc
  7. The Pittsburgh coal at the TAYLOR mine on the CALVIN BECK farm on the south side of Buffalo creek, one mile southwest of Bethany
  8. The Pittsburgh coal mine of T.W. CARMICHAEL is 162 feet above the Bethany pike level and three miles southeast of Wellsburg and one-half mile south of Pierce run.
  9. A small mine has been opened in the Pittsburgh coal on the MATTHEW HINDMAN farm, one mile up PIERCE run, east of the Bethany Pike, three miles southeast of Bethany, and a mile and a quarter northeast of the Carmichael mine.
  10. One mile east of Wellsburg on the Waynesburg pike on the FRANK JACOBS farm is a mine operated by J.C. CRAM, one of the pioneer coal operators of the Ohio valley. Mr. Cram has made a model mine and employs five miners in the winter, the mine output amounting to 7,000 tons a year, which is hauled to Wellsburg and used at the RIVERSIDE glass plant and for household fuel. The mine is 996 feet above mean tide level, and has been opened 14 years. The main entry is driven 1,000 feet under the hill and has numerous lateral workings.
  11. The TOM BROWN mine is located on the WILSON farm one-half mile northeast of the Cram mine, one mile and a quarter east of Wellsburg.
  12. The GILCHRIST mine, located one mile north of Lazearville, Brooke county was measured by A.P. Brady
  13. The REX CARBON COAL of Pittsburgh PA opened a mine in 1905 just south of Wabash railroad, one mile west of the state line, and nearly opposite the mouth of PARMAR run. The mine is 125 feet below the top of the hill. It employs 150 people, the daily capacity is 500 to 600 tons and the mine is connected with railroad by a short switch.
  14. One mile north of the Rex mine, near the forks of farm road and county road to west of Parmar run is the SEESE MINE, 275 feet above the level of Cross Creek and employing one or tow miners in the winter season
  15. The ADDISON BARNES mine is on the WHITSETT farm one-fourth mile north of the Wabash railroad, on the county road just east of Ebenezer run. The structure of the Pittsburgh coal at this mine is similar to the Seese mine.
  16. Mr. JOHN MC KIM operates a mine in the Pittsburgh coal one-half mile east of the Ohio river near Fairy Glen, opposite the city of Steubenville.
  17. The LEWIS MENTOR mine, east of Wheeling Junction, and one-half mile from the river.
  18. J.J. Swearingen has opened a mine on his farm just north of Brooke Hancock line, near the county road, one mile and a quarter east of Holliday's Cove.
  19. The P.T. Freshwater mine is located one mile north of Colliers town, just north of the little farm road to east from county road.