Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-25
The Coal ShIpments.


There was a decrease of 53,364 tons in
1882, in the movement of splint and block
Goals, those of the kanawaha region proper,
where there are improved facilities for
river transportation; this reduced the net
increase of 1882 over 1881 to III, ,47i tons
gain of very nearly % per cent The gain
in camel was over - per cent, in gas coal
nearly 81 per cent, in New River coal over
35, and in coke about 10 per cent.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Com
pany have been making large accessions
to their rolling stock to enable them to do
their steadily increasing business. On
the road between Huntington and New
port News, they have l53 locomotives, 80
| passenger coaches, 6 sleeping coaches 20
| baggage, mail and other cars, 1856 coke cars,
22O HAT cars and 200 caboose aud other cars.
A number Of locomotives have been or
dered and new coal cars will constantly be
added.
In the New River district are found the
following works:
The LOngdale Iron Company.
The large mines and coke works OF this
company were opened up about eight years
ago at Sewell, rapidly growing little viii
lage near the middle of the New River coal
field. The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
people have found business increasing so
steadily in this field that they found it
necessary to put in turn table here and
place a shifter on day and night to make
up the trains from the works between this
point and Hawks Nest.
Fire Creek Coal and Coke Company.
This company was the first, after Mr..
John Nuttall, to open up mines for ship
ping coal and manufacturing coke, three
miles above Sewell. They are reached by
an incline 400 feet long. A fine large
coal bin, holding $50 tons, was built at the
foot of the mountain, from which the rail
road cars are loaded, and the sixty ovens
strung along the mountain side are fed.
The coal runs from two feet ten inches TO
four feet. The miners receive fifty cents
per ton. About 26O men are employed.
The Echo ColIiery.
One mile farther up the road Beury,
Cooper Il Co. opened up during the past
year fine large mine, under the general
management Of Mr.. J. N. Myles. The first
shipments were made on the 2lst OF Octo-
Der last. Their opening into the coal is
reached by a finely constructed incline
10 feet long. The seam up here runs
from three feet three inches to three feet
SIX inches. Tie miners receive fifty cents
per ton for run of mine coal.
The Fay ette Coal aud Coke Company.
A little over two years ago this company
Stone Cliff, ten miles below Quinni-
mont, and built sixty large bee hive coke
ovens. The works are under the general
supervision of Mr.. \. z. Jenkins, who has
been making many improvements. Dur
irg the last year he discovered fine vein
of coal 200 feet higher up the mountain.
He at once made an opening and built
tramroad around the side Of the mountain
about one mile, making the raise OF 2Os
feet. The coal runs from four
feet TO four feet six inches. and is
splendid steam and coking coal. The
miners receive fifty cents per ton for run
of mine. At the bottom Of the mine the
sixty coke ovens are kept constantly in
blast The locomotives on the Chesapeake
and Ohio road now coal at these works.
The Quinnimont Furnace.
This is the first furnace in blast We meet
with along the road. Gne mile up the val
ley they have plant of l05 large bee hive
coke ovens, under the supervision OF Mr..
c. Z. Goodwin, where fine quality of coke
is manufactured from the coal mined on
the mountain above them. These ovens
are kept lit up the year round.