The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1911-08-16
Coal Fields
In Kentucky Being Developed
Rapidly.


field is being developed by the
Consolidation Coal Company, "a
corporation existing under the
laws of the states of Pennsyl-
vania, Maryland, West yir-
GINA and Kentucky. j. II.
Wheelwright, of Pennsylvania,
is president of the concern.
The financial interests of the
corporation are controlled
principally by Baltimore and
Fairmont people. Senator c..
w. Watson, of West Virginia,
is also financially interested.
About so operations are to the
credit of this company, being
scattered over the four states
above named.
The Elkhon coal field il in
the counties of Pike and Letch-
er, the easternmost counties of
Kentucky, and in the shadows
of the Cumberland mountains,
on the Virginia border. A
mining town to be known by
the name of Jenkins is being
built on the upper course of
Elkhorn Greek, where an i'm
mense amount of work is being
done. A brick plant with u
capacity OF, perhaps, 5000
bricks daily, is being operated.
a saw mill with capacity of
from 10000 to $4,000 daily is
running near the site. while
two other mills with equal ca
pacity are to be installed with
i'll one and two miles respec
lively of the place; thus remov.
ed in order to be near the
bodies of timber to be manu-
featured. a large planning mill
is in operation near. the town.
Dressed lumber is being used
in the construction of houses,
q step, by the way, in advance
of the usual order, which is
undressed lumber. Most of the
lumber which is to be manu-
featured here will be used for
building the 1900 houses the
company proposes to build, and
for other works necessary to
develop the coal interests. An
ice plant has been installed on
the site as a necessary adjunct.
Most of the work is being
done by contractors, and no
estimate of the monthly pay.
roll could be obtained from the
company's representative, but
the amount is large, running
into many thousands of dollars.
81 rs is being paid common day
laborers, while So. so is paid for
skilled labor. Transfers who
work under contract make 1.-THE
best money" Prices do not
include board, which is had for
fifty cents a day.
The Consolidation Coal Com
Company owns about 100, 900
acres of coal and timber lands
in Eastern Kentucky, according
TO figures given by represent
alive at jenkins. There are no
virgin forests in these holdings,
but they contain much valuable
timber. The representative
aforesaid mentioned, ventured
the assertion, at is the best in
the world" There is no ques-
ton as TO the quality of the
coal, and as to the extent of the
veins, it is probably unequalled
The Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad people are building a
line up Shelby Greek from Big
Sandy River, by way of Shelby
Gap, and up the upper course
OF lGlkhorn Creek to the town.
AT present the supplies are be-
ing hauled with teams from
Pound, Va, to which point
they are shipped over the Cur.
rier Lumber Company's road
from Glamorgan.
The town of jenkins has, as
yet, no regular mail facilities.
The company, however. trans
ports the western mail from
Jewel post.office, and the east.
ern mail from Bently. There
is a general delivery office in
comnissary building, A post
office is to be established soon
with a daily mail.
The development of this sec