The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-02-23

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Town. This town. lSncWns IS nj.
Ro6srt wiiI be built on Wright
4sofk, which will be the principal COM
mnnity Of the Kentucky River develop.
ment.
HTlpples have been udilt mines
opened up and entries started on lines
that at this time are considered best.
machines, motors and other mechani-
eal appliances tending toward large
capacity and economy in production
will be Installed. All power to all
plants at present proposed will be
supplied from the central plant at Jen.
Ekins. Tenement houses Of good con.
struction and OF various sizes are be
ing built for the miners and laborers.
1t has been the intention, and 1t. IL
ibeing carried out. that the company
should own all. surface lands at
and contiguous to the various mines,
which will enable it to prevent out,
side influence from interfering with
1.-The mining operations.
AT this time eight mines have been
opened up and entries driven in order
Ito have sufficient development for the
contemplated output when the rail.
road is completed. Seven tpples are
lin process OF erection, while machine
shops, blacksmish Shops stables, etc,
at the various mines are being rapidly
provided. Some 200 miners houses
have been completed, and there will
be probably 300 or more finished by
the time actual coal loading is begun.
/"six large mines have been located
on Wright's Fork, on the Louisville 4
Nashville's extension, and these are
being opened up and entries will be
driven so as to enable the company to
commence shipments on this side OF
the field as soon as the Louisville q
Nashville road is completed, which
will be the first OF the coming. August.
This will make a total OF IA mines.
Eve have had to cut timber, install
| five sawmills, erect brick plants, plan.
| ing mills and drykilns, construct roads
for the transportation, of materials,
machinery and supplies, and erect
temporary dwellings dor the workmen.
Little idea of the difficulties of the
cituation can be given by mere yer.
bal description TO anyone not acquaint'
ed with the character of the country
and the great extent of the operations.
But everything is now so nearly com
pletCd that when coal loading begins
the mines on the Sandy Valley 4 Elk
horn Railway will be prepared to pro-
duce $500 tons OF coal day
Previous to the purchase OF the
lanls they we're investigated by
numerous experts and also by the en-
gineers of our company, the reports
made by whom agreed in all essential
points and without exception pro
nounced the field one OF remarkable
integrity and thickness OF seam and
character and quality of coal. The
coal seam, which is from SIX to nine
feet nj thickness, has al outcrop prac'
tically around the entire field. The
examination Of the property was there
fore made easy, and particularly SO as
numerous openings had been made.
However, when mining Was contem.
plated, diamond drill holes were put
down in various widely separated
parts of the field for the purpose of
verifying the elevation and other in'
formation inferred from the crop ex'
animation, and also to test the uni
lormity of the seam. In fact, these
drill tests are still being made. The
results have further verified previous
conclusions OF moderate grades, and
have furnished information on the
quality OF the coal free from possible
weathering of crop samples. Since
the mine openings have been, made
and entries driven more opportunity
mas DpeH OleTeu W test lhe lhhll y
Of the coal and the thickness OF the
seam, and the conclusions of the en-
perts and engineers have been still
further borne out.
1--WE have had many analyses OF
these Goals and also various mine
openings made and they show an aver
age percentage Of 1.7G moisture, 34.21
volatile matter, 6O.5S fixed carbon, $50
ash, 60 sulphur, .OO5 phosphorus, with
l4,42i 3. T. U. This fixes It's status
as a gas coal of exceptional purity. 1t
is also d fine coking coal, and this
$feature opensSto it-wide markets for
mctalIurgical processes. 1t L! in the
sby-product process of making coke or
gas as the primary product that this
coal will fill a long-felt want for a pure
gas coal. 1t is now recognized unlver-
sally that by-product plant for max
ing coke is essential to blast furnaces