The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-10-07
NEW COAL FIELDS BEING
OPENED IN GARRRET COUNTY
Old Lumber Town of Jennings Taking
On New Life as Mining Center.
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(Meyersdale Republican,
Among the new coal fields that are
attracting the attention of coal oper-
ators, dealers and others interested in
the development of coal mines is the
Jennings field in Garrett county, cen
stituting basin in which the coal
beds are said to be inexhaustible for
the next half century or longer.
There are five tipple mines and
about ten wagon mines along the line
of the Jennings Railway and within
less than four miles of Jennings. None
of these mines are perfected yet, but
taking into consideration the short
time they have been in operation, they
have all progressed wonderfully.
The most extensive mines in the
Jennings coal field are those of the
Phyllis Coal Mining Co., an incorpor-
ated company with a Maryland char
ter. The Office of the company is at
Jennings with W. A. Morgart as gen.
eral manager and John Harvey, super
intendent. This company started bus
mess this year, having shipped the
first car of coal in April. The COM
pany operate four mines located above
Jennings, and numbered consecutively
Nos. l, 2, and 4. Mines l, 2 and
are located on the west side of the
South Branch of the Casselman river,
and No. on the east branch of the
same stream. In these mines are
three veins: No mine has the Free
port vein; Nos. l and 2, the Bakers
town vein; No. A, the Masontown vein.
These veins, average from to 51a
feet in thickness. The coal is of the
best quality steam coal.
These mines all slope toward the
river, giving natural drainage, so
that no pumping is required to keep
the mines clear of water. They are
tlpple mines, so that the mine cars
have neither to be elevated to higher
level, nor let down a steep grade.
The Phyllis Coal Mining Co. has ex-
elusive mineral rights in a tract of
land of between $500 and 1000 acres.
Having such a large area of land un-
derlaid with three veins, it seems that
the supply is practically inexhaustible.
This company is now working so men
and is increasing the output by leaps
and bounds.
The company has also 100 acres of
surface land for townsite, located
about equally distant from all of the
four mines. The company is a pro-
gressive one and has installed an up
to-date electric light plant and also
contemplates getting a moving pic
ture show from Cumberland to exhibit
weekly for the recreation of the cit
liens of the place.
Besides the mines ofthe PHYLLIS Coal
Mining Co. the following new tipple
mines have been opened in the last few
months: The Hoover, Baum, Ross &
Ambrose, and the Billmeyer mine.
Ten wagon mines, although restrict
ed by ruling of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, are doing a good
business.
The miners and other workers in
this field are all Americans and an in
telligent and law-abiding class.
About twenty years ago the lumber
town of Jennings was inaugurated by
Jennings Brothers, lumbermen from
Towanda, Pa. The town flourished for
many years until the lumber supply
was exhausted few years ago, when
it ceased to exist as an exclusive lum-
Der town. But it is again forging to
the front, this time as a coal town and
few new coal fields have better pros
poets than the coal fields located along
the upper waters of the Casselman
river and its tributaries.
Jennings is connected with the out
side world by a standard gauge rail-
road, known as the Jennings Railway,
which connects with the Salisbury
Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad at Worth Junction, about
miles south of West Salisbury and
near the Mason & Dixon line The Jen-
nings Railway was built by Jennings
Brothers as an outlet for their lumber
but is now almost exclusively used as
a coal road.
: This railway is about Is miles in
length and is built through one of the
most beautiful valleys that can be
found anywhere, with it's diversified
scenery. Starting at Worth, short
distance from the State line, it skirts
along through the edge of one of the
fine groves of sugar trees that made
Somerset county famous for it's manu-
facture of maple sugar. 1t passes
close to one of the sugar camps of Eli
jah Livengood, the sugar king of Som
erset county, and crossing from Penn
sylvania into Maryland passes through
another fine sugar grove formerly
owned nv Samuel e. oacha1 y,oIu tho