The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-08-09
KENTUCKY COAL
TO KENTUCKY FIRST.

Lexington, Ky. - With the single
reservation that Kentucky coal must
go to Kentucky conusmers and that'all |
their urgent needs must be supplied
regardless of price before consumers
outside the state are supplied, Eastern
Kentucky coal operators have agreed
to cooperate with the government
through Mr.. Hoover's committee ia
connection with price control dstri-
button and production of coal
This attitude was announced after
meeting of the operators held in Lex
| ington this week, and it was immedi-
ately communicated to Governor Ed
win p. Morrow with the expectation
that it will have his approval because,
as the operators express it, other
states ealing for Kentucky COAL par
ccularly Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Penn
sylvania and Michigan, have ample
coal deposits and fully developed and
equipped mines to supply more than
their own individual neds, but thus far
they seem unable to produce any coal
in this extremity.
The chief reason for this failure, it
is explained, is the presence on the
statutes of those states laws requiring
every new mine employee to stand an
examination before commission Gro
ated b ythe state, but which commits
sion, in every instance, is NOTHING
more nor less than branch of the
United Mine Workers of America, the
, gigantic organization now thruttlina
the coal industry of those states by 1
strike, and which refuses to arbtratt
, the issues or to meet the operators Il
, | compose their differences.
q In Harlan county, Kentucky, tn,
collaborating land aggregates approx
| mately 10000 acres, and it has latel.
4 been estimated by persons well &C
4 quainted with the field that 131 year
o will be required to dig out all of tn
n coal in the known seams with annua
g production assuming the proportion
of 1921, in which year 7,32S,413 ton
were produced.
The coal operators in Harlan coun
ty have an association, of which E.. +
Clayton is secretary. In the course c
paper which he recently read at a
meeting of the Kiwanis Club at Han
Ian, Mr.. Clayton said the coal indus
try is of vital Importance to ever
man, woman and child in Harla
county, because it is the only indus
try upon which the people, regardles
of their activities in the community
whether they be in the coal bushes
or out of it-can depend for a livel
hood" He showed how the variol
businesses and activities are depent
ent upon coal for susteance ana col
tinued:
Harmony of action of all will NAL
the industry thrive, or lack of ha
mony will affect every business factt
in the county. One cannot succe'
without the other, neither can one su
fer unless it is felt generally throug
- out the county"
The first car of coal from Harlf
D county was shipped in 1912 by ]. '
d Williams for the Old Terry's Fork CO
d Company from Aldrain Mine at Wa
4 Inns Creek.
y At the puresent thise there are
u mines with main line connections
n the county.
= These so mines are operating in S
y seams OF coal, the names of the sean
being Harlan, High Splint, Kelliok
n Mason, Smith and Wallins. The grea
4 est amount Of. industrial tonnat
y comes from the Harlan seam.
After II ey had made exhausti'
u tests in nearly all of the coal fielC
\ of America, the following great co
porations made purchases of mon'
y and properitse in Harlan County fro
] which to secure coal for their purpose
n United States Steel Corporation, Int
= national Harvester Corporation, Fol
y Motor Company Consumers Pow
Company, American Lighting and Tr'
n ton Company, Detroit Edison Cor
II pany, Huntington Light and Fuel cor
r,t.o Ty>-norg Tnp,popu md III