The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1947-03-13


Ohio Coal Co., a subsidiary of the {
tricity producing fuel toward the p
Approximately 10000 acres of
mining operation, including practi
Noble county, focal point of the st
edge of Guernsey county and the e;
Announcement of the gigantic
D. Hawkins, superintendent of the {
Co., job which he took over in /
last week. relative to the strip mir
county more than any other of the
The mine, the annual output of
is being developed as an additional
the Philo plant, which used about
the production of electricity for dis
tribution to its customers in over so
Of Ohio's 88 counties.
The Philo plant is the largest
plant of the Ohio Power Co., Mr..
Hawkins said, and is the sixth
largest plant of its kind in the
world. Therefore" the district
superintendent added, "an econom-
ical and reliable source of coal sup
ply for this plant is important to
the citizens of Ohio and the Cumber-
land mine will provide about half
of the coal required by the plant"
Mining operations in Brookfield
township will be performed by the
Commercial Fuel Co., of Pittsburg,
Kan, of which John |. Clemens, is
president. George Wilson is super
intendent of the mine and Frank
Coulsin mining supervisor of the
power company, supervises the act
ivities of the Central Ohio Coal Co.
Supt. Hawkins said that the Com
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agreement with the United Mine
Workers of America covering pro-
duction employees at the Cumber-
land operation.
Coal produced by the mine will
be transported via the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad, and a railroad
track in excess of two miles has
been constructed from Cumberland
to the mine. The coal will be cleaned
and loaded into railroad cars
through a preparation plant of 600
tons per hour capacity, including
washing of the fuel.
Water for washing the coal will
be stored in two earth dams having
an approximate combined capacity
I of 100000 gallons. The washings
from the coal will be sluiced into
a settling reservoir which will pre-
vent pollution of streams below the
dam.
The earth overburden will be
stripped from the coal beds by a
Marion electric shovel, using a
bucket of approximately 80 cubic
yards capacity. This machine, which
is now being constructed, weighs
approximately 2.400 tons and about
40 railroad cars will be required for
transporting the machine to the
! mine.
The coal will be dug, and loaded
into Euclid coal haulers by little
brother of the huge electric shovel,
the smaller shovel having a bucket
capacity of approximately seven GU
bic yards. Euclid haulers of 40 tons
capacity will transport the coal from
the loading pits to the preparation
plant
Supt. Hawkins said the electric
service for this mine will be trans
mitted by a $4,000 volt line with a
1000 KVA (kilo volt amperes)
! transformer to serve the prepara-
ton plant and miscellaneous mining
facilities, and three 500 KVA trans
formers to power the stripping and
loading shovels.
To eliminate the possibility of bar
rem dunes standing for many years
| in Noble county as mute reminders
of the stripping operations reclaim
alton program for the Brookfleld
township mine is being prepared and
it is expected that as soon as opera
tions have progressed sufficiently
and soil conditions permit, planting
will be made, company officials
pointed out. The program being con-
sidered includes not only the area to
be mined but also the land which
will not be disturbed by the mining
operations.
/ Land purchased for this mine
which is suitable for farming and
grazing, and not required in imme-
diate or future operation of the
mine, as we'll as houses located on
the land, are being rented.
| A reclamation program is in pro-
gress on the company's stripping
operations, southwest of GAINESVILLE;
a total of $4,000 trees having been
planted in the spring of 1916, and
arrangements made for planting
1876, 900 trees during the coming
spring, which paintings cover ap-
proximate areas of 158 and 1876
acres, respectively. This reclamation
program is based, on land capacity
use studies of the U. S. Soil Conserv-
alton Service for that part of the
area which has not been disturbed
by the mining operations.
The reclamation program for the
strip mine banks is based on recon-
mendations of the Central States
Forest Experiment Station of the
u. S. Forest Service, who have made
experimental paintings during the
last ten years. In addition, expert
mental paintings are now projected
for this spring on the company's
strip mine banks in conjunction nth
the Central States Experiment Sta
ton.
1t is planned that similar proce-
dure will be followed in developing
the reclamation program and re-
clamation of the company's mining
araoS in Prookfie1d township