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Coal tipple of Eureka C&C. Large chute connected to tipple.

1. Coal Tipple of Eureka Coal and Coke Company

IDNO:
004466
Title:
Coal Tipple of Eureka Coal and Coke Company
Date:
ca. 1920?
Description:
Coal tipple of Eureka C&C. Large chute connected to tipple.
View from top of mountain down conveyor line to the tipple.

2. Tipple and Conveyor

IDNO:
004430
Title:
Tipple and Conveyor
Date:
ca. 1920-1930
Description:
View from top of mountain down conveyor line to the tipple.
Oakwood Mine Tipple and surrounding buildings.

3. Oakwood Mine Tipple

IDNO:
004434
Title:
Oakwood Mine Tipple
Date:
ca. 1920-1930
Description:
Oakwood Mine Tipple and surrounding buildings.
Miner operating a loading machine outside of a mine.

4. Loading Machine at MacAlpin Coal Company

IDNO:
003008
Title:
Loading Machine at MacAlpin Coal Company
Date:
ca. 1920-1930
Description:
Miner operating a loading machine outside of a mine.
Tipple and conveyor at Chafin Jones Mine.

5. Chafin Jones Mine Tipple

IDNO:
004427
Title:
Chafin Jones Mine Tipple
Date:
ca. 1920-1930
Description:
Tipple and conveyor at Chafin Jones Mine.

6. Pond Creek Colliery

IDNO:
004342
Title:
Pond Creek Colliery
Date:
ca. 1920

7. MacBeth Coal Company Tipple, Logan County, W. Va.

IDNO:
004432
Title:
MacBeth Coal Company Tipple, Logan County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1920
Buildings outside of a coal mine. There are small houses in the background.

8. Coal Mine Facilities

IDNO:
002660
Title:
Coal Mine Facilities
Date:
ca. 1920
Description:
Buildings outside of a coal mine. There are small houses in the background.
Coal car under a tipple. Men with horse drawn carriage also going under the tipple.

9. Coal Tipple

IDNO:
004456
Title:
Coal Tipple
Date:
ca. 1920
Description:
Coal car under a tipple. Men with horse drawn carriage also going under the tipple.

10. Scarbro Coal Tipple

IDNO:
004385
Title:
Scarbro Coal Tipple
Date:
ca. 1908
Tipple with filled coal cars.

11. McDonald Colliery Company's Wooden Tipple

IDNO:
004387
Title:
McDonald Colliery Company's Wooden Tipple
Date:
ca. 1908
Description:
Tipple with filled coal cars.
Timber piles around the Prosperity Mine and Tipple.

12. Prosperity Mine and Tipple

IDNO:
004469
Title:
Prosperity Mine and Tipple
Date:
ca. 1900-1930
Description:
Timber piles around the Prosperity Mine and Tipple.
Men riding in coal cars along snow covered tracks to the Skelton mine during winter time. Miner's homes and wood piles visible.

13. Man Trip to Skelton Mine in Winter

IDNO:
002867
Title:
Man Trip to Skelton Mine in Winter
Date:
1951/01/15
Description:
Men riding in coal cars along snow covered tracks to the Skelton mine during winter time. Miner's homes and wood piles visible.
Tipple with a parked car outside with man leaning on it.

14. Summerlee Tipple

IDNO:
004384
Title:
Summerlee Tipple
Date:
1948/05/11
Description:
Tipple with a parked car outside with man leaning on it.

15. Skelton Mine Tipple

IDNO:
004401
Title:
Skelton Mine Tipple
Date:
1948/05/11

16. Sprague Tipple

IDNO:
004382
Title:
Sprague Tipple
Date:
1948/05/11

17. Garden Ground Tipple

IDNO:
004392
Title:
Garden Ground Tipple
Date:
1920-1950
'All White Oak mines are electrically equipped and of course this mining machine is operated by electricity. The machine is mounted and transported on a specially designed truck and moves under its own power from one working place to another. It is taken from the truck by the machine operator and his helper and moved to the place of the coal and place in cutting position as you see it in this picture. The machine consists of an endless chain with 'bits' inserted, which act as cutters. The machine cuts a 'kerf' or hole along the bottom of the coal about 4 inches high and extending back six feet under the coal. The fine coal made by this machine is what is commonly known as 'bug dust.' Cutting machines are operated at night and each machine is capable of cutting twenty places on each shift. These machines are operated on tonnage basis and these operators earn high wages.'

18. Mining Operating a Cutting Machine

IDNO:
002991
Title:
Mining Operating a Cutting Machine
Description:
'All White Oak mines are electrically equipped and of course this mining machine is operated by electricity. The machine is mounted and transported on a specially designed truck and moves under its own power from one working place to another. It is taken from the truck by the machine operator and his helper and moved to the place of the coal and place in cutting position as you see it in this picture. The machine consists of an endless chain with 'bits' inserted, which act as cutters. The machine cuts a 'kerf' or hole along the bottom of the coal about 4 inches high and extending back six feet under the coal. The fine coal made by this machine is what is commonly known as 'bug dust.' Cutting machines are operated at night and each machine is capable of cutting twenty places on each shift. These machines are operated on tonnage basis and these operators earn high wages.'
Four pictures showing the proper and wrong ways to scotch and clean under cages.

19. Safety Procedures for Scotching and Cleaning Under Cage

IDNO:
002802
Title:
Safety Procedures for Scotching and Cleaning Under Cage
Description:
Four pictures showing the proper and wrong ways to scotch and clean under cages.
A miner is operating a cutting machine at the Price Hill Colliery Co. mine

20. Miner Operating a Cutting Machine, Price Hill Colliery Company

IDNO:
003066
Title:
Miner Operating a Cutting Machine, Price Hill Colliery Company
Description:
A miner is operating a cutting machine at the Price Hill Colliery Co. mine
'Coal at all White Oak shafts mines is handled on self dumping cages, which handle the coal uniformly and with a minimum of breakage. Note how evenly the coal is flowing from the mine car. Much more rapid of course than the picture indicates, but it shows how well designed the equipment must be to handle the coal in such splendid manner.'

21. Self Dumping Cages

IDNO:
002708
Title:
Self Dumping Cages
Description:
'Coal at all White Oak shafts mines is handled on self dumping cages, which handle the coal uniformly and with a minimum of breakage. Note how evenly the coal is flowing from the mine car. Much more rapid of course than the picture indicates, but it shows how well designed the equipment must be to handle the coal in such splendid manner.'
'All ready-Hoist! This is an end view of one of our new steel mine cars on a cage at one of the White Oak Shaft mines, and the signal has just been given to hoist it to the surface--450 feet up! These electric equipped hoists can hoist a car every twenty seconds and dump it! The cars are placed on the cages automatically by creeper chains and car stops. One man operates the signals and car stops and chains.'

22. Steel Mine Car at One of the White Oak Shaft Mines

IDNO:
002706
Title:
Steel Mine Car at One of the White Oak Shaft Mines
Description:
'All ready-Hoist! This is an end view of one of our new steel mine cars on a cage at one of the White Oak Shaft mines, and the signal has just been given to hoist it to the surface--450 feet up! These electric equipped hoists can hoist a car every twenty seconds and dump it! The cars are placed on the cages automatically by creeper chains and car stops. One man operates the signals and car stops and chains.'
'This miner has just completed loading a mine car of weighing net about two and one-half tons, and is waiting for a locomotive to come along and take it out and give him another empty car. An industrious miner will load about six and sometimes eight of these cars in one day. This is a wooden mine car that is now being rapidly replaced by steel mine car equipment. The number of post shown in this picture indicate again the immense amount of timber required to conduct operations in a safe manner.'

23. Loaded Mine Car

IDNO:
002653
Title:
Loaded Mine Car
Description:
'This miner has just completed loading a mine car of weighing net about two and one-half tons, and is waiting for a locomotive to come along and take it out and give him another empty car. An industrious miner will load about six and sometimes eight of these cars in one day. This is a wooden mine car that is now being rapidly replaced by steel mine car equipment. The number of post shown in this picture indicate again the immense amount of timber required to conduct operations in a safe manner.'
Miners on an electric locomotive used in hauling mine cars.

24. Electric Locomotive Used in Hauling Mine Cars

IDNO:
002993
Title:
Electric Locomotive Used in Hauling Mine Cars
Description:
Miners on an electric locomotive used in hauling mine cars.