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1. Coal at the Preparation Plant of the E.L. Hedstrom Coal Company

IDNO:
001828
Title:
Coal at the Preparation Plant of the E.L. Hedstrom Coal Company
Drawing of Consolidation Coal Co.'s Williams Mine in W. Va. Photo copy print done by George E. Koehler, Inc., 612 Wood Street. Neg. No. 23459. GR. 1-5742.

2. Drawing of Consolidation Coal Company's Williams Mine Facility

IDNO:
001870
Title:
Drawing of Consolidation Coal Company's Williams Mine Facility
Date:
1953
Description:
Drawing of Consolidation Coal Co.'s Williams Mine in W. Va. Photo copy print done by George E. Koehler, Inc., 612 Wood Street. Neg. No. 23459. GR. 1-5742.
The very large Itmann preparation plant. A Consolidation Coal Company mine in 1979.

3. Itmann Preparation Plant, Pocahontas Fuel Company

IDNO:
002174
Title:
Itmann Preparation Plant, Pocahontas Fuel Company
Date:
1956/11
Description:
The very large Itmann preparation plant. A Consolidation Coal Company mine in 1979.
Preparation plant and mine buildings.

4. Two Lick Mine Preparation Plant, Clarksburg Fuel Company

IDNO:
003442
Title:
Two Lick Mine Preparation Plant, Clarksburg Fuel Company
Description:
Preparation plant and mine buildings.

5. Montour Railroad Cars Sitting By an Unidentified Preparation Plant

IDNO:
003447
Title:
Montour Railroad Cars Sitting By an Unidentified Preparation Plant
Plant in Raleigh or Upshur Co., W. Va.

6. Preparation Plant

IDNO:
003452
Title:
Preparation Plant
Description:
Plant in Raleigh or Upshur Co., W. Va.
'Located one half mile south of the Hunsaker Bridge on the West Fork River, which joins the Tygarts Valley River and forms the Monongahela River two miles north of this mining plant. James Otis Watson was the president of this company. This little engine hauled the mine output to Gaston Junction, two miles north, to the main line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and at the point where the Jones Raid attacked that bridge during the Civil War. Gaston Mine opened at Watson in 1874. This is the fourth rail shipping mine west of the Allegheny Mountains. All of them located in the present city of Fairmont Boundary Lines. James Otis Watson was a Superintendent. Picture taken in 1991. James O. Watson II went to work at this mine in 1885 during school vacation. Mine closed in 1924. (My earliest recollection of this mine was in 1887 when I rode this engine with Wash Wilt the engineer. In 1894 I began working at this plant during school vacations. James O. Watson, II)

7. Gaston Gas and Coal Company Mine

IDNO:
003485
Title:
Gaston Gas and Coal Company Mine
Date:
1881/05/19
Description:
'Located one half mile south of the Hunsaker Bridge on the West Fork River, which joins the Tygarts Valley River and forms the Monongahela River two miles north of this mining plant. James Otis Watson was the president of this company. This little engine hauled the mine output to Gaston Junction, two miles north, to the main line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and at the point where the Jones Raid attacked that bridge during the Civil War. Gaston Mine opened at Watson in 1874. This is the fourth rail shipping mine west of the Allegheny Mountains. All of them located in the present city of Fairmont Boundary Lines. James Otis Watson was a Superintendent. Picture taken in 1991. James O. Watson II went to work at this mine in 1885 during school vacation. Mine closed in 1924. (My earliest recollection of this mine was in 1887 when I rode this engine with Wash Wilt the engineer. In 1894 I began working at this plant during school vacations. James O. Watson, II)
'A local tavern catering to coal miners stands adjacent to coal preparation plant for the Eccles mine owned by Westmoreland Coal Corp. The mine, which at one time employed some 500 miners has been idle due to a depressed metalurgical coal market according to some officials. For use with UMWA contract story. (AP Laserphoto) ( James Samsell/str3201jls) 1981.'

8. Miners' Club Watering Hole

IDNO:
004172
Title:
Miners' Club Watering Hole
Date:
1981/03/24
Description:
'A local tavern catering to coal miners stands adjacent to coal preparation plant for the Eccles mine owned by Westmoreland Coal Corp. The mine, which at one time employed some 500 miners has been idle due to a depressed metalurgical coal market according to some officials. For use with UMWA contract story. (AP Laserphoto) ( James Samsell/str3201jls) 1981.'
Mine tipple surrounded by other mine buildings.

9. Fairmont Coal Company Highland Mine Tipple

IDNO:
004337
Title:
Fairmont Coal Company Highland Mine Tipple
Description:
Mine tipple surrounded by other mine buildings.
Christopher Coal Co. preparation plant and tipple beside a road.

10. Christopher Coal Company Humphrey Plant

IDNO:
004442
Title:
Christopher Coal Company Humphrey Plant
Date:
1966
Description:
Christopher Coal Co. preparation plant and tipple beside a road.

11. Bunker Coal Company Tipple on Slope to Sewickly

IDNO:
029063
Title:
Bunker Coal Company Tipple on Slope to Sewickly
Date:
undated

12. No. 24 Preparation Plant, Fine Coal Cleaning Plant, Island Creek Coal Company

IDNO:
035689
Title:
No. 24 Preparation Plant, Fine Coal Cleaning Plant, Island Creek Coal Company