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February, 1905 COAL AND TIMBER
UNIONTOWN
NOTES
By H. G. Lawrence
The Taylor-Jeffries tract of thirty-one
acres of coal in Menallen township has
been sold by Leonard Sapper for $36,800,
or about $1,200 per acre, the purchasers
being Uniontown men, headed by W. A.
Stone, who will develop the coal which is
They have formed the Prospect Coal &
Coke Company and will build fiftyovens,
for which the plans have already been
made.
Mining operations are going ahead at the
plant of the W. A. Stone Coal & Coke Company
near Morgantown, W. Va., where
Uniontown, Pa., men have 300 acres of the
Pittsburg vein of coal. The B. & O. is
across the Monongahela river from the coal
and it is proposed to run the coal across by
trodey Samuel Brownfield, of Uniontown,
is superintendent of the plant.
The Puritan Coke Company, of German
township, is the firstone in the Connellsville
region to get complete electric power
for all its operations from the West Penn
Railways Company. No boilers or stearn
Mire used. An alternating line is being built
from LTniontown to the coke plant and
thirty-six miles of wire are required to take
care of the compressor. The plant is in
operation with 132 ovens, the output being
ten cars of coke daily.
Within the last three weeks the Fayette
County Gas Company has brought in two
big producing gas wells in Greene county,
both being in Dunkard township and the
two producing between 10,000,000 and 12.-
000,000 feet per day. Both wells have been
turned into the 12-inch line 1rom West
Virginia which supplies Uniontown, Connellsville,
Dunbar, Scottdale, Yotingv'ood,
and other towns. Locations are being
made by the Fayette Coimtv Gas Company
to drill two more gas wells in thi
Greene county field.
James S. Amend of Uniontown, who has
been for seventeen years general auditor
lor the H. C. Frick Coke Companv, retires
February lst and is succeeded by C. L.
Farson, a clerk in the Scottdale office, wdio
started as payroll clerk at Lambert three
years ago. Mr. Amend enters the hotei
business at Connellsvile.
O. W. Kennedy of Uniontown, general
manager for the Orient Coke Company,
returned this week from a southern trip
which included a visit to the coke region
of Alabama.
Work has begun on 50 new ovens for the
Sunshine Coal & Coke Company in Nicholson
township, Fayette county, and later
the number will be increased to 100. Francis
Rocks of Connellsville is the principal
stockholder and the company has 100 acres
of coal.
The Little Kanawha Coal and Coke Company
met in Uniontown and re-elected the
old officers and directors, including A. C.
Sherard of Vanderbilt, president, and A. P.
Austin, Uniontown, secretary. The company
has 10,000 acres of coal in Gilmer
county, W. Va., wdiich they are holding as
an investment.
The new fan installed at the Redstone
shaft of the H. C. Frick Company near
Uniontown by the Robinson Machine Company
of Monongahela City was tested Sunday,
January 22, in the presence of many
superintendents and mine foremen of the
Frick Company, mine inspectors and others,
and all were pleased with the working.
The Fan is 20x10 feet and the last of the
five tests recorded 144 revolutions per minute.The
fan ventilates the entire Redstone
workings which extend to Brownsfield, two
miles from the shaft. The mechanical end
was in charge of G. E. Huttelmaier of the
Frick office at Scottdale. It was installed
at a cost of about $10,000.
One of the Uniontown coke brokers who
ships into Canada recently paid a bill of
$10.15 per ton for freight alone, or about
$203 per car on coal shipped to Melita,
Manitoba, which is north of the line between
North Dakota and Minnesota. The
freight on coke averages from 25c to 50c
per ton higher than that on coal. The duty
on slack coal is 13c per ton and on lump
coal 53c.
The biggest coal deal of the month in
Fayette county was the transfer of the Naomi
Coal Company's possessions near Fayette
City to the United Coal Company,
composed of Pittsburg and McKeesport
capitalists, for $1,250,000. The plant is for
mining coal but no coke is manufactured.
About two years ago the Naomi Company
purchased on a royally from Mrs. Elizabeth
S. Moore of Greensburg 1,200 acres
and secured leases on other farms near
Fayette City. Coal land in that section
is now held at about $1,000 per acre. The
plant is a large and modern one. James
S. Kuhn is president of the United Coal
Company, which is backed by ample capital.
Another big deal was consummated in
Uniontown, 600 acres of coal land in Menallen
township being sold by M. H. Bowen,
Isaac Taylor and J. C. Work of Uniontown,
to Cleveland men, presumably furnace
owners, for about $700,000 or $1,150 an
acre. The three Uniontown men held the
coal five years and made a handsome
profit, fn addition to the purchase the
Ohio parties optioned the Leonard Sapper
farm of 190 acres near the land they purchased.
S. L Smith & Company of Wilkinsburg,
who some months ago purchased the plant
of the Evans Coal Company near Uniontown,
will increase the output from two
to five cars of coal per day. They have
38 acres of the 4i/^-foot vein and the coal
is shipped east.
Two new officials with the title of assistant
general superintendent have been created
by the IJ C Frick Coke Company.
One of the new officials is Clay Frick
Lynch, for some time a superintendent at
Calumet and Tarr, who is now located in
Uniontown. The other is James A. Cowan,
who had been for some time division superintendent
in the Morewood district.
Patrick Mullen, who has been superintendent
at the Buffington works, has been appointed
mine inspector for the Frick Company.
Burgess B. Boyd of Uniontown, who
had charge of the government coal testing
plant at the St. Louis Exposition, has been
appointed Frick superintendent at Alverton
and Tarr. He is a brother of Harry Boyd,
superintendent at Lambert.
John K. Stewart, who is in the lumber
business in northern Minnesota, has been
visiting his old home in Fayette county, Pa.
He is in a company wdiich owns between
4,000 and 5.000 acres of cedar timber. Joseph
R. Laughrey, formerly of Dawson,
Pa., is one of the Clipper Mills Lumber
Company which owns 2,500 acres of valuable
timber in northern California and Mr.
Laughrey, who lives at Pasadena, writes
his Pennsylvania friends that his company
will cut 3,000,000 feet of lumber this year.
The Flogsett Coal and Coke Company
of Uniontown are building a switch 1,500
feet long to the P. R R. The company has
100 acres and will ship raw coal and also
build some ovens and make coke.
The Brier Hill Coke Company, whose
plant is in Redstone townsh'p, near Brownsville,
Pa., is driving ly miles, or 6.600
feet, of headings every month and soon the
coal will be opened up for ail the operations.
About 150 men are employed and
the present output is 320 tons of coke per
day, wdiich is shipped to the Brier Hill
furnace at Youngstown, Ohio.
The Pittsburg-Wabash Coal Company of
Monessen about the last of the year parchased
from John J. Buttermore, I. W.
Btittermore and J. M. Herpick of Connellsville
330 acres of coal in Brooke county, W.
Va., on the Wabash Railroad, for $40,000.
Isaac Reckard, formerly of Fairchance,
Pa., who was for nearly two years superintendent
of a coke plant near Birmingham,
(Via., returned the middle of January and is
now with the Brier Hill Coke Company
near Brownsville, Pa.
J. V. Thompson of Uniontown, who has
been an extensive dealer in coal lands,
has recenty completed his handsome mansion
"Oak Hill" and gave a New Year's
house warming there for the people of
Uniontown. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson returned
in November from a fifteenmonths'
tour of the world, including thirty-three
countries and over 58,000 miles of travel.
Since his return Mr. Thompson has put
through several big coal deals.
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