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| Enterprize Mine & Coke Works (Enterprise
Works) (before ca.1874- ? ), Located on the South-west Pennsylvania Railroad, later the Railroad became the Southwest Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, north of Hawkeye, Hawk Eye Station, near Alverton, East Huntingdon Twp., Westmoreland Co., PA [Enterprize Coke Works contained 51 bee-hive coke ovens ca.1875.] Owners: (ca.1874-1882), Dillinger & Suttle Company, (ca.1882- ? ), Dillinger, Rafferty & Company (ca.1882-1893),Donnelly & Rafferty Company (ca.1893-Nov. 30, 1895), McClure & Company, Scottdale, PA (ca.Dec. 1, 1895- ? ), H. C. Frick Coke Company, Scottdale, PA (ca.July 1, 1900- ? ), Operated under the name of H.C. Frick Coke Company (ca.1903- ? ), H. C. Frick Coke Company, Scottdale, PA |
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| A section of the ca.1902 15 min. Connellsville PA quad.
map showing the location of Hawkeye Station on the Southwest Pennsylvania
Railroad. (Map courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.) |
| From the Second Geological Survey of
Pennsylvania 1875.
Messrs. Dillinger & Suttle are operating the Enterprise Works at Hawk Eye Station, East Huntingdon Twp., Westmoreland County. They work the Pittsburg Coal Bed, nine feet thick, with the small slate binder three feet above the floor. The coal is all taken out and is used in the coke ovens, except some little custom coal. The coal lies here one hundred feet above the railroad, and is sinking gently to the south-east.
There are forty-one Beehive Bank Ovens if the usual size.
The charge is three wagons for four days, and three and a half wagons
for two days, and the ovens are worked as usual, making forty-eight coke,
except the seventy-two hour Sunday coke. Twenty-four cars are shipped
weekly, in all 15,000 bushels, mostly to Pittsburg. There are 15 men
employed at the works. |
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