Fort Hill Mine & Coke Works, Dawson, Fort Hill, Lower Tyrone Twp., Fayette Co., Pennsylvania

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Fort Hill Mine & Coke Works,
Fort Hill,
near Dawson,
Lower Tyrone Twp.,
Fayette County,
Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

A Tribute to the Coal Miners that mined the Bituminous Coal seams of the Fort Hill Mine, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

by
Raymond A. Washlaski, Historian, Editor ,
Ryan P. Washlaski, Technical Advisor,
Peter E. Starry, Jr. "The Old Miner."

Updated June 29, 2005

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Fort Hill Mine & Coke Works (ca.1880- ? ),
Located on the Pittsburgh, McKeesport & Youghiogheny Railroad, on the Youghiogheny River, near Dawson, Fort Hill, Lower Tyrone Twp., Fayette Co., PA.
[Fort Hill Coke Works contained 186 coke ovens ca.1889.]
Owners: (ca.1880- ? ), W. J. Rainey Company, Uniontown, PA
(ca.1889- ? ), W. J. Rainey Company, Uniontown, PA

HISTORY:
Fort Hil Mine & Coke Works
From the Reports of the Inspectors of Mines, 1889:
Fort Hill Mine. Located on the main stem P., McK. & Y. R.R., near Dawson, PA. Owners, W. J. Rainey.

This mine is a drift opening and is ventilated by natural forces, and its location is such that the forces of natural ventilation here exist in their most potent form. The opening is on the river front which always affords a stratum of cold air while the coal rises until it crops out on the high hills a mile beyond, giving a motive column of considerable height, which rises to an atmosphere of different density to that of the river front. I have visited this mine several times and never found a languid current, amd once the anemometer registered 50,000 cubic feet per minute. The owner of this mine is putting in practice what has often been styled the only perfect system of working the Connellsville Coal and I am watching it with great interest. This scheme is to drive the main headings to the extreme end and lowest point of the territory leaving the coal field intact until that point is reached and then taking out the whole seam backwards towards the outcrop. Of course this is slow work and for a time there is no return, but the owner will be richly repaid in increased yield and consequent increased gains, and will not only have the honor of having practiced what he preached, but get a substantial rewars in golden profits. This new plan is now being tried at what is know as the Moreland slope, which develops the coal laying to the dip of the Fort Hill Mine. (Inspectors of Mines for Pennsylvania,1890:360)

"Coal Miners Memorial, Fort Hill Mine & Coke Works,
Fort Hill, near Dawson, Lower Tyrone Twp., Fayette County, Pennsylvania"

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