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| Edri Mine
(ca.1901- ? ), Located on Robinson Run, on the Western Pennsylvania Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Edri, Conemaugh Twp., Indiana Co., PA [Edri Mine was listed as a new mine ca.1901, and being unfinished in ca.1901.] Owners: (ca.1901- ? ), J. W. Smith Bros. & Company, Nowrytown, PA (ca.1905- ? ), Edri Coal Company, Leechburg, PA
Edri No. 10 Mine (ca.1908- ?
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| A portion of the U.S.G.S. ca.1902, Elders Ridge, PA 15
min quad map showing the location of the Edri Mines, Edri, Conemaugh Township,
Indiana Co., PA (Map courtesy of the of U.S.Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.) |
| HISTORY: The J. W. Smith Brothers & Company opened the Edri drift Mine into the Pittsburg Coal Seam in the Elders Ridge coal field in ca.1901, but the mine was not finished and still had not installed a ventilation system. A narrow-gauge railroad and an incline plane along Robinson Run carried the coal from the mine to the river and the Western Pennsylvania Railroad at Edri, where a tipple was located. In ca.1901 the Edri Mine employed only 6 miners and 3 workers outside the mine and produced only 45 tons of coal in ca.1901.
By ca.1905 the Edri Coal Company, a subsidiary of the Foster
Coal & Mining Company, owned the Edri Mines and the nearby Foster
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| The above picture of the miners and mule drivers was identified as being taken Sept. 30, 1908 at Edri No. 10 Mine, Edri, Conemaugh Township, Indiana Co., PA |
| "Coal Miners Memorial,
Edri Mines Edri, Conemaugh Twp., Indiana County, Pennsylvania" |
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