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| India Mine
(ca.1900-1919 ?), Located along the Pennsylvania Railroad Conemaugh Division, along the Conemaugh River, south of Climax and just north of India, West Wheatfield Twp., Indiana Co., PA Owners: (ca.1900-1918), Reese-Hammond Brick Company (ca.1918-1919), J. Soisson Brick Company, Connellsville, PA
India No. 1 Mine
(ca.1917-1919), |
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| A portion of the U.S.G.S. New Florence, PA 15min. quad
Map 1922 ed. showing Climax and India in West Wheatfield Township, Indiana
County, Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Railroad Conemaugh Division
line. (Courtesy of the U.S. G. S., Washington, D.C.) |
| DESCRIPTION: Several of the brick miners houses where extant in India, West Wheatfield Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania ca.1993. |
| HISTORY: India Mines: The India Mine, located just south of Climax, and north of India along the Conemaugh River was opened in ca.1900 by the Reese-Hammond Brick Company, and was later operated by the J. Soisson Brick Company during ca.1918 and ca.1919, at which point it was shut down. The mines development covered about 22 acres and the reported production was a little over 49,000 tons of coal. The Upper Freeport coal seam in this mine is said to be normally 48 inches thick. Coal mined here went to fire the refractory brick kilns at Robinson, two miles northwest, on the Pennsylvania Railroad. The bricks used to build the brick coal company houses probably were shipped back from the brick works at Robinson, along with the empty coal cars. A considerable amount of coal remains for future development. The India No. 1 Mine of the India Smokeless Fuel Company may have been the rebuilt India Mine. (History and description of India Mines, adapted from "Indiana County, Pennsylvania: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites, 1993," America's Industrial Heitage Project, National Park Service, Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record, U.S. Department of the Interior, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.)
India Smokeless Fuel Company: Repaired all old dwellings houses and built 15 new brick ones. These houses have cellars, electric light and water inside.
In ca.1917 the India No. 1 Mine produced 19,505 tons of coal,
with 38 men and boys employed. The mine had 1 electric Dynamo, which
produced 100 kilo-watts, and used 5 mules and 1 electric
locomotive. |
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