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| West Clarion No. 1 Mine
(ca.1885- ? ), Located on the Erie Railroad, near Brockwayville, Crenshaw, Snyder Twp., Jefferson Co., PA Owners: (ca.1885- ? ), North Western Mining & Exchange Company, Brockwayville, PA (ca.1901- ? ), North Western Mining & Exchange Company, Brockwayville, PA (ca.1904- ? ), Northwestern Mining & Exchange Company, Du Bois, PA (ca.1905- ? ), North Western Mining & Exchange Company, Brockwayville, PA (ca.1906- ? ), Northwestern Mining & Exchange Company, Du Bois, PA
West Clarion No. 3 Mine (ca.1901-
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West Clarion No. 6 Mine (ca.1901-
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| A portion of the U.S.G.S. DuBois 15min quad.
Map, ca,1924, showing Crenshaw, Snyder Twp., Jefferson Co., PA (Map courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.) |
| HISTORY: The Clarion Mines are situated in Snyder township, two miles east of Brockwayville, on the Toby Branch of the New York, Lake Erie and Western Coal and Railroad Company. The mines were opened in July, 1885, on what is known as the "Sibley Farm," and are operated by the Northwestern Mining and Exchange Company. The daily capacity of the mines, one year after operations were commenced, was seven hundred tons of coal, employing about three hundred miners and outside hands. During the year 1886 one hundred and eleven thousand six hundred and fifty-seven tons were shipped to end of November month; the daily capacity being one thousand tons or sixty cars. The seam of coal, which is known as the Lower Freeport, runs from three and a half to six feet thick, and the workings are somewhat irregular. The coal is a good quality of steam coal, and is mostly consumed on railroad locomotives. During the year the company has erected over fifty dwellings for employees, and a number of stores, etc., have been built by others in the vicinity, making quite a town at Crenshaw, where a year ago there was but one house. The company owns about four thousand acres of coal land in the immediate vicinity, and another opening called "Clear Run Mines," is being made about a mile from Clarion Mines, and close on the county line of Elk. These mines at the close of the year 1887 will have about the same capacity as the Clarion Mines, and there will therefore be about one thousand to one thousand two hundred tons of coal going out daily from this territory. The miners at both these mines are paid at the rate of forty and fifty cents per ton, according to the height of the coal mined. They use a fan for ventilation in one drift, and a furnace in the other two. They have one locomotive, and one stationary engine, and make all sizes of coal, but have no coke ovens. The officers of the company are Samuel Himes, president; D. Robertson, superintendent; Russell Wentworth, engineer; and Ira Smith, clerk. The company’s store is under the management of Stull & Co. The company also operates the Toby Mines on the same railroad about ten miles east in Elk county. This coal to the amount of about twelve hundred tons daily, passes through Brockwayville, making the latter place quite a coal shipping point. [from "History of Jefferson County" by Kate M. Scott. Syracuse, N.Y., D. Mason & Co., 1888.] |
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