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MWILL MINE OWN COALSteel Goaimluj jitmI A1IM Interests to Operate Properties'.of Hoioesgeii C©*I If Coke O.I€111beliers-mtyid:c:kThe Monesen Coal Coke company has* recently''Chartered by Interests identified wilh the Pittsburg Steel company and its * auxiliary, the Pittsburg Steel Products company, witli plants located '’at Modeas'en, Pa-,and neor there, dnd plants are now \ under way to operate a coal mine for supplying steam conL for' these big industries. The new corporation purchased one of the historic coal properties in A the Monongahela Valley, not far- from iionessen, 3 tar ted 50 years ago. It produced coal .for some years but a river Hood carried away the tipple and much of the old equipment and the operation was abandoned. In 3900, the property was reorganized as the Iron City Coal Coal company, and was operated for uj \a sborf- time, when the present inter-iymid2i■J~id:s;nisis•nha.di-;oisecured control and held the urine as reserve-for-future needs,say a a oo respondent of the Coal Trade Journal.The Pittsburg Steel company has a large coking- coal operation not far ? from Its'site, but intends to coke all ! of 'the valuable Greene county seam •which is similtir to CoaitoUsvilJe product. The steam coal property has! become important since the PUtsbtirg i Steel .Products company began i building a new industrial town and |huge pipe and tube plant above Man- j essen on the Monoagahcla river. This; plant will cost approximately $3,000.* \ 000 at the outset and will be enlarged j from time to time according to pres- j eat plants. The reserve coal supply ’ has now comt? in as a vital factor. ! 5 The Mon exsen Coal Coke company | \ recently secured rights fra rathe gov- t crnment to reconstruct, on a modern i 5 j scale, a river tipple, and also an lec j ( breaker to provide for w in ter oper- j „ j ating of the. plant with boats. Thej r f Interior of th* mine has been cleared of debris and remodeled and Is being equipped with latest mining equipment In fact the mine is ready j to operate except for the tipple and : j ice breaker construction, which wilJ \ ; he ready this fall. et Thu coal from this operation will - j be moved to the steel works by barge ! ; and. t^w boats owned by the company r» j prepared for the purpose.. [ — ~si
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Connellsville Weekly Courier
Connellsville, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Sep 27, 1917
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