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Elk Ridge Mine was shut down in 1925.  Two attached photos show map with 
location of Elk Ridge Mine and coke ovens amd a view of Elk Ridge coke ovens 
in 1896 with mine tipple in background. Elk Ridge photo from Eastern 
Regional Coal Archives in Bluefield and was taken for 1896 Industrial 
Edition of Bluefield Daily Telegraph.

Alex Schust
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> Regarding two issues from the Convention, previously asked about here:

>

> They may have been the only ones, but Pocahontas crews did refer to M's as

> "Mollies."  And referring to locations where Elkhorn crews would set out

> empties, Elk Ridge is in the North Fork neighborhood of the same name,

> between "downtown" and Algoma.  Called Elk Ridge Storage Track, it was the

> second over of two storage tracks alongside the North Fork Branch just off

> the WB Main junction, the other called North Fork Storage.  According to a

> track map of the time, it is on the alignment of the oven track that 

> served

> the Elk Ridge Coal & Coke Co. coking operation in the adjacent hillside. 

> I

> don't recall the tipple location being indicated, but Alex Schust's

> excellent presentation at the Convention included a photo of the tipple,

> placing it across the wye that was there at the time, on the opposite side

> of North Fork Hollow.  Railroad records seem to indicate that Elk Ridge

> Coal may have been in decline and the tipple may have been (re)moved by 

> the

> 1920's when the map was drafted (?).  Alex?

>

> Grant Carpenter

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