Domestic coal onesy-twosy

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Old Ben Coal Corporation sold coal from mines in Illinois, West Virginia,
Eastern Kentucky, Western Kentucky, Arkansas and Oklahoma in 1930. In 1946
it had dropped Western Kentucky, Arkansas and Oklahoma mines, but added two
Virginia mines. (Dixiana, Virginia shipping coal from the Taggart No. 5
seam and Patterson, Virginia shipping coal from the Cary Seam on the Dismal
Creek Branch.)



The General Office was in Chicago, but the company had regional sales
offices in St. Louis, Minneapolis, Omaha, Kansas City, Detroit, Cleveland,
Cincinnati, and Norfolk. Many coal brokers also had local offices in
Bluefield, WV



It had its own coal dock at Superior, Wisconsin to serve West Virginia coal
destined for the northwest. This appears to have been a major shipping
point for Glen Rogers Briquets (Briquettes) shipped from Glen Rogers, WV.
It used the N&W, C&O and Virginian Tidewater piers for coast wide shipping.



Attached is an old photograph from the Eastern Regional Coal Archives in
Bluefield, WV showing the Lynchburg Coal & Coke Company at Kyle, WV with an
Old Ben Coal Corporation sign. Lynchburg C&C sold its coal under the trade
name “F.F.V.”



In 1946 Old Ben Coal Corporation brokered coal for 17 different mines.



Alex Schust



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On 3/14/17 11:45 AM, nw-mailing-list-request at nwhs.org wrote:

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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 08:26:50 -0400



     Once, nearly every town in the USA and Canada had a dealer or two

receiving carloads of coal. Can any of you explain how the coal was

handled mine to retailer? Were certain mines oriented to this trade?

Were they selling direct to coal yards or did brokers take multi-car

lots and re-sell in regional areas? (Did N&W coal make it to places like

Newfoundland and deliver on narrow gauge trucks?) Has this been covered

in one of the magazine issues?

I can provide one data point. My grandfather sold coal for Old Ben Coal &
Coke, up and down the Valley and into western VA, by the car load to large
users (towns, cities, hospitals, universities, industries, etc.) and by the
car load and bag to retailers. The coal came from Old Ben mines and he
arranged shipping via N&W. It was steam coal to the users specs.

Bill McClure
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