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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>C.C.B. Pocahontas was the brand name that Castner,
Curran and Bullitt sold coal from the Pocahontas coalfield under. CC&B
was a selling agent for coal rather than a coal producer.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>While I haven't researched this in any
depth in some repects CC&B was sucessor to the Pocahontas Company that
the N&W was instrumental in organizing in 1895 to sell the output of
the Pocahontas coalfield. At the same time (1896) Castern &
Curran advertised themselves as the sole agent for the Pocahontas
Company. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The role of the Pocahontas Company as sucessor to
the Flat-Top Coal and Coke Association was set up to market Pocahontas coal,
ensure the quality of the coal going to market, and supervise the distribution
of both coal and coke cars. The Pocahontas Company also made all
of the collections for the mining companies who were paid on the 20th of
each month by Pocahontas Company. The N&W effectively set the price
for coal paid to the operator, but based it on the selling price of coal at the
docks. Pocahontas Company handled about 70% of the output of the
Pocahontas coalfield in 1896. To ensure the quality of the coal being
shipped and to protect the brand name Pocahontas Coal, CC&B would send their
own inspectors to the tipples to monitor the coal being loaded. The
inspector had the power to refuse acceptance of the coal car if it contained too
much rock or not enough lump coal. If a car was rejected the coal company
had to unload the coal car and reload it with the proper blend of
coal.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>West Virginia passed a law around the turn of the
century that basically said a railroad could not be involved with the
marketing of coal which led to the demise of the Pocahontas Company, but made
CC&B much more prominent. The relationship between operator and
coal seller remained until about 1907/08 when Justus Collins (Louisville Coal
& Coke and Greenbrier Coal & COke) set up his own selling company and
refused to turn over his coal to CC&B. That court case and the one
brought by J. Tierney (POwhatan Coal & Coke) on the car distribution system
effectively ended the near monopoly on coal sales in the Pocahontas
coalfield. An interesting twist was that J. Tierney was the first
president of the Pocahontas Company.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Another twist to the newspaper article is the
Panama Canal. Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries Company, predecessor to
Pochontas Fuel Company had the sole contract to provide coal to be used in the
machinery building the Panama Canal until Berwind - White Fuel Company
complained about it. The contract was then shared between
Berwind-White and Pocahontas Consolidated for a number of years, but by 1912
Pocahontas Consolidated had the sole contract again to supply coal to the
Panama Canal authority. </FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alex Schust</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, March 03, 2009 5:49
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> N&W in 1909--Tug boat</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>April 18,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>TUGBOAT JOHN TWOHY, JR., IS
LAUNCHED</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center>------</DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG>Built by Man Well Known in Coal Fields and Is Most
Powerful Used at Lamberts Point</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> </DIV>
<DIV align=left> Norfolk, Va., April 17--Capt. John Twohy,
who is well known by all of the coal operators in the Flat Top coal fields,
launched several days ago at Newport News, Va., a new tug boat to be used in
docking the steamers at Lambert's Point coal piers. This boat was
christened by Capt. Twohy's son and the boat will be named John Twohy,
jr.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> This is the most powerful boat that has
ever been used at the Lamberts Point piers in docking steamers, but as the
class of steamers that are now being built are much larger, it requires a
larger tug boat to put them along side the piers, and as the piers at
Lambert's Point are and have been known for years as the largest and fastest
bunker coal loading piers in the world, Mr. Twohy has left nothing undone in
the building of this boat that will in any way delay the docking of steamers,
and with the continued output of the world's famous fuel coal known as the C.
C. & B. Pocahontas, all steamers coming to that port are bunkered and sail
before steamers at other points are put alongside piers to take on coal.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The last tug which Mr. Twohy had built was
such a powerful and seaworthy tug that President Roosevelt bought it to help
handle the dredging machines that are and have been used in the digging of the
Panama Canal, and this tug which was built to use C. C. & B. coal has done
more work towards building the canal than any other two boats that are there
at work.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon Hamilton</FONT></DIV>
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