Mineral Ridge Colliery, Clarion County Pennsylvania
This company have had two drift openings at West Monterey. The Mineral Ridge Coal Company at present consists of Messrs. Thomas Skidmore, of Fredonia, New York, and W. H. C. Eicke. The latter is superintendent. In 1876 they employed 100 miners and dug 51,390 tons, of the value of $81,056.99. In 1885 190 men were at work, and the colliery was operated 267 days out of the year; mules, 7; 36,977 tons of bituminous coal were mined, and 20,412 shipped. Drift No. 1 is ventilated by a furnace, and No. 2 by natural means.
~ History of Clarion County Pennsylvania, 1887, Page 366
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