Clarion County Mines – Western Shaft
This shaft, the only one in operation in the county, is about thirty-five feet deep; sunk in the property of Isaac Hicks, at Arthur's, in 1883. the proprietors are W. C. Mobley and J. D. Callery, of Pittsburgh, owners of the Western Drift near Karns City; J. W. Dawson, superintendent. It supplies the northern division of the Pittsburgh and Western Railroad with fuel. In 1885 it employed nineteen men and produced7,000 tons of coal; shipped 4,200. In 1886 the tipple was destroyed by fire and rebuilt. Subsequently one man was killed by a boiler explosion. The mine is ventilated by a steam exhaust.
~ History of Clarion County Pennsylvania, 1887, Page 367
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