Clarion County Mines – Long Run Colliery
Star and Long Run. These mines, both drifts, are situated on Long Run, and are near each other. They are operated by the Northwestern Coal and Mining Company, which likewise controls the Fairmount mines, though there is a separate organization. S. T. Shaeffer is superintendent. The Star, the first opening, was made in 1882. In 1887, these mines employed172 men, and ten mules; operating 232 days in the year, 109,828 tons were produced; 74,545 tons of lump coal shipped. Both collieries are ventilated by furnaces.
~ History of Clarion County Pennsylvania, 1887, Page 367
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