[PRCo] Re: Black Diamond Mine

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Coal mines in Western Pennsylvania are always very much on-topic.  They
supplied riders.  It's also a fascinating industry to study.  How the owners
ever got so many people to work in an absolutely hazardous occupation for
near-starvation wages for so long continues to amaze me.

Maybe I should find some time to post Mr. Keighley's early 1900s address
about how healthful and nutritious the emanations from beehive ovens were.
He was a mine superintendent at one of the Olivers before he became an
owner, and later killed himself because he became financially overextended.

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Fred
Schneider
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 1:21 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Black Diamond Mine


I think you just pushed Ed Lybarge's buttons!   Off what topic?
Trolleys existed to serve people.   If it were not for people, and
their amusement and and retail venues and places of work, there would
have been no Pittsburgh Railways or West Penn Railways or Butler
Short Line or any other trolley or interurban lines.   The mines in
western Pennsylvania are very much on subject.

You probably do not realize how much they are on topic until you plot
the mines in Fayette County and find that all of the older mines and
mine patches just happen to lie next to the West Penn Railways car
lines.   Those places called Orient and Whitney and Republic and
Hecla and Standard and so forth ad infinitum on the West Penn were
mines and coke ovens.

On Aug 17, 2007, at 10:42 AM, Lattner, Raymond wrote:

> I know we moved off this topic. But I was trying to determine how
> close
> the interurban line came to this mine. I found some Mine info at the
> Penn State Digital Web site. See attached photos. Labeled number 67 on
> map. Location river mile point 32.75  Looks like PRCo may have run
> under
> the lead track to this tipple?
> Ray
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