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The Pocahontas Operators’ Association.

POCAHONTAS: The Story of a Good Indian.

1595 SHE was born many, many years ago, tradition says in

to 1595, in Old Virginia, and she was the daughter of a very

1617 great man in those days—an Indian Chieftain called Pow¬

hatan. And when the little maid was twelve years of age,

one Captain John Smith—you have heard of him, haven’t you?—

fell into the hands of Powhatan and because Captain John was not

so popular with the Red Men as he might have been, they proceeded

to show their dislike of him by putting his head upon a great wooden

block to brutally knock it off. But just at the critical moment the

little Indian Maid rushed in between the victim and his savage exe¬

cutioner and by her childish eloquence persuaded her parent to

spare the life of Captain John. From that time on she was a great

friend of the English settlers in Virginia and we all know how when

the little Indian Maid was eighteen years of age she married the

courtly and kindly John Rolfe and was baptized by the name of

Rebecca. And that is a name we never remember her by, but prefer

to think of her by her beautiful native name—a name celebrated in

history and story and song—the good little Indian POCAHONTAS. Her marriage brought peace to the distressed Colony and in 1616 the

little Indian Maid went to England, was presented to the Court and

met many, many fair ladies and gallant gentlemen—yet none more

fair than she, none more gallant than her husband. In 1617, just

when she was about twenty-two years old, her life came to an end.

But she left a little son and from him many of the proudest families—

the F. F. V.’s—trace their descent.

And because this little Indian Maid stood for the best of the native

product of Old Virginia, her name has been associated with the best

natural products of our country, and the word POCAHONTAS whenever we see it associated with anything always means to us—

BEST.

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THE STORY O F POCAHONTAS

POCAHONTAS: The Story of a Good Coal.

1863 MAJOR Jed Hotchkiss, of Staunton, Virginia, was a soldier

to serving on General Lee’s Staff in the Confederate Army,

1915 during the terrible times of our great Civil War. During

the War he first noticed the rich deposits of coal which lay

under the Eastern base of Flat Top Mountain and while it was in a

series that is practically devoid of merchantable coal in the Pennsyl¬

vania Regions, yet Major Hotchkiss with trained eye and geologic

knowledge saw that this great region contained an immense area

of valuable coal, needing only development and transportation facili¬

ties to bring it to the markets of the world. He was one of the

leaders of the Flat Top Coal Land Association, the corporation that

brought about the building of the splendid Norfolk & Western Rail¬

way System into and through the Coal Fields and which first opened

up to the market one of the best fields of Steam Coal in the world.

And because these now famous Coal Fields produced the best

Steam Coals in the world, they became known as the POCAHONTAS Coal Fields and have carried the fame and name of Pocahontas to

the farthermost parts of the earth.

Pocahontas Saving the Life of Captain John Smith

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T H E STORY OF POCAHONTAS

A Pocahontas Mine

WEST VIRGINIA: Its Coal Fields.

It is within the memory of many still living when that portion of

Virginia, which we now find on the maps as West Virginia, was con¬

sidered as one of the poorest States in the country. There was some

attempt at agriculture in a portion of the State; but the greater part

was mountainous and inhabited by people whose lives were lived in

the simplest manner and whose wealth was practically nil.

The great strides made by West Virginia have been due to the

opening up of its vast Coal Fields. How vast are these Coal Fields

will best be understood when we state that of the 24,022 square miles

of the State the Coal Fields occupy 17,000 square miles.

The West Virginian Coal Fields belong to the Appalachian region

and nearly all of the production comes from seven principal Mining

Districts—three in the northern part of the State and four in the

southern part of the State. The three in the Northern Field are the

Fairmount, the Elk Garden, and the Philippi; while the four in the

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Southern Field are the New River, the Kanawha, the Big Sandy, and

the world-famous POCAHONTAS.

And now, while we dislike statistics just as much as you do, in

order to give you some idea of the tremendous growth of the Coal

Industry in West Virginia, we are obliged to give you some figures

and when you come to analyze them you will find they make mighty

interesting reading, despite the fact that they are statistics.

From 1857 to 1860 the entire amount of Bituminous Coal pro¬

duced in the United States was 4,849,899 long tons.

In 1912 the total production of West Virginia alone was 66,786,687

tons, with a spot value of $62,792,234—a good deal more than 1,000

per cent, greater than that of the entire United States from 1857 to

1860. Indeed the production of West Virginia alone in 1912—and

we take this year because the official figures have been published for

it—was about the same as the entire United States production from

1881 to 1890! And it was more than the total production of both

anthracite and bituminous coal in 1877—thirty-five years earlier.

The coal consumption in the United States has practically doubled

each ten years since 1825.

In 1863, which we believe is the earliest date for reliable records,

the coal production of West Virginia was 444,648 tons, and from that

date to 1913, both inclusive, West Virginia has produced the enor¬

mous total of approximately 820,000,000 tons of Bituminous Coal!

And that sum total is greater than the sum total of all the coal pro¬

duced in all the United States in 1912—much greater!

These figures show one thing very conclusively, and that is the

demand for West Virginia Coals—because if there was no demand

there would be no production; the two going hand in hand. And

the DEMAND for the coal shows its superior merits; because it is

equally true if it did not possess superior merits, there would not be

the great demand for it that there is. These facts are obvious.

POCAHONTAS: Its Coal Fields.

“ THE POCAHONTAS district lies in the extreme south¬ ern corner of the State in McDowell and Mercer Counties and extends across the State line into Tazewell County, Virginia.

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THE STORY OF POCAHONTAS

Pocahontas Coal Outcrop, showing No. 3 Pocahontas Vein at the Mines of

The Pocahontas Collieries Company

It produces the celebrated high-carbon Pocahontas steaming and coking coal, one of the purest coals in the United States, mined from the ‘No. 3’ bed. The production in the West Vir¬ ginia part of this district in 1912 was 18,918,860 short tons, or nearly thirty per cent, of the total output of this State.”

Very briefly—and very truly—that is the story of the Pocahontas

Coal Fields, as told in the “Mineral Resources of the United States

for 1912, published by the United States Geological Survey.”

“One of the purest coals in the United States” says the Govern¬

ment. That is true. And perhaps just because, among other things,

it is one of the purest coals in the United States the production of the

Pocahontas Coal Fields has grown from 60,828 tons in 1883 to

approximately 24,518,960 tons in 1914. Such growth can only be due

to actual merit.

It has been estimated that the number of tons of coal in the entire

Pocahontas Coal Field amounts to something like 6,425,000,000 tons

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and that it will take something like six hundred and fifty years at

the present rate of output, in which to exhaust this vast supply.

The singular purity of this coal is largely due to the fact that the

veins are not broken in by “faults” as they are in other fields. The

various veins are practically of uniform thickness throughout the

entire area, and because when the crust of the earth was cooling, and

shrinking and crumpling up, and a general mixing process was going

on, kind old Mother Nature, for some reason best known to herself,

did not crumple up the Coal Veins in the Pocahontas Field, but left

them severely alone. Pocahontas Coal is pure coal—just coal—

nothing else but coal. And The Field is well defined within certain

limits. Mother Nature has planted here and there Geological Sign

Posts and these Geological Sign Posts are what the geologists call

“Mauch Chunk Shale,” which the geological sharp interprets to

mean “No Coal Below;” because nowhere in the world has coal ever

been found below this geological formation.

And now let us tell you some of the reasons WHY Pocahontas

Coal for the special purposes for which it is used stands almost in a

class by itself.

POCAHONTAS: The Coal With a Conscience.

Who NOW we don’t pretend to tell you the names of ALL the

Uses It users of Pocahontas Coal; because that would take a volume

in itself. But we mention the names of a few nations and

large corporations which not only have used Pocahontas Coal, but

have endorsed it. After all, the best proof of the merits of Pocahon¬

tas Coal lies in a personal test by the reader of this booklet.

Pocahontas Coal is used and endorsed by the Governments of

the United States of America, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, and

Austria-Hungary.

Pocahontas Coal is used by such well-known concerns as The

William Cramp & Son Ship & Engine Building Company; the Herre-

shoff Manufacturing Company; the Bath Iron Works; the Fore

River Shipbuilding Company; the New York Shipbuilding Company

and Neafie & Leavie—all well-known Shipbuilders—the Panama

Railroad and the Canal Commission—the result of whose monu¬

mental work we are this year celebrating—the Cunard Steamship

Company; the White Star Line; the Allan Steamship Company;

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A Mine Entrance

This Yoke of Oxen Gathered Coal in Zenith Mine Four or Five Years

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and—but why enlarge the list? If YOU are a manufacturer and you

have not yet used Pocahontas Coal make the test for yourself.

POCAHONTAS COAL.

Where Besides its extensive use in the United States, Pocahontas

It Is Coal is also shipped to and used in the following countries:

Used Argentina, Barbadoes, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Curacao,

France, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Peru, St. Lucia,

St. Thomas, etc., etc., etc.

WHY At the conclusion of the Spanish-American War, during

Ships which time the bulk of the coal used by our Men-of-War

Use It Vessels came from the Pocahontas Mines, the Bureau of

Equipment of our Navy Department addressed one hundred

and twenty-three letters to Commanding Officers of Naval Vessels,

asking them to state the trade name of the American Coal they con¬

sidered the most desirable for use in steaming and other purposes.

Of the one hundred and twenty-three addressed one hundred and

seventeen PREFERRED “POCAHONTAS COALY Why? Be¬

cause, among other reasons, Pocahontas Coal—

Gives best results in speed per ton of coal consumed.

Gives lowest consumption in pounds used per horsepower.

Contains smallest percentage of ash and clinkers.

Gives off less smoke in combustion.

Requires less working of fires to keep steam pressure uniform.

Better suited for forced draft.

Better suited for natural draft.

Requires less sweeping of tubes.

Gives more heat and lasts longer per square foot of space occu¬

pied in bunkers.

Is less liable to spontaneous combustion.

WHY Pocahontas Coal is used by thousands of manufacturers

Stationary not only in this country but abroad as well. Why?

Plants Because, among other reasons, Pocahontas Coal—

Use Is lowest in ash and clinkers.

Pocahontas Evaporates more water per pound of coal.

Coal Requires less cleaning of flues.

Does not deposit soot on heating surfaces.

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Breast Type Coal Cutter on Turret Truck

A “Room” After Coal is Shot Down

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POCAHONTAS COAL.

Greatest horsepower can be developed from boiler with¬

out excessive draft. Greatest efficiency of boiler can be obtained.

Makes less smoke. Shows smallest amount of loss in cleaning and banking

fires. Suitable for either hand firing or automatic stokers. If stored shows less loss from being exposed to weather

or air. Slack or fine coal is equally as clean as lump—and that

is something you can’t say of most bituminous coals—

isn’t it?'

WHY Pocahontas Coal is and should be used by railroads and Railroads that use is based upon its actual merits. Why? Do and Because, among other reasons, Pocahontas Coal— Should Gives the lowest consumption per ton mile and per

Use It engine mile. Will not stop or honeycomb flues. Can be used either with or without a brick arch in

flues. Locomotives not obliged to take coal so often. Fewer leaky flues and fire boxes. Fires have to be cleaned less. Trains make better time with fewer delays on account

of lack of steam. Grates not burned out nor ash pans warped if coal is

properly handled.

(Courtesy The Colliery Engineer) Storing Coal

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A Cutting and Loading Machine in Operation

A Storage Battery Gathering Locomotive

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POCAHONTAS: Why Our Government Uses It.

The reasons why the United States Government uses Pocahontas

Coal can best be shown, perhaps, by some facts and figures that are

probably not generally known.

Bulletin 11, of the Bureau of Mines, says:

“COAL is burned under boilers for producing power, for drying various materials, or for warming buildings. The most valuable coal, therefore, is that which gives up the most heat to the boiler for a given weight burned. The value of a coal is indicated by the number of heat units it contains. The heating value is expressed in terms of British thermal units (abbreviated B. t. u.) per pound of coal, and is deter¬ mined by means of a special apparatus called a calorimeter. In purchasing coal for any power plant the aim should be to obtain a fuel which, all things considered (such as equipment, price of coal, and cost of labor and repairs), will produce a horsepower for the least cost.

“The tests tend to show that, other conditions being equal, coals of similar composition are of value in proportion to the British thermal units, and the determination of these units in any coal will give approximately its value.”

Boiled down, in buying Coal you should take as your standard the

British thermal unit, and the coal containing the greatest number of

heat units, all else being equal, is the coal that will produce you the

maximum of results at the minimum of cost.

Now let us take this question of Heat Units. How does Poca¬

hontas Coal—the Coal the United States Geological Survey calls

“one of the purest coals in the United States”—compare with other

coals?

On Page 18 are some figures from Bulletin 11, quoted above,

giving analyses of coals delivered to the Government under con¬

tract, showing the British thermal units in the dry coal. Remem¬

ber, these are Government figures:

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A Twelve-Ton Hauling Motor

A Ten-Ton Armor Plate Type Locomotive With Traps

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LOCALITY B. t. u. Dry Coal

Pittston, Pennsylvania. 11,680 Peoria County, Illinois. 11,903 St. Clair, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. 11,912 Englevale, Kansas. 12,246 Vermilion County, Illinois. 12,652 Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. 13,348 Cherokee and Crawford Counties, Kansas. 13,460 Jefferson County, Alabama. 14,030 Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. 14,477 Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. 14,480 Somerset County, Pennsylvania. 14,646 Cambria County, Pennsylvania. 14,708 POCAHONTAS (Run of Mine. For Panama Railroad). 14,898

POCAHONTAS (Run of Mine. For Toledo, Ohio, Custom House). . . .. 15,157

These figures speak for themselves.

Our own analyses of Coal from the Pocahontas Field show the

following:

Mois¬ ture

Volatile Matter

Fixed Carbon Ash Sul¬

phur Phos¬

phorus B. t. u.

0.20 14.00 72.00 1.10 0.50 0.0057 15,000 to to to to to to to

1.20 23.00 84.00 5.00 0.70 0.01 15,800

Is it to be wondered that Pocahontas Coal is used as a standard

by the United States Geological Survey from which to grade steam

coals?

The analyses shown above will hold good practically throughout

the entire Pocahontas Field.

High in Heat Units—Low in Ash—Long in Flame—Little Smoke

and Perfect Combustion are among the reasons which make Poca¬

hontas Coal THE BEST STEAMING COAL IN THE WORLD.

POCAHONTAS: A Smokeless Coal.

The fate of Nations has often turned upon seemingly insignificant

things.

Cardinal Wolsey once wrote a letter. He used the words “I and

My King,” instead of “My King and I.” Somehow or other—it

matters not how at this time—the letter fell into the hands of the

King. We all know what happened to the Cardinal and how the

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Picking Tables and Loading Booms Interior of Steel Tipple

A Pocahontas Steel Tipple—Daily Capacity 5,000 Tons

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history of England was changed by the place of a pronoun in a sen¬

tence of four words.

So, too, the history of our own country was affected by a seemingly

small thing. Not many people know that at the time of the naval

battle off Santiago, in the late Spanish War, Admiral Cervera’s Fleet

was located because of the immense amount of smoke that poured out

of the smoke stacks of the ships.

An American naval man was asked what were the advantages of

Smokeless Coal in the Navy. His reply was that in the event of

“trouble” if one fleet used Smokeless Coal and the other used Coal

that gave a great deal of smoke, it might determine the conflict.

And he mentioned the fact that had the Spanish Fleet been using

Pocahontas Smokeless Coal, it would probably have escaped the

attention of Admiral Schley, and the History of the Spanish-American

War might have been written vastly different.

A Battleship is not easily seen at a distance. Its color is neutral.

Indeed the first indication we have of any steamship on the sea is its

smoke. The advantages in warfare lie with the ship that can conceal

its presence from the enemy for the longest time—and the vessel

which uses Pocahontas Smokeless Coal has an advantage over the

vessel that uses other grades of coal.

Nor does the advantages of a Smokeless Coal cease here. “The

Smoke Nuisance” is one that we read about in our daily papers.

Commissions and Chambers of Commerce and Committees galore

have been appointed to investigate it and endeavor to do something

to abate the nuisance. Simple as it may seem, the abatement of the

smoke nuisance can only be accomplished by the use of a Smokeless

Coal. No one ever heard of “The Smoke Nuisance” where Poca¬

hontas Coal was used exclusively.

Railroads, too, find it to their advantage to use Pocahontas

Smokeless Coal. Many an accident has occurred because a heavy

smoke, pouring from the engine, has prevented the engineer from seeing

the signals.

The Committee on Smoke Abatement and Electrification of

Railway Terminals in Chicago made a test of a Santa Fe switching

engine in that city. Tests were made with both Pocahontas and

Illinois Coals. Smoke density was measured on the basis of the

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Loaded Coal Cars in the Yards

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Ringelmann chart, and in addition to this two other terms were

used—“white,” meaning the absence of ANY color to the exhaust

at the time of observation, and “clear” when neither smoke nor

exhaust could be seen—nothing but a colorless heat vapor being

driven off.

A full day’s run with each of the Coals showed the following

results: Clear

Pocahontas Smokeless. . 42% of the time White Any grade of

34% of the time smoke shown only 24% of the time

Illinois Coal. 2% of the time 18% of the time “Smoke” 80%

of the time

Smoke, of course, means imperfect combustion. Whatever goes

up in smoke is wasted—altho paid for. The less smoke the more

perfect the combustion—the more the user gets for his money in

actual results—actual heat units which are utilized for his purposes.

The test above given showed this very clearly. The coal con¬

sumption when the Pocahontas Smokeless Coal was used was only

386 pounds an hour and with the Illinois Coal it was 457 pounds per

hour. That means, in other words, that the rate of evaporation

with the former was 9 pounds of water for every pound of coal used

and with the latter only 7.6 pounds of water with every pound of

coal used.

Pocahontas Smokeless Coal is low in volatile matter and because

it is low in volatile matter it is a Smokeless Coal.

Bulletin 1 of the Bureau of Mines, of the U. S. Department of the Interior, gives a table of tests of steaming tests of various coals.

The following is taken from this Bulletin:

Volatile Matter COAL in Dry Coal

(per cent.) Pocahontas Smokeless. 20.8 Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. 32.9

(Pittsburg Bed) Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. 30.4 Ziegler, Franklin County, Illinois. 33.0 Carbon County, Wyoming. 45.4 Uinta County, Wyoming. 43.4 Sheridan District, Wyoming. 43.8 Wood County, Texas. 41.6

In another table in this same Government Publication it appears

from Government tests of Coals from Illinois, Pennsylvania, West

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3,000 Cars Pocahontas Coal Ready for Loading on Ships at Lambert Point, Norfolk, Va.

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Virginia, Wyoming, POCAHONTAS and Utah that POCAHONTAS

showed the lowest percentage of volatile matter and the lowest per¬

centage of ash.

For both economy, safety and efficiency Pocahontas Smokeless

Coal presents unusual advantages.

POCAHONTAS: Its Coke Industry.

Next to Pennsylvania, West Virginia possesses more wealth in

supplies of coking and other high-grade coals than any other state.

In the words of the United States Geological Survey—

“ THE Flat Top region is drained by the upper portions of New, Guyandotte, and Big Sandy Rivers, and includes the ovens in West Virginia, which belong to the Pocahontas Coal Field. The Pocahontas district is by far the most important and bears the same relation to the production of West Virginia that the Connellsville district bears to that of Pennsylvania. The output of the Pocahontas district averages somewhat more than fifty per cent, of the total coke production of the State. ”

As we have remarked before, great growth shows an equally great

demand—and demand is based upon merit.

The increase in the production of Pocahontas Coke has been

brought about by reason of the superior character of that produc¬

tion.

The first coke made in the Pocahontas Field was in 1883, at which

time there were only 200 Beehive ovens, the shipments for that year

being 19,805 gross tons. In 1912 the Flat Top (Pocahontas) district

had 11,280 ovens and produced 1,185,978 short tons.

Pocahontas Coke possesses the following advantages:

LOWEST in ash.

LOWEST in sulphur.

LOWEST in phosphorus.

HIGHEST in Fixed Carbon.

PUREST made for Blast Furnace use.

BEST Blast Furnace Fuel made for Bessemer Manufacture.

BEST Foundry Coke due to low sulphur and little ash.

SUPERIOR as a crushed Coke for purely domestic use.

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Interior of Lambert Point Pier

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Pocahontas Coke is Pure—it is Hard—it is Strong—Resistant

Against Abrasion—and is made out of Pocahontas Coal, the coal being

neither crushed nor washed, but going direct into the Ovens from the

Colliery.

ANALYSES OF POCAHONTAS COKE.

Poole, “Calorific Value of Fuels.”

Moisture. 0.66 Fixed Carbon. 92.82 Volatile Matter. . . 0.66 Sulphur. 0.55 Ash. 4.91 Phosphorus.

Mineral Resources

of “U. S.,” U. S. Geolog¬

John Fulton “Coke”

ical Survey.

0.57 0.345

92.266 92.694

1.028 0.341

0.552 0.63

5.58 5.822

0.0063

POCAHONTAS: Labor Conditions.

LABOR conditions throughout the Pocahontas Coal Fields can

be described as ideal, and just what that means when it comes to

production itself every person familiar with coal production will

appreciate. Of all the important coal-producing States, West Vir¬

ginia shows the smallest percentage of coal improperly mined, and

this is due not only to the spirit of the operators, but to the intelli¬

gence of the miners.

As one travels through the Pocahontas Coal Fields he is impressed

by the character of the miners. No signs of poverty greet the eye—

no unhappy, dissatisfied faces. Substantial buildings are scattered

throughout the entire field. Schoolhouses and High Schools dot the

mountain sides. Clubs for the miners are found everywhere. These

excellently conducted clubs have billiard and pool tables, libraries,

baths, etc., and are open to the humblest working-man.

The Superintendents and Managers are clean-lived men, many of

them University graduates, who have not only successfully solved the

problem of mining coal, but have solved as well the greater problem

of keeping the men contented and happy and securing the greatest

amount of intelligent cooperation on the part of every employee.

There is nothing mysterious in the Pocahontas Coal Fields—nothing

hidden—nothing concealed—except the coal.

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THE STORY OF POCAHONTAS

As a consequence of the satisfactory labor conditions the death

rate from accidents is very low. The average is one death to 100,000

tons mined and some mines have lowered this to one death for every

500,000 tons mined. Every precaution is taken to preserve not only

the lives but the health of the miners and their families, and such

accidents as do occur are almost wholly attributable to over-con¬

fidence on the part of the injured themselves.

The Pocahontas Coal Fields are located on and find outlet for

their products over the Norfolk & Western Railway and its rail

and water connections, and visitors to this Field will find a splendid

Railway Service—Pullmans, electrically lighted throughout—Dining

Car Service of the best—and every possible accommodation and

inducement for them to visit the world-famous Coal Fields of

Pocahontas.

If that gentle Indian Maiden from whom these Coal Fields take

their name could come back again in the flesh, she would travel on

steamers propelled by Pocahontas Coal—on trains operated by Poca¬

hontas Coal and she would pass through vast stretches of country,

alive with factories, the power for which is furnished by Pocahontas

Coal. And when she arrived here in the Pocahontas Coal Fields

she would find a country teeming with the enterprise of the West,

the energy of the North and the courtesy and hospitality of the Old

South.

Pocahontas Coke Ovens

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LIST OF OFFICERS OF POCAHONTAS OPERATORS’

ASSOCIATION.

ISAAC T. MANN.President

W. H. THOMAS.Vice President

JOHN J. LINCOLN.Secretary

JAIRUS COLLINS.Treasurer

SELLING AGENCIES FROM WHICH GENUINE POCAHONTAS

COAL MAY BE PURCHASED.

Pocahontas Fuel Co.New York, N. Y.

The Crozer-Pocahontas Co.Philadelphia, Pa.

Castner, Curran & Bullitt, Inc.Philadelphia, Pa.

Flat Top Fuel Co.Bluefield, W. Va.

Houston Coal Co.Cincinnati, O.

Wm. C. Atwater & Co.New York, N. Y.

Pocahontas Coal Sales Co.Cincinnati, O.

American Coal Co.New York, N. Y.

Smokeless Fuel Co.Cincinnati, 0.

Eastern Pocahontas Coal Co.Vivian, W. Va.

West Virginia Pocahontas Coal Sales Co.Norfolk, Va.

S. J. Patterson Co.Dayton, O.

Norfolk & Chesapeake Coal Co.Detroit, Mich.

Lake Superior Coal Co.Montgomery, W. Va.

Solvay Collieries Co.Detroit, Mich.

Bluefield Coal and Coke Co.Bluefield, W. Va.

Visitors to the Panama-Pacific Exposition can see in the West Virginia Building, Moving

Picture Scenes of the Pocahontas Coal Mines, Transportation, Loading of Ships and other in¬

teresting scenes.

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