Kermit WV and Earlston Coal---Coal Exposition Center in Bluefield?

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Don:
 
I had a few minutes after reading your email.  I went to Google and
entered Earlston Coal Mine.  the first link listed was
 
        http://www.wvgenweb.org/wvcoal/edkins.html            - list of
West Virginia Coal Mines
 
The 279th entry listed the Earlston Coal Company, Kermit (Mingo County).
It looked as if Earlston was listed or discussed in subsequent entries
as well.   I'll try to look further later today as I am also looking
into some of the old coal mines in Virginia and West Virginia for some
future NRHS newsletter articles.
 
If I see more information I'll pass it on to you.
 
Have a good day.
 
George Weber
High Point, NC


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	Subject: Kermit WV and Earlston Coal---Coal Exposition Center in
Bluefield? 
	
	
	Folks,  I am doing a little research on Earlston Coal out of
Kermit WV.  This company was started somewhere around 1911 and existed
for quiet a while lasting until the 50's or 60's.   I found the entries
for Earlston Coal at Kermit in the book "The Trail of the Powhatan
Arrow" by Jack Dickerson.
	
	The first entry is for January 1929 - " an explosion was set of
at the Earlston Coal Co. mine at Kermit seriouly injured 3 men. The
eplosion was set off by a carbide lamp which touched some powder the men
were using in "shooting down" coal. Injured were Goble Smith, Tom Preece
and Ben Howard.
	
	The next entry concerns David Wallace Farquharson, age 76, of
kermit who passed away in April 1914. He had founded the Earlston Coal
Co.
	
	The next entry is for October 1943. It concerns the death of
Thomas Franklin Williamson of Grey Eagle who was killed in a mine
accident at the Earlston mine.
	
	The last entry, also October concerns the War Fund goal. Kermit
was the first district of Mingo Conuty to reach its goal. Residents and
businesses contributed @1200.00 to the fund, $550.00 from Ealston Coal
employees.
	 
	Does anyone out there know anything else about this company?
Did it utilize company stores and if so, where they located in WV or
Kentucky or both?    Did it totally merge with Grey Eagle Coal?   The
most unusual thing was that Earlston Coal had a mine in Warfield
Kentucky that utilized a tramway that crossed the Tug River into Kermit
where it was loaded onto N&W coal cars.    Any information out there
would be beneficial.
	 
	Does anyone have to have a special access to get a visitors pass
to the Coal Exposition Archives in Bluefield.  WV or does it even exist
anymore?   
	 
	Don Mills




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