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Smokeless Coal Operators Association

 Organization

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Ernest Glenwood Otey (1895-1966) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1909
Overview Correspondence, financial records, speeches, reports, blueprints, and pamphlets of a Bluefield banker and businessman who was a treasurer of the Democratic Executive Committee and a member of the Board of Governors of West Virginia University. Subjects include numerous businesses in the Bluefield area, Bluefield State College, Concord College, Bank of Bramwell, Island Creek Coal Company, Norfolk and Western Railroad, Pocahontas Fuel Company, Smokeless Operators Association, Virginia Railway,...
Dates: 1935-1965

Justus Collins (1857-1934) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1824
Scope and Contents Justus Collins [1857-1934] was an entrepreneur who opened his first coal mine in the Pocahontas- Flat Top coal field of Southern West Virginia, and thereafter operated mines in the New River, Tug River, and Winding Gulf coal fields. He headed a coal sales agency, speculated in coal and timber lands, headed a cement company, and was interested financially in rubber, oil, and gas companies. He played an important role in organizing the Tug River Coal Operators Association, the Winding Gulf...
Dates: 1887-1962

Pocahontas Operators Association, Records

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Collection Number: A&M 2796
Overview The minutes, correspondence, and financial records of the Pocahontas Operators Association and of its successors, the Smokeless Operators Association and the Southern Virginias Operators Association. Topics mentioned are foreign competition, environmental legislation, labor strife and union negotiations, and lobbying efforts in Congress and with state legislatures. Special mention is made of the conditions in the coal industry during World War II, the impact of the Taft-Hartley Act on...
Dates: 1941-1973

Smokeless Coal Operators Association Historical Records

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Collection Number: A&M 0049
Overview Production statistics and extracts from historical files of the Smokeless Coal Operators Association, also known as the Pocahontas Operators Association, including information regarding the Pocahontas Coal Co., Lynchburg Coal & Coke Co., Southern Coal Producers Association, Turkey Gap Coal and Coke Co., Ennis Coal Co., Aileen Coal Co., Buckeye Coal & Coke Co., and the Pocahontas Fuel Co. There is a brief history of the coal industry in West Virginia, 1800-1951, and a typescript...
Dates: 1886-1961

Smokeless Coal Operators Association Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1564
Scope and Contents

“The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia: A Brief History” by W.P. Tams, Jr. Printed in 1963.

Dates: 1931

Smokeless Coal Operators Association Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1830
Scope and Contents Production statistics and extracts from the historical files of the Smokeless Operators Association (until 1958 the Pocahontas Operators Association) showing the history of coal mining in the Pocahontas field and production, sales, and distribution statistics for the years 1930 and 1933-1961. There are weekly, monthly, and yearly reports on net tons produced, hours, worked, and tonnage lost because of labor problems, mine disability, or lack of market. There are lists of the coal companies...
Dates: 1800 (1952-1961)

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Coal mining - coal operators associations. 5
Coal mining. 5
Bluefield (W. Va.) 2
Coal mining - coal companies. 2
Politics and government. 2