Scrapbook of Railroad and Coal News Clippings, 1883-1893

Scrapbook includes clippings of: Official Reports of the Cumberland Coal Trade from the The Sunday Civilian (1883-1890); the Coal Trade Journal; newspaper clippings regarding the railroad, coal industries and Davis. The newspaper clippings are predominantly from the Baltimore Sun, and are regarding business dealings, stockholders, elections, strikes (such as the Elk Garden Mine Strike), Stephen B. Elkins Political career, West Virginia's resources, tariffs, and legal suites (such as by John K. Shaw). The clippings are organized into sections titled: the West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway Company, The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, Bituminous Coal, and The Baltimore and Western Railway Company (some sections may have been left unlabeled).