Davis Coal and Coke, Coal Mining and Railroad Company, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4389
Records of the Davis Coal and Coke Company, a corporation created in the 1880s by Henry Gassaway Davis that was located in Thomas, West Virginia (WV). This collection is minimally processed.
The company was named after both the founder and the Coal and Coke Railroad that it primarily used. Later in the company's life it purchased lands and established its own mines. The company was finally dissolved in 1950. The collection includes administrative correspondence, reports, financial records, employee records, and other material.
Correspondence regards topics such as employee wages, company sales negotiations, etc. Reports include annual reports, log cut statistics, accident reports, termination files, and insurance records, among others. Also includes correspondence to and from Davis Coal and Coke on topics such as miner wages and sale negotiations; there are also log cut statistical summaries, coal tonnage reports, tax information, and many blueprints and maps of equipment, mines, and purchased properties.
Since Henry Davis had conglomerate corporate interests, these other interests continued on after the closure of the Coal and Coke Company in 1950. This very likely explains the presence of the timber (or lumber) company records that can be found with the coal and coke records in this collection.
English
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19.8 Linear Feet (19 ft. 10 in. (13 record cartons, 15 in. each); (4 document cases, 5 in. each); (2 index card boxes, 12 in. each); (1 flat storage box, 1 1/2 in.); (6 ledgers, 1 ft. 2 1/4 in.); (4 map cabinet drawers, 7 in.))
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