History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . nd five carsare daily loaded with coke from them. The Valley Mines were started by Wilson, Boyle &Playford, about 1870. At the time of sale to the Frick Coke Company, in April, 1880, they had onehundred ovens in operation. They have since beenincreased to one hundred and fifty-two, the number inoperation at the present time. The Hope Mines and Coke-Works, called until re-cently the Sherrick Mines, are situated about half amile east of Everson Station, and also east of boththe S
History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . nd five carsare daily loaded with coke from them. The Valley Mines were started by Wilson, Boyle &Playford, about 1870. At the time of sale to the Frick Coke Company, in April, 1880, they had onehundred ovens in operation. They have since beenincreased to one hundred and fifty-two, the number inoperation at the present time. The Hope Mines and Coke-Works, called until re-cently the Sherrick Mines, are situated about half amile east of Everson Station, and also east of boththe Southwest Pennsylvania and Mount PleasantBranch Railroads. They were put in operation aboutten years ago by Jacob Sherrick, and were sold byhim in March, 1881, to the present proprietor, JosephR. Stauffer, for about eighteen thousand dollars. The])roperty embraces about thirty-one and a half acresof coal as yet untouched (as shown by a survey madein the spring of 1881). The proprietor has in opera-tion at this place twenty ovens, with a daily capacityof thirty tons of coke. He has here all the neces-sary. i iliil!llllillllliililliilii|;iMBiilli|HI
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