Monongahela River were completed, and in 1845, the raw
coal of the Brier Hill seam was successfully used to smelt
iron ores at the Clay Furnace. near Sharon. Pa.

PITTSBURGH COAL COMPANY

The Pittsburgh Coal Company is the owner and operator
of seventy coal mines in the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio.
Illinois and Kentucky, which have an annual capacity of
30,000,000 tons. Of these collieries, 60 are located in the
heart of the Pittsburgh district, the most wonderful coal
fields in the world, and are known as the Youghiogheny
and Westmoreland fields. In this district, the Pittsburgh
Coal Company is the owner of 152,745 acres of unmined
coal, and within these properties lie the highest grade of
gas, coking and steam coals.
The following analysis shows the high standard of the
company’s gas coal:
Moisture................. 0.50 9% to 1.00 9%
Volatile matter. ........ 32.00 9 to 84.00
Fixed carbon. . 38.00 9, to 60.00
Ash.................... 5.50 %to 7.00 9
Sulphur.................. 0.75 9 to 0.90 9,
Phosphorus. ............. 0.005% to 0.0109,
British Thermal Units... . . . 14.250 to 14.500

The company’s mines in the Youghiogheny and Westmoreland
 field are joined by the company’s own railway,
called the Montour Railroad, 51 miles in length, of the
best modern construction and equipment, and connections
are made direct with Lake Erie ports, and to railways east
west and south. The company possesses excellent facilities
for loading coal into ocean vessels, for export shipments
to South America and other countries, at the ports of
New York, Baltimore and Philadelphia. At the ports on
the Great Lakes, extensive and modern loading plants are
operated. During the summer months, millions of tons
of the Pittsburgh Coal Company’s gas and steam coal are
forwarded by the way of the Great Lakes to its docks on