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 West- 
moreland 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