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Pittsburgh & Connellsville Coke Co.
| Name | Pittsburgh & Connellsville Coke Co. |
| Ortssitz | Connellsville (USA) |
| Art des Unternehmens | Kokerei |
| Anmerkungen | Verwaltung in Pittsburgh (?), 83 Wood Street. Werk und Verkauf in Connellsville. |
| Quellenangaben | [Industries of Pittsburgh (1879) 107] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1864 |
Gegründet unter den Bergbau- und Fabrikgesetzen von Pennsylvania |
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Kommentar |
| Koks |
1864 |
Beginn |
1879 |
[Industries of Pittsburgh (1879) 107] |
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Beschreibung |
Verwendung |
| 1879 |
Dampfmaschinen |
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unbekannt |
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"powerful engines" |
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| ZEIT | 1879 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | So extensive is the coal interest and so thoroughly identified with Pittsburgh, that a notice of the prominent dealers
is highly essential. Among such organizations none is deserving of more prominent and copious mention than the
Pittsburgh & Connellsville Coke Co. Incorporated under the mining and manufacturing laws of Pennsylvania in 1864,
with a capital stock of $150.000, the concern at once took rank among the largest and most energetic producers in the
country. The present officers, who have been connected with it trom its inception, are Messrs. J. M. Bailey, Prest.,
John Wilhelm, Jr. Secretary, and John F. Dravo, Treasurer and General Manager, to whose ability and thorough knowledge is due its signal success. The possessions of the company are mainly located near Connellsville in Fayette county, and consist of 300 acres of the finest coal property in Pennsylvania, in which numerous shafts are sunk and mines operated, four powerful engines and seven boilers, extensive hoisting and pumping apparatus, and machinery for elevating coal through the shafts, besides ovens, for converting it into coke, the greater part of the production being thus used. Five hundred and twenty men are employed m these various operations, requiring an average monthly disbursement of about 7.500. The excellence of the production is recognized by iron manufacturers all over the United States, and the State Secretary of Internal Affairs, in his report on Industrial Statistics, Vol 3, 1874-5, says that "the Pittsburgh Coal Seam," in which the mines of the company are located, "is from six to ten feet thick, containing an excess of bituminous matter, and yielding a large percentage of excellent coke." For the manufacture of illuminating gas, this coal is considered unequalled, and the coke of this company manufactured from the Connellsville Vein finds a ready market, not only at home, but is consumed in large quantities both in Eastern and Western States, the annual sales which are all made at the mines, amounting to 105.600, and increasing even under the present reduced price of the product. Few men in this community are more widely known than Mr. Jno. F. Dravo, a native of Westmoreland Co., Pa., where he was born in 1819, he came to Pittsburgh at an early age, and for nearly half a century has been conspicuous in promoting the commercial and industrial welfare of this city. Active in every public untertakiug, Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce, Vice Pres't and Director of the Morganza Reform School and intimately connected by preference and principle with other organizations, tending to enhance the general good, a fluent writer and forceable speaker, Mr. Dravo has justly earned the respect and consideration in which he is held. The organization with which he is most identified, has arrived under his management at a productive capacity of 25,000 bushels per day, and takes rank at the present time with the largest enterprises of the kind la Pennsylvania. |
| QUELLE | [Industries of Pittsburgh (1879) 106] |
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