3.3 Linear Feet, 3 ft. 4 in. (8 document cases, 5 in. each)
Creator
Smokeless Fuel Company
Location
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Smokeless Fuel Co. Records, A&M 1928, West Virginia and Regional History
Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: L. Epperly to V.H. Crites; Places: Bluefield, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Wage increase
of employees
1935 October 18
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: L. Epperly to V.H. Crites; Places: Bluefield, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Wage increase
of employees
1937 April 6
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: E.W. Mordue and Hall; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: List of by-product plants using
Smokeless Coal
1938 October 14
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Ball to G.R. Collins; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Detailed statement of salary
1941 July 31-1942
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: S.W. Shumate to V.H. Crites; Places: Bluefield, WV; Subjects: Coal Operator Associations
1944 June 10
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Floyd Sayre to Winding Gulf Collieries; Places: Beckley, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Payment
of lawyer fee
1944 December 15
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Form: Typed letter; Persons: I.L. Scherer; Places: Charleston, WV to Beckley, WV; Subjects: Farley Branch of Piney Coking
Coal Land Company
1944 December 20
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: W.H. Sawyers to G.R. Collins; Places: Hinton, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Offer of
land by Piney Coking Coal Land Company
1944 December 29
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: F. Smith to G.R. Collins; Places: Winding Gulf, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Copies
of map dealing with Farley and Riffe's branch
1945 January 13
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: F.P. Smith to E.E. Jones; Places: Winding Gulf, WV to Bluefield, WV; Subjects: Proposition
of Piney Coking Coal Land Company
1945 February 13
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: E.E. Jones to G.R. Collins; Places: Bluefield, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Opening
of Riffe's branch
1945 February 16
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Chairman to W.H. Sawyers; Places: Charleston, WV to Hinton, WV; Subjects: Outlet to Landon Farley
branch
1945 February 27
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Judge Ben Moore; Places: Beckley, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Allemannia Fire Insurance Company
v. Winding Gulf Collieries
1945 March 28
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: F. Sayre to E.E. Jones; Places: Beckley, WV to Bluefield, WV; Subjects: Copy of Pennsylvania
court case
1945 March 29
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: F. Sayre to E.E. Jones; Places: Beckley, WV to Bluefield, WV; Subjects: Opinion of Judge
Moore on Winding Golf Collieries court case
1945 April 12
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Form: Newspaper clipping; Persons: No persons listed; Places: No places listed; Subjects: Board will appeal Collins School
Case
1945 May 1
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Ben Moore to G.C. Trail; Places: Charleston, WV to Beckley, WV; Subjects: Decision of Judge Moore
in favor of Winding Gulf Collieries
1945 May 25
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Form: Typed letter; Persons: C.M. Dean To F. Sayre; Places: Richmond, VA to Beckley, WV; Subjects: Appeal of Board of Education
v. Winding Gulf Collieries
1945 August 4
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: F. Smith to V.H. Crites; Places: Winding Gulf, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Invoice
concerning the Virginian Railway Company
1945 November 5
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Form: Typed letter; Persons: F. Smith to S.W. Shumate; Places: Winding Gulf, WV to Bluefield, WV; Subjects: Contract with
Virginia Railway Company
1945 November 7
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Form: Typed letter; Persons: No person listed; Places: No place listed; Subjects: Ball Lumber Company Invoice
1945 November 7
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Form: Typed letter; Persons: W.E. Straughan; Places: No place given; Subjects: Mine inspection report
1946 March 23
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: George Keller to Lamar Colliery Company; Places: Chicago, IL to Lamar, WV; Subjects: Report
of Commercial Testing and Engineering Company
1946 March 26
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Form: Typed letter; Persons: J.A. Krug[?] and John L. Lewis; Places: Washington, D.C.; Subjects: Agreement between the government
and the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA)
1946 May 29
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Form: Typed letter; Persons: No persons listed; Places: Washington, D.C.; Subjects: National Coal Association
1946 May 30
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Form: Typed letter; Persons: F. Smith to S.W. Shumate; Places: Winding Gulf, WV to Bluefield, WV; Subjects: Cost distribution
at Riffe branch
1946 July 20
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: E.E. Jones to G.R. Collins; Places: Bluefield, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Estimate
of expenditures to open two seams at Herndon
1946 November 14
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: B. Hofler to treasurer; Places: New York, NY to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Offer to purchase
obsolete stock
1946 November 15
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Lambert Brothers, Ltd.; Places: Charleston, WV to London, EN; Subjects:
Shipment of coal
1946 November 22
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Swiss Federal War Transport; Places: Charleston, WV to Philadelphia,
PA; Subjects: Shipment of coal
1946 November 22
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Ivan A. Given to G.R. Collins; Places: New York, NY to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Reprint
of "Coal and the Coal Miner"
1946 December 20
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: R.M. French to Winding Gulf, WV; Places: Beckley, WV to Bluefield, WV; Subjects: Assignment
of D. Howe Johnston to Bank of Raleigh of dividends on 77 shares of stock
1946 December 31
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Winding Gulf Collieries; Places: Charleston, WV to Bluefield, WV; Subjects:
Mine inspection report
1947 January 2
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: [Lambert Brothers, Ltd.] to S.B. Hall; Places: London, EN to New York, NY; Subjects: Position
of Lambert Brothers, Ltd. concerning coal shipments
1947 January 13
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: [unknown] to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: London, EN to New York, NY; Subjects: Shipment
of 5,000 tons of coal to Ireland
1947 January 21
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Lambert Brothers, Ltd.; Places: New York, NY to London, EN; Subjects:
Not able to ship coal to Ireland
1947 January 27
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Lambert Brothers, Ltd. to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: London, EN to New York, NY;
Subjects: Letter of Mackenzie Company of Dublin, Ireland
1947 January 31
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Mackenzie Comp. to Lambert Brothers, Ltd.; Places: Dublin, IE to London, EN; Subjects: Expectation
to purchase American coal
1947 March 24
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: E. Wierhake to S.B. Hall; Places: Charleston, WV to New York, NY; Subjects: Mining of
coal from the Charleston Coal Company
1947 April 8
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Helsingborg, SE to Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Arrival of Minister
of Supply of Finland
1947 April 10
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Typed letter; Persons: G.B.J. to S.B. Hall; Places: Norfolk, VA to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Analysis of Norfolk Testing
Laboratories of Charleston ROM
1947 Aprl 23
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: E.E. Jones to F. Smith; Places: Bluefield, WV to Winding Gulf, WV; Subjects: Invoice from
Virginia Railway Company to $13,000
1947 April 25
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Typed letter; Persons: N. Straughan to S.B. Hall; Places: Charleston, WV to New York, NY; Subjects: Mine inspection
report
1947 May 13
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Map; Persons: Virginia Railway Comp.; Places: No places listed; Subjects: Mine track layout for Winding Gulf Collieries
1947 June 7
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: F. Smith to S.B. Hall; Places: Washington, D.C. to New York, NY; Subjects: Minutes of
first meeting of U.S. agents of four British firms
1947 June 11
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: F. Smith to S.W. Shumate; Places: Herndon [state unknown] to Bluefield, WV; Subjects:
Estimate of work done by Romano Brothers
1947 June 27
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: London, EN to New York, NY; Subjects: List of documents
required by National Coal Board
1947 July 11
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: F. Smith to S.W. Shumate; Places: Winding Gulf, WV to Bluefield, WV; Subjects: Final estimates
of work done by Romano Brothers
1947 August 5
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Berkeley Mills; Places: Charleston, WV to Princeton, WV; Subjects: Excavation work at Herndon
by Romano Brothers
1947 October 7
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: L.A. Norfleet to G.R. Collins; Places: Norfolk, VA to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Question
over bill owed to Virginia Railway Company
1947 October 23
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Lambert Brothers, Ltd. to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: London, EN to New York, NY;
Subjects: U.S. coals for Switzerland
1947 October 31
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Charleston Coal Company; Places: New York, NY to Charleston, WV; Subjects:
Stoppage of coal shipment
1947 November 6
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Typed letter; Persons: National Coal Association to Members; Places: Washington, D.C.; Subjects: Coal requirements and
availabilities (Herter Committee)
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Smokeless Coal; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Juliette Coal Company
1947 December 2
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Lambert Brothers, Ltd. to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: London, EN to New York, NY;
Subjects: U.S. coal for Switzerland
1947 December 2
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Battle to Members; Places: Washington, D.C.; Subjects: Harriman Committee on "The Coal Situation
in Europe"
1947 December 15
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Lambert Brothers, Ltd. to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: London, EN to New York, NY; Subjects:
Analyses of coal
1947 December 18
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: L. A. Gillett to G.R. Collins; Places: Norfolk, VA to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Question
over account due Virginia Railway Company
1947 December 24
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: F. Smith to G.R. Collins; Places: Winding Gulf, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Expenditures
of Lamar Colliery Company
1948 January 10
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Form: Typed letter; Persons: EHJ to V.H. Crites; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Norwood Brick Company
1948 January 14
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Form: Typed letter; Persons: G.R. Collins to L.A. Gillett; Places: Charleston, WV to Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Account with Virginian
Railway Company
1948 January 14
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Form: Typed letter; Persons: B.B. Housman to S.W. Shumate; Places: Bluefield, WV; Subjects: Dues to National Coal Association
1948 February 17
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Department of Unemployment Compensation; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Unemployment compensation
for Lillian O. Lynch
1948 March 18
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Coal at Cleve strip pit
1948 April 28
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Proposed stripping at Robin Hood
1948 May 14
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: E.E. Thomas, Central Trust Company to Winding Gulf Collieries; Places: Charleston, WV;
Subjects: Transfer of stock of John Laing
1948 May 19
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Central Trust to Winding Gulf, WV; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: John Laing Estate
1948 June 11
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Central Trust to Winding Gulf, WV; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Copy of will for
John Laing
1948 June 11
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Coal; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Preliminary work at Robin Hood
1948 June 24
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Coal; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: T.J. Lilly to stripping, Raleigh County
1948 July 1
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Coal; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Financial status of Routh Coal Company
1948 July 1
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Report of Retail Credit Company
on Routh Coal Corporation
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Smokeless Coal; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Price of coal for Lake market
1948 July 26
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Smokeless Coal; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Report on company mines at Eunice and
Robin Hood
1948 August 20
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Analysis of coal at Cleve
1948 August 26
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Lamar Colliery; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Bonus account of E.E. Jones
1948 September 30
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Ansell and Ansell to R.G. Kelly; Places: Washington, D.C. to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Smokeless
Fuel Company v. United States
1948 November 13
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: [E.E.] Jones to Elmer Wierhake; Places: Bluefield, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Comparative
statement of Winding Gulf operation
1948 November 24
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: E.E. Jones to E. Wierhake; Places: Bluefield, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Comparative
statement of Lamar Operations
1948 November 24
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: E.E. Jones to E. Wierhake; Places: Bluefield, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Cost per
ton of Lamar Operations
1948 November 24
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: E.E. Jones to E. Wierhake; Places: Bluefield, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Comparative
statement of Louisville operation
1948 November 24
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: E.E. Jones to E. Wierhake; Places: Bluefield, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Shipments
to the Bureau of Federal Supply
1948 November 26
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Lambert Brothers, Ltd. to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: London, EN to New York, NY; Subjects:
Foreign Coaling 1949
1948 November 27
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: R.G. Merrick to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: New York, NY to Charleston, WV; Subjects:
Surrender of land in Fayette County, WV
1949 January 4
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Report of Virginia Electric and Power
Company on Cleve Strip, Nut, and Slack Company
1949 February 25
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: R.G. Kelly to E. Wierhake; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Smokeless Fuel Company v.
U.S. Treasury
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Lambert Brothers, Ltd. to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: London, EN to New York, NY;
Subjects: List of bunker contracts for Hampton Roads
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: G. Keller to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Chicago, IL to Charleston, WV; Subjects:
Report of Commercial Testing and Engineering Company
1950 August 26
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Form: Typed letter; Persons: LORDS. to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: D.J. Collieries, Inc.
1950 September 19
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Lambert Brothers, Ltd.; Places: New York, NY to London, EN; Subjects:
Telegram of Lambert Brothers, Ltd.
1950 October 30
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Lambert Brothers, Ltd. to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: London, EN to New York, NY;
Subjects: Cargo for Gibraltar
1950 October 31
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Lambert Brothers, Ltd. to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: London, EN to New York, NY;
Subjects: Gibraltar cargo
1950 November 13
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Lambert Brothers, Ltd. to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: London, EN to New York, NY;
Subjects: Hampton Roads/Trieste-Coking Coals
1950 November 14
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Lambert Brothers, Ltd. to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: London, EN to New York, NY;
Subjects: Hampton Roads/Trieste-Coking Coals
1950 November 16
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Lambert Brothers, Ltd.; Places: New York, NY to London, EN; Subjects:
Linz Iron Works
1950 November 18
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Lambert Brothers, Ltd. to Smokeless Coal; Places: London, EN to New York, NY; Subjects:
Shipment of 150,000 tons to Ceuta (a Spanish autonomous city on the northern coast of Africa)
1950 November 21
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Lambert Brothers, Ltd. to Smokeless Coal; Places: London, EN to New York, NY; Subjects:
American Coal
1950 November 23
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Lambert Brothers, Ltd.; Places: New York, NY to London, EN; Subjects:
Coal market
1950 December 11
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Lambert Brothers, Ltd. to Smokeless Coal; Places: London, EN to New York, NY; Subjects:
Gibraltar Coal
1950 December 13
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Lambert Brothers, Ltd.; Places: New York, NY to London, EN; Subjects:
Second Gibraltar cargo
1950 December 29
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to H.B. Holland; Places: Charleston, WV to New York, NY; Subjects: 5,000-6,000
tons of coal for shipment
1951 July 4
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Lambert Brothers, Ltd. to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: London, EN to Charleston, WV;
Subjects: Charter party of the vessel, Bernhard Inglesson
1951 January 10
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to R.R. Steel; Places: Charleston, WV to London, EN; Subjects: Report
on American coal
1951 January 15
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Lambert Brothers, Ltd. to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: London, EN to Charleston, WV;
Subjects: Shipment for Gibraltar
1951 January 17
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Lambert Brothers, Ltd.; Places: Charleston, WV to London, EN; Subjects:
Shipment on S.S. Lord Lloyd George
1951 January 25
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Settlement with Etheridge Coal Company
1951 January 29
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Information on three coal mines
in WV
1951 January 30
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Lambert to S.B. Hall; Places: London, EN to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Price of coal for
Gibraltar
1951 February 5
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Georges Creek Coal Company; Places: Cumberland, MD; Subjects: Government requesting information
on prices of coal
1951 February 6
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to H.B. Holland; Places: Charleston, WV to New York, NY; Subjects: Coal
for loading of S.S. Lloyd George from Winding Gulf
1951 February 10
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: C.H. Sprague and Son to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Boston, MA to Charleston, WV;
Subjects: Sale of 10,000 tons of coal
1951 February 10
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: National Coal Pub.; Places: Pittsburgh, PA to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Advertising spaces
in "MacQueen's Directory of Coal Sales Companies"
1951 February 12
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: C.H. Sprague to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Boston, MA to Charleston, WV; Subjects:
Sale of 6,000-7,000 tons of coal
1951 February 14
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Winding Gulf Collieries to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Bluefield, WV to Charleston,
WV; Subjects: Ceiling prices on coal
1951 February 15
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Lambert Brothers, Ltd. to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: London, EN to Charleston, WV; Subjects:
Loading of another steamship with 5,500 tons of coal
1951 February 21
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Harold Camin; Places: Charleston, WV to Terre Haute, IN; Subjects:
Analysis of coals of four mines
1951 February 21
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Lambert Brothers, Ltd. to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: London, EN to Charleston, WV;
Subjects: Cargoes for Gibraltar
1951 February 22
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: C.H. Sprague and Son to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Boston, MA to Charleston, WV;
Subjects: Purchase of 10,000 tons of coal
1951 Mach 5
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: E.E. Jones to G.R. Collins; Places: Bluefield, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: F.N. Smith
tract of land
1951 March 8
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9
Form: Typed letter copy; Persons: Van Hunter to Clerk of Raleigh County; Places: Beckley, WV; Subjects: Court case of Smith
heirs
1951 March 8
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9
Form: Typed letter copy; Persons: Van Hunter to Clerk of Raleigh County; Places: Beckley, WV; Subjects: Court case to Lambert
v. Smith
1952 March 8
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: C.H. Sprague and Son to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Boston, MA to Charleston, WV;
Subjects: Purchase of 8,907 tons of coal
1951 March 22
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Analysis of coal for S.S. Runnymede
Park
1951 March 26
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Norwood Brick Company
1952 March 26
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: P. Perkins to S.B. Hall; Places: St. Louis, MO to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Offer to Granite
City Steel coal from Smokeless Fuel Company
1952 March 26
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to P. Perkins; Places: Charleston, WV to St. Louis, MO; Subjects: Granite
City Steel
1951 March 28
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Correll Coal Company
1951 April 12
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Etheridge Coal Company to no credit
1951 April 12
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Lambert Brothers, Ltd. to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: London, EN to Norfolk, VA; Subjects:
Settlement of coal shipped in S.S. Argolib to Gibraltar
1951 April 16
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: E.E. Jones to Office of Price Stabilization; Places: Bluefield, WV to Washington, D.C.;
Subjects: Information on coal sold for use as Bunker fuel
1951 April 25
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Phelps Coal Company
1951 May 28
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company and French American Banking Corporation; Places: New York, NY to
Charleston, WV; Subjects: Bank of West Africa
1951 June 13
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: French American Banking Corp and Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: New York, NY to Charleston,
WV; Subjects: Credit of $97,850.00
1951 June 14
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to W.H. Etheridge; Places: Charleston, WV to Kenly, NC; Subjects: Settlement
of account with Etheridge Coal Company
1951 June 25
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Cannelton Coal and Coke Company; Places: No place entered; Subjects: Coal carbonization assay
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Lambert Brothers, Ltd. to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: London, EN to Norfolk, VA; Subjects:
Shipment to Gibraltar
1951 August 28
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: George Agee Coal Company
1951 September 6
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: C.H. Sprague and Son to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Boston, MA to Charleston, WV;
Subjects: Purchase of 9,500 tons of coal
1951 September 6
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Etheridge Coal Company
1951 September 8
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Southern Coal Company
1951 September 12
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Closing of account with Etheridge Coal
Company
1951 September 12
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Possible sale of 5,000 tons of coal
to Milwaukee-Solvay Coke Company
1951 September 17
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Lambert Brothers, Ltd. to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: London, EN to Charleston, WV;
Subjects: Complaint of coal sent to Gibraltar
1951 September 19
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Z.C. Wagoner to F.H. Bohl; Places: Charleston, WV to Milwaukee, WI; Subjects: Unable to supply
coal to Milwaukee-Solvay Coke Company
1951 September 19
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: F.H. Bohl to Z.C. Wagoner; Places: Milwaukee, WI to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Order of
2,500 tons of coal for Milwaukee-Solvay Coke Company
1951 September 19
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
Form: Typed letter; Persons: National Fuel Credit Association; Places: Columbus, OH to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Credit report
on Etheridge Coal Company and George Agee Coal Company
1951 September 26
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to F.H. Bohl; Places: Charleston, WV to Milwaukee, WI; Subjects: Reference
to purchase of 25,000 tons of coal
1951 September 27
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: H.B. Holland to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Boston, MA to Charleston, WV; Subjects:
Explanation for coal sent to Gibraltar
1951 October 3
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to F.H. Bohl; Places: Charleston, WV to Milwaukee, WI; Subjects: Shipment
of coal to Milwaukee-Solvay Coke Company
1951 October 20
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Orders for Agee Coal Company
1951 November 5
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: V.R. Anderson to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Pittsburgh, PA to Charleston, WV; Subjects:
Advertisement in coal directory
1951 November 14
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Virginia Railway to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA to Charleston, WV; Subjects:
Cost for ship coal to Huntington
1951 November 19
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Lambert Brothers, Ltd. to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: London, EN to Norfolk, VA; Subjects:
Damage to steamship carrying coal
1951 November 30
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Z.C. Wagoner to Ralph Sherrick; Places: Charleston, WV to Pittsburgh, PA; Subjects: Sale of coal
to U.S. Steel
1951 December 11
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: H.H. Lawry to Z.C. Wagoner; Places: Pittsburgh, PA to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Minutes
of meeting held at Carnegie Tech
1951 December 11
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Armistead, and Morrison Fuel and Hardware
Company
1951 December 13
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Office of International Trade; Places: Charleston, WV to Washington,
D.C.; Subjects: Request for export license
1951 December 14
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Correll Coal Company
1951 December 18
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13
Form: Typed letter Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to H.B. Holland; Places: Charleston, WV to New York, NY; Subjects: Confirmation
of coal purchase by C.H. Sprague and Son
1952 January 9
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Lambert Brothers, Ltd. to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: London, EN to Charleston, WV; Subjects:
Shipment of coal to Gibraltar
1952 January 9
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to C.H. Sprague and Son; Places: Charleston, WV to New York, NY; Subjects:
Coal shipment and balance due for C.H. Sprague and Son
1952 January 24
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Z.C. Wagoner to R.H. Norris; Places: Charleston, WV to Birmingham, AL; Subjects: Offer of business
with Alabama By-Products Corporation
1952 February 4
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to C.H. Sprague and Son; Places: Charleston, WV to New York, NY; Subjects:
Shipment of 940,000 tons
1952 February 19
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13
Form: Typed letter; Persons: W. Straughan; Places: No place listed ; Subjects: Mine inspection report
1952 February 23
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Lambert Brothers, Ltd. to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: London, EN to Charleston, WV;
Subjects: Order for more Gibraltar Coal
1952 February 28
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 14
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Lambert Brothers, Ltd. to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: London, EN to Charleston, WV;
Subjects: Price of different qualities of coal
1952 March 3
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 14
Form: Typed; Persons: W. Straughan; Places: No place listed; Subjects: Mine inspection report
1952 March 8
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 14
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Crown Coal and Coke to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Pittsburgh, PA to Charleston, WV;
Subjects: Need reject coal to be loaded at Kenova, WV
1952 March 10
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 14
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Alabama By-Products; Places: Charleston, WV to Birmingham, AL; Subjects:
Offer of 5,000 tons of coal to company as proposition
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Race Fork Coal Corporation; Places: Charleston, WV to Pikeville, KY;
Subjects: Proposition for distribution of their coal
1952 March 12
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 14
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Race Fork Coal Corporation; Places: Charleston, WV to Pikeville, KY;
Subjects: Possible outlet for coal
1952 March 15
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15
Form: Typed letter; Persons: W. Straughan; Places: No place listed; Subjects: Herndon Mine inspection report
1952 April 4
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Winding Gulf Collieries to E.G. Otey; Places: Charleston, WV to Bluefield, WV; Subjects: List
of corporate stocks held by Winding Gulf Collieries
1952 May 12
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Z.C. Wagoner to J.H. Galloway; Places: Charleston, WV to Detroit, MI; Subjects: Authorization
to submit bids of Wayne County Board of Auditors
1952 May 16
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15
Form: Typed letter; Persons: No persons listed; Places: Eloise, MI; Subjects: Bids opened at Wayne County General Hospital
1952 May 23
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15
Form: Typed letter; Persons: N. Straughan; Places: No places listed; Subjects: Georges Creek Mine inspection report
1952 June 5
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15
Form: Typed letter; Persons: N. Straughan; Places: No places listed; Subjects: Lamar Mine inspection report
1952 June 13
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15
Form: Typed letter; Persons: A.B. Mays to E.E. Jones; Places: Matoaka [likely MD] to Bluefield, WV; Subjects: Coal production
at Linkous Mine
1952 June 27
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15
Form: Typed letter; Persons: W. Sraughan; Places: No places listed; Subjects: Lamar-Suddeth Mine inspection report
1952 July 9
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15
Form: Typed letter; Persons: W. Sraughan; Places: No places listed; Subjects: Race Fork Mine inspection report
1952 July 12
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Z.C. Wagoner to R. Sherrick; Places: Charleston, WV to Pittsburgh, PA; Subjects: Shipment of
coal to Joliet plant of U.S. Steel
1952 July 29
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15
Form: Typed letter; Persons: A.B. Mays to E.E. Jones; Places: Matoaka [likely MD] to Bluefield, WV; Subjects: Production at
Linkous and Suddeth
1952 August 1
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Possible business with Pittsburgh Consolidation
Coal Company
1952 August 2
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15
Form: Typed letter; Persons: No persons listed; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Steel strike and coal business
1952 August 12
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15
Form: Typed letter; Persons: W. Straughan; Places: No places listed; Subjects: Lillybrook Mine inspection report
1952 August 20
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15
Form: Typed letter; Persons: C.E. Holt to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Southern Pines, NC to Charleston, WV; Subjects:
New ownership of Chandler-Holt Ice and Fuel Company
1952 August 23
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15
Form: Typed letter; Persons: C.E. Holt to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Southern Pines, NC to Charleston, WV; Subjects:
Balance sheet of Chester W. Van Benschoten
1952 August 23
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: E.E. Jones to Z.C. Wagoner; Places: Bluefield, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Working
production of Lamar, Herndon, Winding Gulf, Goodwill
1952 September 25
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: A.K. Greene to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Cleveland, OH to Charleston, WV; Subjects:
Increase in coal cost due to United Mine Workers of America and Bituminous Coal Operator's Association agreement
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Statement of tonnage sold by Smokeless
Fuel Company in 1952
1953 January 15
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: J.W. Maxwell to G.R. Collins; Places: Beckley, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Smith estate
1953 January 16
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: 40 years of production at Georges Creek
1953 January 28
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Virginia Beach Ice Delivery; Places: Charleston, WV to Virginia Beach,
VA; Subjects: Payment of account
1953 February 10
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: F. Smith to G.R. Collins; Places: East Gulf to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Coal reserve
in F.N. Smith tracts
1953 February 14
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Purchase from Red Jacket Coal Sales
Company
1953 April 6
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Sale to Potomac Electric Power Company
1953 May 22
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Sale with Martin Fuel and Supply Company
1953 June 27
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Accept no orders from customers in payment
arrears
1953 July 8
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Sale to Hampton Institute
1953 July 8
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Payment by companies in arrears
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Retail Credit Company to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Atlanta, GA to Charleston, WV; Subjects:
Amount due Retail Credit
1953 September 22
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: V.H. Crites to G.L. Cummings; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Addendum to contract between
Smokeless Fuel Company and Martin and Owen Coal Company
1953 November 5
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16
Form: Typed letter; Persons: J. Moore to E. Jarvis; Places: Waynesboro to Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Payment of account by Fishbourne
Military School
1953 November 10
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Acceptance of account with Etheridge
Coal and Oil Company
1954 November 27
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: N.F. Chrisman to H. Hutchinson; Places: New York, NY to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Sale
of coal to Griffith-Consumers Company
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: J.O. Heslep to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Report of refuse
coal at Glenn Lyn plant
1954 January 7
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Sale of coal to Johns Brothers
1954 January 9
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: E. Jones to Z.C. Wagoner; Places: Bluefield, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Automatic
sampler
1954 January 11
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17
Form: Typed letter; Persons: W. Straughan; Places: No place listed; Subjects: Herndon Mine inspection report
1954 January 12
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Nickel Plate Road; Places: Charleston, WV to Cleveland, OH; Subjects:
Shipment of coal to Wisconsin Ice and Coal Company
1954 January 19
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Sale of coal to Maxton Oil and Fertilizer
Company
1954 January 19
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Sale of coal to Fontaine Converting Works
1954 January 19
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Sale of coal to Duplan Corporation
1954 January 21
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to R.J. Reynolds; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Sale of coal to R.J.
Reynolds
1954 January 22
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: J.H. Phillips to Z.C. Wagoner; Places: Cincinnati, OH to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Michigan
wants bids on 244,000 tons of coal
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Z.C. Wagoner to M.K. Spencer; Places: Charleston, WV to Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Sale of coal to
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company
1954 February 1
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18
Form: Typed letter; Persons: J.O. Heslep to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Report of refuse coal at
Glen Lyn plant at Herndon
1954 February 4
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Chicago, IL; Subjects: Complaint of Fred R. Sievers
1954 February 4
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Possible sale of coal to Merck and Company,
15,000 tons
1954 February 5
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Contract with Acme Hosiery Mills, Inc.
1954 February 10
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Contract with Grant Brick Works
1954 February 10
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Contract with Riverton Lime and Stone
Company
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: M.K. Spencer to Z.C. Wagoner; Places: New York, NY to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Problems
of contract with Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company
1954 February 15
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Contract with Angle Silk Mills, Inc.
1954 February 18
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Contract with Eastern Brick and Tile Company
1954 February 19
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Lowering of prices to meet competition
1954 February 22
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Z.C. Wagoner to C.K. Thigpen; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Amount of monthly shipment to
Appalachian Electric Power Company
1954 February 22
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Question over amount of coal to sell
to Greenville Coal Company
1954 February 25
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Chatham Manufacturing Company question
over price
1954 February 25
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18
Form: Typed letter; Persons: W. Straughan; Places: No place listed; Subjects: Herndon Mine inspection report
1954 February 25
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Financial standing of Greenville Coal
Company
1954 February 27
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 19
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Renewal of contract with North Mountain
Brick Company
1954 March 1
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 19
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Dun and Bradstreet report on Daniel
Coal Company
1954 March 1
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 19
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: AT Massey Coal Company to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Richmond, VA to Charleston,
WV; Subjects: Request for 5,000 tons of coal
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Order form for Augusta County School Board
1954 March 5
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 19
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: R. Hanson to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Akron, OH to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Changes
in service of Akron, Canton, and Youngstown Railway Company
1954 March 10
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 19
Form: Typed letter; Persons: W. Straughan; Places: No place listed Subjects: Winding Gulf #4 Mine inspection report
1954 March 11
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 19
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Contract with Carolina Rubber Hose Company
1954 March 12
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 19
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Contract with Faucette Coal Sales Company
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Coal order for Fadeley and Company
1954 March 18
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 19
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Possible contract with Duke Power Company
1954 March 25
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 19
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Norfolk and Western Railway to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Roanoke, VA to Charleston,
WV; Subjects: Request for 275 tons of coal for fuel use
1954 March 26
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 19
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: C.M. Rousch to Z.C. Wagoner; Places: Portsmouth [state/country unknown] to Charleston,
WV; Subjects: New York Central may provide coal service
1954 March 26
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 19
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Contract with R.S. Reynolds for 11,400
tons maximum
1954 March 26
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 20
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Contract with Borden Brick and Tile Company
for 15,000 tons
1954 April 1
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 20
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Z.C. Wagoner to customers; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Prices effective 1954 April 1
1954 April 1
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 20
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: P.H. Hanes Knitting Company contract for
coal
1954 April 5
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 20
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Contract with J.M. Hulvey and Son
1954 April 5
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 20
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Hessick, Inc. to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Washington, D.C. to Charleston, WV; Subjects:
Request contracts for 20,000 tons of coal
1954 April 7
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 20
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Renewal of contract with James Lees and
Sons Company per 12,000 tons
1954 April 7
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 20
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Contract with Merck and Company for 13,000
tons minimum
1954 April 9
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 20
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Special arrangements for H.W. Harris
Coal and Oil Company
1954 April 10
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 20
Form: Typed letter; Persons: W. Straughan; Places: No place listed; Subjects: Louisville Mine inspection report
1954 April 13
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 20
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Continental Can Company order for 20,000
tons
1954 April 15
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 20
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Griffith Consumers Company order for 6820
tons
1954 April 17
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 20
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Commonwealth of Virginia bids for 100,000
tons
1954 April 27
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 21
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Z.C. Wagoner to M.K. Spencer; Places: Charleston, WV to Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Shipment of coal
to Lambert's Point for Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company
1954 May 3
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 21
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: H.E. Kelley and Company contract for 1,000
tons
1954 May 6
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 21
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Chicago, IL to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Letter of President
of American Retail Coal Association
1954 May 7
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 21
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Reduction of Greenville Coal Company order
1954 May 7
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 21
Form: Typed letter; Persons: W. Straughan; Places: No place given; Subjects: Louisville Mine inspection report
1954 May 7
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 21
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: E. Morrison to Z.C. Wagoner; Places: Richmond, VA to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Confirmation
of coal order with A.J. Massey Coal Company
1954 May 8
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 21
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Possible loss of contract with Fieldcrest
Mills
1954 May 11
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 21
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: List of coal bids for the Commonwealth
of Virginia
1954 May 25
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 21
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Contact with Continental Can Company for
17,000 tons
1954 May 26
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 22
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Need for a good coal producer to increase
sales
1954 June 5
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 22
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Nickel Plate Road to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Cleveland, OH to Charleston, WV; Subjects:
Shipment to Wisconsin Ice and Coal Company
1954 June 8
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 22
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Contract with Bowman Coal Company
1954 June 9
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 22
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: V.H. Crites to Jarvis; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Too many slow accounts
1954 June 11
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 22
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to F.P. Riley; Places: Charleston, WV to Toledo; Subjects: Coal for shipping
to S.S. Sullivan Brothers
1954 June 11
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 22
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Current commitments for nut-and-slack
and/or slack
1954 June 16
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 22
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Production at Louisville
1954 June 16
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 22
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Competition bids on coal for Commonwealth
of Virginia
1954 June 18
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 22
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Contract with Thomas J. Fannon and Sons,
600 tons
1954 June 21
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 22
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: J. Phillips to Z.C. Wagoner; Places: Cincinnati, OH to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Sealed
bids will be received by Troy, Ohio for 15,000-30,000 tons
1954 June 25
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 22
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Loss of contract with Fairfax County School
Board
1954 June 26
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 22
Form: Typed letter; Persons: National Fuel Credit Association; Places: Chicago, IL to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Report on
Fontaine Converting Works
1954 June 26
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 23
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Norfolk and Western Railway Company; Places: No places listed; Subjects: Cargo coal dumped at
Lake Erie docks
1954 July 1
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 23
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Holding of shipments to Huff Supply Company
1954 July 2
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 23
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Loss of Hampton Institute business
1954 July 8
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 23
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Recent awards of the Commonwealth of Virginia
1954 July 12
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 23
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Clipping on Burlington Mills and Goodall-Sanford,
Inc.
1954 July 15
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 23
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Slow payment of George Agee Coal Company
1954 July 19
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 23
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Closing of accounts with certain business
concerns
1954 July 21
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 23
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Denial of credit to George Agee Coal
Company
1954 July 21
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 23
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Fontaine Works; Places: Charleston, WV to Martinsville, VA; Subjects:
Request full payment of account
1954 July 22
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 23
Form: Typed letter; Persons: W.H. Griffin and Son to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Goldsboro, NC to Norfolk, VA; Subjects:
Recommendation of business with Etheridge Coal Company under new owner
1954 July 22
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 23
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Payment in full of Southwest Fuel Company
account
1954 July 27
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 23
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Payment in full of Fontaine Converting
Works account
Form: Typed letter; Persons: K.V. Conrad to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Roanoke, VA to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Monthly
coal for Norfolk and Western Railway Company
1954 August 10
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 24
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Financial position of Bardin Coal Company
1954 August 14
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 24
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Comments to effect that Bardin Coal Company
a bad risk
1954 August 20
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 24
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Commonwealth of Virginia advertising for
bids
1954 August 21
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 24
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Etheridge Coal and Oil Company is safe
risk
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: G.O. Bogart to G.R. Collins; Places: Washington, D.C. to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Federation
for Railway Progress
1954 September 10
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 25
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Appalachian Electric Power Company; Places: Charleston, WV to HenLyn
[sic]; Subjects: Correction in billing
Form: Typed letter; Persons: D.M. Bender to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Cleveland, OH to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Shipment
of coal for Nickel Plate Road (also known as the New York, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad)
1954 October 15
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 26
Form: Typed letter; Persons: A.T. Massey to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Richmond, VA to Charleston, WV; Subjects: A.T.
Massey Coal Company to 1,500 tons
1954 October 15
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 26
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Complaint of J.M. Hulvey and Son
1954 October 18
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 26
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Conflict with Mann Fuel Company
1954 October 29
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 27
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Massey Coal Company; Places: Charleston, WV to Richmond, VA; Subjects:
Purchase of 9,000 tons for shipment
1954 November 2
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 27
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Credit with Fontaine Converting Works
1954 November 3
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 27
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Johnstown Coal and Coke Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects:
Reduction in price with Reynolds Tobacco Company
1954 November 8
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 27
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Account of Fontaine Converting Works
since 1954 January 1
1954 November 9
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 27
Form: Typed letter; Persons: R.E. Bryan 0 Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Cleveland, OH to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Coal
to be shipped by C&O Railroad to Birchard Coal Corporation
1954 November 11
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 27
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Mann Fuel Company complaint
1954 November 18
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 27
Form: Typed letter; Persons: J.H. Phillips to Z.C. Wagoner; Places: Cleveland, OH to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Bids for 88,000
tons for Hamilton, Ohio
1954 November 18
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 27
Form: None listed; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: No places listed; Subjects: Newspaper clippings on "Coal Comeback"
reference to southern West Virginia
1954 November 24
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 28
Form: Typed letter; Persons: C&O Railroad to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Cleveland, OH to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Shipment
of coal to Kelly Coal Company
1954 December 1
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 28
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Copy of bids received by Commonwealth
of Virginia
1954 December 2
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 28
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Possible business with Monsanto Chemical
Company
1954 December 6
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 28
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Complaint of Camp Manufacturing Company
over coal shipments
1954 December 10
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 28
Form: Typed letter; Persons: R.E. Bryan to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Cleveland, OH to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Shipment
to F.P. Weaver Company
Form: Typed letter; Persons: C&O Railroad to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Cleveland, OH to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Shipment
to Great Lakes Coal and Dock Company
1954 December 17
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 28
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: E.W. Congleton to Z.C. Wagoner; Places: Cleveland, OH to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Copy
of shipments of radio nut-slack of Lorain Coal and Dock Company
1954 December 22
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 28
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Credit allowable to Bardin Coal Company
1954 December 23
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 28
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Reply to 1954 December 23 letter concerning
Bardin Coal Company
1954 December 27
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 28
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Williams Coal Company to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Peytona, WV to Charleston, WV;
Subjects: Offer of Williams Coal Company to sample their coal for a possible outlet
1954 December 27
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 28
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Department of Interior; Places: Washington, D.C.; Subjects: Bituminous coal and lignite 1954
1954 December
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 29
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Z.C. Wagoner to W.P. Thurston; Places: Charleston, WV to Cleveland, OH; Subjects: Question over
tonnage to be shipped January
1955 January 3
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 29
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Z.C. Wagoner to H.C. Secrest; Places: Charleston, WV to Chicago, IL; Subjects: Announcement to
appear in the Black Diamond
1955 January 3
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 29
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Baltimore, MD to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Premium invoice of
the New Amsterdam Casualty Company
1955 January 4
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 29
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: O.J. Cox to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Purchase of coal
from the Wyatt Coal Sales Company
1955 January 5
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 29
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: C. Bacon to L.R. Stallings; Places: Grand Rapids, MI to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Request
for job, summary of experience and education
1955 January 6
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 29
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Addendum to contract between Smokeless
Fuel Company and L.O. Housden and Son.
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Request of bids by the Veterans Administration
1955 January 18
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 29
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Pittston to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: New York, NY to Charleston, WV; Subjects:
Sale of coal to Smokeless Fuel Company
1955 January 20
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 29
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Internal Revenue; Places: Charleston, WV to Parkersburg, WV; Subjects: Withholding tax of employees
1955 January 21
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 29
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: C.C. Pearce to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Shipment of 6,000
tons for Carbon Fuel Sales
1955 January 24
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 29
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Contract with Washington and Lee University
1955 January 28
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 29
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Possible contract with Cone Mills Corporation
1955 January 29
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 30
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Financial rating of James E. Featherston
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Bids for the General Services Administration
1955 February 5
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 30
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Credit to Consumers Coal Company
1955 February 8
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 30
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: J.M Tolley to Z.C. Wagoner; Places: Rawl, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: List of purchases
made by Crystal, Black Coal and Coke Company from DuPont
1955 February 10
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 30
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: E.E. Jones to Z.C. Wagoner; Places: Bluefield, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Winding
Gulf Collieries purchase from DuPont
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Possible transactions with West Virginia
Pulp and Paper Company
1955 February 17
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 30
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Levisa Mining Company; Places: Charleston, WV to Conway, VA; Subjects:
Possible business transactions with this concern
1955 February 21
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 30
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Memorandum of agreement with
Angle Silk Mills, Inc.
1955 February 23
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 30
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to American Viscose Corporation; Places: Charleston, WV to Philadelphia,
PA; Subjects: Contract on coal for Sylvania Plant
1955 February 24
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 31
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Fort Wayne Utilities
1955 March 4
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 31
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: C.C. Pearce to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Coal increase
for Winslow-Knickerbocker Coal Company
1955 March 5
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 31
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Camp Manufacturing Company -- coal
to course
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Norfolk and Western Railroad Company; Places: Bluefield, WV; Subjects: Coal card distribution
1955 March 10
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 31
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Contract clause with American Viscose
Corporation
1955 March 11
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 31
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Complaint of coal with Liberty Hosiery
Mills, Inc.
1955 March 24
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 31
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Nickel Plate Road to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Cleveland, OH to Charleston, WV;
Subjects: Increase in order with Wisconsin Ice and Coal Company
1955 March 25
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 31
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Extended terms for McCollum Coal Company
1955 March 28
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 31
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Closing of contract with Chatham Manufacturing
Company for 12,000 tons
1955 March 28
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 31
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Z.C. Wagoner to W.H. Gehring; Places: Charleston, WV to Wilmington, NC; Subjects: No coal order
with DuPont
1955 March 29
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 31
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Appalachian Electric Power to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Roanoke, VA to Charleston, WV;
Subjects: Penalty for non-payment of accounts
1955 March 30
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 32
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: C.C. Pearce to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Shipment of 4,000
tons to Winslow-Knickerbocker Coal Company
1955 April 1
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 32
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: V.B. Smith to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Peytona, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects:
Offer of Williams Coal Company as a coal outlet
1955 April 5
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 32
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: R. Roy to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Amos, Quebec, CA to Charleston, WV; Subjects:
Inquiry of Amos Coal Company as to coal and prices of Smokeless Fuel Company
1955 April 5
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 32
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Advertising of bids by Federal Supply
Service
1955 April 5
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 32
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Contact with Woodberry Forest School
1955 April 6
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 32
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Continental Can Company for 16,000 tons
1955 April 6
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 32
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: American Viscose Corporation for 16,000-20,000
tons
1955 April 6
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 32
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Z.C. Wagoner to R.R. Krisher; Places: Charleston, WV to Massillon, OH; Subjects: Coal option
with Spruce River Coal Company
1955 April 15
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 32
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Complaint of the Liberty Hosiery Mills
1955 April 15
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 32
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: R.R. Krisher to Z.C. Wagoner; Places: Massillon, OH to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Acceptance
of order from Smokeless Fuel Company
1955 April 18
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 32
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: C.C. Pearce to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Shipment of 5,000
tons to Winslow-Knickerbocker Coal Company
1955 April 19
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 32
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Stockholders; Places: Boston, MA; Subjects: Quarterly report of Island Creek Coal Company
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Connecticut Gen. Life Insurance; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects:
Insurance coverage for William T. Straughan
Form: Typed letter; Persons: G.R. Collins to E.H. Jarvis; Places: Charleston, WV to Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Refusal to sign
contract with Potomac Electric Power because of loss of money
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Questions Collins's action in letter dated
1955 May 9
1955 May 10
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 33
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Position of the Redyard Coal Company to
operations
1955 May 12
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 33
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Financial difficulties of Luther Bardin
to CAR + coal
1955 May 16
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 33
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Bids for Virginia plants of 20,000 tons,
Pacific Mills
1955 May 20
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 33
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Interest in Redyard Coal Company
1955 May 21
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 33
Form: Typed letter; Persons: W. Straughan; Places: No places listed; Subjects: Mines inspection report of the Redyard Coal
Company
1955 May 24
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 33
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Prices of coal for Pacific Mills
1955 May 24
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 33
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Bids on coal for Carolina Solite Company
1955 May 25
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 33
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Capitol Coal and Coke Company and Cargo
Marine Coal and Shipping Company
1955 May 30
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 34
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Crichton; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Complaint of R.J. Reynolds
1955 June 1
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 34
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Z.C. Wagoner to J.M. Tulley; Places: Charleston, WV to Rawl, WV; Subjects: Awarded contract
by Commonwealth of Virginia
1955 June 3
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 34
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: City of Charlottesville to bids for coal
1955 June 4
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 34
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: R. Kelley to V.H. Crites; Places: Bramwell, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Stock certificate
for two shares of Winding Gulf Collieries
1955 June 4
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 34
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: R. Zumsteg to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: New York, NY to Charleston, WV; Subjects:
Specifications and conditions for bids on 20,000 tons to Brazil
1955 June 7
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 34
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: H. Kontor to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Import of soft
U.S. coal
1955 June 8
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 34
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: City of Wilson, NC coal bids
1955 June 10
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 34
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Moore Ice Company
1955 June 27
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 34
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: R. Kelley to F. Fisher; Places: Bramwell, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Affidavit to
the transfer of stock
1955 June 29
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 34
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Stockholders; Places: Boston, MA; Subjects: Report of Island Creek Coal Company ending 1955 June
30
1955 June 30
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 35
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Virginia Collins Kelly; Places: Bramwell, WV; Subjects: Last will of Virginia Collins Kelly
1955 July 5
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 35
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: City of Wilson to coal distribution
1955 July 7
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 35
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: R.G. Smith to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Oak Hill, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects:
Lease of coal from Semet Solvay Company to Gentry Hollow Coal Company
1955 July 11
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 35
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to General Services Administration; Places: Charleston, WV to Washington,
D.C.; Subjects: Unable to quote bid for 10,000 tons
1955 July 11
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 35
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Merck and Company requisition of coal
1955 July 14
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 35
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Desirable customers who may have business
for Smokeless Fuel Company
1955 July 15
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 35
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: E.E. Jones to G.R. Collins; Places: Bluefield, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Check Department
of Revenue to cover deficiencies $48,000
1955 July 20
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 36
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Debt of G.R. Boyer and Son
1955 August 11
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 36
Form: Typed letter signed Persons: A.A. Ivery to F. Fisher; Places: Bluefield, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Check covering
net operating loss for federal income tax
1955 August 11
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 36
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Decision not to give credit to G.R. Boyer
and Son
1955 August 17
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 36
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Franklin Feed and Seed Store
1955 August 31
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 37
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Complaint of Nash Coal Company
1955 September 12
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 37
Form: Typed letter; Persons: R.R. Deahl to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Cleveland, OH to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Complaint
of Nickel Plate Road
1955 September 19
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 37
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Complaint of Kingan, Inc.
1955 September 20
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 37
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: C.C. Pearce to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Shipment of 6,000
tons to Winslow-Knickerbocker Coal Company
1955 September 22
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 37
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Credit on Robert J.H. Crow
1955 September 29
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 38
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to A.T. Massey; Places: Charleston, WV to Richmond, VA; Subjects: Acceptance
of offer by A.T. Massey Coal Company
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Complaint and rebate on coal with Smith
and Yelverton
1955 October 20
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 38
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Complaint and rebate for Bowman Coal
Company
1955 October 21
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 38
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Lloyd Brasileiro to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: New York, NY to Charleston, WV; Subjects:
Request bids for coal to be shipped to Brazil
1955 October 25
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 38
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Complaint of Fieldcrest Mills and asking
for a rebate
1955 October 25
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 38
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Mine production at Winding Gulf Collieries
No. 4
1955 October 26
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 38
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Possible future contract with Burlington
Mills Corporation
1955 October 27
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 39
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Fontaine Converting Works -- release from
coal shipments
1955 November 11
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 39
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: James Lees and Sons Company demand and
adjustment in price
1955 November 11
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 39
Form: Typed letter; Persons: A.A. Iveny to H.N. Ball; Places: Bluefield, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Check for $10,000
to Lamar Colliery Company
1955 November 14
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 39
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to J.M. Goodwin; Places: Charleston, WV to Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Claim
for a loss in transit
1955 November 16
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 39
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Financial position and record of Grady
E. Powell
1955 November 17
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 39
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Facts on the Bardin Coal Company case
1955 November 22
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 39
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: J.M. Goodwin to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA to Charleston, WV; Subjects:
Total loss suffered by A.T. Massey Coal Company
1955 November 22
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 39
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: C.C. Pearce to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Sale of 9,500
tons to Winslow-Knickerbocker Coal Company
1955 November 25
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 39
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Reasons for possible rebate with James
Lees and Sons Company
1955 November 29
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 40
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Bowman Coal Company, Bridgewater College
-- complaint over quality of coal and possible rebated
1955 December 2
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 40
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Winding Gulf Collieries; Places: Charleston, WV to Tams, WV; Subjects:
Copy of Straughan's letter to King concerning Herndon mine
1955 December 12
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 40
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Rebate settlement with McCollum Coal Company
which lost several good accounts
1955 December 12
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 40
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Correction in billing for Bridgewater
College -- $0.50 a ton
1955 December 15
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 40
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: A.A. Ivery to H.W. Ball; Places: Bluefield, WV to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Settlement
of November account with Smokeless Fuel Company and Winding Gulf Collieries
1955 December 17
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 40
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company- L.F. Sperry; Places: Charleston, WV to New York, NY; Subjects: Purchase
of $300,000 worth of U.S. Treasury notes from the First National City Bank of New York, NY
1955 December 19
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 40
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: $0.50 rebate for coal purchase of Harry
S. Heskett
1955 December 21
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 40
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Hunter-Dean and Cumming's Company feel
they are entitle to a rebate of $1.00 per ton
1955 December 23
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 40
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Connecticut General Life; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: List of
names of employees leaving Smokeless Fuel Company
1955 December 23
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 40
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to L.F. Sperry; Places: Charleston, WV to New York, NY; Subjects: Check
for $299,000.00 to pay for U.S. Treasury notes
1955 December 27
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 41
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Garner Coal Company to account
1956 January 2
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 41
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: C.C. Johnson to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Winston-Salem, NC to Charleston, WV; Subjects:
R.J. Reynolds asking for new proposal for coal effective 1956 April 1
1956 January 19
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 41
Form: Typed letter; Persons: R.E. Saluati to stockholders; Places: Boston, MA; Subjects: Financial report of the Island Creek
Coal Company
1956 January 19
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 41
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: C.C. Pearce to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: 9,500 tons of
coal to the Winslow-Knickerbocker Coal Company
1956 January 25
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 41
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: S.L. Jewell to Z.C. Wagoner; Places: Washington, D.C. to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Reason
for increase in dues of American Coal Sales Association
1956 January 25
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 42
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Z.C. Wagner to W.W. Bayfield; Places: Charleston, WV to Washington, D.C.; Subjects: 1955 October
1, Winding Gulf Collieries sold its capital stock to result loss of coal production by Smokeless Fuel Company, withdrawal
from American Coal Sales Association
1956 February 2
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 42
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: C.C. Johnson to Z.C. Wagoner; Places: Winston-Salem, NC to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Letter
requesting a substitute coal offer from R.J. Reynolds
1956 February 2
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 42
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Places: Charleston, WV to Washington, D.C.;
Subjects: Cancelling of membership
1956 February 3
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 42
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Colonel Roller; Places: Charleston, WV to Ft. Defiance, VA; Subjects:
Rebate for coal shipment to Augusta Military Academy
1956 February 7
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 42
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: Colonel Roller to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Ft. Defiance, VA to Norfolk, VA; Subjects:
Complaint concerning a poor coal shipment
1956 February 8
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 42
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to C.C. Johnson; Places: Charleston, WV to Winston-Salem, NC; Subjects:
Letter stating reasons for not renewing present contract with R.J. Reynolds
1956 February 13
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 42
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Complaint of Johns Brothers over explosion
at theatre using Smokeless Fuel Company coal
1956 February 17
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 43
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to State Industrial Farm for Women; Places: Charleston, WV to Goochland,
VA; Subjects: Additional tonnage under present contract
1956 March 1
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 43
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: C.G. Compton to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Philadelphia, PA to Charleston, WV; Subjects:
Question over coal cars shipped to Winslow-Knickerbocker Coal Company
1956 March 8
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 43
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Acceptance of order from Rockbridge Company
Schools
1956 March 22
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 43
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Z.C. Wagoner to J.B. Albrink; Places: Charleston, WV to Russell, KY; Subjects: Cancellation of
contract with J.B. Albrink
1956 March 22
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 43
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Norfolk, VA; Subjects: Discovery of four dynamite caps in coal
shipment to Selma Mills
1956 March 23
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 43
Form: Typed letter; Persons: S.D. Williams to Smokeless Fuel Company; Places: Hartford, CT to Charleston, WV; Subjects: Increase
in monthly premiums by Connecticut General Life Insurance
1956 March 28
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 43
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to K.H. Miller; Places: Charleston, WV to Huntington, WV; Subjects: Resignation
from membership of Southern West Virginia Credit Group
1956 March 28
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 44
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to Bardin Coal Company; Places: Charleston, WV to Wilson, NC; Subjects:
Request payment of account
1956 April 11
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 44
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to T. Johnson Fuel Company; Places: Charleston, WV to Portsmouth; Subjects:
Request payment of account
1956 April 11
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 44
Form: Typed letter; Persons: Smokeless Fuel Company to business accounts; Places: No places listed; Subjects: Request final
payment before 1956 May 31
1956 May 8
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 45
Form: Typed letter signed; Persons: G.R. Collins to G.R. Collins; Places: Charleston, WV; Subjects: Liquidation Dividend of
Smokeless Fuel Company to George Collins
1957 March 21
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 1
Government contracts
1949
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 1
Petition, Court of Claims of the United States, Smokeless Fuel Company vs. the United States, filed April 8, 1948
1948 April 8
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 2
Charleston Coal Company (Mount Hope, WV) shipping notices, etc.
Norfolk and Western Railway Company increase in rates and charges
1956
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 6
French Coal Company
1955–1956
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 6
Griffith Consumers' Company shipping notices
1954
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 7
Guyan Eagle Coal Company acknowledgements, etc.
1955–1956
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 8
Guyan Eagle Coal Company memoranda and purchases
1955
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 9
Guyan Eagle Coal Company shipping notices
1954–1956
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 10
Herndon loading reports
1952, 1954
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 11
Johnstown Coal and Coke Company (Charleston, WV) acknowledgements and purchases
1955
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 12
Lake reports (shipping)
1952, 1955
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 13
Norfolk Office corrections in billing
1954
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 14
Norfolk shippings and miscellaneous shippings
1952–1954
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 15
Sales meetings
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 16
Slack production
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 17
Vass Mining Company shipping notices and acknowledgements
1955
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 18
Winding Gulf Collieries, Louisville and Lamar Mines -- Mine vouchers and loading reports
ca. 1954-1956
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 19
Miscellaneous bills, invoices, etc.
ca. 1954-1956
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 1
Ceiling price regulations for coal, National Coal Association publications, and Office of Price Stabilization publications
1951
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 2
Pamphlets and advertising material (Printed within some pamphlets are photographs of mining operations and plants connected
with the Smokeless Fuel Company)
1935–1955
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 3
National Coal Association tables, graphs, etc.
ca. 1948-1955
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 3
Mineral Industry Surveys, Directory of Beehive Coke Plants in the US that Produced Coke in 1950-1951
1950–1951
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 3
Dun and Branstreet Service subscription list
1955
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 3
Purchasing sales tips
1954 October
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 3
Commodity Report, European Recovery Program, Coal
1948
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 3
"Kanawha Commerce," publication of the Charleston Chamber of Commerce
ca. 1948-1955
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 3
American Retail Coal Association Yearbook and Convention Program
1954
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 4
Miscellaneous Reports -- By Product Coke and Gas Plants using Low Volatile Coal
1938
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 4
Miscellaneous Reports -- Daily, Weekly, Monthly Tonnage, Basis for Projection
1948 April 1-1949 March 31
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 4
Miscellaneous Reports -- Comparison of Screen Rations
1947–1948
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 4
Miscellaneous Reports -- Percentage of Grades
1948 January
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 4
Miscellaneous Reports -- Record of Sales per Gross Ton
1948–1949
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 4
Miscellaneous Reports -- Coal Car Distribution and Rating Bulletin, with Small Map of Location of Mines on the Virginian Railway
in Southern Portion of W.Va. Coal Fields
1951
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 4
Miscellaneous Reports -- Mailing list, Michigan
1951
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 4
Miscellaneous Reports -- Various advertising material
ca. 1938-1951
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 4
Miscellaneous Reports -- Sample map of Brooklyn, reduced size
ca. 1938-1951
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 4
Miscellaneous Reports -- Greeting cards
ca. 1938-1951
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 5
Invoices and bills for labor showing rates
1945–1946
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 5
Workmen's Compensation Certificate of Premium Payment, Ohio
ca. 1945-1946
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 6
Bank statements
ca. 1955
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 6
Financial statements, Kanawha Valley Bank
1954–1956
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 6
Exchange Note for Pounds Sterling (blank)
ca. 1954-1956
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 6
Vouchers
ca. 1954-1956
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 6
List of Stockholders of Record, Smokeless Fuel Company
1956 August
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 7
Agreement for Coal Siding, Lamar Colliery Company, Herndon, WV
1946 September 27
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 7
Winding Gulf Collieries and the Virginia Railway Company, deed for mine tracks on Riffe Branch
1946 July 22
Mixed Materials Box: 7
Smokeless Fuel Company Report of Examination
1934–1940
Mixed Materials Box: 7
Accounts reports of Winding Gulf Collieries
1938, 1946-1950
Mixed Materials Box: 7
Account book for coal shipping
1937–1941
Mixed Materials Box: 7
Shipping information book
1940
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 1
West Virginia Hardwood Company -- Agreements, contracts, deed copies, etc.
1927–1932
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 2
West Virginia Hardwood Company -- Certificates of Increase and of Redemption of Lands
1927–1932
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 2
West Virginia Hardwood Company -- License applications
ca. 1927-1932
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 2
West Virginia Hardwood Company -- Tax assessments and receipts
ca. 1927-1932
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 2
West Virginia Hardwood Company -- Gasoline bills
ca. 1927-1932
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 2
West Virginia Hardwood Company -- Cancelled checks
ca. 1927-1932
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 2
West Virginia Hardwood Company -- Census of Manufacturers form
1929
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 2
West Virginia Hardwood Company -- Other material
ca. 1927-1932
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 3
West Virginia Hardwood Company -- Various insurance policy contracts, etc.
1928–1932
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 4
Riffe Branch Mine -- Siding Agreement between the Virginian Railway Company and Winding Gulf Collieries Company
1945 June
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 4
Riffe Branch Mine -- Siding Agreement
1945 July 18
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 4
Riffe Branch Mine -- Map of Winding Gulf Collieries Mine
1945
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 4
Riffe Branch Mine -- Map of Virginian Railway, Stone Coal Branch, Mine Track Layout for W.G.C. Company on Riffe Branch
1945 June 21
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 4
Riffe Branch Mine -- Detail of expenditures, Riffe Branch
1944-1946 May 31
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 4
Riffe Branch Mine -- Summary Capital Expenditures Made to 1946 September 30, at the No. 4 Riffe Branch Mine
1946 September 30
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 4
Riffe Branch Mine -- Lamar Colliery Company, Capital Expenditures for 1944-1945
1944–1945
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 4
Riffe Branch Mine -- Map, Revised Proposed Projection of Entries through Western Pocahontas Corporation, Winding Gulf Collieries,
Riffe Branch Mine