19.8 Linear Feet, 19 ft. 10 in. (13 record cartons, 15 in. each); (4 document cases, 5 in. each); (2 index card boxes, 12
in. each); (1 flat storage box, 1 1/2 in.); (6 ledgers, 1 ft. 2 1/4 in.); (4 map cabinet drawers, 7 in.)
Creator
Davis Coal and Coke Company
Location
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown,
WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Davis Coal and Coke, Coal Mining and Railroad Company, Records, A&M 4389,
West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Records of the Davis Coal and Coke Company, a corporation created in the 1880s by Henry Gassaway Davis that was located in
Thomas, West Virginia (WV). This collection is minimally processed.
The company was named after both the founder and the Coal and Coke Railroad that it primarily used. Later in the company's
life it purchased lands and established its own mines. The company was finally dissolved in 1950. The collection includes
administrative correspondence, reports, financial records, employee records, and other material.
Correspondence regards topics such as employee wages, company sales negotiations, etc. Reports include annual reports, log
cut statistics, accident reports, termination files, and insurance records, among others. Also includes correspondence to
and from Davis Coal and Coke on topics such as miner wages and sale negotiations; there are also log cut statistical summaries,
coal tonnage reports, tax information, and many blueprints and maps of equipment, mines, and purchased properties.
Since Henry Davis had conglomerate corporate interests, these other interests continued on after the closure of the Coal
and Coke Company in 1950. This very likely explains the presence of the timber (or lumber) company records that can be found
with the coal and coke records in this collection.
Company by-laws, geological statistics, lands (Gauley), reports (coal, lumber), deeds (includes Gauley lands), correspondence,
and other materials
ca. 1910s-1980
Mixed Materials Box: 1B
Coal company records
1906, ca. 1940s, undated, 1921
Deed book of properties acquired by R. L. Telford
1906
Folder with correspondence and financial reports for New Gauley Coal Co. and other companies
ca. 1940s
Davis Coal and Coke area calculation ledger
undated
Deed for The Gauley Company and West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railroad Company to New Gauley Coal Corporation
1921
Mixed Materials Box: 2
Log cut statistical summaries and correspondence
ca. 1970s
Mixed Materials Box: 3
Log cut statistical summaries and lumber related correspondence
ca. 1970s
Mixed Materials Box: 4A
Coal tonnage summaries from deep mining and strip mining, and log cut statistical summaries
1960s-1970s
Mixed Materials Box: 4B
Monongahela National Forest land management plans
ca. 1970s
Mixed Materials Box: 5
Coal company annual reports, deeds, financial records, and other materials
ca. 1960s-1970s
Mixed Materials Box: 6
Coal company annual reports, Mid Allegheny Corporation bank statements
ca. 1970s
Mixed Materials Box: 7
Royalty reports and coal company annual reports, Brockerhoff lease (1974)
ca. 1960s-1970s
Mixed Materials Box: 8
Annual reports, correspondence, geological statistics, royalty reports, and lease papers, among other materials
ca. 1940s-1970s
Mixed Materials Box: 9
Maps, tax return information, inventory lists, surveyor's field books (1937)
1937, ca. 1950s-1960s
Mixed Materials Box: 10
Hinchcliff Lumber Company lumber summaries
1970
Mixed Materials Box: 11
Davis Coal and Coke (DC and C) -- financial account journal
1951
Mixed Materials Box: 11
DC and C -- time sheets
1930-1931
Mixed Materials Box: 12
DC and C -- time sheets
1946, 1947
Mixed Materials Box: 13
DC and C -- time sheets
1946
Mixed Materials Box: 14
DC and C -- time sheets
1946
Mixed Materials Box: 15
Index cards titled "Notice of Termination of Employment" or "Notice of Employment." Includes information such as the mine
number, check number, employee name, address, termination date, reason for leaving, etc.
1919-1923
Mixed Materials Box: 16
Index cards titled "Notice of Termination of Employment" or "Notice of Employment." Includes information such as the mine
number, check number, employee name, address, termination date, reason for leaving, etc.
1919-1923
Mixed Materials Box: 17
Correspondence regarding miners' earnings, meeting arrangements, and sale negotiations. Also includes electricity bills and
small operator's manual pamphlets
1918-1972
Mixed Materials Box: 18
Sheets of employee data including the check number, name, hours worked, hours available, work accomplished, and earnings of
each employee
1937
Mixed Materials Box: 18
Accident record ledger
1898-1917
Mixed Materials unboxed
Ledger 1, Relief association records
ca. 1916-1930
Mixed Materials unboxed
Ledger 2, Payroll records
1944, 1945
Mixed Materials unboxed
Ledger 3, Check and voucher records
1950s
Mixed Materials unboxed
Ledger 4, Chemical department records
ca. 1910s-1930s
Mixed Materials unboxed
Ledger 5, Health and accident insurance records
1950s
Mixed Materials unboxed
Ledger 6, Check and voucher records
1950s
Mixed Materials Box: Map Cabinet 10, Drawer 12
Oversize drawings and maps (most are for industrial facilities in PA, some for WV, and a few for Virginia and Texas; a lot
of the drawings are for mining equipment, and some of them document railroad lines and other features; there are also many
topographical and coal mine maps, some of these for locations in central West Virginia; the contents of the folder in drawer
15 were found grouped together)
ca. 1910-1939
Mixed Materials Box: Map Cabinet 10, Drawer 13
Oversize drawings and maps (most are for industrial facilities in PA, some for WV, and a few for Virginia and Texas; a lot
of the drawings are for mining equipment, and some of them document railroad lines and other features; there are also many
topographical and coal mine maps, some of these for locations in central West Virginia; the contents of the folder in drawer
15 were found grouped together)
ca. 1910-1939
Mixed Materials Box: Map Cabinet 10, Drawer 14
Oversize drawings and maps (most are for industrial facilities in PA, some for WV, and a few for Virginia and Texas; a lot
of the drawings are for mining equipment, and some of them document railroad lines and other features; there are also many
topographical and coal mine maps, some of these for locations in central West Virginia; the contents of the folder in drawer
15 were found grouped together)
ca. 1910-1939
Mixed Materials Box: Map Cabinet 10, Drawer 15
Oversize drawings and maps (most are for industrial facilities in PA, some for WV, and a few for Virginia and Texas; a lot
of the drawings are for mining equipment, and some of them document railroad lines and other features; there are also many
topographical and coal mine maps, some of these for locations in central West Virginia; the contents of the folder in drawer
15 were found grouped together)
ca. 1910-1939
Mixed Materials Box: Map Cabinet 10, Drawer 16
Oversize drawings and maps (most are for industrial facilities in PA, some for WV, and a few for Virginia and Texas; a lot
of the drawings are for mining equipment, and some of them document railroad lines and other features; there are also many
topographical and coal mine maps, some of these for locations in central West Virginia; the contents of the folder in drawer
15 were found grouped together)
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