KEWANEE, KENTUCKY

Kewanee Coal Co. would later be known as Kewanee Coal Mining Company, headquartered in Pikeville, Kentucky. The little mining community of Kewanee had its very Post Office and Railroad Station. Its President and General Manager was listed as O.P. Chatfield according to the Department of Inspection Mine Report of 1912.  Mont Williamson was listed as Mine Foreman. 

   The operation was a Drift Mines in the Number 5 Coal Vein, but actually it was the Upper Elkhorn No. 2 Coal Seam, averaging about five feet in thickness with a parting in the center of the vein, averaging about eight to ten inches. The roof is slate , that stands up very well; bottom of slate and fire clay. The mine is ventilated by a furnace of ample capacity to ventilate the mines, providing the doors, brattices and stoppings are kept in good condition.

  The coal is shot from the solid. Mules are employed for gathering and hauling the coal to the Headhouse by a tram road. The coal is then transported from the  Headhouse down a Nine Hundred feet incline, let down by means of a monitor. There is a coaling station for railroad trains in connection with a tipple. Daily output for the Kewanee Mines is about 200-250 tons.

  Mine inspections were made on September 31st and December 10th of 1912.