[Rarebooks] FS two on mining

[Austins Antiquarian Books]

For your consideration;
(Elk Horn Mining Company). INSPECTION TRIP OF
DIRECTORS AND THEIR FRIENDS OF THE ELK HORN MINING
COMPANY. Kentucky Mountains: Elk Horn Mining Company,
May, 1914. Oblong duodecimo, flexible black  leather,
title in gilt. Unpaginated. 4pp. text. Illustrated.
Forty-seven titled black and white photographs of
mines, miners, coal mining, the towns, mining
equipment, and landscapes. Folding colored map at rear
illustrating the mining district. The area’s most
distinct town is Wayland Kentucky on the Beaver Creek
and served by the C & O Railroad.  The text enumerates
the value of the company, lands, and coal seams. It
also talks of the railroads that are developing lines
to serve the mines. This was probably published in a
small edition for stockholders, prospective investors
or company officers to elucidate a new venture, the
Consolidation Coal Company.
together with;

(Consolidation Coal Company). THE CONSOLIDATION COAL
COMPANY. No place: No publisher, circa 1914. Oblong
duodecimo, original printed string tied paper
wrappers, titled in gilt. Unpaginated. Illustrated.
Eighty-three titled black and white photographs of
mines, miners, coal mining, the towns, mining
equipment, and landscapes. Maryland, West Virginia,
Pennsylvania, C & O Canal and more.  An uncommon pair.
$300.00

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