Editing Rivesville, West Virginia (section)

===Coal mining===
About the only area around Rivesville where the coal has not been mined out is directly under the older portion of the town and under the riverbed.  [[Consolidation Coal Company]] Mine No. 97 was in the [[Pittsburgh coal seam]] around 100 feet below the level of the riverbed.  This mine operated between 1922 and 1954, with a peak production of 670408 tons per year.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mine Data Tonnage Reports for Consolidation No. 97 |url=http://www.state.wv.us/got/mhst/coresults.cfm?company=Consolidation%20Coal%20Co. |publisher=West Virginia Office of Miners' Health Safety & Training |access-date=June 16, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927183139/http://www.state.wv.us/got/mhst/coresults.cfm?company=Consolidation%20Coal%20Co. |archive-date=September 27, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The coal seam itself is 6 to 8 feet thick.  The number 97 Hoist Shaft was directly west of the westernmost corner of the Power Plant, with the hoisting engines to the north across the tracks.  [[Consolidation Coal Company|Consol.]] Mine No. 24 was directly across the river, with its shaft in the company town of Montana Mines, and in 1943, plans were filed to connect these mines with an under-river crossing.<ref>[http://downloads.wvgs.wvnet.edu/minemaps/904/904913_01.tif Document No. 904913] West Virginia [http://www.wvgs.wvnet.edu/www/coal/cbmp/coalims.html Coal Bed Mapping Project]</ref>  In 1934, Consol. No. 97 employed 412 men, all of whom were [[United Mine Workers|UMWA]] members.  The daily wage ranged from $6.37 for loaders to $9.29 for cutters.<ref>[http://newdeal.feri.org/hopkins/hop09.htm letter from Henry W. Francis to the Federal Emergency Relief Administration] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303184344/http://newdeal.feri.org/hopkins/hop09.htm |date=March 3, 2016 }} dated November 25, 1934.</ref>

[[File:ParkerRunTipple.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Parker Run Coal & Coke Co. Mine at Rivesville, circa 1913.]] 
Other mines in the area exploited the shallower Sewickley Coal Seam, largely above the river level to the north and east.  Between 1901 and 1913,<ref>Samuel B. Brown, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZDAQAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA343 Bulletin No. 1], West Virginia Geologic Survey, Acme Publishing Co., Morgantown, 1901, page 343</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Mine Data Tonnage Reports for Parker Run Coal & Coke |url=http://www.state.wv.us/got/mhst/coresults.cfm?company=Parker%20Run%20Coal%20%26%20Coke%20Co. |publisher=West Virginia Office of Miners' Health Safety & Training |access-date=June 16, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927183341/http://www.state.wv.us/got/mhst/coresults.cfm?company=Parker%20Run%20Coal%20&%20Coke%20Co. |archive-date=September 27, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> for example, the Parker Run Coal and Coke Company operated a mine just east of Rivesville, shipping coal by rail and barge.  In 1910, this mine employed 60 miners.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=xVYpAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA18#PRA2-PA18,M1 Annual Report of the Department of Mines for the Year Ending June 30, 1910], West Virginia Department of Mines, The News Mail Co., Charleston, 1911, page 18</ref>  In 1913, it employed 10 laborers and 25 miners to take 500 tons of coal a day.  The coal in this seam was over 6 feet thick, but higher in sulfur than the Pittsburgh seam.  Mines in the Sewickley seam were opened earlier and mined out earlier than the mines in the Pittsburgh Seam.<ref>Ray V. Hennen, David B. Berger, I.C. White, [https://books.google.com/books?id=hf5LAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA661 West Virginia Geological Survey, Marion, Monongalia and Taylor Counties], Wheeling News Litho. Co., Wheeling, 1913, pages 660-661.</ref>

In 1913, the Monongahela Valley Traction Company had a mine in the even shallower Waynesburg coal seam about a mile southwest of Rivesville near Dakota.  This coal seam was about 5 feet thick, including an intermediate shale bed one foot thick.<ref>Ray V. Hennen, David B. Berger, I.C. White, [https://books.google.com/books?id=hf5LAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA661 West Virginia Geological Survey, Marion, Monongalia and Taylor Counties], Wheeling News Litho. Co., Wheeling, 1913, page 242.</ref>  By 1921, Monongahela Traction had opened a second mine in the area near Baxter, about a mile up Paw Paw creek.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=aZxBAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14 List of Coal Mines in West Virginia, July 1, 1921], West Virginia Geological Survey, page 14.</ref>  As of 1921, other mines listed as being in Rivesville included the Rivesville Coal Company's Hood Mine, the Winfield Coal Company's River Side Mine, and the Virginia & Pittsburgh Coal & Coke Co.'s Morgan mine.