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Subjects include: Coal company operation, (coal and coke sales, costs, marketing conditions, price-fixing, profits, salaries, taxes); coal operators' associations; government investigation and regulation of the coal industry (Interstate Commerce Commission, mining legislation, N.R.A. code, U.S. Railroad Administration) labor (insurance \"on transportation\", strikes, United Mine Workers of America, wages, workman's compensation, \"yellow-dog\" contract); law and order (Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, courts, injunctions, mine guard system, National Guard, secret operatives, state troopers); life in mining camps (amusements, churches, health, housing, recreation, schools, stores); mining safety; railroads (Chesapeake \u0026 Ohio Railway, coal car distribution, freight rates, Norfolk \u0026 Western Railroad, railway fuel contracts, and Virginian Railway- Organization of Winding Gulf Branch); and  state and local politics. 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He headed a coal sales agency, speculated in coal and timber lands, headed a cement company, and was interested financially in rubber, oil, and gas companies. He played an important role in organizing the Tug River Coal Operators Association, the Winding Gulf Operators' Association, and the Smokeless Coal Operators Association of West Virginia.","The materials include correspondence, agreements, contracts, deeds, financial statements, ledger books, magazines, maps, minute books, pamphlets, photographs, production and shipping records, reports, and stock books.","The bulk of the collection concerns the development of the law volatile, or smokeless, coal fields of Southern West Virginia, ca. 1900-1934. Subjects include: Coal company operation, (coal and coke sales, costs, marketing conditions, price-fixing, profits, salaries, taxes); coal operators' associations; government investigation and regulation of the coal industry (Interstate Commerce Commission, mining legislation, N.R.A. code, U.S. Railroad Administration) labor (insurance \"on transportation\", strikes, United Mine Workers of America, wages, workman's compensation, \"yellow-dog\" contract); law and order (Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, courts, injunctions, mine guard system, National Guard, secret operatives, state troopers); life in mining camps (amusements, churches, health, housing, recreation, schools, stores); mining safety; railroads (Chesapeake \u0026 Ohio Railway, coal car distribution, freight rates, Norfolk \u0026 Western Railroad, railway fuel contracts, and Virginian Railway- Organization of Winding Gulf Branch); and  state and local politics. Other non-coal subjects include cement business, lumber business, tire and tire gauge manufacturing, and oil and gas drilling.","Correspondents include: S.R. Anderson; G. R. Collins; Jairus Collins; Justus Collins; Raymond DuPuy; W. J. Elgin; Lamar Epperly; H.D. Everett; T. L. Felts; A.M. Herndon; J.J. Holloway; L. E. Johnson; P. H. Kelly; E.W.  Knight; John Laing; I. T. Mann; C. H. Mead; C. J. Milton; J. H. Renahan, P. J. RIley: P. M. Snyder; Holly Stover; W. P. Tams; Jr.: J.J. Tierney; E.E. White; and George Wolfe.\n \nSeries include:\n1. General Correspondence, 1896–1934 (boxes 1-36) \n2. Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, 1905–1934 (box 36) \n3. Coal Operators Association, 1911–1934 (boxes 37-39) \n4. Smokeless Fuel Company -- Sales Managers' Correspondence, 1914-1915, undated (boxes 40-42)\n5. Smokeless Fuel Company -- Smithing and Other Sales, 1914–1922 (boxes 43-44) \n6. Superior Portland Cement Company, 1905–1924 (boxes 45-47) \n7. 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