Ligonier Valley Rail Road Newspaper Articles
We have compiled over 1,400 newspaper articles that mention the Ligonier Valley Railroad, or related subjects. The articles were originally published starting in 1873 and our collection runs through 1995. Enjoy!
Daily Courier
Friday, October 2, 1903
Ligonier Coal
Seger Company Will Develop the Eight Foot Vein There
The Segar (sic) Brothers, lumber people of Ligonier, together with W. E. McMillan, of the McMillan Lumber Company of Pittsburg; Thomas Reynolds, of the Reynolds Lumber Company of McKeesport; W. G. Cronkwright, president of the Grant Manufacturing Company; O. E. Hallam and others have lately organized a corporation known as the Segar Coal & Coke Company for the development and operation of about 7,000 acres of rich coal and timber lands in Ligonier.
John M. White, well known in this region as an efficient coke superintendent, has been engaged to act in that capacity for the Segar company. Generous rights of way and railroad concessions have been granted by the Ligonier Valley road. The surveys have been completed, and it is promised that the road will be completed in a few weeks. In short, the Segar company will soon, it is said, become an important factor in the lumber as well as the coal and coke trade.
The coal field embraces some 300 acres. The vein, which is eight feet in thickness, crops out at either side, is all self-draining and can be worked without the use of a pound of steam for any purpose. The coal has been tested for its coking qualities at the Tarr plant of the Frick company, which is in Division Superintendent James A. Cowans district and of which Elmer S. Wolfersberger is superintendent. The burning was done by Yard Foreman Henry Eicher and the results are highly satisfactory.