No. 4 Vesta Tipple - 4th Pool

1915/1918

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No. 4 Vesta Tipple - 4th Pool
  • Title
  • No. 4 Vesta Tipple - 4th Pool
  • Identifier
  • MSP33.B009.F06.I06
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP33.B009.F06.I06
  • Description
  • Coal being loaded into barges from a tipple. The Vesta No. 4 Mine, once the largest bituminous coal mine in the world, was owned and operated by the Vesta Coal Company, a subsidiary of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation. Jones & Laughlin barges traveling on the Monongahela River brought coal from the Vesta mines to the beehive ovens of the Eliza furnaces at the company’s Pittsburgh Works. At the tipple each loaded car was weighed using an automatic weight recorder. This was done to ensure that each miner was credited with the correct amount of coal loaded. All coal cut and loaded was paid for on a tonnage basis.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Vesta Coal Company.Vesta No. 4.
    Coal trade--Pennsylvania--Richeyville.
    Coal tipples--Pennsylvania--Richeyville.
    Barges--Pennsylvania--Richeyville.
  • Source
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Collection Photographs, 1864-1953, MSP 33, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Photographs
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