POCAHONTAS CONSOL. COLLIERIES Stock 1907 Bramwell, WV Pres. Isaac Mann ABNC VF++

Description

The Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries Company, Incorporated. Stock issued October 7, 1907. Incorporated in 1907 in the State of Virginia.
Embossed company seal lower left. Certificate
No. C143
was issued to L. E. Johnson for 25 shares of Common stock (0 per share). Hand signed by company
president Isaac T. Mann (also treasurer of the Bramwell Bank and namesake for the town of Itmann, West Virginia)
and secretary J. Wallis Graybral. Certificate is about 8” x 11”. Black print with green overprint/underprint.
Beautiful ABNC vignette showing a depiction of Pocahontas saving the life of John Smith from other Native Americans.
In 1907, the Pocahontas Consolidated Company, which was formed three years earlier, and the Pocahontas Collieries Company were consolidated under the name of the Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries Company. In all, the new company owned about 20,000 acres of coal lands, with an estimated tonnage of 180,000,000 tons. The consolidated concern owned 2,720 ovens, and later established three additional coal mining plants along the line of the Pocahontas & Western Railroad, which was constructed by the Norfolk & Western Railway Company to develop the property. The Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries Company eventually became the Pocahontas Fuel Company and operated 26 mines in West Virginia’s McDowell and Wyoming County.
The Pocahontas Coalfield, which is also known as the Flat Top-Pocahontas Coalfield, is located in Mercer County and McDowell County, West Virginia and Tazewell County, Virginia. The earliest mining of coal in the coalfield was in Pocahontas, Virginia in 1883. This operation, with beehive coke ovens, eventually spawned the Pocahontas Fuel Company (formerly the Pocahontas Consolidated Company), which operated mines in Virginia at Boissevain and Amonate, and in West Virginia at Jenkinjones, Bishop, and Itmann (the town of Itmann was named after company president I.T. Mann). Later Pocahontas Fuel Company was absorbed into Consolidation Coal Company. The mines at Pocahontas were able to ship coal when the Norfolk & Western Railway bought the New River Railroad and extended a branch line there. As this railroad was extended westward through Mercer and McDowell Counties the coalfield expanded with it. By the mid-1880s the Bramwell, West Virginia area was booming with mines at Coopers and Freeman. Coal mines continued to open through the 1890s as the Norfolk & Western Railroad laid track along Elkhorn Creek and eventually reached Welch. Some of these coal mines/coal camps included Maybeury, Elkhorn, Upland, and Keystone.
Condition:  Very Fine+++
, very light folds, very light creasing, no tears, light signs of wear/handling/toning (see photos),
stamp and punch cancelled.
Printer:
American Bank Note Company, New York.
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