From the Tazewell Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, April 20, 1911 CLINCHFIELD COAL HAS GOOD MARKET St. Paul, Va., April 18 - Coal production in this field is not suffering from slow markets as in other Southern mining sections. A large area in the Carolina cotton mill districts draw fuel from this field, and a number of railroads obtain engine coal here. The output of the principal producers, the Clinchfield Coal Corporation, is contracted for up to the present capacity of the mines; but additional business can soon be taken on with the mine extension now under way. The Carolina, Clinchfield, and Ohio Railway, which serves this district in the Southern markets, will this week place an order for five additional mallet type locomotives, similar to those already in use by the company, and for two freight engines of the Mikado type. The former weigh about 400,000 pounds each, exclusive of tender, having a tractive power of 77,000 pounds. The latter will weight 234,000 pounds each, with a tractive power of 45,000 pounds.
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