The
bituminous
coal fields in Harlan County are among the riches in the world. Howard
N.
Eavenson, of the firm of Eavenson, Alford & Hicks, consulting
engineers
of Pittsburgh, president of the Claver Splint Coal Co., operating in
Harlan
County, and formerly consulting engineer for the United States Coal
&
Coke Company, a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation,
described
the rapid development of the Harlan County coal fields to the high
quality
of the coal produced there. In testimony during the 1920's.Harlan County was the last of the large coal fields opened and on account of the excellence of its product, its growth has been unusually rapid. The coal is largely used for special purposes where a low-ash and low-sulphur coal is needed. Much of it is used in
by-product coke ovens and the rapid growth of the field was helped by the great demand during the war for coal yielding large quantities of bensol and tuluol, as this does, needed for explosives. Even though coal production in Harlan County did not begin until 1911, it mounted steadily from 2.5 million tons in 1916 to 15 million tons in 1928, which the total bituminous coal production for the United States in 1916 and 1928 was about 500 million net tons." Although Harlan County did not begin to produce on a commercial scale until 1911, the coal fields of adjacent counties in eastern Kentucky and those of
northeastern Tennessee rose to a position of importance during the closing decade of the nineteenth century. Actually, first commercial production in eastern Kentucky started in Laurel County immediately after the Civil War. Although this County still contains large areas of unmined coal, there is little or no coal produced there now.
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