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| Fairbanks Mine
(ca. ? ), Located on the Western Pennsylvania Railroad on the Fairbanks Spur line, which left the mainline just after crossing the Kiskiminetas River West of Saltsburg, Fairbanks, Loyalhannan Twp., Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania [The coal mining town of Fairbanks consists of only two houses today.] Owners: (ca.1889 - ? ), Saltsburg Coal Company, Saltsburg, Indiana Co. |
| HISTORY: From the Reports of the Inspectors of Mines for Pennsylvania, for 1889. Fairbank Mine is still kept up to a good standard. It is very well ventilated and drained, and kept well up to the requirements of the law. The mine is worked entirely on the double-heading system. In ca.1889 the Fairbanks Mine employed 166 miners, 21 company men, 13 drivers and runners, 4 doorboys and helpers, for a total of 205 men and boys inside the mine. 2 blacksmiths, 2 engineers and firemen, 8 company men outside, 3 superintendents, book-keepers and clerk, for a total of 230 men employed in 1889. |
A portion of a ca.1895 Railroad Map of Western Pennsylvania,
Showing the location of Fairbanks, on the Western Pennsylvania Railroad showing
the Fairbanks spur, which left the mainline shortly after crossing the
Kiskiminatas River below Saltsburg,. Fairbanks was the location of
the Fairbanks Mine, and coal patch town of Fairbanks, Loyalhanna
Township |
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| A portion of the U.S.G.S. 15 min. Latrobe, PA ca.1902
quad map showing the location of Fairbanks, Loyalhanna Township,
Pennsylvania. (Map courtesy of U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.) |
| Remains of the mine openings, only depressions in the sides of the hills, remnants of the railroad bed and two houses mark the site of the Fairbanks Mines, and the coal mining town of Fairbanks, ca.2005. |
| Information Wanted:
We would like to ask for help in finding any information on the Fairbanks Mine, Fairbanks, in Loyalhanna Twp., Westmoreland Co. and for any information about the miners that worked there. |
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