Dickinson Salt Works as Seen from the Opposite Bank of the Kanawha River
Date:
ca. 1910
Description:
View of Dickinson Salt Works from opposite bank of Kanawha River. Made about 1910. This is the only picture in existance showing salt loaded on barge for ferrying across river where it was loaded on C&O Railroad. The New York Central Railroad had served the plant for years before this picture was taken, but due to higher freight rates by the NYC, it was still possible to ship by C&O to some points at a saving.
Tow of Coal for the Jones and Laughlin Aliquippa Works Locking Through a Dam on the Ohio River
Description:
A Tow of Coal for the Jones and Laughlin Aliquippa Works locking through a dam in the Ohio River. There are 6000 tons of coal in this one movement, or enough to fill 120 freight cars of 50 tons capacity each. The coal came down the Monongahela, which is canalized for a distance of about 70 miles above Pittsburgh and taps the richest bituminous coal district in the United States, where practically all the steel companies of the East have their coal mining operations and ship either by river or by rail.
