W. A. Napier Cole Mine

W. A. Napier Cole Mine

William Andrew Napier

W. A. Napier Mine No. 1 (Abandoned)---No. 504 on Map II.

On west side of Greenbrier River, 2 miles north of Caldwell and 0.3 miles Northwest of Colebank School; Merrimac Coal; elevation, 1860’ B.

                                                                                                                                                                      Ft.            In.

1.       Sandstone, gray to brown, hard, micaceous, 10’ to……………………………...  15            0     

2.     Coal, Impure, lenticular. 0’ to ………………………..............................................…..4              0

3.       Sandstone, shaly…………………………………….......................................................…5             0

 

A sample (No. 77PH) was taken from No. 2 of the above section and its chemical analysis is published under No. 504 in The Table of Coal Analyses at the end of Chapter XI. The above mine was operational from a time in 1928 and an estimated 150 tons of coal was removed. 

Photographs of W. A. Napier Cole Mine

Source: Personal Collection 

William Andrew Napier Obituary 

Source: Beckley Post-Herald, The Raleigh Register, Saunday, November 27 1966, Pg. 2