WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 615 



The Raven Carbon Company No. 2 Plant, located on \V est 

 Run, 1.3 miles south of Jane Lew, was built in 1906, and makes 

 carbon black, the daily capacity, including Sunday, being 1,200 

 pounds, 3 men being employed, with an average monthly pay- 

 roll of $300. According to Arthur Reed, Foreman, a special 

 patented process is in use, and the product of the plant is 

 shipped in all directions. 



The American Carbon Company Plant, located on Stone- 

 coal Creek, 0.7 mile east of Weston, was built in 1901, and 

 manufactures carbon black for printers' ink, shoe polish and 

 other purposes, the capacity being 2,250 pounds, weekly, the 

 present output being only about half that amount, according 

 to James Riley, Foreman, who reports that 3 men are em- 

 ployed with an average monthly payroll of $180. This plant 

 uses a channel process in which small gas burners deposit their 

 smoke against iron channels that have a reciprocating move- 

 ment of about -5 feet on a reversible rack, the black being re- 

 moved by scrapers over which these channels pass, being then 

 collected in hoppers and carried through pipe to the packing 

 room. 



The Carbon Black Manufacturing Company Plant, locate^' 

 on the Tunstill farm on Polk Creek, 1.5 miles northwest of 

 Weston, was built about 1904, and has a daily capacity of 30 

 barrels of carbon black, 3 men being employed with an aver- 

 age monthly payroll of $200. 



The McDaniel Farm Plant, of the Columbian Company, 

 located on Polk Creek, 3 miles west of Weston, was built in 

 1900 and makes carbon black for general purposes, the capac- 

 ity being 2,700 pounds, daily, 3 men being employed, with an 

 average monthly payroll of $180. 



The White Plant, of the Columbian Company, located on 

 the S. A. White farm on Dry Fork of Polk Creek, 2.2 miles 

 southwest of Freemansburg, was built in 1900 and has a dai) 

 capacity of 1,800 pounds of carbon black, 3 men being em- 

 ployed with a monthly payroll of $181. 



