Bluefield Daily Telegraph editorial
It was an interesting tale of two states last week with regard to coal production in West Virginia and Virginia.
In the Mountain State, officials confirmed that second quarter coal production gains in southern West Virginia had increased over a million short tons from the first quarter of the year to 13.3 million short tons. That’s also up from 11.9 million short tons a year ago.
That sounds about right given the uptick in coal mining activity here in the deep south counties. It’s not unusual now to see coal trucks on area roadways, along with trains hauling coal through Bluefield’s historic Norfolk Southern railyard.
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