David C. Campbell was president and the principal stockholder in this corporation for a number of years but he resigned the latter part of 1936. Bowling, former vice president, supplanted him in that office.

Stokley Bowling is a native of this section and has been connected with the company since inception. He is a practical coal operator and is in charge of operations at the mine.

Bean, 45 and married, has been identified with the coal industry since a young

man.

R. A. and J. H. Bowling have been connected with the coal industry for many years but their financial interest in this company is small.

BERGER COAL MINING CO., LE JUNIOR, KY., HOLMES DARST COAL Co.,

CINCINNATI, OHIO

(Harlan County Coal Operators Association)

Name of mine, Berger.

Address

Location, Wil-Bar, Ky.

Postmaster, Ernest W. Reece.

OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Guy Darst, president, Knoxville, Tenn.

C. E. Ralston, vice president, St. Charles, Va.
Lilias Ropp, secretary and trasurer.

E. P. Avant, Jr., director.

W. H. Barthold, director, 20 Pine Street, New York City.

E. E. Turner, director and general superintendent, St. Charles, Va. Chartered 1920 with authorized capital stock of $225,000. Of this amount $150,000 is claimed paid in. Corporation succeeded to a partnership in which Guy Darst and Charles E. Ralston were partners. Darst, a native of Knoxville, Tenn., is connected with Benedict Coal Co., and the Holmes Darst Coal Co., of that place. Charles E. Ralston, a native of Knoxville, Tenn., is connected with the Benedict Coal Co., of that point. The concern mines and ships coal, its output at this time being taken over by the Holmes Darst Coal Co., of Knoxville, Tenn. Barthold is also president of the Kentucky King Coal Co.

Berger Coal Mining Co. owns its acreage together with improvements worth around $300,000. About 1933 lost its market which was mainly the railroads. Was then mining in the Harlan seam and this coal was not very well adapted to

the graded coal market. Management made arrangements to move operations from the lower Harlan seam to the Darby seam, which it operated very carefully until it developed sufficient area underground to prove a worth-while body of coal in that particular seam.

ADDRESSES, OFFICERS, and board of dIRECTORS

S. Peabody, president, Chicago, Ill.

N. D. Bachman, vice-president, Cincinnati, Ohio.
C. D. Caldwell, vice president.

J. Solari, secretary, attorney.

W. A. Fisher, treasurer, Chicago, Ill.
G. W. Reed, director, vice president.

M. F. Peltier, director, vice president, Chicago, Ill. Incorporated 1909, in Virginia, for the purpose of acquiring coal lands and leasing same to minor operators, charter amended 1917. Company has authorized stock, $2,500,000. Control is held jointly by Peabody Coal Co. and Interlake Iron Corporation.

Company owns, in fee simple, 29,000 acres of coal land in Harlan County, and Lee County, Va. On 10,000 acres of the Harlan County property, estimated to contain 46,683,850 tons of coal, company now has in operation completely equipped mines and a double tipple.

EXHIBIT 3116

BLACK STAR COAL CO., LOUISVILLE, KY.

(Harlan County Coal Operators Association)

Name of mine, Black Star.

Address, Alva, Ky.

Location, Alva, Ky.
Name of mine, Dixie Star.

Address, Alva, Ky.
Location, Wilfred, Ky.
Postmaster, Roy Fraim.

OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS

William S. Speed, president, Louisville, Ky.
Benj. F. Reed, vice president, Louisville, Ky.
Charles D. Major, treasurer, Louisville, Ky.
R. R. Smith, secretary, Louisville, Ky.

F. M. Sackett, director.

Berry V. Stoll, director.

Edw. H. Hilliard, director.

Delaware corporation, chartered 1902, authorized capital of $1,500,000. William Speed is president and principal stockholder in Beaver Dam Coal Co., Pioneer Coal Co., North Jellico Coal Co., Louisville Cement Co., Louisville Cement Corporation, Louisville Cement Co. of New York. Berry V. Stoll is president of Stoll Refining Co. Edw. Hilliard is member of local stockbroker firm, J. J. B. Hilliard & Sons. Company branch offices in Chicago, Ill.; Detroit, Mich.; and Davenport, Iowa. Almost all company's coal fields are in Harlan and Bell Counties, Ky. Company has adequate shipping facilities and large number of employees.

Real estate: Approximately 6,000 acres of coal land and fields in Harlan and Bell Counties.

OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS

Alexander Bonnyman, chairman, director.

James Bonnyman, president, director, Cincinnati, Ohio.

F. E. Gore, vice president, director, Cincinnati, Ohio.

W. H. Sienknecht, vice president, director, Middlesborough, Ky.
J. L. Eledge, treasurer.

Clara Hood, secretary.

Charles Cochran, director, Knoxville, Tenn.

Incorporated in Tennessee in 1915; charter transferred to Delaware in 1922. On Nov. 1, 1926, absorbed four producing companies: Bonny Blue Coal Co., Royal Blue Coal Co., Sapphire Coal Co., and Liberty Coal Co. On January 1, 1927, absorbed Blue Diamond Coal Sales Co. In 1929 purchased Black Mountain Mining Co. Mines and properties located in southeastern Kentucky, east Tennessee, and southwestern Virginia. Employed 2,600 in December 1935. Capital stock authorized $5,500,000, outstanding December 31, 1935, $5,000,000. Stock owned principally by officers and employees.

Augustus F. Whitfield, president, Kitts, Ky.

William M. Whitfield, vice president, Kitts, Ky.

Augustus F. Whitfield, Jr., secretary and treasurer, Kitts, Ky.

Ed. C. Whitfield, director.

Thos. Whitfield, director.

Chartered in 1911, authorized capital, $50,000, increased by subsequent amendments to $200,000. Augustus F. Whitfield, interested in coal industry many years, has been quite successful. Entire output of company is sold through the Walter Bledsoe Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Real estate, $424,441.62.

Capital stock, $200,000.

Surplus, $587,085.31.

Howard N. Eavenson, president.

Newell G. Alford, secretary and treasurer.
J. P. Williams, Jr., director, Pittsburgh, Pa.
William F. Jarvis, director, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Hallock G. Sherrard, director, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Arthur S. Dayton, director, Charleston, W. Va.

Chartered as the Pittsburgh Coal Land & Railroad Co., under West Virginia laws, May 7, 1925, to take up coal lands and leases, and July 31, 1926, the corporate name was amended. The scope of activities broadened and in 1927 certificate was filed increasing the capital stock from $100,000 to $500,000, preferred, par $100, and an issue of common stock, 7,000 shares of no-par value. Again, December 8, 1927, the preferred stock was increased to 7,500 shares at $100 par and the no-par common stock to 12,500 shares. The latter issue in October 1929 was brought to 14,000 shares. Howard N. Eavenson, president, was for 18 years with the United States Coal & Coke Co., at Gary, W. Va., as chief engineer. Alford formerly had been chief engineer with the St. Bernard Coal Mining Co., of Kentucky, and he is now associated with Eavenson in han dling professional engineering work. J. P. Williams, Jr., with the Koppers Coal Co., etc.; William R. Jarvis, Pittsburgh manager for the Sullivan Machinery Co. This enterprise, upon reaching commercial production, found some difficulty in building up a market, although the coal is a high-grade splint. The Holmes Darst Coal Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio, is sales agent, and other outlets are through the Holston Corporation and the Southern Coal Co. of Memphis, Tenn.

Real estate. The company is operating on a 50-year lease from the Harlan Splint Land Co., the tract comprising 1,720 acres and the Clover Splint Coal Co. has ownership, a half interest in 795 acres and 2 additional tracts in Pike County. In December 1929 closed a lease on 1,120 acres of the High Splint Coal seam from the United States Coal & Coke Co.

The company has a fifth interest in the Holston Corporation, chartered in Delaware; headquarters, Cincinnati, Ohio. This corporation is working on a system of coal storage in retail yards. Authorized capital $500,000, preferred, and an issue of common stock, 20,000 shares of no-par value. Of the preferred $141,000 subscribed and paid in, ownership being controlled jointly by the Clover