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Kaymoor coke ovens 1920
The first reported production of coke in Kaymoor began after July of 1901. Fiscal year reports from the Department of Mines ran from July to June of the next year. The first six months of the 1902 report, July 1901 to December 1901, show 2,098 tons of coke produced. The period of January 1902 to June 1902 produced 12,989 tons of coke (James 1902:21). Coke produced in Kaymoor would have been shipped to the Lowmoor Iron Company’s iron furnaces. Coke production continued after the town was sold to the New River and Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Company. The last coke made in Kaymoor was in 1933 (Burgess 1983). After the ovens went out of service, refuse from the tipple (slate and rock) was dumped on the ovens, and they were essentially buried by the rubble (Burgess 1983).
