The Keystone Coal and Manufacturing Company was organized in 1870. The name was changed to the Keystone Coal Company in 1878. The originators were:
Henry T. Weld, of Mount Savage, Maryland
William J. Baer, of Somerset
H.A. Stiles, of Philadelphia, president
George F. Baer, of Somerset
William Brace, superintendent
and others.
The same gentlemen constitute the present company. This company has a drift mine, working a ten-foot vein of coal, situated on the Casselman river, two and one-half miles southwest of Meyersdale. The opening of the mine is one hundred and eighty feet above the river. The coal is lowered by an inclined plane and carried by a narrow-gauge railroad belonging to the company to Keystone Junction, on the Baltimore & Ohio.
About one hundred and twenty-five hands are employed, and from one hundred and seventy-five to two hundred tons of coal shipped daily.
(History of Bedford, Somerset & Fulton Counties, PA; 1884)
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