Connellsville Beehive Coke Region a Declining Mineral Economy

T nHE economy of a number of regions in the United States has been developed primarily as a result of the availability of a mineral resource. As a result of more than a century of intensive mineral exploitation, many of our mineral regions are exhausted and many more are in a stage of declining production. Consequently, many of these mineral areas have long been in an economically depressed condition. Solution of their problems has seldom gone beyond the giving of temporary relief funds by the government and frequently this type of aid has perpetuated and increased the difficulties. How can a sound economy be developed in a mineral region? This is one of the fundamental social and economic problems of our times. The dynamic nature of a mineral economy is well illustrated in the evolution of the Connellsville Beehive Coke Region of southwestern Pennsylvania (Fig. 1). From 1880 to about 1918, this area was world famous for its expanding economy in the production of quality coke. It is not so well known that for the past three decades this area has had a declining economy and remains today one of the most economically depressed areas in eastern United States

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