VENUS, WV (GARY NO. 10)

This was the No. 10 Works for United States Coal and Coke Co. (the coal mining arm of U.S. Steel). There were coke ovens up the river (No. 4) and down the river (No. 3) from Venus, but there were never any coke ovens at Gary No. 10.

Company houses built by u.S.C. and C. for the workers of the No. 10 mine.

The drift mouth for the No. 10 mine, with "1908" formed in the concrete. This would have been one of the portals through which coal cars were taken in and out of the mine.

Another drift portal into the No. 10 mine.

Concrete building and "manway" portal into the coal seam. Building could have been a lamp house or powder house.

Just outside of the portals is a wooden trestle for the mine trolley.

There are a few underground coal cars laying around the ruins of the mine, and this one is in the best condition.

Tag rivited to the back of one of the cars.

Below the original No. 10 mine site is this chute/conveyor/loadout structure that was constructed to ship coal strip mined from a lower seam than the No. 10 mine. It is probably built on the same site as the original No. 10 tipple, and, since it has some wooden construction, may actually contain some of the original tipple structure in it.

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