Coal In Logan County
The evolution of the coal industry in Appalachia between 1870 and 1910 resembles the pattern of colonialization of undeveloped countries in other parts of the world. This pattern of industrial exploitation and control lingers: in l980 ten coal or coal-related corporations owned seventy-five percent of the privately held land in Logan County; two-thirds of the nonpublic land in West Virginia was owned or controlled by energy companies or out-of-state investors.