St. Clair Coal Company.

The St. Clair Coal Company was a medium-sized independent anthracite producer located near Saint Clair, Schuylkill County, Pa.

The St. Clair Coal Company was incorporated in 1895 with William Henry Taylor as president and W. W. Patterson as superintendent. The company took over the lease of the Eagle Colliery, owned by the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company, under a so-called "percentage contract". The Coal & Iron Company marketed the entire output at a fixed percentage of the selling price. The Supreme Court ruled such contracts to be in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1912. Thereafter, the company sold most of its coal through brokers in New York and Philadelphia.

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