Exhibit 24.1

Power of Attorney

     KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That each of the undersigned directors and the undersigned director/officer of Arch Coal, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Arch Coal”), hereby constitutes and appoints Robert J. Messey and Robert G. Jones, and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power to act without the other, to sign Arch Coal, Inc.’s universal shelf registration statement on Form S-3 and any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and to do and perform any and all other acts and things requisite and necessary to be done in connection with the foregoing as fully as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

     DATED: February 23, 2005

/s/ Steven F. Leer Steven F. Leer	President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
/s/ James R. Boyd James R. Boyd	Chairman of the Board and Director
/s/ Frank M. Burke Frank M. Burke	Director
/s/ John W. Eaves John W. Eaves	Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Director
/s/ Douglas H. Hunt Douglas H. Hunt	Director
/s/ Patricia F. Godley Patricia F. Godley	Director
/s/ Thomas A. Lockhart Thomas A. Lockhart	Director
/s/ A. Michael Perry A. Michael Perry	Director
/s/ Robert G. Potter Robert G. Potter	Director
/s/ Theodore D. Sands Theodore D. Sands	Director
/s/ Wesley M. Taylor Wesley M. Taylor	Director