Exhibit 99.1 to Form 4 for James Forbes Wilson


The  Reporting  Person is a director of James River Coal Company (the "Issuer").
The Reporting Person is the direct owner of 1,000 shares of restricted stock and
options  to  acquire  10,000  shares of the Issuer's Common Stock granted by the
Issuer  on  May  7, 2004, and an additional 1,000 shares of restricted stock and
options  to  acquire  10,000  shares of the Issuer's Common Stock granted by the
Issuer  on  May  7,  2005.  The Reporting Person is also one of three individual
general  partners  of  Carl  Marks Management Company, L.P. ("CMMC"), a Delaware
limited partnership and registered investment adviser, which is the sole general
partner  of  (i)  Carl  Marks  Strategic  Investments, L.P. ("CMSI"), a Delaware
limited  partnership  and  private  investment  partnership, and (ii) Carl Marks
Strategic Investments, III, L.P. ("CMSIIII"), a Delaware limited partnership and
private  investment  partnership.  As  of  May  24,  2005, CMSI was the owner of
710,471  shares  of the Common Stock of the Issuer, and CMSIIII was the owner of
41,181  shares of the Common Stock of the Issuer.  The shares of Common Stock of
the  Issuer which are owned by CMSI and CMSIIII may be deemed to be beneficially
owned  (i)  indirectly by CMMC, as general partner of CMSI and CMSIIII, and (ii)
indirectly,  on  a  shared  basis,  by  the  Reporting  Person and the two other
individual  general  partners  of CMMC, the general partner of CMSI and CMSIIII,
who  share the power to direct the vote or disposition of such securities.  CMMC
and  the  two  other  individual  general partners of CMMC have separately filed
statements  pursuant to Section 13 and Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended, with respect to the securities of the Issuer which they may
be  deemed  to  beneficially  own.  The  Reporting  Person's  interest  in  the
securities  reported  herein  as  being  indirectly  beneficially  owned  by the
Reporting  Person  is  limited to his pecuniary interest in CMSI and CMSIIII, if
any.