Pennsylvania, colonial and federal - a history, 1608-1903 (1903) (14590764180)

Identifier: pennsylvania03jenk (find matches)
Title: Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Jenkins, Howard Malcolm, 1842-1902 Pennsylvania Historical Publishing Association
Subjects: Pennsylvania -- History
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Pennsylvania Historical Pub. Association
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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rn extremity of the companys works, wherefourteen seams were developed in 1830, with an aggregate of 240feet of coal. In 1837 the construction of the Susquehanna and LehighRailroad from White Haven to the Wyoming valley was begun,and was completed in 1845. The first shipment of coal, 5,886tons, over the road was made in 1846. The Beaver MeadowRailroad, o()ening an outlet from the Beaver Aleadow coal l)asin,and the Hazleton Railrtjad to the basin of the same name, were inoperation in 1840. The Buck Mountain Companys road wasnearly finished in the same year. The Lehigh Valley Railroadwas opened in 1855, transporting 9.003 tons of coal in that yearand 1,295,419 tons in 1864. In treating of the methods in use in the transportation of Pennsylvania Colonial and Federal anthracite coal from the Schuylkill region in 1829, the excellentwork entitled Coal. Iron and Oil, says: It was not until 1827 that rails were used in the mines, andprevious to 1829 the coal product was carted over common mud
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Breaker in the Anthracite Coal Region Engraved for this work from an original photo-graph roads from the mines to the canal, .\braham Potts of Port Car-bon, was the first to build a model railroad in the Schuylkill region.It led from his mines to the canal, a distance of half a mile. In1829 the Mill Creek Railroad was built from Port Carbon to theBroad Mountain, about on the site of the present town of St.Clair, a distance of about three miles, and at a cost of $3,000. 404 Natural Resources William Jasper Xicholls, in The Story of tlie AmericanCoals. says that Abraham Pottss railway was made of w(X)(lenrails laid on wooden sills and was successfully operated in carryingcoal, which, previous to that time, was hauled in wagons to thecanal, and thence to market. In 1829 the directors of the SchuylkillCanal came to Pottsville and viewed this primitive road in opera-tion. They were surprised when they saw 13 railroad cars loadedwith one and one-half tons each, and they were amazed when Mr.