The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-01-16
DOWN IN THE COAL MINES.
TINE 0REdT ANTHR fCTTE COAL
TRADE or PENNSTLPANIA.


those who have never visited the miuca ~ Penn
sylyania can imagine the wild, weird picture ~
de~oation on c<ry si1e of th,.c bleak u,oun-
tans " the anthracite ooal country Stretched
away on either side and rolling their tops with
the slvcry clouds are the aged hill aud rock,
brown, barren, and hlack and away down he
low. nearly 200 feet In The bowels " the earth,
where the misty r.vs ~ tic minors lamp alone
light up those bmckcncd cuts and avenues, the
sights arc hundred fold more dreary and pie
turcsquc.
Here in Schuylkul Lchish, and adjoining
counties If the great anthracite coal wealth ~
the United States. Its trade has developed to an
annual product of twenty millions Of tons. and
~ II has doubled within the last ten years. It IS
fair To- presume that in ten years moro the
country will consume forty millions Of tons.
Wyoming hard coal was first burned in 1868.
Lehigh coal was the first to realize CONNER
cial value In Eastern markets consequently that
coal nearly always leads the quotations. II Is
q conjecture whether Lehigh or Schuylkill stono
coal. Tor actual consumptou was furnished
first. benjamin Bannan, who for a long period
of busy years was the leading mind in these re-
gions, and who was known ~ "Old Proba-
bility, said that Schuylhill coal was first taken
to market. Nicho Allen. hunter, nrst STUN
blcd upon the black diamonds, near Broad
mountain. Schuyll,ill county. In liW lie made
a IRE one night on the hills. aud when he woke
ny i'm The morning 4 mas oi ncrS rnck startled
him. Allen never made penny ON IL, and Was
aittrwad drowned
THE FIRST LOAD.
I'm lNn. William Morris. then ~ Port Carbon.
SchNl'ill county. carted q wagon load of coal
g. lhiiadelpliL distance" of seventy miles.
The QuaAer~ would not huv his black rocks. aud
th" coal trade was knocNod HAT Along the
~aiue route that wagon tooN seNcuty-~iX Years
aGu. over 5uONuU tons II coal arr NOW
shipped hy railroad ever, year. In Isl col.
George snoema>er, living about one mic from
here, loaded ftfp WAGONS ana went 90 RlIlHtpI-
phii' where he was denounced ~ a knavc and a
sconudrvl III j. cual w.t- unsold. and he returned
In disgust. To-day there ar, millions OF dollars
made on that same Kind NJ fuel
in tnc Mauch thunt or Roar No'm ain. ninr
miles west of Mau'h 'huuN. Phillip Giutcr. -
poor hunter, l. cIcdhcd a. the lcrSun Who nr~t
discovered II In 1871 la the following year the
l.chsh Coal COMPANY vd~ formed. kuhrr. Nor
ri-. the celebrated hnancicr, VIC the leading
Coal was abundant. mining easy. hut tho great
question wtS. what should they do with ~ II
was IN mountainous region. surrounded 10y
uuhruken forests only traNerscd 10y Indians and
hunters Philadelphia. the nearest market, was
saddle bags ln lN4 they noatcd coal down the
Lehigh and Delaware rivers on arls. six arNs
II proved WORTHLESS, aud was subsequently used
20 spall streets. The trouble was they did not
know , how S e. burn IT, L. islt' hoSevsr. coal
ton. The secret ~ burning It wa. discovered by
accident. In lssn. Sp tons reached market. sold
for So per ton. aud l~rish shipment to-day
stands ~ the first wears product Of the Ameri-
can anthracite coal trade.
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