The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-19

and at the Beaver meadows, but even
there they had no occupation of any
continuous strata for miles. Indeed.
the coal company had offered a bonus
of 5000 to anyone who should discov-
er coal on their lands nearer to the
Lehigh than the Summit mine; but
there were no claims for discovery.
In the meantime, however, coal was
used for the forge fires of the black
smiths in the neighborhood, and also
in some of the bar-rooms in the tay-
ems along the roads not distant.
In 1907 the company, for the pur-
pose of bringing their coal into notice,
gave lease of 81 years of one of their
coal veins to Rowland and Butland,
gratis, for the manufacture of iron,
from the ore and coal to be dug. 1t
failed of success. In 1913 the coal
company gave lease of ten years of
their lands to Messrs. Cist and Robin
son, conditioned that they should take
to market annually 10000 bushels of
coal to their own profit. Five arks
were dispatched. Three of them were
wrecked in the Lehigh, two reached
Philadelphia and the business was
abandoned. White and Hazard gave
$40 ton for that coal for their wire
mandatory, and yet it was not
enough to meet the costs of mining.
That attempt, however, led to fu-
ture results of permanent good for in
1917 White and Hazard, from the need
OF such coal, were induced to visit the
Lehlgh with George Kauts, and there
| the three contracted with the coal
company on a lease for 20 years, on
condition that they should take 49,
600 tons of coal annually for their
own benefit.
In 1918 they procured legislative
| grant to improve the navigation of
the Lehigh-a measure deemed almosc
chimerical by many. After some time
| they procured stock association and
went on from year to year expanding
and improving-taking, however, but
little coal to market until the year
1s2o-when they got to Philadelphia
365 tons "as the first fruits of the con-
cern." Little as that was, it COM
| pletely stocked the market, and was
sold with difficulty. 1t increased each
subsequent year up to 1s24-making
it that year delivery of 9,54. tons.
In 1925 it ran up to 2s,393 tons, and
kept along at nearly that rate until
1892, when it delivered 10000 tons.
From that time it went on regularly
increasing. until 1889, when it had de-
| livered 221,S5O tons. "And now that
it has got it's momentum" wrote Wat
son, who can guess where it will
| end?"
AT the time of the HI. torian's writ
ing no one would have had the audac-
| ity to guess anywhere near the real
| figures of the anthracite coal produc-
ton of Pennsylvania at the present
day. From the output of trife over
100000 tons in 1899 the industry grew
until, in 1901, the coal fields of the
counties of Carbon, Columbia, Dau-
phin, Lackawanna, Luzerne, North
cumberland, Schuylkill and Susouehan-
ma, comprising the Schuylllill Lehigh
and Wyoming regions, made, ship
ments of anthracite coal amounting
to over 100000 tons.
For reasons inscrutable and incom
prehensible to man, the tremendous
furnaces of nature fused the limitless
copper supply and deposited 1T in
Arizona, where it is grudgingly to.
day yielding to mans demands. For
like unknowable reasons this great in.
exhaustible anthracite deposit was
made and wedged into these noun
tains near tidewater. The deeper the
diggings, the heavier the blasts. the
greater the tonnage product, the wild
err and more inexhaustible seem the
| possibilities of this immensely of fuel.
| With all of his best appliances man
could not expect to dispose of all of
the anthracite in a thousand wears.
The Investigator says that this
! long-despised fuel which now moves
! all of the locomotives, trains, ships.
engines and machinery of a continent,
provides also comfortable and happy
homes for more than half million
| people in the contiguous region.
SMITH D. FRY.