Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-12-25

SOME FOREIGN BORN MINERS.
and at the Beaver meadows, but even
there they had no occupation of any
continuous strata for miles. Indeed,
the coal company had offered bonus
of $500 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 tav-
erns along the roads not distant.
In 1907 the company, for the pur-
pose of bringing their coal into notice,
gave lease of 21 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 Il 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 arlls
were dispatched. Three of them were
wrecked in the Lehigh, two reached
Philadelphia and the business was
abandoned. White and Hazard gave
$50 a ton for that coal for their wire
manufactory, and yet it was not
enough to meet the costs of mining.
That attempt, however, lea to fu-
ture results of permanent good for in
1917 Whit, u 1
of such coal, were induced to visit the
Lehigh with George Kauts, and there
the three contracted with the coal
company on a lease for 20 years, on
condition that they should take 4O,-
600 tons of coal annually for their
own benefit.
In ISIS they procured a Legislative
grant to improve the navigation of
the Lehigh-a measure deemed almost
chimerical by many. After some time
they procured a stock association and
went on from year to year expanding
and mprOving-taking, however but
little coal to market until the year
lS20-when they got to Philadelphia
365 tons las the first fruits Of the con-
pletely ocked the market, and was
sold with difficulty. 1t increased each
subsequent year up to Estimating
it that year a delivery of 0,54l 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 1899, when it had de-
livered 221,Sj0 tons. "And now that
it has got its momentum" wrote Wat
son, who can guess where it will
cud?'
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 Owe
100000 tons in 1899 the industry grew
until, in 1901, the coal fields of the
counties of Carbon, Columbia, Dau-
phin, Lackawanna, Luzcrnc, North
cumberland, Schuylkill and Susquehan-
ma, comprising the SchuylkiN, Lchfgh
and Wyoming regions, made ship
ments of anthracite coal amounting
to over 45,OOO,OOO tons.
For reasons inscrutable and incom.
prchensible to man, the tremendous
furnaces of nature fused the limitlcss
copper supply and deposited it in
Arizona, where it is grudgingly TO.
day yielding TO mans demands. For
like unlnowahle reasons this great in.
rNhaustihlc anthracite deposit was
made and wcdged into these noun.
tuins near tidcwatcr. The deeper the
diggiugs, the heavier the blasts, the
greater the tonnage product, the wild.
cr aud more neNhaustiblc seem the
possibilities of this immeusity of fuel
. with all of his best appliances man
could not expect to dispose of all of
the anthracite in a thousand ycurs.
The investigator says that this
Ioug-dpspiesd fuel which now moves
uIl of the locomotives, trains. ships.
engines and machinery OF continent,
provides also comfortable and huppy
homes for more than half % million
people in the contiguous region
SMITH D. FRY
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