The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-01
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 5000 to anyone who should discov-
er coal on their lands nearer to the
Lehigh than the Summit mine; but
there We're 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 barrooms in the tav-
ems along the roads not distant.
In 1907 the company, for the pur-
pose of bringing their coal into notice,
gave lease of p 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
$50 a 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
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 49,
900 tons of coal annually for their
own benefit.
In 1918 they procured 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 improving-taling, however, but
little coal to market until the year
1S20-when they got to Philadelphia
365 tons "as the first fruits of the CON
Germ" Little as that was, it COM
pletely oched the market, and was
sold with difficulty. 1t increased each
subsequent year up to Estimating
it that year delivery of 9,541 tons.
In 1925 it ran up to 2S,393 tons, and
kept along at nearly that rate until
1882, when it delivered 10000 tons.
From that time it went on regularly
increasing. until 1889, when it had de-
livered 221,S50 tons. and now that
it has got its 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 a trifle owe
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 Susquehan-
ma, comprising the Schuylkill, Lehigh
and Wyoming regions, made ship
ments of anthracite coal amounting
to over 45,OOO,O0O tons.
For reasons inscrutable and incom-
prehensible to man, the tremendous
furnaces of nature fused the limitless
copper supply and deposited it in
Arizona, where it is grudgingly to-
day yielding to mans demands. For
like unknowable reasons this great in
exhaustibe 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
er 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 years.
The investigator says that this
long-despised fuel which now moves
all of the locomotives, trains, ships,
engines and machinery of continent,
provides also comfortable and happy
homes for more than half million
people in the contiguous region.
SMITH D. FRY.
Has Insured His Voice.