St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-24

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 We're
wrecked in the Lehigh, two reached
Philadelphia and the business was
abandoned. White and Hazard gave
500 ton for that coal for their wire
mandatory, ard 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
i 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 stock association and
went on from year to year expanding
and improving however, but
little coal to market until the year
is2O-when they got to Philadelphia
365 tons las the first fruits of the con-
Germ" Little as that was, it COM
pletely stocked the market, and was
sold with difficulty. 1t increased each
subsequent year up to Estimating
it that year a delivery of 9,541 tons.
In 1925 it ran up to 1898 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-
Iivered 221, $50 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 a trifle 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 Susquehan.
ma, comprising the Schuylkill, Lehigh
and Wyoming regions, made ship.
| ments of anthracite coal amounting
to over 45,oOO,O0O tons.
For reasons inscruta BILE 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 Welding to mans demands. Fol-
like unknowable reasons this great in.
exhaustible anthracite deposit was
made and wedged into these noun.
tains near tidewater. The deeper the
| dicpings, 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 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.
Viewing the great coal field, study
ing the history of its development
and mingling freely with the plain
| people there, the investigator learned
the lamentable fact that slime from
the dirty cess-pool of politics be
smirched the region many months
ago. Just as some of the powerful
nations of the old world sometimes
send secret emissaries to cause dis
sensions among weaker peoples, sc
the investigator declares that polit
zeal agents invaded the homes where
plenty dwelt in contentment. and
planted discord. Such things would
seem to be well-nigh incredible in this
| land of the free. SMITH D. FRY.