. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ^.si.™i:" Figure 21.—Watercolor of Mauch Chunk, ca. 1845, by an unknown artist. () they provided the only carrier between Stoddartsville and Easton. The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company began regular shipments of anthracite from the region in 1820, after some navigational improvements were made on the Lehigh River. Seventeen years later, in 1837, the Beaver Meadows Railroad and Coal Company be- came the next anthracite producer in the By January 1845, 18 companies with a total capitalization of $ million were for
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ^.si.™i:" Figure 21.—Watercolor of Mauch Chunk, ca. 1845, by an unknown artist. () they provided the only carrier between Stoddartsville and Easton. The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company began regular shipments of anthracite from the region in 1820, after some navigational improvements were made on the Lehigh River. Seventeen years later, in 1837, the Beaver Meadows Railroad and Coal Company be- came the next anthracite producer in the By January 1845, 18 companies with a total capitalization of $ million were formed and chartered to conduct mining operations. Eight of these companies chartered during this period (including the two that ceased operations) were actively engaged in the mining and transportation of anthracite to market and had invested approximately $ million. The remaining 10 companies were de- veloping their properties, but made no shipments of coal to maiket prior to Januaiy 1845. The first steam locomotives in the Lehigh region ap- peared during 1836 on the railroad operations of the Beaver Meadows Railroai> and detmering intolj boais rruni ilie fiinimii liiil i!iinfs20U,000'i'or.«of'| Coal, d'lrine nexi. seasun. The Company pro- pose to iltvide ll»e niine? t*o or rjiure parts, and 10 be worked by as many cnrnpaniea of coti- traciors. Sptrilicsiions & (node ot woi'liing the: mine? can b«s*=tti .ind blink proposals byi'fi( eith- er of the above itffice?. For fuither inlormation apply to the pupenntentieni or mine agent at E. A. DOUGLAS, Mauch Cliititk, ? Supt. & Eng. No». 19di. 1844. S - 3fl'l Figure 22.—Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company November 21, 1844, request for bids from subsidiary companies. (Mauch Chunk Courier.) 118 BULLETIN 252: CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appe
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