. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ^^. ^-(! ^a^a^^^^^-^ Figure 2.—Lejl: Josiah White. Right: Erskine Hazard. Both lithographs were by A. Newsam, ca. 1840. (M. S. Henry. History ojthe Lehtgh Valley, 1860.) year as they failed to mine any coal from the ; In December 1813, the owners, still desirous of developing their holdings, granted a lease for 10 years to Charles Miner, Jacob Cist, and John VV. Robinson.' As an additional incenti\c, the owners gave this new group the right to cut timber on their property and use the timber for constructing riverboats
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ^^. ^-(! ^a^a^^^^^-^ Figure 2.—Lejl: Josiah White. Right: Erskine Hazard. Both lithographs were by A. Newsam, ca. 1840. (M. S. Henry. History ojthe Lehtgh Valley, 1860.) year as they failed to mine any coal from the ; In December 1813, the owners, still desirous of developing their holdings, granted a lease for 10 years to Charles Miner, Jacob Cist, and John VV. Robinson.' As an additional incenti\c, the owners gave this new group the right to cut timber on their property and use the timber for constructing riverboats for moving the coal down the river. In leturn for the lease, the lessees agreed to market a minimum of 10,000 bushels of coal annually. Revenues from the sale of the coal went to the new organization. The owners received nothing from the lease, but hoped that by the time the lease expired, and with a public more accustomed to burning anthracite, the mines would be a valuable asset. 'History of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company (Philadelphia: W. S. Young, 1840), p. 3. Hereafter referred to as Lehigh History. ' Hazard, op. cit., p. 158. This new group in the spring of 1814, managed to load and send five arks of coal from the landing at Mauch Chunk. Two arks finally reached Philadelphia, but three arks were wrecked in passage down the Le- high River. Most of the coal that survived the trip was purchased by Josiah White and Erskine Hazard for $21 a ton for use in their wire manufacturing plant located at the Falls of the Schuylkill.' This price did not compensate the new partnership for the mining costs, the transportation costs from mine to the river, and the losses incurred in transporting the coal down the river. Cost of the operation as given by Charles Miner in his testimony before the Packer Commission's study of the coal trade in 1834, showed that $ was expended for each ark containing 24 tons of anthracite.'-' " Lehigh History, op. cit., p. 4. " S. J.
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