Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . on employing both railroad and canal service,is one of the oldest operators in the anthracite fields, and traces itshistory to the year 1829, although the canal company was char-tered several years earlier. In 1833 the company carried 19,000tons of coal from Honesdale to the Hudson river, and increasedthe amount to 150,000 tons in 1834. It now operates thirty col-lieries, which, in 1899, produced 4,429,575 tons of coal. It has688 miles of railroad; the canal was abandoned five years ago. The Erie Railroad tapped the anthracite coal fi
Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . on employing both railroad and canal service,is one of the oldest operators in the anthracite fields, and traces itshistory to the year 1829, although the canal company was char-tered several years earlier. In 1833 the company carried 19,000tons of coal from Honesdale to the Hudson river, and increasedthe amount to 150,000 tons in 1834. It now operates thirty col-lieries, which, in 1899, produced 4,429,575 tons of coal. It has688 miles of railroad; the canal was abandoned five years ago. The Erie Railroad tapped the anthracite coal fields on its ownaccount in 1881, when its management purchased 30,000 acres ofland and in addition absorbed the Blossburg Coal Company. Lateron other valuable properties were acquired, notably the HillsideCoal and Iron Company and the Tow^anda Coal Company. TheErie Railroad, in its present physical construction, is the result ofvarious consolidations and leasehold interests, and not entirelywithout the operations of the law. As reorganized in 1895, the 408. oU Natural Resources system covers more than 2,000 miles of track, and 17,000 cars arerequired to handle the coa! output. In [901 the Erie and Wyo-ming \^alley Raihoad and the mining interests of the Pennsyl-vania Coal Company were purchased 1)} and hecame a part of theErie properties. The New York, Ontario and Western Railroad, successor tothe old Midland, as best known in railroad circles, draws itssupply of anthracite from mines in the vicinity of Carbondale andScranton. It has a trackage of 500 miles and an annual coal pro-duction of more than ,000 tons. The Delaware, Susque-hanna and Schuylkill Railroad, the main line of which is betweenDrifton and Gowen. sends about tons annually to mar-ket. The New York. Susquehanna and \\>stern, under the nameof Jermyn. carries annually about 1,500,000 tons. In the preceding paragraphs the somewhat indiscriminate useof the expressions railroad company and mining comp
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