. Railroad record, and journal of commerce, banking, manufactures and statistics . s alreadyplaced the Visitor among the first of its Church & Co., publishers, Cincinnati. Discovery of Coal in America.—The fol-lowing is a brief and reliable history of thediscovery and introduction of coal in Ameri-ca: Bituminous coal was mined near wherethe city of Richmond, Virginia, now stands,as early as 1700, It was extensively used inPennsylvania in 1775, and a Richmond foun-dry employed it in making shot and shell dur-ing the Revolution. It was sent to Bostr>n,Philadelphia and New York in 1
. Railroad record, and journal of commerce, banking, manufactures and statistics . s alreadyplaced the Visitor among the first of its Church & Co., publishers, Cincinnati. Discovery of Coal in America.—The fol-lowing is a brief and reliable history of thediscovery and introduction of coal in Ameri-ca: Bituminous coal was mined near wherethe city of Richmond, Virginia, now stands,as early as 1700, It was extensively used inPennsylvania in 1775, and a Richmond foun-dry employed it in making shot and shell dur-ing the Revolution. It was sent to Bostr>n,Philadelphia and New York in 1789. Ooe-diah Gore and his brother, blacksmiths, fromConnecticut, were the first to make use of an-thracite coal in the Wyoming (Ia.) valley in1768. Judge Jesse Fell, of Wilkesbarre, wasthe first to apply it to household uses. PhilipGinter, a hunter in the Mauch Chunk region,discovered the Lehigh coal in 1791. Mineswere opened in 1793, but it was ten years laterbefore coal was shipped to Philadelphia. TheSchuylkill coal was first sent to Philadelphiain 1812. 00 m zN Zjn \ m HO o S=l W s=s a►-»- crqW CD CD a CD Insurance Companies Reduce Rates Where it is Introduced. «®*The attention of Practical RailroadMen is earnestly invited to the record olworhdoao, and to the fact that nine-tenthsof the fires th;it Kindle atstations, in woodpiles, and on Trains, are within the powerof this Machine when discovered F. W. FAR WELL, Secretary, 122 Washington Street,CHICAGO H. J. BOND, Genl Agent, 22 West Fourth Street, CINCINNATI. 384: THE RAILROAD RECORD.
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