. A history of Pennsylvania. of Josiah task involved an immense amount of labor, and manyingenious contrivances for securing ample water were boats were constructed out of planks cut in the neigh-borhood of the mines. These boats made but one trip andwere then taken apart at Philadelphia, sold for lumber, andthe spikes and iron work returned to Mauch Chunk b)- landto be used over again. Hard coal was slow in coming into favor, for the stoves andfurnaces in use were not adapted to burning it, and grates hadto be altered. It was also feared that the supply might giveout
. A history of Pennsylvania. of Josiah task involved an immense amount of labor, and manyingenious contrivances for securing ample water were boats were constructed out of planks cut in the neigh-borhood of the mines. These boats made but one trip andwere then taken apart at Philadelphia, sold for lumber, andthe spikes and iron work returned to Mauch Chunk b)- landto be used over again. Hard coal was slow in coming into favor, for the stoves andfurnaces in use were not adapted to burning it, and grates hadto be altered. It was also feared that the supply might giveout, so Uttle was known concerning the vast deposits. In ^ These companies were afterwards combined under the now widely knownname of the Lehigh Coal and Xavij^ation Company. 220 HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA 1820 three hundred and eighty-five tons completely stockedthe market. Effort was made to bring the coal into useby having in pubhc places stoves burning it, by instructingfiremen how to use it, and in other ways. The demand in-. J) \T
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