. Guide-book of the Lehigh Valley Railroad and its several branches and connections : with an account, descriptive and historical, of the places along their route .. . 16 by 20 During the year 1872, there were used of materials— Cast-ironWrought-ironCast-brass .LumberCoal . 2,953,600 pounds. 2,817,000 112,104 2,928,500 feet. 1,560 tons. Near by is the extensive park (of which seventy-fiveacres are inclosed) belonging to the Lehigh ValleyRailroad Company. Through its entire length thereruns a beautiful stream, in which, as in several ponds atthe eastern end, there are large quantities of brook-
. Guide-book of the Lehigh Valley Railroad and its several branches and connections : with an account, descriptive and historical, of the places along their route .. . 16 by 20 During the year 1872, there were used of materials— Cast-ironWrought-ironCast-brass .LumberCoal . 2,953,600 pounds. 2,817,000 112,104 2,928,500 feet. 1,560 tons. Near by is the extensive park (of which seventy-fiveacres are inclosed) belonging to the Lehigh ValleyRailroad Company. Through its entire length thereruns a beautiful stream, in which, as in several ponds atthe eastern end, there are large quantities of brook-trout. It is also stocked with deer, elk, antelopes, etc. At a distance of a mile and a half are situated thefamous fish-ponds belonging to Lafayette Lentz, Esq.,of Mauch Chunk, who is here largely engaged in thebreeding of brook-trout, of which he has at timesover 200,000. The arrangements for their propagationand cultivation are very complete, and the establish-ment has become an object of much interest to themany travelers in this neighborhood. MAUCH CHUNK. Mauch Chunk (Indian for Bear Mountain, and pro-nounced generally as though it were spelled Mauk or. MAUCH CHUNK AND iMOUNI PISGAH. Page 72. MAUCn CHUNK. y^ Mawk Chunk), the seat of justice of Carbon County,was first settled about the year 1815. It was then aperfect wilderness, covered with forest-trees and under-growth, and so completely hemmed in by high andsteep mountains that it was as unlikely a spot as couldbe selected for a town, while any outlet by means of awagon-road seemed wellnigh impossible. As this wonderful town has been for so many yearsthe centre of coal operations for the Lehigh region, itmay not be inappropriate to condense a few of theleading facts concerning the first mining of coal inthis valley. It was originally discovered by accidenton the summit of Sharp Mountain (now the site of thetown of Summit Hill), nine miles northwest of MauchChunk, in 1791, by a hunter named Philip Ginter, andis referred
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