. Findley, elected in 1817, Joseph Heister,in 1820, and John Andrew Schulz in 1823, followed without marked became very warm in their discussions and in their management of po-litical campaigns. The charters for the forty banks which had been passed ina fit of frenzy over the veto of Gov. Snyder set a flood of paper money public improvements, principally in opening lines of canal, were prose-cuted, and vast debts incurred. These lines of conveyances were vitally need-ful to move the immense products and vast
. Findley, elected in 1817, Joseph Heister,in 1820, and John Andrew Schulz in 1823, followed without marked became very warm in their discussions and in their management of po-litical campaigns. The charters for the forty banks which had been passed ina fit of frenzy over the veto of Gov. Snyder set a flood of paper money public improvements, principally in opening lines of canal, were prose-cuted, and vast debts incurred. These lines of conveyances were vitally need-ful to move the immense products and vast resources of the State Previous to the year 1820, little use was made of stone coal. JudgeObediah Gore, a blacksmith, used it upon his forge as early as 1769, andfound the heat stronger and more enduring than that produced by 1791, Phillip Ginter, of Carbon County, a hunter by profession, having onone occasion been out all day without discovering any game, was returning atnight discouraged and worn out, across the Mauch Chunk Mountain, when, in. HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 119 TABLE SHOWING AMOUNT OF ANTHRACITE COAL PRODUCED INEACH REGION SINCE 1820. , Lehigh,Tons. 365 1,073 2,240 5,823 9,541 28,393 31,280 32,074 30,232 25,110 41,750 40,966 70,000 123,001 106,244 148,211 223,902 213,615 221,025 225,313 143,037 272,540 .» 377,002 429,453 517,116 633,507 670,321 781,656 690,456 964,224 1,072,136 1,054,309 1,207,186 1,284,113 1,351,970 1,318,541 1,380,030 1,628,311 1,821,674 1,738,377 1,351,054 1,894,713 2,054,669 2,040,913 2,179,364 2,502,054 2,507,582 1,929,523 3,172,916 2,235,707 3,873,339
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