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Figure 2.—Left: Josiah White. Right: Erskine Hazard. Both lithographs were by A. Newsam, ca. 1840. (M.S. Henry, Histor 
of the Lehigh Valley, 1860.) 
year as they failed to mine any coal from the property.° 
In December 1813, the owners, still desirous of 
developing their holdings, granted a lease for 10 years 
to Charles Miner, Jacob Cist, and John W. Robinson.‘ 
As an additional incentive, the owners gave this new 
group the right to cut timber on their property and use 
the timber for constructing riverboats for moving the 
coal down the river. In return for the lease, the lessees 
agreed to market a minimum of 10,000 bushels of coal 
annually. Revenues from the sale of the coal went to 
the new organization. 
The owners received nothing from the lease, but 
hoped that by the time the lease expired, and with a 
public more accustomed to burning anthracite, the 
mines would be a valuable asset. 
° History of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company 
(Philadelphia: W. S. Young, 1840), p. 3. Hereafter referred 
to as Lehigh History. 
* HAZARD, op. cit., p. 158. 
PAPER 72: ANTHRACITE IN THE LEHIGH VALLEY 
This new group in the spring of 1814, managed to 
load and send five arks of coal from the landing at 
Mauch Chunk. Two arks finally reached Philadelphia, 
but three arks were wrecked in passage down the Le- 
Most of the coal that survived the trip 
White and Erskine Hazard 
high River. 
was purchased by Josiah 
for $21 a ton for use in their wire manufacturing plant 
located at the Falls of the Schuylkill.S This price did not 
compensate the new partnership for the mining costs, 
the transportation costs from mine to the river, and 
the losses incurred in transporting the coal down the 
river. Cost of the operation as given by Charles Mine1 
in his testimony before the Packer Commission’s study 
of the coal trade in 1834, showed that $330.77 was 
expended for each ark containing 24 tons of 
anthracite.° 
® Lehigh History, op. cit., p. 4. 
°S. J. Packer, “Senate Committee Report on th > Coal 
Trade” (Senate Journal, vol. 2, 183 +; Harrisburg: H. 
Welsh, 1834), p. 540. Hereafte red to as Packer Report. 
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