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The American Journal of Science and Arts, 1831, vol. 19, no. 
cubic yards of hard conglomerate at a unit cost of 
$7.16 per cubic yard. The following costs were charged 
to the operation: °° 
Labor—23,12934 days__-___---_---_ $18, 697. 09 
Moolsrandimaterials= 225-2 32" 225 =5 3s 3, 785. 86 
Rowder——o2ll skeps 22 ten 2 Ese ee 1, 831. 00 
Candles and oil for lights_____----_-- 812. 71 
Lumber, including pipes for air____—~ 508. 54 
One horse blowing wind for 268 days__ 196. 80 
Supernntendence == = eee = 980. 00 
TOROS pte ee ee $26, 812. 00 
37. Daniet Rupp, History of Northampton, Lehigh, Mon- 
roe, Carbon, and Schuylkill Counties (Harrisburg: Hickock 
and Cantine, 1845), pp. 202-203. 
PAPER 72: ANTHRACITE IN THE LEHIGH VALLEY 
ioe Jle)) 
The working day at the mines began at sunrise and 
ended at 4:30 p.m. According to a news item that was 
given wide circulation by the press, the average num- 
ber of tons of coal quarried each woking day totaled 
268. This quantity of coal was loaded at the mines, 
transported on the railroad, unloaded from the wagons 
at the chute, and loaded into boats. The news item 
ended “we not only load the vessels, but create the 
freight, and also build the vessels to carry it all on the 
same day”! *4 
During 1830, a deposit of coal was discovered on the 
north side of Mount Pisgah near Rhume (Room) Run, 
(Nesquehoning) only 4 miles from the Lehigh River. 
* Hazard’s Register of Pennsylvania (vol. 5, no. 24, June 
12, 1830), p. 384. 
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