Incorporation of Additional Companies 
The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company con- 
ducted the first successful mining operations in the 
Lehigh region, and during the first 25 years (1820-45) 
was joined by 17 other corporations (Table 1). The 
companies, chartered by the Legislature of Pennsyl- 
vania, were granted similar privileges, powers, and 
limitations, but none received the unlimited conces- 
sions granted previously to the Lehigh Coal and Navi- 
gation Company. 
These charters contained authorization to acquire 
coal lands (maximum 2,000 acres) and to construct 
a railroad, if needed, to connect their operations with 
existing transportation facilities. 
TABLE 1.—Companies incorporated utilizing the facilities of the 
Lehigh Navigation ' 

Company Date Incorporated | Capitalization 
| | 
Lehigh Coal and | February 13, $6,000,000 
Navigation. | 1822.2 
Beaver Meadows.... . April 7, 1830... .| 800,000 
Little Schuylkill and | March 31, 1831 | 2,000,000 
Susquehanna. | | 
Hazleton Coal.......... | March 18, 1836. 250,000 
Summit Coal.......... | March 18, 1836. 250,000 
Laurel Hill Coal........| June 16, 1836. 250,000 
Buck Mountain Coal. . . | June 16, 1836... 250,000 
Northampton and June 16, 1836 250,000 
Luzerne Coal. 
Mountain Coal. | February 28, 250,000 
1837. | 
Stafford Coal..... ....| March 3, 1838..| 350,000 
Sugar Loaf Coal........| April 16, 1838... 250,000 
Tammanend Coal..... .| April 16, 1838... 250,000 
Wyoming Coal.......... April 16. 1838... | 300,000 
Hanover Coal.... February 6, 250,000 
1839. 
PotosiiGoal:. .... ..| June 24, 1839. 250,000 
Middle Field Coal....... May 29, 1840... | 250,000 
Diamond Coal..... March 19, 1841 || 250,000 
Black Creek Coal...... April 3, 1841... .| 200,000 
Motalleeee $12,650,000 
' Pennsylvania Legislative Acts. 
* Unincorporated from 1818 to this date. 
COAL MINES TO LET. 
The Summit Coal Company have com- 
nleted their Rail Road, ereeted screens, 
and opened mines, ready for working to 
the extent of Fifty Thousand tons of coal 
perannum. Capable of being wrought by 
uncovering, entirely above water level 
which they are prepared tolease on advan- 
tageous conditions for aterm of years,— 
These mines are in the immediate vicinity 
ofthe Beayer meadow works; and thetrans- 
portation is continuously decending to the 
Lehigh River, The mining operations 
can be carried on with great economy, 
owing to the favorable position of the 
Veins. 
Proposals may be left at the officeNo 57 
South 3d street Philadelphia directed to 
J, L. Fenemore. 
Secretary of the Board of Directors. 
Philadelphia, Dee. 16, 1841. 
Figure 16.—Summir Coat Company December 20, 1841, 
request for bids. (Afauch Chunk Courter.) 
The Beaver Meadows Company was chartered in 
1830, and one year later the Little Schuylkill and Sus- 
quehanna Company received its charter. After a lapse 
of 5 years, the Hazleton Coal Company and the Sum- 
mit Coal Company were chartered at the same time in 
1836. The remaining companies were chartered be- 
tween this date and April 1841. All of these companies 
utilized the navigation facilities of the Lehigh River in 
transporting their products to market. 
Coal production during this period was limited to 
eight active operations. One company, the Laurel Hill, 
conducted operations for about one year and then con- 
solidated with the Hazleton Coal Company. Another 
company, the Sugar Loaf Coal Company, produced 
anthracite for 6 years (1839-44) and then also com- 
bined with the Hazleton Coal Company. Development 
work on the properties of the remaining companies 
continued, but little, if any, shipments of coal from 
these mines entered the market prior to January 1845. 
Anthracite shipments on the navigation between 1820 
and 1845 are given in Table 2. 
The Beaver Meapows RaILroap AND Coat Com- 
PANY, incorporated on April 7, 1830, was authorized to 
hold coal lands in Northampton County © and to con- 
struct a single- or double-track railroad from their 
“Carbon County was taken from Northampton County 
land in 1843. 
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