
TaBLe 2.—Anthracite shipped from Lehigh region by source, via navigation, from 1820 to 1845, in short tons } 







Year Lehigh Beaver Hazleton | Sugar Loaf Buck Others Total 
Company Meadows Mountain 
| 
1820 365 365 
1821 1,073 1,073 
1822 2,240 2,240 
1823 5,823 5,823 
1824 9,541 9,541 
1825 28,393 28,393 
1826 31,280 31,280 
1827 32,074 32,074 
1828 33,150 | 33,150 
1829 25,110 25,110 
1830 41,750 41,750 
1831 2 42,743 42,743 
1832 75,937 | 75,937 
1833 122,938 | | 122,938 
1834 106,518 | | 106,518 
1835 131,250 | | | 131,250 
1836 146,738 | | 146,738 
1837 192,595 31,500 | | 224,095 
1838 153,547 44,449 | 14,221 | 32.001 | 214,211 
1839 140,760 38,595 33,826 7,510 | 31,159 221,850 
1840 102,264 43,707 | 50,366 | 28,958 | 54 | $936 | 225,585 
1841 78,164 26,232 | 21,263 17,170 | a 209 | 143,038 
1842 163,762 | 45,423 | 31,082 | 31,934 | =a 352 | 272,553 
1843 138,826 | 54,729 | 44,579 | 26,814 | 2,844 34 267,826 
1844 219,245 70,379 | 70,760 | 2,866 | 13,844 - 377,094 
1845 257,740 77,161 | 70,659 | 5— | 23,858 74. | 429,492 
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Totals 2,283,826 | 432,168 | 336,756 | 115,252 | 40,600 4,065 | 3,212,667 
| | | 
1L.C.N.C., Annual Reports for the years 1820-45. 
? Room Run production beginning in 1831. 

3 Laurel Hill production combined with Hazleton Coal Company in 1840. 
*'Tammanend production of 27 tons included. 
> Sugar Loaf production combined with Hazleton Coal Company in 1845. 
mines to any convenient point on the Lehigh River at 
any location above Mauch Chunk. Supplemental legis- 
lation authorized the continuance of the railroad down 
the Lehigh valley or to any other convenient point. 
Mining operations were begun in 1831. 
The first shipment of coal from this property was 
made during 1837, and the quantity of coal moved 
during that year amounted to 31,500 tons.°° 
Coal was loaded into railroad cars with a capacity 
°L.C.N.C., Annual Report for 1837 (Philadelphia: James 
Kay, 1838), p. 6. 
PAPER 72: ANTHRACITE IN THE LEHIGH VALLEY 
of two and one-half tons and hauled in trains of 20 
cars by locomotive to the loading docks on the naviga- 
tion. Four locomotives were in use on the road by the 
end of the navigational season in 1837.°° 
The first locomotive on the railroad was built by the 
firm of Garrett and Eastwick of Philadelphia and was 
named the “Samuel D. Ingham” after the president 
of the company.®* The locomotives were of the wood- 
* Tbid.,;p; 19: 
"M.S. Henry, History of the Lehigh Valley (Boston: 
Bixler and Corwin, 1860), p. 40! 
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