Reports of the Inspectors of Mines of the anthracite and bituminous ...

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of fact the industry was beg-ua at Plymouth thirteen years before, and
for nine years prior to the beginninof of the coal business on the Lehigh
river the annual shipments on the Susquehanna were considerably in
excess of the first year's product of the Lehig-h region." Mr. Pearce
states, that up to 1820 " the total amount of coal sent from Wyoming is
reckoned at eighty -five hundred tons," and the same author states that
Colonel Washington Lee, in 1820 " mined and sent to Baltimore one
thousand tons, which he sold at eight dollars per ton." Coal had been
shipped to Baltimore and sold there prior to that date by the Smith
Brothers.
Most authors have heretofore recorded the coal shipments of this
region as commencing in 1829 when seven thousand tons were shipped
by the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, but they record the pro-
duction as commencing in 1820, and the product as eight hundred tons.
Our author, Mr. Kulp, has showa conclusively that the coal trade had
been carried on for several years prior to 1820, and presents the following
table as a correct record of the business from the year 1807 to 1820 in-
clusively :
1807,