Lanterna Rally

Author: J. Sutton Wall

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-04

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780266282471

Excerpt from Report on the Coal Mines of the Monongahela River Region, From the West-Virginia State Line to Pittsburgh, Vol. 1: Including the Mines on the Lower Youghiogheny River; Description of the Mines The exposure of the Pittsburgh Coal Bed, by erosion, for many miles along the Monongahela River and tributary streams, rendered it of easy access without material labor or expense, and led to its discovery and use by the pioneer inhabitants at an early period in the history of the valley. The first recorded mention of the discovery and use of this coal. That has come under my observation, was by Colonel James Burd, who, in 1759, was sent with a detachment of two hundred soldiers by Col. Bouquet, then commanding at Carlisle, to complete the cutting of Braddock's road from a point east of Uniontown to the Monongahela River near the present site of Brownsville. He says, in his J our nal under date of 22d of September, 1759 This morn ing I went to the river Monongahela, reconnoitered Red stone, &c., and concluded upon the place for the post, be ing a hill in the fork of the river Monongahela and Nemo calling's creek, (now called Dunlap's creek, ) the best situa tion that I could find, and returned in the evening to camp. The camp moved two miles to Coal run. This run is entirely paved in the bottom with fine stone coal, and the hill on the south side of it is a rock of the finest coal I ever saw. I burnt about a bushel of it on my His notes of the following day inform us that this was at a point two and one half miles from the river. Colonel Burd, being a British officer, was no doubt well acquainted with the appearance and use of English coals, and thereby qualified to express a fair opinion of the quality of the coal that he found and used, Which subsequent developments have fully confirmed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.