Mercer Mining & Manufacturing Co. - Unissued Pennsylvania Mining Stock Certifica for Sale

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Mercer Mining & Manufacturing Co. - Unissued Pennsylvania Mining Stock Certifica For Sale

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Mercer Mining & Manufacturing Co. - Unissued Pennsylvania Mining Stock Certifica:
$35.00

Mining Stock. President Theodore Roosevelt owned stock in this company. Train and tunnel vignette at top center & mine workers at bottom right. Unissued. Rare! There are two types of coal found in Pennsylvania: anthracite (the hard coal found in Northeastern Pennsylvania below the Allegheny Ridge southwest to Harrisburg; also called stone coal, rock coal in the 1800s) and bituminous (soft coal, found west of the Allegheny Front escarpment). Anthracite coal is a natural mineral with a high carbon and energy content that gives off light and heat (produced energy) when burned, making it useful as a fuel. It was possibly first used in Pennsylvania as a fuel in 1769, but its real history begins with a documented discovery near Summit Hill and the founding of the Lehigh Coal Mine Company in 1792 to sporadically send expeditions to the wilderness atop Pisgah Ridge to mine the deposits, mostly with notable lack of great success, over the next 22 years. The owners of this company were absentee management\"reliant on teams of workers sent under a foreman to fell timber to build so called \'Arks\' (high-sided punts), then mine coal around nine miles (today\'s Summit Hill) from the right bank Lehigh (the Lehigh & Susquehanna Turnpike terminus at Mauch Chunk), then trek with mule loads to fill the boats for the trip down the rapid strewn Lehigh River, and then more than 60 miles (97km) to Philadelphia docks on the unimproved often log choked Delaware River. Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.