From the Lykens Standard, September 17, 1926:
$2,000,000 ELECTRIC PLANT AT LYKENS MINES
The Electrical Plant, located on the property of the Susquehanna Collieries Company, this place, erected and began operation in 1921. The plant was constructed at a cost of more that $2,000,000. It is the only electrical work of its kind within a radius of more than twenty-five miles and supplies power to the colliery workings for Lykens, Big Lick and Williamstown. Ground was broken for the building July 18, 1919 , and two years and one month later, August 11, 1921, the first boiler was fired. Current was turned on and conveyed to Williamstown Greenfield pump two months later.
The erection and operation of this wonderful electrical works was a start for a Greater Lykens, proving erroneous the many rumors that Lykens Colliery was about cleared of coal and would furnish work only for a very limited number of years.
Immediately, property owners started repairs, new homes were erected and so swift was the strides of building that today few building lots are available within five or six squared in any direction from the heart of town.
The Susquehanna Collieries Company electrical plant furnishes employment to quite a number of men.
It does not furnish electricity as public convenience.
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