An undated photograph of an early Philadelphia Coal & Iron Company locomotive that was used to shift cars around a coal breaker.
From a series of articles that appeared in the Pottsville Republican and Herald in 1998:
The Beechwood Colliery was located at Mount Laffee at the head of the Mount Carbon Railroad and on the south slope of the Mine Hill Mountain.
The colliery was celebrated for its large production and the cost of driving the water-level tunnel.
The original operator was Man & Williams, which drove the tunnel northward to the Mammoth Vein in 1832 at a cost of $70,000. It continued mining until 1843, when it was sold out by the sheriff.
In 1843, Williams returned from the partnership. T. C. Man leased the property after the sheriff sale and continued the mining until 1849, when he assigned his lease to Miller & Patterson, which sank the slope in 1853 and operated it until 1858.
In 1858, Gowan & Turner purchased the property and operated the colliery until 1859, when it failed.
The mining continued under a new management of Gowen, Jenkins & Company, which operated until 1862.
In 1862, Guilden & Douglass purchased the colliery and mined it to 1867, when Potts & Siegfried took possession and continuesd mining to 1872.
In 1872, William Kendrick purchased the colliery for the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company, which in 1873 began mining, making large improvements, and in 1895 abandoned the colliery.
In 1913, the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company reopened the old water-level tunnel to the Buck Mountain Vein. They worked several veins cut by the tunnel until the Beechwood Colliery became a section of Wadesville Colliery.
The total shipments from the Beechwood Colliery were 2,152,545 tons of coal.
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Article by Frank Blase, Historian, Reading Anthracite Company Historical Library, Pottsville Republican & Herald, January 24, 1998. Obtained from Newspapers.com.
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