Huge refuse banks are shown behind the Eagle Hill Colliery. The breaker is on the left and the powerhouse on the right.
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From a series of articles that appeared in the Pottsville Republican and Herald in 1997:
The Eagle Hill Colliery was located on Zacharias Run. The original opening was made by a drift driven west on the Primrose Vein by J. G. Hewes, Charles Baber & Company, in 1839, which continued mining the drift to 1844, when it sank the slope to the first lift. The company mined the slope levels to 1846, when the colliery was sold at a bankruptcy sale.
In 1846, Benjamin Titus & Company purchase the colliery at the sale and continued mining and sinking a shaft in 1853, operating both slope and shaft to 1858. It was succeeded by Percy White, who operated the colliery to 1862. He failed and the colliery was taken over by James Oliver and a man named Bracken, his son-in-law.
They made some improvements, sinking a shaft 175 feet to the saddle of the Mammoth Vein and sinking an inside slope 160 feet. They operated the colliery until 1871, when J. C. Oliver retired.
The operation of the colliery was carried on under the firm of Bracken and McQuail to 1873, when J. C. Oliver leased the Eagle Hill tract and operated with the Glentworth and Eagle Hill collieries as one unit.
In 1873, Oliver sank the Holmes Slope continuing to 1875. in 1875, the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company purchased the collieries, expending a large amount of money to put the Eagle Hill Colliery in good condition.
In 1903, the Philadelphia & Reading Cola & Iron Company sank the shaft 1,250 feet to the Mammoth Vein. An airshaft was sunk 940 feet to the Top Split Mammoth Vein and another airshaft was sunk 125 feet to the Holmes Vein. The company operated the colliery to May 3, 1929, when it was abandoned and allowed to fill up with water.
Total shipments from the colliery were 9,811,815 tons.
Capital invested in 1852 was $17,000.
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Article by Frank Blase, Historian, Reading Anthracite Company Historical Library, Pottsville Republican & Herald, November 22, 1997. Obtained from Newspapers.com.
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