A photograph from about 1890 showing a group of workmen preparing to lower timber into the mine via the Tender Slope on the surface.
From a series of articles that appeared in the Pottsville Republican and Herald in 1997:
The Buck Run Colliery was located in the Rohersville Valley south of Glen Carbon.
The original opening was a drift driven east on the Bottom Split Mammoth Vein by Bacon, Rice & Company in 1850, which it mined to 1853.
In 1853, W. J. J. Roher sank the slope 300 feet on the South Dip Bottom-Split Mammoth Vein and drove the Greenwood Tunnel north in the peaked mountain, mining the tunnel until 1856 and the slope workings to 1860, when they failed.
The miners at the colliery formed a cooperative association and continued operating the colliery to 1863, when Taylor & Company purchased the interest of the cooperative association and continued until 1865.
In 1865, the Schuylkill Coal Company came in possession of the colliery and sank a new slope 2,200 feet east of the original slope from which no coal was mined or shipped due to some misunderstanding in the location of the slope.
When the erection of the hoisting engine was started, it was discovered that the mouth of the slope was so close to the land line that it wound not admit the placing of the machinery within the lease line and the landowner refused to sell or lease the necessary ground for the erection o the machinery, The slope and colliery were abandoned in 1863.
In 1868, the Woodside Coal Company reopened the old slope and sank a new slope on the South Dip Vein and operated the colliery until 1901, when it failed.
In 1901, the Buck Run Coal Company (Neal & Thorne) acquired a lease on the property and reopened the old workings and sank a new slope feet on the South Dip of the Bottom-Split Mammoth Vein. It made extensive improvements and mined both dips of the basin.
In 1927, the lease was extended to mine a local basin west of the colliery named The Lone Eagle, and the coal was prepared at the Buck Run Breaker.
In May 1939, the colliery was operated by the Buck Rin Colliery Company, which continued to November 9, 1950. The Buck Run Colliery was taken over by the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company on November 10, 1950. The Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company ceased mining August 31, 1951, with all pumping discontinued June 28, 1957.
The shipment of coal from Buck Run Colliery from 1901 to 1928 was 5,405,929 tons.
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Article by Frank Blase, Historian, Reading Anthracite Company Historical Library, Pottsville Republican & Herald, December 20, 1997. Obtained from Newspapers.com.
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