From a series of articles that appeared in the Pottsville Republican and Herald in 1997:
Located north of Lorberry Gap and west of Lower Rausch Creek, this colliery was one of the most extensively mined in the southern coal fields, second only to the celebrated Brookside Colliery.
The colliery was opened by a water level tunnel driven originally 516 feet north to the Buck Mountain vein by Levi Miller & Company in 1869 and the gangways were driven 1200 feet east and west in 1879.
In 1873, they extended the tunnel 1,161 feet to the Lykens Valley No. 2 vein and drove gangways 3,300 feet east and west from the tunnel and operated the colliery until 1884 when the Philadelphia and Reading coal and Iron Company came in possession and began developing the colliery by sinking the Lykens Valley No. 1 slope 600 feet below water level and later extended it a total of 2,231 feet.
In 1893, the Lykens Valley No. 2 slope was sunk 1,221 feet and in 1897 a tunnel was driven 915 feet connecting the No. 1 and No. 2 vein slopes.
In 1898, new and powerful hoisting engines were erected at the No. 1 vein slope and in 1899 the sinking of the water hoist shaft was started and completed October 13, 1900 at a depth of 907 feet.
This shaft replaced nine pumps.
A new breaker was completed on June 22, 1903, and the gangways were driven over two miles in length.
An electric plant and electric haulage equipment were installed in 1905.
In 1906, a trial slope was sunk on the Lykens Valley No. 2 vein and was completed in 1908 at a depth of 1,818 feet and in 1907 and inside slope 682 feet on the Lykens Valley No. 5 vein was sunk for hoisting purposes.
A second inside slope was sunk in 1914 from the Lykens Valley No. 2 vein and in 1915 the old Kalmia slope was reopened and sunk 1,084 feet.
The drainage of the colliery was accomplished by pumping the water from the lower levels to the bottom of the water shaft at the sixth level and then hoisted to the surface.
The Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company continued mining until August 28, 1930, when the colliery was abandoned and allowed to fill with water.
The total shipment of coal from Lincoln Colliery was 14, 427, 696 tons.
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Article by Frank Blase, Historian, Reading Anthracite Company Historical Library, Pottsville Republican & Herald, May 17-18, 1997.
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