2001, ISBN: 9781236344083

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Purple Mountain Press, 2001. hardcover. New. Thomas Cornell and the Cornell Steamboat Company by Stuart Murray. Reduced price!. It was coal that started it all, Pennsylvania anthracite … More...

Purple Mountain Press, 2001. hardcover. New. Thomas Cornell and the Cornell Steamboat Company by Stuart Murray. Reduced price!. It was coal that started it all, Pennsylvania anthracite mined near the upper Delaware River and shipped by canal boats 108 miles along the narrow Delaware and Hudson Canal to tidewater at Eddyville, three miles upstream from the mouth of Rondout Creek. From there it went by the Hudson River to the growing cities north, south and east. Coal made the first fortune of young Thomas Cornell, founder of the Cornell Steamboat Company-coal and the appetites of the canal workers who in 1828 built the D&H. Their every need had to be shipped in by water and bought in general stores at the docks near the canal's first lock and the canal basin. In 1822, Cornell's uncle and namesake, Thomas W. Cornell, had come to New Salem, a hamlet across and up the Rondout Creek from what a few years later would become the community of Rondout. There Thomas W. opened a general store that soon profited from the building of the D&H Canal. Patrons could buy everything there, from dry goods, glassware, crockery, and hardware to the staples of a working man's diet--pork, fish, and flour. In 1828, Thomas W. bought land close to the first lock of the canal, which had just been completed. He would later enter into the cement business as well as merchandising and freighting on the river and canal. Thomas W. Cornell's brother, Peter, arrived a few years later and bought a dock on the Creek near Eddyville, soon becoming a partner in a thriving emporium there. Peter's son, Thomas, arrived around 1837, bought a sloop, and entered the freighting business with his base at Rondout Creek. The younger Thomas Cornell was twenty-three and in the right place at the right time for his ambitions and abilities. He learned much from his father's store, Cornell and Gender, which provided individuals and companies with food, clothing, equipment, ship supplies and gear, and building materials. Patrons could even book passage on freight steamers heading down to New York or up to Albany, for Cornell and Gender were agents for the steamboat Frank, one of several plying between increasingly busy Rondout Creek and the outside world. Farmers, stockmen, lumbermen, tanners, quarrymen, distillers, and brick makers all sent their goods and produce to market on steamboats whose owners used Cornell and Gender as agents. Purple Mountain Press, hardcover, 224 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., B&W illustrations, roster and data., Purple Mountain Press, 2001, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 76 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: . . . in the methods of handling rock. After a glance at the cost sheets, however, this operator will doubtless feel a desire to look again at the mine equipment and the methods of operation. As a matter of fact, extensive mine equipment does not pay in this district, and it would be a very difficult matter to improve greatly on the methods in use--as far as costs are concerned. The ore deposits are comparatively shallow and can be worked to better advantage through a number of shafts simply equipped. There are few metal mining districts in the United States where ore can be mined and milled for 1 and less per ton, or where the output averages 10 tons per man employed underground--and this is true for the sheet ground mines of the Joplin district. The writer is indebted to the State mine inspectors and many of the operators of the Joplin district for much of the information contained in this paper, and takes this opportunity for expressing his appreciation and thanks for the generous treatment accorded him. Discussion. Mr. Kelly: I would like to ask whether these mines are handled by a single shaft or whether more shafts are opened Mr. Higgins: The custom is to use many shafts and to equip them very simply. It has been demonstrated that expensive equipment will not pay in that district. The average distance apart of shafts is about 300 feet. Mr. Kelly: They are connected through Mr. Higgins: Yes, and the ventilation is good. THE OPENING OF THE WAKEFIELD MINE. BY W. C. HART, WAKEFIELD, MICH. As open pit mining on an extensive scale has been unknown heretofore on the Gogebic Range, mining men generally have been interested in the recently developed Wakefield mine, at Wakefield, Michigan. This property is in Section 17 of Township 47 North, Range 45 West, Gogebic. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<

ISBN: 9781236344083

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 76 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purc… More...

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 76 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: . . . in the methods of handling rock. After a glance at the cost sheets, however, this operator will doubtless feel a desire to look again at the mine equipment and the methods of operation. As a matter of fact, extensive mine equipment does not pay in this district, and it would be a very difficult matter to improve greatly on the methods in use--as far as costs are concerned. The ore deposits are comparatively shallow and can be worked to better advantage through a number of shafts simply equipped. There are few metal mining districts in the United States where ore can be mined and milled for 1 and less per ton, or where the output averages 10 tons per man employed underground--and this is true for the sheet ground mines of the Joplin district. The writer is indebted to the State mine inspectors and many of the operators of the Joplin district for much of the information contained in this paper, and takes this opportunity for expressing his appreciation and thanks for the generous treatment accorded him. Discussion. Mr. Kelly: I would like to ask whether these mines are handled by a single shaft or whether more shafts are opened Mr. Higgins: The custom is to use many shafts and to equip them very simply. It has been demonstrated that expensive equipment will not pay in that district. The average distance apart of shafts is about 300 feet. Mr. Kelly: They are connected through Mr. Higgins: Yes, and the ventilation is good. THE OPENING OF THE WAKEFIELD MINE. BY W. C. HART, WAKEFIELD, MICH. As open pit mining on an extensive scale has been unknown heretofore on the Gogebic Range, mining men generally have been interested in the recently developed Wakefield mine, at Wakefield, Michigan. This property is in Section 17 of Township 47 North, Range 45 West, Gogebic. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<