Research Catalog

Title

Report to the legislature of Pennsylvania [electronic resource] : containing a description of the Swatara mining district / Henry K. Strong, chairman ; presented by Mr. M'Elwee and printed by order of the House of Representatives.

Publication

Harrisburg : Printed by Boas & Coplan, 1839.

Details

Additional Authors

• Strong, Henry K. (Henry King), 1798-1860.
• Guiteau, J.
• Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives.

Description

61 p., [9] leaves of plates (1 fold.) : ill., map; 21 cm.

Subject

• Anthracite coal mines and mining > Pennsylvania > Dauphin County
• Coal mines and mining > Pennsylvania > Dauphin County
• Swatara (Dauphin County, Pa.: Township) > Economic conditions
• Union Canal (Pa.)

Note

• Report of "the committee appointed by a convention of delegates, which assembled at Harrisburg, from several counties of the Commonwealth."
• Plates lithographed by P.S. Duval.
• Reproduction of the original from Yale Unviersity Libraries.
• Sabin no. 4120.

Reproduction (note)

• Electronic resource.

Contents

Letter from J. Guiteau, of the firm of Guiteau, Baughman, High and Lawthrop, of Mauch Chunk, to the committee, announcing their success in smelting iron ore with American anthracite coal [dated January 2, 1839]

OCLC

TGPSM07-B101

Title

Report to the legislature of Pennsylvania [electronic resource] : containing a description of the Swatara mining district / Henry K. Strong, chairman ; presented by Mr. M'Elwee and printed by order of the House of Representatives.

Imprint

Harrisburg : Printed by Boas & Coplan, 1839.

Reproduction

Electronic resource. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2007. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

Connect to:

Full text online available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Added Author

Strong, Henry K. (Henry King), 1798-1860.

Guiteau, J.

Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives.