Dec 10 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2689 -

Sale 2689 - Lot 96

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(MINING -- PENNSYLVANIA.) John H. Campbell & Co. Connellsville Coal and Coke Region from Latrobe, Westmoreland County, Pa, to Fairchance, Fayette County, Pa. Oversize color-lithographed map of the mining claims, coke furnaces, and railroads along the 35-mile-long seam of readily extractable bituminous coal southeast of Pittsburgh. 2 sheets joined, 21¾x80½ inches overall and folding into publisher's 8vo format gilt-blocked cloth case; nearly flawless. OCLC records 5 copies. [Pittsburgh], 1883
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"To the southwest [sic] of Pittsburgh there lie boundless beds of a peculiar soft coal, in strata eleven feet thick, easily mined, and slowly baked in great ovens, is the Connellsville coke of commerce, ninety per cent. carbon—a fuel that finds its way to the blast-furnaces of Lake Champlain, on the east, and to the smelting furnaces of Utah and Colorado on the west. Five thousand coke ovens to-day send their pernicious fumes heavenward, and the nocturnal appearance of a range of coke ovens in full blast so nearly embodies the orthodox idea of Satanic scenery that unregenerate Pittsburghers have comparatively few surprises in store after this life" -- Harper's Weekly, December 1880, page 56.

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