S-fc °w * n(,G Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from This project is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries https://archive.org/details/pennsylvaniacoun06unse t 4 / I r ■ - I F Pase G ' Pa£e H Pa£e o p INDEX. S Pase S Pase UV W XYZ it became the property of Jesse if. Kimes, a well-known operator of Philadelphia, under whose efficient management, together with that of his superintendent, J. (1. Jones it ioay be said to have seen its best days. The present company bought it after it was abandoned by Mr. | Kimes, and opened a new piece. Their outlook is very encourawine at present, as the}’ have an abund- | ance of stone and orders. The | quarry is the only one of its kind : in operation in this region, it being Village. what is known in Slate parlance as “rock on the split.” It makes e very fine grade of blackboards, ITS PROSPECTIVE SLATE PRODUCT'. owing to its extreme darkness and ' the absence of knots and ribbons. Sketch of a Live Little Town—Another Slate j The Laurel Hill Slate Company. Town in the Slatingtou Region—Saul to ^ The Laurel Hill quarry was l Have as Good Slate Beds, Both Big and opened about 18T3 by J. Gf. Jones, Little, as Can Be Bound Anywhere— Personal Mention. and after some years passed into the hands of the Laurel Hill Slate ! Company, consisting of a Mr. Pat¬ More than forty years ago was ton of Philadelphia, A. C. McHose established the Post Office of Lynu- and others, with Mr. McHose as port. Here for several years a superintendent. This company quiet, steady-going Pennsylvania built a two-saw factory, which was Dutch population got their weekly subsequently doubled in size, mak¬ mail, met at the cross-roads store ing one of the finest mantel fac¬ and exchanged the news of the tories in the region. During last week, and went back to their homes summer the company became finan¬ a happy and contented people. cially embarrassed and the property Later it was discovered that val¬ was sold, Dr. Wilson P. Kistler of uable deposits of Slate lay near the Allentown becoming the purchaser. town, and operations were begun to He is an enterprising business man develop them. and is already pushing things by The Old Lynnport, erecting new machinery, etc. There Or, as it is now known, the Enter¬ is a fine future in store for this prise Slate quarry, was opened quarry. It still remains under the about the year 1845 by a local com¬ management of its first superin¬ pany consisting of Levi Kistler tendent, Mr. A. C. McHose. and others, on lands belonging to The Tynn Slate Company. David Follweiler, now deceased ; it The property of the Lynn Slate soon passed, however, to the hands Company consists of three big bed of Porter & McDowell, and then, quarries. No. 1 was opened aboqt after many ups and downs, covering 1864 by Owen Lloyd. No. 2 was I a period of some twenty-five years, also opened in the ’60s by the the Dunnon Bros., but both were shut | which have been suspended tnrougn | down after making a few hundred [ the cold weather, will be resumed | squares of roofing slate, on account j in a short time. of the inability of the operators to During the past week the repre¬ keep the water out, they having sentative of the Ledgewood Manu¬ nothing but hand-pumps of the most facturing Company of New York primitive description. In this age was in Lynnport making estimates of steam the removal and control for the erection of a complete new of the water does not amount to steam, plant for the Lynn Slate | anything. Another drawback was Company. the distance from the railroad, For twenty-eight years L. II. Os¬ Slatington being the nearest point. wald has kept a hotel and general But in spite of all this the owners merchandise store in Lynnport. refused an offer of $10,000 for the For twenty years he has been Post- property. The quality of this ma¬ i master, with the exception of the terial is proved b}r the fact that period when Cleveland was Presi¬ blocks taken from the quarry in dent, when Jacob B. Waidelich 1865 were split to slate in 1891 held the position. With the in¬ without breaking one in the whole coming of President Harrison, block of eight. The slates were however, Mr. Oswald was reap¬ twenty-six inches long. Quarry pointed, and still has the office. He No. 3 was opened in 1888 by Charles is a genial host, a live man and a j and J. IT. Henry, but owing to a subscriber to The News. II. C. j lack of capital it has never been Reinhart is his able assistant. fully developed. It is the smallest Edwin W. Behler, the township yeiq of the three, being about forty constable, is one of our new read¬ feet with the split. The company ers. will apply for a charter this spring Another old resident is ’Squire: and aetive operations will then be Alvin F. Creitz, who has been Jus¬ commenced. tice of the Peace in Lynn Town¬ Another new opening is that of ship for twenty-four years. He is ex-Sheriff George Brown, of Cata- an active, progressive citizen, and sauqua. He was here some time | has read The News formally years. ago with the engineering corps of Last spring D. A. Scroeder & the Philadelphia & Beading Rail¬ Co. established a general merchan¬ road and surveyed a line of rail¬ dise store, and they' report a good road from the main line to his business. They also read The quarry, passing close to all the j N EWS. quarries in the neighborhood. Wei For five years W. P. Scherer has have assurance that this line will be j conducted a merchant tailoring built as soon as the condition of business in the village and has a trade warrants it, and it will be a good trade. great help to the operators. Mr. Jonathan Mulhart is the black¬ Brown has a good quarry and a smith and wheelwright of the town. good party to assist him, and we J. W. Wuchter, one of the new hope that his efforts will be crowned readers of The News, is an active with success. young man who is now making a Notes. canvass for the office of Assessor The operations, at this point, of for the township. His prospects the Slatington j Slate Company, 1 seem to be good. There are was erected and destined to become run by Jacob IL the stopping place of the weary bp Albert F. cl ward wanderer in the days of long ago, Wannafhaker also doe skoemaking to satisfy the inner man with good and repairing. J substantial food, to wash the dust R. S. Hermany is the obliging of travel with the coveted Lynn station agent of the Philadelphia township “applejack,” and rest the & Reading Railroad Company weary limbs in its comfortable A representative of Tiieinews beds. The proprietorship of this visited this village on Monday and well-known hostelry changed finite was very pleasantly entertained. frequently until about fifty years Nine new subscribers were added ago, when Samuel Camp, whom wo to our list, and we are assured that may rightfully term the benefactor more are to follow. of this growing and prosperous vil- lage, took possession of the store and hotel and successfully con¬ ducted tkejmsiness until succeeded b> his son, Edwin Camp, now a resident of Morgantown, N. C., who after a successful business career, was succeeded in turn by the present landlord at this place, Air. Jonas German. Although the old stone tavern has been abandoned Sketch of Another' as a hotel for thirteen years, it has I Live, Wide-Awake j been turned by its owner, Air. Jonas German, into a creamery, and is Slate Town. now occupied and operated by Mr. Oscar F. Dreibelbis, an adept at the art of butter-making, and the BRIEF RESUME OF ITS SLATE INTEREST old landmark of this section prom¬ — ises to last for several generations to come. A Correspondent Sends Us Some -Interesting Notes from “Tlie Gravel”—Who Does Through the keen foresight of tlie Business Tliere, and What He Does— the seers of this village, Alessrs. A Probable Candidate for the Assembly. Sanniel Camp and Samuel Ely, the Aullage was laid out into squares, An article printed in The News with streets and alleys, city style. in issue of January 30, on our By their thrift and enterprise one : neighboring village, Lynnport, in¬ house after another was built until duces me to offer for publication in it became known that the founda¬ the columns of The News some of tion had been laid very close to an th* history of this old village on inexhaustible bed of slate that runs the Gravel.” parallel with the trend of the Blue The foundation of this village, Mountain range from the Delaware undoubtedly, was laid in the year to the Schuykill river. IT’14, when the old stone tavern, . The discovery of slate and their whose impregnable walls to this development in this section is day defy the hurricanes of time, largely to the credit of Alessrs. -r - - - . Joseph Mosser and Samuel Camp, 4 He employS-about twenty wo who many years ago opened what! men at this time and expects to is now known as the old Moaser more than double his force of men quarry, which they successfully j in the spring, the demand for rooff operated for some time.