About six miles to the west of Buck Mountain are the Stockton mines, on the Hazleton Railroad. A branch of the Hazleton road connects the Buck Mountain mines at Clifton with the main Hazle ton road, at its intersection with the Beaver Meadow, a short distance above Weatherly.
Above the Stockton, in the vicinity of Hazleton, are the Diamond mines of A. Pardee & Co., Old Hazleton, Laurel Hill No. 1, Laurel Hill No. 2, and Hazleton No. 3. Farther west are the Crystal Ridge and Cran berry collieries of A. Pardee & Co. Succeeding these are the Mount Pleasant mines of Taggart & Halsey, and near the end of the main basin are the Ashburton mines, recently opened.
In the greatest part of the basin there are two, and sometimes three, synclinals. Even at the Diamond mines, where the basin is considered as single, or exist ing in a wide, deep, and unbroken synclinal, there is a sharp, wedge-like anticlinal, that folds back in a peen liar manner over the north dip in such an unusual and reversed condition as to make the bottom slate of the one the top slate of the other.
It will be noticed in the sections of the Mammoth which we give at various localities, that this vein varies considerably in composition or , character, but throughout the Lehigh region is nearly uniform in size. It generally contains from 20 to 30 feet of workable coal, and is almost invariably reliable, or in good condition and extremely productive.
The amount of coal annually sent from the Hazleton basin, and principally from the vicinity of Hazleton, is nearly, if not fully, a half-million tons.
A . Pardee & Co. are the largest miners and shippers of coal in the anthracite region, as a private firm; and, in connection with the Hazleton Coal Company, which is nearly synonymous, or Pardee & Co., the firm owns or controls 42 miles of railroad-track, 17 first-class locomotives, 1800 coal-cars, and does the shipping business of the Hazleton and Big and Little Black Creek basins, or nearly one million tons per annum.