The
original opening was a drift driven east on the bottom split mammoth vein by
Bacon, Rice and Company in 1850 and mined by them to 1853.(Originally Rohersville)
The Buck Run Colliery was located in the Rohersville Valley South of Glen Carbon.
The
original opening was a drift driven east on the bottom split mammoth vein by
Bacon, Rice and Company in 1850 and mined by them to 1853.
In 1853, W. & J. Roher sunk the slope 300 ft. on the south dip bottom split mammoth vein and drove the greenwood tunnel north in the peaked mountain and mined the tunnel until 1856 and the slope workings to 1860 when they failed.
The miners at the colliery
formed a cooperative association and continued operating the colliery to 1863
when Taylor and Company purchased the interest of the cooperative association
and continued until 1865. In 1865 the Schuylkill Coal Company came in possession
of the colliery and sunk a new slope 2200 ft. east of the original slope from
which no coal was mined or shipped due to some misunderstanding in the location
of the slope. When the erection of the hoisting engine was started it was discovered
that the mouth of the slope was so close to the land line it would not admit
the placing of the machinery within their lease line and the landowner refused
to sell or lease the necessary ground for the erection of the machinery. The
slope and colliery was abandoned in 1866.
In 1898, the Woodside
Coal Company reopened the old slope and sank a new slope on the south dip buck
mountain vein and operated the colliery until 1901 when they failed.
In 1901, the Buck Run Coal Company (Neal & Thorne) acquired a lease on the property and reopened the old workings and sank a new slope 1100 ft. on the south dip of the bottom split mammoth vein. They made extensive improvements and mined both dips of the basin.
In 1927, the lease was extended to mine a local basin west of the colliery which was named "The Lone Eagle" and the coal was prepared at the Buck Run Breaker.
In May 1939, the colliery was operated by the Buck Run Colliery Company who continued to Nov. 9, 1950. The Buck Run Colliery was taken over by the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. (P&R C&I Co.) on Nov. 10, 1950 and they ceased mining Aug. 31, 1951 with all pumping discontinued Jun. 28, 1957.
The total shipments of coal from Buck Run Colliery from 1901 to 1928 was 5,405,929 tons.