NJ Silica Sand Co
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I had to go back and look at that slide. I whizzed by it quickly because I thought it was a lunch room/cafeteria or kitchen
I fixed a few for you. After you attach a photo, click on it and choose the option to insert the full image in the post.
That's interesting. Never heard of dredging coal. I suppose it was not considered a pollutant in the river because it's just made of plant matter.
Oh no, it definitely was a problem! Fine anthracite coal was not readily burned in standard fireboxes during the 19th Century, and was dumped together with waste rock in enormous heaps called "culm piles". From here, of course, the coal fines washed into rivers draining the coalfield, such as the Susquehanna, the Lehigh, and the Schuykill--"paved with derelict coal", says Henry S. Canby of the last. As the technology developed and mining became more expensive, it became possible to reclaim the culm piles, but that still left the coal washed into the rivers. There were quite a few of these coal-dredging operations, usually small and somewhat ramshackle enterprises. On the lower Susquehanna, the pools of the hydroelectric dams acting as settling basins for the coal fines; Holtwood Dam had an accessory power plant built to burn dredged river coal to augment the power from the turbines.
Nat'l Pulv. office NW view
Inside P2 boxes and 1 classifier and scrubber
P1 and Nat'l from old P4 pool
Pug mill-Olson and Mr. Wolf
setting beds from top bank #9
squirrel cage-man with hammer
#9 storage truck dumping
storage P1 back view
bank run man digging mud disregard
#7 from SW view one pile in storage
loading mldg. sand-Fordson shovel-Hollins truck
Stripping gravel-Jack's shovel-Four trucks
rounded sand grain
#9 Walt on top- Joe H at dump
Mr. Wolf(right) Mr. Tomlin (left) office girls names unknown
#4 scow-Mr. wolf on banks-Walt in small boat
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Those are very cool. I tried to roughly match them up to the NJGIN aerials from the 1930's (exact dates of that imagery rather vague). The c1949 USGS topo is probably the best map reference. Here are the first 3 images, the others are pretty similar in terms of view.
https://boydsmaps.com/#18.00/39.346214/-74.971970/njgin1930/-10.20/60.00
Here's the topo
https://boydsmaps.com/#18.00/39.346214/-74.971970/pines1949/-10.20/60.00
(this screenshot is zoomed out three clicks to make it readable)
This is the second picture
https://boydsmaps.com/#16.50/39.350506/-74.974309/njgin1930/87.00/60.00
And the third picture
https://boydsmaps.com/#18.50/39.349249/-74.972773/njgin1930/168.60/59.20
This is another way to compare features (although you can't tilt and rotate the map)
https://boydsmaps.com/sync/#15/39.346214/-74.971970/njgin1930/0/0/pines1949/15/0/0
Ben, yes that sand rd that heads south does end up At Barth rd but it comes out in someones back yard.To get to the rd you have to slip around their house to the left or right.There is another rd that parallels it and joins it that would start in the bottom right corner of that photo and parallels close to 55 most of the way before it bends left toward barth rd
Okay, yes, now I see why.
How Coal Affects Water Quality: State of the Science
The NW is considering building new export terminals that could ship as much coal as the rest of the US combined. Yet the region is in the dark when it comes to understanding the risks of coal on sensitive ecosystems and endangered species.
www.sightline.org
Visitor’s cars 1937 meeting
I am working on uploading the rest of the photos today. Hopefully there are no doubles. Out of these 4 albums a lot of them are the same pictures. I will also add some captions eventually. There pictures description list based on the number written on the back of the photos just give me some time.
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#9 storage sheds-Mr. Wolf-One truck
#9 gravel storage NW view
#2 bank-dredge far right center-men on walk
Stripping. Bill Ahlquist Shovel-Broadie truck
#7 Mullers. mr. Wolf and Greenie.
#7 Lee Taylor-close up 2 mullers
one shovel and bank
#2 Scow-Cutter-Ohlson and two on board
#6 loaded cars two dumps
Machine shop and garage John Moore Jr by welder "Doc" George Herbert Sr. with sprocket
Group picture 1937 meeting. another caption reads: Plant visitation New Jersey Silica Sand Co. Millville NJ June 11, 1937.
Auspices of
American Foundrymen's Association Philadelphia Metropolitan Chapter
#1 Millville molding sand
#2 Albany molding sand
dry storage
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Caption for man standing in woods with hat removed reads as follows: Old pit-mined by Pipe Co.
Caption for man in laboratory: Laboratory-Nelson Bailey.
Great stuff. That company projected a great knowledge in what they were selling, and in how to get it and sort it.
Millville and Vineland were straight up barrens at one time.You can still see it in the woods that are left in some areas
Al, certain spots do look core barrens ish still like behind menatico ponds, along 55 near Sherman ave and a few other spots. Just always wonder if sections of Cumberland at one time looked no different than areas in Chatsworth for example. Saw an old photo of belle plain and it looked like the plains on 539. If I had one super power it would be to go back in time to see what areas use to look like and the species that inhabit them.
Al knows that I still want to do a plant survey on this little peninsula of sand that juts out into a flooded sand mine down there. We were exploring there about 15? years ago. We walked up to this oddity through a forest clearly not pine barrens, and suddenly came upon a little peninsula with a shocking conversion to something you'd see along the Wading River. I think this is it below. Wide view first to show the location relevant to NJ.
These are the last 2 photos that were in the albums. They appear to be at a port somewhere may be unloading sand from the rail cars and loading the ships. The ship names look like F.W. Gwinn of New York and Four Jims