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03/08/20247.22.0corrected one obsolete db query from PHP v 8 upgrade
11/28/20237.21.0Added several photos of courtesy of Mike Bischak including a great shot of Eddy Creek and first every photo of Frisbee.
12/09/20227.20.0Added more info and photo of West Mountain Coal Co in Jermyn from Walt Kierzkowski.
10/10/20227.19.0Correlated Bradley Coal Co and South Side Washery in Moosic based on research by Charles Scott.
09/13/20227.18.0Correlated SCC No 6 and Glen Lyon based on Dan Marnell's research.
03/14/20227.17.0Added photos of Scranton-Taylor washery
03/06/20227.16.1Fixed Filer more info correlation to Mount Jessup
12/01/20217.16.0Changed Richmond No.4 to a mine. Added note coal processed at nearby Elk Crek Breaker. Added NYO&W map for Richmond No. 4, Elk Creek, and Northwestern.
07/14/20217.15.0Fix railroads to mine for West End 1929 and 1930. Added some comments provided by Zak Grohoski.
07/20/20207.14.0Updated Hadleigh railroad to mine based on table from 1920 Coal Field Directory
02/16/20207.13.0Bob W reported that company names with 's caused MySQL error on the companyReport page. Fixed by escaping single quote in $cname in companyReport.php
01/06/20197.13.0Added photo from research page of the Scranton Anthracite Briquette Co.
11/13/20177.12.0Jermyn No. 3 and No. 4 become Johnson No. 1 and Johnson No. 2 respectively. However, inspectors combined reports for the 2 Johnson operations.
10/21/20177.11.0Added Steamtown B-series photos of DL&W valuation maps for many company operations. Added locations provided by Walt Kierzkowski
04/22/20177.10.0Added Calico (Lucas), Pig & Whistle (Bull's Head) and Lupini Coal Co.
04/21/20177.9.1Added breaker photos serviced by the NYO&W courtesy of Walt Kierzkowski.
01/15/20177.9.0Added note to Loomis for Dundee shaft explosion.
10/15/20167.8.0Reviewed and updated operation types on years when there appeared to be duplicate entries.
09/14/20167.7.0Added notes from historical newspapers to Austin, thanks to Carl Orechovsky. Added note to 1893 Marshwood.
07/15/20167.6.0Separated operations Bone mine from bank. Added notes and Brownville maps to Consolidated.
07/05/20167.5.1Added note to Sibley when first breaker burned.
06/26/20167.5.0Consolidated National into a single operation with bank and stripping done in later years by Moffat.
04/03/20167.4.0Added Peach Orchard to Pettebone operation. Thanks to Jim Sturm for doing the research.
02/23/20167.3.1Corrected name of Lackawanna and Susquehanna Coal and Iron Company
12/11/20157.3.0Added information fro Saward's Coal Journal from 1922 and 1935. Thanks to Jim Guthrie.
10/24/20157.2.0Correlated all Barton companies.
07/25/21057.1.0Added ability to sort on report fields by selecting the column title. Also added some hyperlinks to report data.
06/03/20157.0.0Changed schema to elimiate a lot of blank rows for openings and railroads. Changed versioning to Major.Minor.Maintenance
06/02/20156.08Information on Morgan from Carl Orechovsky.
05/31/20156.07Updated location and information on Russell from Carl Orechovsky.
05/24/20156.06Sibley and Mountain Slope separate operations per Carl Orechovsky.
03/03/21056.05Correlated PCC Central and Law operations. Added photos for PCC Central and Langcliffe.
01/10/20156.04Added comment to Woodward No. 3 Shaft, also known as Artillery Park. Added note to Leggetts Creek on alternate spellings. Added 4 new photo directories.
01/04/20156.04Added new mystery photo and map identifiication feature to main page.
12/14/20146.03Changed Central Railroad of New Jersey abbreviation to CNJ.
09/18/20146.02Upgraded all pages to HTML 5.
08/17/20146.02Added Photo Gallery.
07/31/20146.02Made Jermyn No. 3 a separate operation from Jermyn No. 4 - both in Dickson City.
07/19/20146.01Divided Maltby operation for years with multiple reports. Made a second listing when operated by Dicksville Coal Co.
07/12/20146.00Removed deprecated mysql extensions. Changed all to PDO. Added new Location Search to main page.
07/08/20145.36Prepared data for a new report with minor (mainly punctuation) corrections to city locations.
05/27/20145.35Correlated Griffith and Westmoreland based on AP news article sent by Scott.
04/16/20145.34Moved maps etc from Kinz to Kintz. Updated Penn Pilot photos for Kintz and Troy based on submission from Scott.
09/11/20135.33Correlated Rovo with Fernwood, based on Wolenski Anthracite Labor Wars p140. Also added 3 entries missing from 1956 district 7 for Alden and Avondale.
01/12/20135.32Coray and Corey names are used interchangeably in inspection reports, tried to organize the two different operations correctly.
12/08/20125.31Added 125 photos from the Steamtown NHS collection. Included are Archbald, Auchincloss, Avondale, Bliss, Brisbin, Cayuga, Continental, Diamond, Dodge, Halstead, Hampton, Hyde Park, Loomis, Manville, National, Pyne, Storrs, Truesdale and Woodward.
09/16/20125.30Standardized Truesdale records. Made No. 351 Slope it's own record.
06/10/20125.29Added notes from a Dr. Edward Steers paper for some Penna Coal Co operations that started before the first mine inspector report in 1870.
06/02/20125.28Standardized on Jermyn-Green company instead of Jermyn & Green based on Coal Trade Journal entry from Jim G.
05/21/20125.27Added opening table to the data base search feature. Made the hits active links.
05/06/20125.27Added city Wilkes-Barre for Packer based on e-mail from Carl O.
04/30/20125.26Made Eagle in Olyphant its own operation.
03/04/20125.25Corrected location for PCC Central.
01/19/20125.24Added data base search on main page. Corrected spelling of Coccodrelli to be Coccodrilli based on e-mail from family member.
01/15/20125.23Correlated Old Blue Goose with Oak Hill. Carl and Jim e-mails.
11/14/20115.22Corrected John J Boland coal company id with mine listings.
11/07/20115.21Comment added to Glendale. Correlated Penn Anthracite and Lackawanna, Susquehanna Coal & Iron companies per NYT article March 18, 1879.
10/10/20115.20Added 1948 Glen Alden map, Huber and other documents from Carl Orechovsky. Sugar Notch correlation changed between No. 9 and No. 10
08/10/20115.19Added city to Carbondale No. 1
07/10/20115.18Added ability to display credit for submissions of photos and other material.
07/09/20115.17Added Offical Railway Equipment Register page.
07/08/20115.16Added DL&W freight reports to Pennsylvania PUC in original document scans.
05/14/20115.15Carl confirmed Hillside and Dry Bread are the same breaker.
04/22/20115.14Correlated Grassy Island in Winton with Sterrick Creek.
04/01/20115.13Tucker: made two listings for Lackawanna and Luzerne counties.
03/26/20115.12Added scroll bar to change history, changed to display entire table.
03/26/20115.12Weeks changed to Leeks and corrected to Wayne county. Added php number_format to display numbers with thousands comma.
03/21/20115.11Numerous minor edits. 1945 Grassy Island to Esgro. O'Hara Washery in Avoca - Carl.
03/01/20115.10Moved Dry Bread from Avoca to Hillside based on e-mail from Carl.
02/17/20115.9Correlated Clear Spring and Sullivan Trail.
02/16/20115.8Reviewed and made corrections to remaining T-Z operations. Trimmed the company table so not every derivation of company names appear on the list. They will still appear on reports.
02/15/20115.7Reviewed and made corrections to P, Q, R and S operations. Added bold display and data base flag for "major" operations and companies.
02/12/20115.6Reviewed and made corrections to M, N and O operations.
02/11/20115.5Reviewed and made corrections to I, J, K and L operations.
02/09/20115.4Extrapolated cities with known data.
02/08/20115.3Reviewed and made corrections to G and H operations.
02/06/20115.2Reviewed and made corrections to E and F operations.
02/03/20115.1Reviewed and made corrections to A, B, C and D operations.
02/02/20115.0Normalized indicies. Removed duplicates.
02/01/20111970.0Data loaded for 1968, 1969, and 1970.
01/31/20111967.0Data loaded for 1967.
01/31/20111966.0Export button added to Operations and Company reports. Allows downloading CSV file of data displayed on page.
01/30/20111966.0Data loaded for 1966.
01/27/20111965.0Data loaded for 1965.
01/26/20111964.0Data loaded for 1964.
01/25/20111963.0Data loaded for 1962 and 1963.
01/24/20111961.0Added 4th option to the main page for operation and company correlation lists.
01/22/20111961.0Data loaded for 1961.
01/21/20111960.1Formatting changes on the operations and company list pages. Added error correction to selections on year report and railroad schedules.
01/20/20111960.1Grouped all the Kehoe-Berge mines under the same operation id.
01/19/20111960.0Data added for 1958, 1959 and 1960.
01/16/20111957.1Panzitta, two operations Luzerne and Lackawanna county.
01/15/20111957.0Data added for 1957.
01/14/20111956.1Separate operations for Lockett and Lackawanna Mining. Correlated Jermyn & Green No. 14 and PCC No. 14 based on reporting years and district.
01/13/20111956.0Data added for 1956.
01/11/20111955.2Penbrook instead of Pennbrook.
01/08/20111955.1Edits for Marvine. Edits for business addresses that were obviously not location city.
01/07/20111955.0Data added for 1955.
01/04/20111954.1Changed name of openings table to mine_openings also changed operation_name to unique _operation_name in operations table to help with new year uploads. Updated PHP in 4 modules to match. Schema document changed to version 5.
12/29/20101954.0Data added for 1954.
12/27/20101953.0Data added for 1953.
12/27/20101952.1Correlated Genelow + Maltby
12/22/20101952.0Data added for 1952.
12/21/20101951.0Data added for 1951.
12/21/20101950.2Changed Number 14 to Number Fourteen Coal Co. Added operations for No. 14 and Empire-Kidder.
12/20/20101950.1Numerous minor editing changes, removed blanks from railroad_to_mine that were causing problems with display.
12/19/20101950.0Data added for 1950.
12/18/20101949.0Data added for 1949.
12/13/20101948.4Gave Vespi and Vispi different id's. Botscheller wasn't displaying.
12/09/20101948.3Correlated Brennan and Elk Creek. Added 40 new company correlations based on a keyword analysis.
12/02/20101948.2Minor formatting changes for iPad users. Correlated companies Robertson & Law and John M Robertson.
11/29/20101948.1Split Panzitta into two operations (Lackawanna & Luzerne counties).
11/20/20101948.0Data added for 1948.
11/16/20101947.5Added "Truck" to railroad to mine table when truck shippments > 0 and railroad shippments = 0.
11/16/20101947.4Split Minichello into two operations (Lackawanna & Luzerne counties).
11/11/20101947.3Had duplicate ids for: Caucci, Keyser Valley, and Biscontini companies. Gave them unique company ids.
11/03/20101947.2Replaced in notes 33 "Breakers." with "breakers." (small b)
11/02/20101947.1Fixed HB Sproul typo. Split Pagnotti from Continental.
11/01/20101947.0Data added for 1947.
10/28/20101946.2Split Morgan from Morgan Coal, renamed Cassidy in 1947.
10/26/20101946.1Added Gianforcaro alternate spelling Gianforcoro. They seem to use the A for a few years then the O. Changed Boland(s). Added B&D Stone.
10/24/20101946.0Loaded 1946 data. First time appending a new year to the data base since it was created. Also changed DB numbering scheme. Updated index page with new year.
10/22/20104.37Added new link and page to display 25 recent changes from version table. Redid the main page with new css style sheet to color links. Other minor formatting changes.
10/20/20104.36Added new report to index (home) page for year and distirct(s) query. Added query to that year's original document. Modified some pages table formatting.
10/07/20104.35Split Penn Anthracite into two operations 1930s and 1940s. Correlated Boland + Bolands, Volpe No 6 + Jermyn Green No. 6, others.
10/04/20104.34Sobolesky + Sobleskie same company different spellings.
10/03/20104.33Changed Albanesi -> Albanese.
08/24/20104.32Filer (Mt Jessup) DL&W contract starting in 1874, so add them as railroad to mine.
08/19/20104.31Minor edits, ran compact and repair tool.
08/12/20104.30There was no LM Spencer, it was Frank M. Updated in annual data and also company names. Green Ridge - added D&H, Winton & Pierce new correlation.
07/30/20104.29Split Tucker into two different operations.
07/26/20104.28Removed EWV from railroad to mine for Carbon Hill, note from Carl O.
07/07/20104.27Several minor changes, added 1 dir of add information.
06/15/20104.26Loaded 31 directories of additional information.
06/08/20104.25Correlated Jermyn & Co + No. 2 Old Forge based on mine inspector narratives, could also be No. 1 but 2 had a cleaner fit.
06/05/20104.24Moosic location changed to Hugestown. Loaded 22 directories of additional information.
06/04/20104.23Correlated Sloan + Moffat. Loaded 32 directories of additional information.
05/31/20104.22Made Nay Aug No. 2 its own operation. Correlated Rhonda D3 + Maco also Maxwell + Huber. Loaded 30 directories of additional information.
05/28/20104.21Loaded 18 directories of additional information.
05/19/20104.20Loaded 18 directories of additional information.
05/18/20104.19Loaded 10 directories of additional information.
05/17/20104.18Optimized record sizes, added some masks and validation checks for future new data forms.
05/16/20104.17Added indices to all fields except Healey num on operations table to speed it up. Loaded 7 directories of additional information.
05/15/20104.16Loaded 11 directories of additional information.
05/14/20104.15Separated Chestnut Hill - Forest City. Loaded 18 directories of additional information.
05/12/20104.14Loaded 13 directories of additional information.
05/11/20104.13Separated Sugar Notch No. 9 - No. 10 Loaded 15 directories of additional information.
05/06/20104.12New correlations: Powderly + White Bridge; Ellenwood + Raubville; Stafford + Minooka. Loaded 15 directories of additional information.
05/05/20104.11Loaded 30 directories of additional information.
05/02/20104.10Brown, 2 operations. Hardford, added note for Ashley No. 6, added 40 directories of additional information.
04/29/20104.9District typo, added 2 directories of additional information.
04/28/20104.8Added 4 directories of additional information.
04/27/20104.7Added more_info for Jermyn No. 4 (Dickson City) to operations table.
04/21/20104.6Corrected Blakely Coal Co (missing space). Added more info for Langcliffe / Avoca for testing.
04/21/20104.5Split Blakely into 2 operations, correlated with Consagra, Delasandro and Paramount.
04/20/20104.4Testing and enabling additional info pages with pictures, maps, etc.
04/19/20104.3Correlations added for: Manci, Mascelli, MBS, Lednovitch, P. Thomas.
04/17/20104.2Changed index file to php, autoload date and data base version.
04/15/20104.1Added spaces to force PCC numbers to be in order, vs renaming to No. 01, etc.
04/15/20104.0Removed spaces from table and field names, shortened some.
04/15/20103.14New correlations: Loree,Guiducci, Harrington. Fixed operations and openings table index problem.
04/14/20103.13Changed table name to annual_data; Red Ash, Wanamie, Loree changes.
04/14/20103.12Made all run of mine operations "mines", changed numbers to be in the number field rather than with names.
04/13/20103.11Added correlation for Peckville-Cicillioni-Angelo; Gunton-Birch Creek; split Boston into two operations; added Constango to Spencer-Harper.
04/02/20103.10Added detail pages for Alden, Ampere, Annora, Baker.
04/01/20103.9Jermyn correlations changed for ids 4600, 31400, 31425, 13400. Ran the MS Access compact and repair tool.
04/01/20103.8Added version control table to data base.
04/01/20103.7Broke relationship between Richmond and Richmondale. Still may be the same operation, but 20 years apart.
03/31/20103.6Correlated WB Gunton & WB Gunton coal
03/31/20103.5W&S, two operations one mine one bank, same company
03/31/20103.4Split West Side into two, Lackawanna and Luzerne operations
03/31/20103.3Alderson, Swoyersville, and West Side are the same company based on a note in West Side.
03/31/20103.2Combined Alderson and West Side based on note
03/31/20103.1Watson company was missing, added. Also removed link between Watkins Coal and Watkin's Son.
03/31/20103.0Added Detail column to end of operations table for url of future page with maps, etc.
03/10/20102.16Added S company correlations from Rick
03/09/20102.15Combined Dunn and Jermyn No. 1 (Old Forge) - Carl
03/08/20102.14Fixed Snyder mis-spellings
03/02/20102.13Updated notes per Rick's proof reading.
02/27/20102.12Reviewed and corrected total prod = shipments data for 1945.
02/25/20102.11Reviewed and corrected total prod = shipments data for 1891-1899
02/24/20102.10Edits for C-M operations. Reviewed and corrected total prod = shipments data for 1888-1890.
02/23/20102.9Reviewed and corrected data for 1876-1887.
02/22/20102.8Restored one to many openings for Auchincloss
02/22/20102.7Removed zeros from railroad shipments when total production was blank
02/20/20102.6Edits and correlations on A & B operations.
02/18/20102.5Minor edits on operations starting with A.
02/18/20102.4Railroad shipments blank instead of zero for years not reported.
02/18/20102.3Truck shipments blank instead of zero because they were not reported (except some in 1920s) before 1932.
02/15/20102.2Got rid of (mostly blank) other operations field, included in statistics column by folding it into notes.
02/15/20102.1Corrected decimal numbers in days worked and employees.
01/21/20112.0Fabrizo had two entries, deleted one.
01/09/20101.8East End: location Conyngham Twp, aka West End No. 2 fixed op_ids.
01/09/20101.7West End: aka No. 1 location Mocanaqua fixed op_ids.
01/09/20101.6West Brook: added Carbondale based on 1930 D&H paper from Chuck Y.
01/09/20101.5Stillwater: added Forest City based on 1930 D&H paper from Chuck Y.
01/09/20101.4Stevens: Exeter reported but map shows West Pittston.
01/09/20101.3Namura: city Avoca, county Luzerne based on 1930 D&H paper from Chuck Y.
01/07/20101.2Correlated "Elliott & Keorner" and "Elliott & McClure" as the same company.
12/29/20091.1Changed district field from numeric to text to add middle and eastern along with numeric values.
12/28/20091.0Initial data load from spreadsheets.