Its mining subsidiary, the Rock Island Coal and Mining Company, continued to be one of the most powerful entities in Oklahoma's coal industry until the Great Depression. By 1900 a well-developed railroad network criss …
The Osage Company, together with the Atoka Coal and Mining Company, both original subsidiaries of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, paid around $2 million in royalties from 1872 until 1897. The Osage Coal and Mining Company operated in Missouri and Kansas as well as …
What is not an example of ways tribes in the Indian Territory profited from mining on their lands is "they manufacturing products using minerals." The Five Tribes of the Indian territory were the Cherokee, the Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, and Chickasaw. They owned their land and had mines in which many people of other territories work.
Wells drilled in Indian Territory began to bring oil to the surface. Discovery of an underground lake of oil south of Tulsa—Glenn Pool—was to become one of the richest oil fields in the world. The …
One of the most striking features of coal mining in those days was the proliferation of immigrant communities. Harsh and unsafe con-ditions in the mines made it difficult to attract workers, so agents were often sent to the eastern states and Europe to convince men to migrate to the Indian Territory. Sometimes, agents in Europe were
Critics point out how mining brings about large-scale land dispossession for Adivasis and leads to the pauperisation and destruction of their communities, which are traditionally reliant on access to land and forests.
From 1895, when rail lines entered the region, until the end of the World War I, coal output in India increased tenfold and the size of the mines' workforce fivefold. By 1907 Jharia was yielding half of India's output. One of its oldest mines was Khas Jharia, which worked a 260-feet deep source.
He then began commercial exploitation of Indian Territory's coal deposits. Although the presence of coal had been known for decades, McAlester's contribution was that he was the first to find commercial markets …
Powerful Native Americans worked with and against weak railroads from a position of relative strength in the Indian territory. This dissertation argues that railroad companies, endeavoring …
Indian Coalfield, c. 1895-1947* DILIP SIMEON Introduction The year 1995 marked the centenary of the exploitation of a 400 square kilometre tract in the Indian province of Bihar known as the …
In the 1905 Sequoyah Convention, Indian leaders sought to bypass the territorial process and bring about separate statehood for Indian Territory. However, with the 1907 union of the Indian nations and Oklahoma Territory as the State of Oklahoma, a separate, Indian-dominated territory or state was no longer viable.
From 1895, when rail lines entered the region, until the end of the World War I, coal output in India increased tenfold and the size of the mines' workforce fivefold. By 1907 …
MINES AND MINING IN THE INDIAN TERRITORY. tion, and are conducted by the Osage Coal and Mining Company at McAlester and the Atoka Mining Company at Lehigh. The Choctnw Coal and Mining Company is const;rncting a line of railroall from the Arkansas State line, passing through Oklahoma, to the western boun
Coal mining in the Indian Territory began on a commercial scale with the exploits of James J. McAlester, a colonel in the Confederate Army who planned to attend school in Fort Smith …
Production commenced in Missouri circa 1850. Although some surface mining produced lead shot during the Civil War, the Oklahoma section remained commercially untapped until the Peoria Mining Land Company of New Jersey opened shafts around Peoria, Indian Territory (present Ottawa County) in 1891.
Krebs began as a small coal-mining camp inhabited by English and Irish miners. Italians, other Europeans, and Mexicans were later recruited to work in the Indian Territory mines. In 1875 the first mine opened, and by 1895 fifteen operated in the area. In 1892 tragedy struck when a mine explosion killed approximately one hundred miners.
This was the beginning of Indian Territory's coal-mining industry. The thriving little community of McAlester quickly developed, with a drugstore, hotel, livery stable, and at least three other retail stores. The 1890 population stood at three thousand residents.
put them in force in the Indian Territory, and a petition to that effect, containing the names of--miners, has been sent to Congress and is now in its possession.
The worst mining disaster during the Indian Territory period occurred in Krebs on January 7, 1892. At the Osage Coal and Mining Company's Mine Number Eleven a "windy shot" set off an explosion that quickly swept through the entire mine, …
Your Committee on the Territories to whom was referred II. R. 249, a bill to regulate mines and mining in the Indian Territory, state that they have had the same under careful consideration, …
As Indian Territory mining operations expanded, Green McCurtain led a movement to make the coal mines national Choctaw property, thereby avoiding the "discovery lease" situation. In 1895 he sponsored such a bill, which failed to pass the Choctaw Council.
The Osage Company, together with the Atoka Coal and Mining Company, both original subsidiaries of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, paid around $2 million in royalties from 1872 until 1897. The Osage Coal and Mining Company operated in Missouri and Kansas as well as in Indian Territory.
Indian Coalfield, c. 1895-1947* DILIP SIMEON Introduction The year 1995 marked the centenary of the exploitation of a 400 square kilometre tract in the Indian province of Bihar known as the Jharia coalfield. From 1895, when rail lines entered the region, until the end of the World War I, coal output in India increased tenfold and the size
Critics point out how mining brings about large-scale land dispossession for Adivasis and leads to the pauperisation and destruction of their communities, which are traditionally reliant on access to land and forests.
In 2010, mining was responsible for around a quarter of Indian GDP, and has been one of the driving forces behind nearly a decade of constant growth, with GDP nearly doubling from $1.32tn in 2009 to $2.6tn in 2017, according to Trading Economics and The World Bank. However, legal instability and a weak mining policy has encouraged rapid ...
Lehigh's history began in 1877 when J. D. Davis discovered coal in a creek bed in the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory (I.T.), which led to the opening of coal mines in the area. Originally known as Boone, this first mining camp in the future Coal County was later renamed Lehigh for the coal-mining district in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania.
Wells drilled in Indian Territory began to bring oil to the surface. Discovery of an underground lake of oil south of Tulsa—Glenn Pool—was to become one of the richest oil fields in the world. The owners of the land, the Indians, did not benefit but were exploited by commercial interests.
Powerful Native Americans worked with and against weak railroads from a position of relative strength in the Indian territory. This dissertation argues that railroad companies, endeavoring to build across Indian territory and gain access to its coal, …
The national Knights of Labor sponsored the first union in Indian Territory when they organized coal miners in 1882. As leader of the coal miners' union in Indian Territory and early Oklahoma, Peter Hanraty stressed negotiation as the means for resolving most labor conflicts, but he recognized that strikes were often necessary.