A view of one of the Garnet Mines in Delaware Co. some 115 years ago. Garnet Mines were a big business in Delco over 100 years ago. This postcard was taken in the area of today's Garnet Mine Rd. and Conchester Highway looking west. The area has changed a lot since this picture was taken. Mines were filled in etc.
NOTE: The Garnet Mines in Bethel Twp. were a very big business. There were two main mines in Bethel and lots of tunnels. The garnet that was mined was ground down and made into emery and sand paper and shipped all over the U.S. See the article below.
A special Thanks to Beth McCarrick, Bethel Twp. Historian for her help!!
CHESTER
TIMES
July 7, 1904
DIGGING OUT GEMS AND OTHER PRODUCT
Bethel’s Famous
Garnet Mines May be Operated by Baer Company
After digging in the bowels of the
earth for the past twenty years, and taking from the heart of Bethel Township
many thousands of tons of garnet, the American Flint Glue Company of Boston,
which had a lease on the place for this period, will give up business there on
August 14. When the company took gold of
the mine, which is owned by Herman Baer & Company of New York, it was for
ten years, with the option, and the second ten will come to an end with the
above date.
The American Flint Glue Company mines
the garnet, which is ground into various sizes at their extensive works on the
ground, and is then shipped to Boston, Mass., where it is made into sand and
emery papers and sent all over the country.
Thus Bethel Township has come into prominence in various parts of the
United States as one of the best mineral producing sections.
This company does not expect, it is
said, to get another lease on the plant from Baer & Company and for this
reason they have been prospecting up about Elam, along the county’s border, and
have secured much of the product there.
Should the mineralogists of the concern feel safe in assuring that there
is a wealth of material in the new field, the American Fling Glue Company will
move their whole works there and continue in business.
The mine in Bethel, which is close to
Chelsea, has been tunneled through the sides until vast quantities have been taken
from the fields surrounding the excavation.
There is still great veins of the garnet which would last many, many
years, and it is said that Baer & Company propose to operate this plant
themselves This is one of the two
extensive mines at this place, one being within a stone’s throw off the other,
both owned by Baer & Company.
Sone time ago the other mine was
closed and some litigation ensued through a former superintendent. It is said that Baer & Company cannot
operate the larger place unless giving a royalty per ton as a result of the
suit, but that they could take the garnet from the mine about to be abandoned
by the Boston concern and grind the product in their older and closed works,
and thus, by a technicality successfully restart the works without paying the
royalty.
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Temple Univ. School of Architecture, 104
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