Coal Mining in Illinois

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Coal Mining in Illinois
George Bates Harrington
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B. Buchanan, and Director Edwin S. Webster, both of Boston, have held their posts for nearly 35 years.
OQ) cn) During all this period, the game was to buy, develop, mine out, write off, and replace such acreage of coal as was needed, always looking ahead and watching competitive changes.
oi) en) «} C In the late *9o's, the Company was feeling the competition of more cheaply mined, thick-seam coal from Central and Southern Illinois. About 1900, a promising property in Central Illinois, with 7 to
... 8 feet of coal, was acquired and developed. This mine, named Thayer, never proved to be very successful. In 1 9 1 1, 6000 acres of Franklin County coal, adjoining Joe Leiter's Zeigler mine, was purchased. A large mine, named Orient, was started on the 9 to 1 1 foot-thick No, 6 Seam, lying 515 feet below the surface. This mine did turn out well, eventually, but not until under-estimated financial needs and other circumstances had brought a receivership, in 1 9 1 4, from which emerged the present Chicago, Wilmington (if Franklin Coal Company.

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