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32 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
of his name for the governorship. The resolu­
tions of the miners and farmers follow:
WHEREAS, tho Honorable George F. Huff has endeared
himself to all sections of the state by his independence and
ability in congress, and,
WHEREAS, in Ihe fields of labor he has built up an indus
try and business in this end ot the state that employs
something like eight thousand men, and by his fairness of
treatment and remuneration in wages has made happy the
homes of all employed bv him.
We now take great pleasure in presenting his name as a
candidate for Governor ol the State of Pennsylvania It
is a great industrial state and it needs one of the great industrial
leaders to husband and develop it9 resources In
Colonel Huff it will find such a chief and we feel confident
that in his hands its welfare would be assured.
Adopted unanimously by Employes Outing Association
ot Keystone. Coal & Coke Co. of Westmoreland county, I'a.,
September 9th, 1905.
(Signed) JOHN J KATLOR,
Secretary.
S. R. KUFF.
C U. ElSAMAN.
George Franklin Huff was born at Norristown,
Pa., July 16. 1842; received his education in the
public schools at Middletown and later at Altoona.
where, after learning a trade in the car shops of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Co.. at an early age he
entered the banking house of William M. Lloyd
& Co. In 1867 he removed to Westmoreland
county to engage in the banking business. He
was married in 1871 to Henrietta, daughter of
the late Judge Jeremiah M. Burrell of Pennsylvania,
afterwards United States district judge
and chief justice of Kansas by appointment of
President Franklin Pierce; he was a member of
the national Republican convention in 1880, where
he was one of the "306" who followed the lead of
Roscoe Conkling in the ever-memorable effort to
nominate Gen. U. S. Grant for the presidency.
Mr. Huff is president of the Keystone Coal & Coke
Co., one of the largest producers of gas and steam
coal in the United States; is largely engaged in
many other business industries in various parts
of Pennsylvania, together with the banking business
in Greensburg, in which he has been constantly
engaged since his youth; is president of
the Westmoreland Hospital Association. He was
elected to the Pennsylvania senate in 1884 and
represented the Thirty-ninth senatorial district
four years; was elected to the Fifty-second Con­
gress from the Twenty-nrst district, then com­
posed of the countries o. Westmoreland. Indiana,
Armstrong and Jefferson; was elected congress-
man-at-large from Pennsylvania to the Fifty-fourth
Congress; was elected to the Fifty-eighth Con­
gress, receiving 18,827 votes, to 13,014 for Charles
M. Heinman, democrat and 778 for James S. Wood-
burn, prohibitionist.
PENNSYLVANIA R. R. BRANCH LINE
WILL OPEN LARGE COAL AREA.
Work has been started by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Co. on an extension of its Monongahela
division, which will develop a rich coal region
heretofore destitute of transportation facilities
W. H. STAPLETON, except where Monongahela river frontage could be
President. had. This extension will take the division from
JAMES DUNCAN.
its present terminus at West Brownsville to a
The farmers of Westmoreland county In convention as­
point near Rice's Landing, and the 12 miles of
sembled at Greensburg, Pennsylvania, this 14th day of
September, 1905, desiring to express their approbation of this line have been placed under contract. The
the announcement of the name of tne Hon. George V Huff work is to be completed in time for the opening
lor Governor of the State ot Pennsylvania respecttully
resolve:
First—That no other man so aptly appeals to the consid­
of the line next spring. Then there will be continued
a development which will give tiie Penneration
of the tanner. He is a wide real estate owner and sylvania a loop through that corner of washing-
personally conducts one ot the best farms in Westmoreland
county. When this county was hopelessly democratic, bis
popularity, notwithstanding his known republican convictions,
in 1NS4 won him a seat in the state senate and while
ton county back to its Ellsworth branch. The
loop w... start at Millsboro and run via Clarksville,
three miles, to Zollersville, four miles, and
there every legislative action looking to the benefit of to Bentleysville. seven miles, tapping the Ells­
agriculture met his endorsement and support; that since
h7s election to congress he has pursued the same course and
policy, so that we know him and can trust him. Resolved,
worth branch.
Throughout this district there are rich coal
Second—That we appeal direct to him to allow his name properties. At the river the coal outcrops all
to be used as a candidate tor said office, and if he will
not consent, then to the farmers at large throughout the
state to unite in demanding his nomination.
the way from West Brownsville to Millsboro, and
in that section the Jones & Laughlin Steel Co.
(Sigucd) FRANK I). BARNHART, owns 18.000 acres, witn two river frontages, which
Prest. West. Agri. Society. will now have railroad facilities as well. The
Jos. JAMISON.
Carrie Furnace Co., now identified with the new
Midland Steel Co., owns 1.000 acres, which will
be used for its furnaces with coke ovens at Cook's
Ferry, Beaver county. Isaac F. Piersall has
about a half mile of river frontage and the Clyde
Coal Co. approximately 900 acres. The Pitts­
burgh-Buffalo Co. owns about 15,000 acres north
and west of Zollersville. Ewing & Long of
Uniontown have about 2,500 acres back of the
Clyde Coal Co.'s holdings, and F. M. Osborne and
others have a 3.000-acre tract between Clarksville
and Zollersville. In addition to the holdings
enumerated, there are the immense holdings of
J. V. Thompson aud dis associates of Uniontown.
Pa., in Greene county, but a few miles away.
That these large tracts will be opened within the
next two years by railroad extensions is considered
certain.
The Enterprise Coal Co., of Denver, Col., has
increased its capital stock to $100,000.