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The Iron City Fuel Co. has been incorporated
at Pueblo, Col., with a capital stock of $25,000.
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McConald & Duff have sold out their fuel business
in Canon City, Col., to Loggins & Owens.
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The Como Coal Co. has been incorporated
with a capital stock 01 $10,000 at Como, Tex.
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Wagner & Sons, coal and grain dealers of Meriden,
la., have given a bill of sale for $3,500.
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The Peoples Coal Co., of Hatley, Wis., is about
to open a new general store at that point.
ness of Turney & Royer in Enid, Okla.
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Smith & Dalner have purchased the fuel business
of J. H. Reratt at Spokane, Wash.
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The Howe & Allen Coal Co., of Wichita, Kan.,
has given a lease on its coal bins.
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J. H. White has purchased the fuel business of
W. R. Baxtee at Fort Worth. Tex.
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The Great Northern Coal Co. has been incorporated
at Vancouver, Wash.
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C. F. Likins has purchased the fuel business of
J. A. Kyle at Granada. Col.
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The death is reported of W. T. Radford, a fuel
dealer of Kansas City, Kan.
The Big Square Coal Co. is a new company at
Rockdale, Tex.
THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN. .Il
ested, is being formed in that city to develop
The Kierstad Coal Co. has been incorporated at 1,200 acres of coal and lire clay land in Carter
Kansas City.
county, Ky.
planned.
A $500,000 corporation is being
The Pittsburgh-Buffalo Co. has let the contract
for the erection of ten double houses on Buffalo
hill, adjoining the borough of South Canonsburg,
Pa. The contract price is $10,500.
Big Bond Issue Authorized.
The Great Lakes Coal Co. of Pittsburgh, has authorized
a bond issue of $2,500,000 40-year 5 per
cent, gold bonds, and has made the Commonwealth
Trust Co. of Pittsburgh trustee for the bond
holders under the mortgage. It is understood
the Commonwealth Trust Co. has financed the
present issue of $1,500,0(10.
The Big Falls Coal Co., of Morgantown, W. Va..
which owns mines along the Monongahela river
near the thirteenth pool, has completed negotiations
for the purchase of the towboat F. K. Hillings,
which will form the first of the Big Falls
A. A. DeLong has disposed of his coal and other
Coal Co.'s fleet. Other boats will be added as
interests in Wayne, la., to F. W. Jones.
needed, as it is the intention of the firm to open
up (iOO acres of coal land near the junction of the
Wilson & Royer have succeeded to the coal busi­
West Fork and Tygart s Valley rivers.
The discovery of coal in Perry county (Penna.).
near Duncannon, in quantities yet to be determined,
has sent upward the hopes of many people
living in that section. Neither the extent of the
vein nor the quality of the coal has been determined
by geological examination.
The Pittsburgh & Washington Coal Co., which
has just completed a mine in Independence township,
has let the contract for 50 houses to be
occupied by employes. The mine is on a branch
of the Wabash. Within a few weeks the conipany
will open another mine.
The American Coal & Coke Co. has begun to
ship Black Band coal from its 1,000-acre tract on
Briar Creek, near Charleston. W. Ya. The development
of the tract was begun last April but the
H. K. Bender has sold his coal business at Linoutput
has been stored until the present time on
coln, Neb., to J. P. Greith.
account of the lack of transportation facilities.
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The Fort Scott Light & Fuel Co. has been in­ The Sayosa Coal Co., Jasper, Ala., has been incorporated
at Kansas City.
corporated. This company owns 4,000 acres of
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land near Parrish. Walker county, and will shortly
E. W. Elwell has sold out his coal and lumber open mines with a capacity of one thousand tons
business at Sterling, Neb.
daily.
A company in which Frank C. Grote. president
of the Globe Chemical Co., of Cincinnati, is inter­
The coal roads, represented in the Ohio Coal
Traffic Association, abolished on December 1 the
system of re-consigning coal at distributing points
and particularly at Toledo.