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Belton Coal & Coke Co., Moundsville, W. Va.;
capital. $400,000; incorporators, J. C. McClenathan,
of Connellsville, Pa.; Thomas S. Lackey and
Allen D. Williams, of LTniontown, Pa.; J. C. Smutz,
New Haven, Pa.; and ti. J. Humphreys, of Vance's
Mills, Pa.
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Platino Mining & Manufacturing Co., Waynesburg,
Pa.; capital, $100,000; incorporators, J. A.
Dunne, J. D. Orndorff, W. E. Spragg, James E.
Wood, W. H. Bailey, D. S. Hoover and H. C. Staggers,
all of Waynesburg, Pa.
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Knickerbocker Coal Co., Charleston, W. Va.;
capital, $500,000; incorporators, W. W. Mucklow,
Charleston, George G. Mucklow, J. R. Mucklow,
Mucklow, W. Va.; H. F. Hanks, St. Albans, and
C. W. Morton, Charleston.
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American Peat Coal Co., Passaic; capital, $1,-
000,000; incorporators, Garrett Terhune, John
Terhune, Joseph M. Gardner. The conipany is
to manufacture fuel briquettes from peat, etc.
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Buchannon River Coal Co., Fairmont, W. Va.;
capital, $250,000; incorporators, A. D. Simon, J.
A. Jamison, C. W. Arnett and G. M. Alexander,
of this city, and E. D. Fulton, of Uniontown, Pa.
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The Pennmont Coal Co., Baltimore; capital. $5,-
000; incorporators, J. Walter Lord, Charles H.
Schanze, Edward M. Lerp, Harvey H. Wilson and
Louis Lotters, all of Baltimore.
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The Capital City Fuel Co., Columbus, O.; capital,
$10,000; incorporators, Paul W. Potts, John W.
Seeds, William S. Dresback, William M. Williams
and A. W. Shields.
Laurel Coal & Land Co., Charleston, W. Va.;
capital, $400,000; incorporators, W. A. MacCorkle,
J. E. Chilton, W. E. Chilton, G. O. Chilton, T. S.
Clark.
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Ada Coal Co., Jackson, O.; capital, $100,000; incorporators,
Ira A. Sternberger, Joseph McGhee,
Ophelia Sternberger, M. H. McGhee, W. C. Martin.
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The General Western Fuel Co., Toledo; capital,
$20,000; incorporators, George C. Walsh, J. C.
Burns, I. M. Hott, W. S. Kennington, M. T. Reel.
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The Ruthven Coal Co., Columbus, O.; capital.
$50,000; incorporators, W. H. Long, M. G. Mc­
Mahon, E. E. Bryan, F. L. Cooperider and M. F.
Long.
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Atlantic Coal Mining Co.. Houtzdale; capital,
$20,000; directors, Charles Dewees, Loraine; Asa
Spencer, Pnilipsburg; George Lobb, Brisbin.
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Pacific Coal & Coke Co., Portland, Me.; capital,
$1,0110,000; incorporators, M. W. Baldwin, G. C.
Knight and others.
The Corrie Coal Mining Co. has been incorporated
at Webb City, Mo., with a capital stock of
$4S,000.
William H. Morris, of Johnstown, Pa., and John
O. Rauch, of Jennertown, have brought suit against
Norman E. Knepper. Isaiah Good and Daniel B.
Zimmerman, of Somerset, to recover $84,000 each,
alleged to be due them from the profits of a recent
sale of coal lands in Jenner, Quemahoning and
Conemaugh townships, Somerset county, to a syndicate
of Pittsburghers headed by James S. and
William Kuhn.
The Pittsburgh Coal Co. has entered suit against
James Shearen and John Shearen, doing business
at Washington, Pa., as Shearen Bros., to recover
$30,000. The company claims the Shearens in
mining in Chartiers township appropriated $10,-
000 worth of their coal. Under the law treble the
value of the coal thus taken can be recovered.
A deed of trust from the Yolande Coal Co. to
the American Trust & Savings Co., to secure the
payment of the principal and interest of $300,000
of bonds issued by the former, has been filed for
record in the probate office at Birmingham, Ala.
The Brushy mountain coal mines, in Tennessee,
which are worked by convicts, have proved very
profitable to the state this year. The net income
was $140,S15.76. During the year $25,000 was
spent on improvements.
The Pleasant Grove Coal Co., of Cleveland.
which was incorporated August 1. 1904, with a
capital stock of $30,000, has been placed in the
hands of a receiver upon the application of its
secretary and treasurer.