To take advantage of the undeveloped coal lands, Page enlisted several friends as investors to help purchase the land.
12.
The government argued unsuccessfully that the Coal Lands Acts of 1909 and 1910 reserved to itself both coal and gas.
13.
The bigger issue was the coal lands which both larger railroads, especially the N & W, had large investments in.
14.
In 1912, Jesse Knight purchased 1, 600 acres of coal land and began developing a mine and a company town.
15.
The chief coal mining areas were in the mountains in the north of the county, in the Choctaw Segregated Coal Lands.
16.
With of coal lands, it was a major colliery, and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad took several years to establish it.
17.
This would soon change as large corporations, some affiliated with railroads, began to take control of much of the town's coal lands.
18.
When a group of planters and capitalists come to town intending to exploit mountain coal lands, Mavis scares them away with her gun.
19.
The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western took a circuitous path to ownership of Avondale because its 1854 charter limited its ownership of coal lands.
20.
In the period following the Civil War, Imboden began speculating in coal lands in southern West Virginia and attracted British capitalists interested in investing.
