Around this time, Franklin Gowen, President of the Reading Railroad, had begun purchasing coal lands along the Railroad's right-of-way to organize an anthracite coal monopoly.
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Most of the newer retail complexes are located along Viewmont Drive and Commerce Boulevard, both built by developers to access the borough's vast dormant coal lands.
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It follows the majority of the coal lands of the new LCAN lie along the bottom third of this map & mdash; the Panther Creek Valley.
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The Barclay Railroad was authorized to hold 2, 000 acres ( 8 km?) of coal lands as well as lands for track, depots, and stations, etc.
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Gowen quickly arranged for a US $ 25 million bond issue and sent agents to buy up Schuylkill County coal land for the Coal & Iron Co.
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The first acquisitions were the Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company which included a few hundred acres of coal land and the Penn Haven and White Haven Railroad.
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The acquisitions in 1868 were notable because they marked the beginning of the LVRR's strategy of acquiring coal lands to ensure production and traffic for its own lines.
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He also owned a big tract of coal land in the Sequatchie Valley of Tennessee, one of the large centers of coal and iron interests below the Ohio River.
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In 1875, the holdings were consolidated into the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, which was wholly owned by the LVRR . By 1893, the LVRR owned or controlled of coal lands.
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While the two were successful in providing for coal land leasing in Alaska, a general minerals leasing bill would not be passed until shortly after Lane left office in 1920.
