In 1880, the United States Congress granted the university 40, 000 acres ( 160 km?) of coal land as partial compensation for the $ 250, 000 in war damages.
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In 1885, several small mining companies representing about ( 1, 600 km?) of bituminous coal reserves grouped together to form the coalfields'largest landowner, the Philadelphia-based Flat-Top Coal Land Association.
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During the early 1870s, Franklin Gowen, President of the Reading Railroad, had begun purchasing coal lands along the Railroad's right-of-way for the express purpose of building an anthracite coal monopoly.
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But the heat only causes Donald to go faster and then backfires when Donald pulls a lever at a station which makes coal land on Pete; this also dismantles Pete's flatcar.
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The bill was vetoed twice by President Gerald Ford before it passed in 1977 and became one of the pioneering pieces of environmental legislation, reclaiming millions of acres of coal land.
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The university reopened in 1871 and in 1880, Congress granted the university 40, 000 acres ( 162 km?) of coal land in partial compensation for $ 250, 000 in war damages.
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The Dodson's coal lands ran from Center Avenue on the west to Pierce Street on the east, and thus the Dodson's mining operations took place beneath the central business district of the Borough.
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The 1910 Ballinger-Pinchot affair, which involved the illegal distribution of thirty-three federal government Alaskan coal land claims to the Guggenheim interests, culminated in a Congressional investigation and brought Alaska directly into the national headlines.
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Much of the area of the northern and western parts of the county is either public ( Monongahela National Forest ), coal land, or private forest, owned by companies such as MeadWestvaco and CSX.
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On April 24, 1903, Gephart obtained a charter for the Bellefonte Coal and Coke Company, which bought a tract of of coal land near Winslow, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, on the Pennsylvania and North Western Railroad.
