The largest, Colorado Fuel and Iron, was the largest coal operator in the west, as well as one of the nation's most powerful corporations, at one point employing 7, 050 individuals and controlling of coal land.
42.
During the period from 1871 74, Gowen's Reading Railroad continued to borrow at the rate of US $ 16 million per year to buy up and develop Schuylkill County coal lands, including numerous existing mining operations.
43.
Gowen, as Pottsville counsel and especially as chief counsel of the Reading, was not only aware of, but very close to these endeavors and secret purchases of Schuylkill County coal lands, in violation of the railroad's corporate charter.
44.
On February 17, 1901, the property was sold to Judge A . V . Barker on behalf of the Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company, who acquired a total of over of coal land in Indiana and Cambria counties.
45.
By 1872, the mine was operated by the Wilkes-Barre Coal & Iron Co . which had recently gained control of nearly all of Plymouth Borough's coal lands east of Academy Street, including the Lance and the Gaylord collieries.
46.
Although he officially retired in 1895, Lyman made a journey ( 1906 07 ) to survey the coal lands near Mount Lantauan on Cebu in the Philippines, for a New York City company that was building a railroad there.
47.
However, other historians believe that a goal of the plan from the outset was to transport from the mineheads to reach a shipping point without using these common carriers, who as owners of vast coal lands and many mines, were also competitors.
48.
In 1869, Harvey moved to Wilkes-Barre, and in 1871, he sold his coal lands to the Susquehanna Coal Co ., which merged Harvey's mine with the Grand Tunnel into a new operation called the Susquehanna Coal Co . Colliery No . 3.
49.
Last year, he and a partner offered the federal bankruptcy court $ 200, 000 for 206 acres of Blue Coal land-- roughly $ 1, 000 an acre, more than Earth Conservancy was offering-- that they have leased and planted with corn for decades.
50.
However, in 1906, after the Secretary of the Interior withdrew entry from extensive areas of supposed coal lands in Western States, Richardson's work changed focus to the examination and mapping of coal fields as a basis for classification and valuation of public coal lands.
