Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-11-15

| 4olaI shipments Ifom the region. 40 $50
The business of the Fall Creek Bituni-
nous Coal Company for 1865, ,936 tons,
and that of the Towanda Coal Company
for that year 1866 tons are included in the
above. During the present year an equal
quantity will be shipped by each company
by an arrangement among themselves,
which will be about 33, 900 tons to each
The Barclay Company have one hundred
good houses, one hundred and fifty coal cars
and four locomotives
THE FALL CREEK Coal AND IRON COMPANY
was organized in July, 1864, opened their
mines built their works and prepared to
ship coal in the spring Of 1865. It's name
was afterwards changed to the Fall Creek
Bituminous Coal Co. Mr. GEORGE G. FAR
RAR, an extensive coal dealer in New York
City. is its President, and Mr.. WILLIAM NJ.
MALLORY General Superintendent. ELISHA
A. PACKER, and several other capitalists, all
of New York City, are the stockholders.
Their lands are situated east of the Barclay
lands, or between them and Towanda they
contain about three thousand acres and eS
tend across the Schrader Creek, nearly to
the summit of the mountain opposite the
Barclay, or, Towanda Mountain This COM
pany has 112 houses, tram road, coal
schutes, and one hundred coal cars.
Mr.. PACKER, and others, interested in the
Fall Creek Bituminous Coal Company, also
own much larger body of lands situated
south and east of the above, extending as
far southeast as the South, or, Fowler
Branch of the Tow .nda Creek, and contain.
ing some fifteen thousand six hundred acres,
but we do not know that they are organ
lied under any corporate name. These
lands, and those of the Fall Creek Compa-
ny, formerly belonged to WILLIAM H. WIND
ER, and others, and were commonly called
the Winder Lands.
The TowANDA Coal COMPANY purchased
their lands, which contain one thousand and
ninety acres, from the Schrader Land Com
pany, in January, 1865. They are situated
north Of the Barclay Company's land, and
between them and the brow of the noun
tain, next Towanda Creek The old Frank
lin wagon road runs through the middle of
the tract. This company consists of JERvIs
LANGDoN of Elmira, who is President, DR..
EDWIN EIDRIDGE HENRY w. RATHBoNE, ALEX.
S. OWEN, E. P. Brooks, GEO. NJ OWEN,
ALEXANDER DIvEN, all of Elmira, the latter
being Treasurer, and JAMES MAcFARLANE, of
Towanda, who is General Superintendent
They have T3 houses, tram road, leading
to the Barclay railroad, coal schutes, and
one hundred coal cars. They have also
erected extensive works at Chemung, n.
Y, for supplying the Erie Railway with
coal, by trans-shipping it from the canal,
and through Messrs. EIDRIDGE and RArHBoNE
they have intimate relations with the Ell
mira Rolling Mill, which is one of the larg-
est consumers of this kind of coal in that
state.
The coal of the Fall Creek and Towanda
Coal Companies is carried to Towanda by
the Barclay Coal Company, over their rail
road, at stipulated price, each company
furnishing their own cars, and each has its
own boats on the canal The Barclay Coal
Company own fine basin at Towanda,
with excellent facilities for shipping coal
The heirs of DAVID CASH, Esq, late of
Towanda, deceased, own large body of
some two thousand acres of land adjoining
and east of the Fall Creek Company's lands,
on which the existence of the coal veins of
the Barclay region has been proved, but
the mine has never been extensively work
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The stock of the ScHRADER LAND COMPANY
which was formerly owned in Philadelphia,
changed hands about year ago. and is
now held principally by parties connected
with the new railroad now in process of
construction along the Susquehanna river,
among whom are Hon. ASA PACKER, Of
Mauch Chunk, and others of the Lehigh
Valley Rail Road Company. WILLIAM
REED, of New York, is the President, C l..
WARD, Esq, of Towanda, is the Treasurer
and Secretary, and several parties in To-
wanda hold stock. The situation of their
lands is described above, lying west of the