Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1880-01-26

The revival of business boom may be said
to have fairly struck this section. The Eureka
Mower Co. are established on a firm founda-
ton, and doing a prosperous business. The
Nail Works will soon be in full blast, and
now the good news reaches us that new
Coal Company is to b. organized and com
mence operations III no distant day: and what
makes the last item more interesting TO To-
wandans is the fact that our townsman,
JAMES MACFARLANE. is to have the manage
ment of the company, and that he will be
assisted by his two sons, EDWARD and GRA-
HAM. The following notice of the enterprise,
which we have no doubt is official and au-
thentic. we take from Saturdays Elmira Ad-
Uertiser:
''The Barclay Coal Company. in addition to
their mines and railroad in Bradford county,
Pa, which are operated by the n. 7. l.. E. Il
w. RR., under lease to the TOwanda Coal
Company, have for several years owned an
other large coal tract, nearer Towanda, which
formerly belonged to Elisha A. Packer. These
lands are held under charter in the name of
the Long Valley Coal Company.
"During the last summer some explorations
were made on them by Mr.. +. f. Lyon, the
engineer of the TOwanda Coal Company,
lent field of coal. with Il bed of five feet of
good coal. The owners have concluded that
the time has come to open cOlliery ut Long
Valley. For this purpose they have secured
the services of james Macfarlane, Esq, and
his two sons, Edward o. and Graham Mac
farlane, and have placed Il large sum of money
ut their disposal, to be expended Immediately
i'm the requisite works for a frst-class cOlliery.
with cOke-Ovens for the manufacture of coke.
A short branch of the Barclay railroad. Il
short tram-road from the mines, with an in
clined plane for the mine cars, will bring the
coal to the railroad at Lamoka station, ten
miles from ToWanua
''On the completion of the works. which
will require several months, they are to be
operated permantly by Mr. Macfarlane and
his sons, under highly advantageous lease
to another company. which will probably be
called the Lam0ka Coal Company. The min-
ing village, which will soon be erected at the
new mines, will be called Long Valley. The
office of the Coal and Coke Company will be
at Towanda, where Mr.. Macfarlanc has al
ways resided.
SIT is well known that he was the first
General Manager of the Barclay Railroad
and Coal Company for eight years, during
the trying times when the sem-bituminous
coal trade was in its infancy. He afterwards
organized the Tovanda Coal Company, and
conducted it two years. and since then he has
been for thirteen years the general sales agent
of the BlOosburg Coal Association for THE
State of New York. and for the last year for
the western states. His son Edward, NOW
living in Rochester, has had several Years
experience i'm the coal business as salesman,
both of Bituminous and Anthracite coal, and
Mr.. Graham Macfarlane, who is u civil and
mining engineer by profession. was employed
by General Magee during the construction OF
the coal works at Antrim. and of those of the
Buffalo Coal Company at ClearmOnt, in Nc
Kean county, of whose mining operations ut
the latter place he has had general charge
since (heir commencement" r.
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