Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-08-29


burg, who is unknown outside OF West
ern Pennsylvania, where he represents
2o,OO0 acres of coal land. This enor-
nous coal bed is mainly in the Connells-
VILE coaking region. The Henry Clay
trlck Coke Company has over seven
thousand ovens; its aggregate product
is larger than that of any coke-producing
company III the world. Mr.. Prick is
young man, blond, about 5 it. 4 in.
IN height, of slight build, sandy COM
pexion and affable manners. Few men
are worth so much money, and hire so
many men, and play so conspicuous
part in the industrial world at so early
an age. Mr.. Prick will not be 40 until
the 18th day of next December. Mr..
f'rlck must be worth between $4,000, 900
and 1000, 900 dollars, or represents, at
least, coal holdings of that value. He is
the most approachable of millionaires,
small in person and soft of voice.
The great Hooking Valley coal fields,
which control the coal trade of the State
OF Ohio, are managed by the Columbus
and Hooking Coal and Iron Company,
OF which Gen. Sam" Thomas is the
leading spirit. Gen. "Sam" has a large,
and it is believed by the way he yanks
things around, controlling interest in
Hooking Valley coal. This makes him
coal as well as railroad king, and a
very interesting sort of a millionaire he
is. The importance of Gen. 'sSam" as
coal king and of his Columbus and
Hooking Valley Coal and Iron Com
pany as factor in the coal business of
the United States, may be inferred from
the fact that the Hooking Valleys bust.
ness last year amounted to two millions
of tons and the additional and signifi-
cant fact that the output and wages and
shipment and detail all through of all
the Ohio coal mines are regulated indi-
rectly by the management OF the Hook
ing Valley.
Col William i. Scott, of Erie, Pa,
also of New York and Long Branch and
Philadelphia, is fifth at least in wealth,
power and extent of holdings among
the coal kings of the country. He is
about feet 3 inches high, weighs about
155 pounds, has sandy moustache,
sandy gray hair, sandy brown eyes, and
wears new and expensive clothes. Col.
Scott is about fifty years of age. His
coal fields are in Western Pennsylvania,
in the soft coal regions, and he mines
both bituminous and gas coal. The
great Scott coal mines, where have been
so many miners strikes of recent years,
are at Scott Haven, ON the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad. in which Col. Scott s
great friend, Senator German, is big
man. Col. SCOTS personality presents
so many and such richly varied sides to
the public that it is saying a good deal
to declare that he drives better bargain
and gets better transportation and
makes more money rs coal king than in
any other aspect Col. SCOTS fortune
is rated at 81, 100000.
"Wm. II. Brown & Co" are the big
gest coal miners and shippers anywhere
in Western Pennsylvania, and, indeed,
along the Ohio River The elder
Brown, William H., is dead, and the
firms enormous business is carried on
now by his sons, chief Of whom is Capt.
"Sam" Brown, great big blond man,
whose figure is familiar on all the East
ern race tracks and who was famous some
time since as the owner of that crack
racer, Troubadour. Capt Sam" is
about forty, about 6 feet l inch high
anu W6iEuS dDOuL XII liouhuos AAO
wears small mustache and has a better
natured look than most millionaires.
Capt. Sans" coal fields are on the
Shonongahela River in Allegheny Coun
ty, PA. He employs several thousand
miners; the mines are worth four or
five millions OF dollars, and the busi
ness, which includes any lumber OF
barges, scows, tugs, steamers, ETC., as
we'll as coal yards in Louisville, Cincn
natl, Memphis, Baton Rogue, st. Louis
and New Orleans, can't be worth much
less than ten or fifteen millions Capt.
"Sam" owns some good horses and tho
biggest mansion on the east side OF
Pittsburg. The Browns have been in
coal for nearly half a century and have
no idea of not keeping on III coal. BY
owning barges, steamers and yards, as
we'll as the mines, they cut out the mid
clemens profits and get out Of the coal
business all the ''iat" there is III it
IN. Y. World.