Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-27
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Romance of Cornwall
Mines Odd as Fiction

| Lebanon, Pa, Jan. 2.-Fraught with
thrilling interest and filled with curious
chapters is the story of the Cornwall
iron ore hills, five miles south of the
this city, which are in the process of
passing into the control of Charles NJ.
Schwab. head of the Bethlehem Steel
Company. Many noted personages move
through the story; there is the glamour
of dazzling riches, the conflict of blood
relatives where financial interests are
at stake; the loss of untold wealth be-
cause some old worthy long laid away
made mistake of one word in the
drawing of a deed of plots of inheri-
tance and descent; of success and fail
ure, love. estrangement and poverty.
The chain of title to these mines
which have thus far produced more ore
more cheaply than any other similar
deposit in the United States, runs back
TO the three sons of William Penn
John. Thomas and Richard who were
the proprietors of Pennsylvania. From
that time-l732-the great mountains
of magnetic ore have proved veritable
gold mines. although only the baser
metal is found there. From ore taken
from these deposits were made cannon. |
shot and shell for the Continental
patriots.
The Cornwall hills were included in
IA 10.000-acre tract sold by the Penns
to Joseph Turner, of Philadelphia, for
$500, pound money of Pennsylvania, by
their warrant dated London, May s, 1892. |
Turner sold the tract to William Allen, |
April 3, 1874, and Allen disposed of it
adding few hundred acres to Peter
Grubb. August ., 1745. for s6T5. Grubb
had. in 1742, erected the Cornwall fur
mace, and, dying in 1854 intestate, his
property was divided between his two
sons. Curtis and Peter Grubb, the for
mer receiving two-thirds and the lat
ter one-third.
After the Revolution Curtis assigned
to his son Peter one-sixth of his in
terest, and this share passing into the
hands of Robert Coleman. laid the
foundation of family wealth which the
Lebanon and the Paris Colemans and |
the Aldens enjoy. With the exception
of the Paris Coleman interest which
is now in litigation, these interests are
passing to the Bethlehem Steel Com |
pany as are also the interests retained
by the Peter Grubb family
How One Word Lost Millions
When Peter Grubb, 3rd, and his wife, |
Mary, sold their sixth interest they in |
serted into the deed this provisions:
Saving and excepting unto the
said Peter Grubb, Jr., his heirs and
assigns, forever, the right, liberty
and privilege. at all time hereafter,
of entering upon the premises and
of digging, raising and hauling
away a sufficient quantity of iron
ore for the supply of any one fur
mace at the election of Peter Grubb,
| Jr., his heirs and assigns.
In the deed involving this grant the
grantor over his signature made the
declaration that the provisions shall
hold good ''as long as grass grows and
water runs" To-day the clause holds
good and no matter how great the
capacity of the modern furnace might
become the one designated by the heirs
of Peter, 3rd, must be supplied free
of cost with all the ore it can consume.
The Robesonia iron Company, which
has modern furnace plant at Robe
sonia. Berks county, now enjoys this
Tore privilege