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The Arthurs Coal and Lumber Company, held 1, 100 acres of land in the northeast corner of Paint township, purchased from Ralph Bagaley and J. C. Reid. The company were Ralph Bagaley, Robert Arthurs, S. E. Gill and Elisha Mix, all except the latter, who was manager, residing in Pittsburgh and vicinity. They began operations early in 1880, and ceased in 1886, having exhausted the timber. About 16,000,000 feet were sawed. This company took the initiative in introducing railroad facilities into the lumber region. In 1881 they constructed a branch from Clarion Junction to their mill, five miles distant.
T. W. Raine. In 1882 Messrs. Carrier and Raine, of Troy, Jefferson county, purchased the Corbett and Wilson tract, 913 acres, along both sides of the river near Clarion, and also 263 acres four miles above on Toby. March, 1885, Mr. Thos. Raine bought out Carrier's interest. The mill, first built by Thos. Baker, about 1863, has a present capacity of about 20,000. Carrier and Raine, and T. W. Raine have cut about 10,000,000 feet of pine.
F. Vowinckel. In the northeastern corner of Farmington township, on the P. and W. Railroad, Mr. Frederick Vowinckel's tract is situated, being land purchased from Rick, Taylor and Zagst, and comprising about 1, 100 acres. The mill is a modern one, having a daily capacity of 30,000. It was erected in March, 1883. Since that time Mr. Vowinckel has turned out 7,000,000 feet of finished product.
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LUMBER AND COAL INTERESTS.
The construction of the Kane extension of the Pittsburgh and Western Rail- road revolutionized the lumber trade of Clarion county. The river is no longer the great highway for the traffic; with the exception of Marvin, Rulofson & Company, and Raine, all the larger firms have sidings and ship their products by the more convenient and always available rail, sending only empty coal boats by water. The increased cost of transportation is compensated by ship- ping to order, thereby saving the delay and expense of waiting for purchasers.
It requires no degree of foresight to see, from the facts and figures given above, that seven years hence Clarion county shall be completely stripped of its pine and oak timber of value. Already there is a demand for stray lots of timber, previously overlooked on account of their comparative insignificance. The age of the portable mill is upon us.
The stave-mill industry has assumed prominence of late years, and many portable stave mills are scattered over the country, especially in the south where oak is more abundant. The only large lumber areas of any kind there are the W. Craig pine tract, near Greenville, and Howley, Reid & Company's tract of oak on Leasure's Run, Porter township.
Clarion is the third lumber county in the State, being second only to Ly- coming and Clearfield in the amount of pine lumber manufactured, and ex- ceeded by Allegheny and Northumberland in oak. In 1873 there were 93,394 acres of unimproved woodland in this county. In 1885 there were fifteen saw-mills in Clarion county, employing 369 persons. Of the mills, thir- teen were steam. Saws, twenty-two. These cut, during that year, 17, 110,000 feet of pine, 2,388,000 of hemlock, 1,000 feet of ash, 60,000 of chestnut, 2,455,000 of oak; other timber, 50,000 feet ; shingles, 30,000 ; pickets, 29,- 000. Value of products, $273,998.
COAL.
The collieries of Clarion county :
The Fairmount Mines. In 1873, on the completion of the Low Grade Railroad, R. W. Jones and J. M. Brinker, composing the Fairmount Coal Com- pany, opened drift No. I on land purchased from John Hilliard. This was worked until 1879, when the present No. 2 was opened on the farm of Philip Doverspike. J. M. Brinker was the general manager of the mines. In 1882 the property changed hands, and is now operated by the Fairmount Coal and Iron Company, of which B. K. Jamison, of Philadelphia, is president; John A. Wilson, of the same city, vice-president ; Ensign Bennet, of Buffalo, gen- eral manager ; S. Taylor Sheaffer, of Fairmount City, superintendent.
In 1876 Brinker & Jones produced 55,044 tons, of the value of $77,522. One hundred and twelve persons were employed, and the mines were operated every day. At present the company have 250 miners and about fifteen mules and horses in their employ, and the average daily output is fifty cars. The 37
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greater part of the coal is sent to Canada by way of Buffalo. No. 2 is an extensive opening on the double-heading system. The upper Freeport, and the Kittanning lower, or Catfish vein, are worked. The first is about six, the latter four feet in thickness. The furnace system supplies air, and the drainage and ventilation are good. In 1885 there were two fatal accidents.
The Fairmount Company contemplates making another opening soon, and increasing the capacity of the collieries to double the present. In connection with the mines, there are fifty coke ovens in operation, employing a number of men.
Mineral Ridge. This company have had two drift openings at West Monterey. The Mineral Ridge Coal Company at present consists of Messrs. Thomas Skidmore, of Fredonia, N. Y., and W. H. C. Eicke. The latter is superintendent. In 1876 they employed 100 miners, and dug 51,390 tons, of the value of $81,056.99. In 1885 109 men were at work, and the colliery was operated 267 days out of the year ; mules, 7; 36,977 tons of bituminous coal were mined, and 20,412 shipped. Drift No. I is ventilated by a furnace, and No. 2 by natural means.
New Catfish. This is a drift and connected by an inclined plane with the tipple at the railroad. It is owned and operated by the Pittsburgh Coal and Iron Company, Wm. Mullen, superintendent. This company opened three drifts, but all but one are now abandoned. About ten years ago they also op- erated mines at Lower Hillville, further up the Allegheny. In 1876 these mines gave employment to 116, and produced about 50,000 tons per year. In 1885 their one opening employed twenty-six men, was worked 160 days, and put out 18,564 tons, of which 16,521 were exported. It is ventilated naturally.
Hardscrabble. Operated by the Brady's Bend Mining Company, of East Brady, C. F. Hartwell, superintendent. Hardscrabble is a drift opening, imme- diately above East Brady, and in 1885 employed about ninety men, and five mules ; approximately 50,000 tons were excavated that year, and 30,000 marketed.
Clarion Shaft. This was fifty feet in depth, and was opened in 1877 to reach the Lower Kittanning coal, by the Clarion Coal Company, W. W. Green- land, manager. Operations ceased some years ago, and the shaft is now aban- doned.
Pine Run, near East Brady, owned by Stephenson & Mitchell, Thomas Mitchell, superintendent. This is a drift. In 1885 it gave work to ninety-six men, and seven mules. It was operated 145 days out of the year, produced 43, 146 tons, and shipped 34,390. Ventilated by a furnace.
Church Hill. Operated by Church Hill Coal Company, J. Mccollum, and others, West Monterey; George Horner, superintendent. Formerly Monterey Coal Company, Samuel Sherwin & Sons. This is a drift opening, and in 1885.
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employed seventeen hands, and worked sixty days, producing 5,040 tons and shipping 3,600.
Sligo Branch. Rimersburg, a drift, Coon & Craig, proprietors, S. Coon, manager. In 1885 they employed eight men, working sixty days, 2,500 tons were mined, and 2,109 marketed. Work is now suspended.
Star and Long Run. These mines, both drifts, are situated on Long Run, and are near each other. They are operated by the Northwestern Coal and Mining Company, which likewise controls the Fairmount mines, though there is a separate organization. S. T. Sheaffer is superintendent. The Star, the first opening, was made in 1882. In 1885 these mines employed 172 men, and ten mules ; operating 232 days in the year, 109,828 tons were produced ; 74,545 tons of lump coal shipped. Both colleries are ventilated by furnaces.
Western Shaft. This shaft, the only one in operation in the county, is about thirty-five feet deep ; sunk in the property of Isaac Hicks, at"Arthur's, in 1883. The proprietors are W. C. Mobley and J. D. Callery, of Pittsburgh, owners of the Western Drift near Karns City; J. W. Dawson, superintendent. It supplies the northern division of the Pittsburgh and Western Railroad with fuel. In 1885 it employed nineteen men and produced 7,000 tons of coal; shipped 4,200. In 1886 the tipple was destroyed by fire and rebuilt. Subse- quently one man was killed by a boiler explosion. The mine is ventilated by a steam exhaust.
In 1876 Clarion county's mines produced about 150,000 tons, representing in value a little over $175,000.
In 1885 in Clarion county there were nine mines in operation, averaging 200 days of the year, employing 611 persons ; $185,831 was paid in wages; 373,504 tons were mined; 6,127 tons of coke produced from forty ovens ; twenty-five ovens were idle. The introduction of natural gas has affected only the country banks which supplied the towns now using it.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
FROM THE OIL ERA TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1877-1887.
Railroads - Politics - Statistics - County Finances - Civil List - Newspapers - Post- offices - Agricultural Association - Public Buildings.
RAILROADS.
HE Emlenton, Shippenville and Clarion Railroad was built as an outlet to the rich oil territory then existing in the heart of Clarion county, and to afford communication with the county seat. The company was organized
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with the following officers: President, James Bennet, Emlenton ; vice-presi- dent, J. M. Dickey, Franklin ; secretary and treasurer, J. W. Rowland, Em- lenton ; chief engineer, C. K. Lawrence, Emlenton ; general superintendent, John V. Patton, Emlenton ; directors, James Bennet, M. Hulings, W. J. Mc- Connell, J. W. Rowland, C. W. Mackey, J. M. Dickey, P. F. Kribbs, Jacob Black, jr., Henry Wetter.
Construction began in the fall of 1876, and the road was completed to Edenburg early in January, 1877. In the spring the road was continued to Clarion, and trains began running to that point in December, 1877. The numerous trestles and heavy grades to be overcome made this road an expen- sive one ; the total cost was $271,666, an average of $9,722.21 to the mile.
In March, 1877, another narrow gauge was built, from Foxburg, connect- ing with the E., S. and C. at Turkey City. It was called the Foxburg, St. Petersburg and Turkey City Railroad. Wm. M. Fox, president ; J. M. Guffy, vice-president ; W. S. Watson, secretary and auditor ; J. V. Ritts, treasurer ; constructing engineer, Charles Graham; directors, Jos. Blakeslee, J. B. Mac- Elwaine, B. Vensel, S. G. Bayne, of St. Petersburg; F. H. Ball, A. W. Smiley, P. Boardman, of Foxburg. The terminus was shortly after changed to Jeffer- son.
While the Foxburg people were contemplating the construction of this road, in February, the Emlenton and Shippenville excited them by sending surveyors over the proposed route, and threatening, by virtue of some alleged right, to occupy it to the exclusion of the Foxburg company, who had yet no charter. That necessary document was hastily procured and the imminent railroad war averted.
These roads were consolidated March 14, 1881, under the name of the Fox- burg, St. Petersburg and Clarion Railroad, and the Fox estate having obtained the controlling interest, the Emlenton branch was abandoned and the track torn up. Not long after this change the road became the Pittsburgh, Bradford and Buffalo, of which the following composed the officers : C. M. Mackey, pres- ident ; J. M. Dickey, vice-president ; W. J. Welsh, secretary ; J. W. Rowland, Emlenton, treasurer ; B. E. Cutler, Emlenton, chief engineer ; J. M. Dickey, general manager; W. D. Reed, general superintendent, Foxburg; A. D. Cowell, superintendent of bridges and way.
In the summer of 1881 this company began the Kane extension at Arthurs, where a branch had been laid the previous year by the Arthurs Coal and Lum- ber Company. This branch left the main line west of the river, and the short track to Clarion thus in turn became a branch. The Kane extension was not built by contract ; the work was done under the supervision of B. E. Cutler, chief engineer, and A. D. Cowell, superintendent of bridge and way construc- tion. The line was finished to Sheffield Junction, Forest county, in the sum- mer of 1881, and to Kane in the autumn of the same year.
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October 1, 1883, the Pittsburgh, Bradford and Buffalo was merged into the Pittsburgh and Western system, and by the purchase of the Butler, Karns City and Parker, and the construction of a connecting link between Butler and Cal- lery Junction, a through line between Pittsburgh and Kane, and Pittsburgh and Clarion was soon perfected. By subsequent northern extensions, there is also direct communication with Bradford over the Bradford, Bordell and Kinzua.
The Pittsburgh and Western is under the control of the Baltimore and Ohio Company. It is in the hands of receivers, Messrs. J. D. Chalfant and James W. Callery. Its present officers are James W. Callery, president ; Thomas M. King, vice-president ; H. D. Campbell, secretary and treasurer ; C. W. Basset, general passenger agent; J. T. Johnson, superintendent ; W. L. Cromlest, freight agent : all the above of Pittsburgh or Allegheny. In Foxburg G. S. Lewis, trainmaster northern division ; E. Kennerdell, master mechanic. The shops of the northern division are at Foxburg.1
POLITICS.
In 1880 Hancock polled 4,333 votes in this county; Garfield 2,933 ; Wea- ver, Greenback, 322.
1884, Cleveland, 3,822; Blaine, 2,679; Butler, National-Labor, 394; St. John, Prohibition, 139.
STATISTICS.
1880, population, 40,328. Of these 37,912 were native, and 2,416 foreign born ; 97 were colored, and there was I Indian.
In connection with the census I will quote some observations in the Second Geological Report of Clarion county, with some corrections, and changes to bring them to date.
" Tabulating the above dates and figures (population) thus :
DATE.
POPULATION.
INCREASE.
YEARS.
GAIN PER YEAR.
1800
835
11,000
11,000
35
314
1850
23,565
12,565
15
838
1870
26,537
2,972
20
148
1880
40,328
13,791
IO
1,379
" It becomes at once evident that the very large gain per year from 1835 to 1850, and from 1870 to 1880, must have been due to some other agency than that of bona fide agricultural settlement. If a further analysis of the gain per year be made by assuming that from 1835 to 1850 the increase from agricul- tural settlement was equal to that from 1800 to 1835, and that from 1850 to 1870 this gain was but 148 per year, the table then stands thus :
1 Clarion county has an extraordinary number of wagon roads; too many to be well kept.
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AGRICULTURAL GAIN AND IRON AND OIL. TOTAL GAIN.
PERIOD.
NATURAL INCREASE.
1800-1835
-314 +
O
= 314
1835-1850
314
+
524
=
838
1850-1870
148
+
O
= 148
IS70-1880
148
+ 1,231
1,379
"Showing an average gain, aside from that of the farming community and from natural causes, from 1835 to 1850, of 524 per year; and from 1870 to 1880 of 1,231 per year. The rapid growth from 1835 to 1850 is plainly at- tributable to the iron and lumber manufactures; while that of 1870-80 has been entirely due to the rapid development of the oil territory."
Of live stock, in 1880, Clarion county had 6,997 horses, 101 mules and asses, 199 working oxen, 10, 100 milch cows, 12,653 other cattle, 16,824 sheep, and 18,823 swine; 81,310 barnyard fowls and 3,895 others produced 323,450 dozen of eggs.
Sixty-five thousand five hundred and ninety-six pounds of wool were pro- duced, 28,65 I gallons of milk, 780,292 pounds of butter, 604 pounds of cheese, 18,692 of honey, 568 of wax.
The assessed valuation of real estate was $3, 128,201 ; of personal property, $755,497. Total, $3,883,698.
The amount of barley raised was 265 bushels; buckwheat, 775,387; Indian corn, 459,435; oats, 645, 134; rye, 53,839; wheat, 121,833; potatoes, 208,55 I bushels.
There were 3, 147 farms, a total of 288,558 acres. Of these, 181,818 acres were improved, and 106,740 unimproved.
Value of farms, including buildings and fences, $10,375,428; value of farm- ing implements and machinery, $359,898; value of live stock, $962,771; value of building and repairing fences (1879), $60,996; value of fertilizers used (1879), $39,821. Estimated value of all farm productions (1879), $1,204,072.
Of the farms, 14 were under 3 acres ; 159 over 3 and under 10; 180 over IO and under 20; 449 over 20 and under 50; 1,066 over 50 and under 100; 1,263 over 100 and under 500; II over 500 and under 1,000; 5, 1,000 acres or over. Average size, 92 acres. In 1879 Clarion county had 28,740 acres in grass, from which a crop of 25,347 tons of hay was harvested.
Value of manufactured products, $992,582; flouring and grist-mill products, $340,318; foundry and machine shop, $24,900; lumber, sawed, $390,378; ship (boat) building, $28,580. Total, $784, 176.
Since the organization of the county, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania issued 116 warrants for vacant land within its limits. The last was a strip along the county line, in Ashland township, containing fifty acres surveyed in 1884 to William Swartzfager, of Mckean county.
In 1882 Clarion county had a pension list of 389. For the year ending June 30, 1886, there were 449, drawing in all $3,794.25 monthly.
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COUNTY FINANCES.
January 3, 1887, the county's liabilities were $66,958.00; assets, $46,- 861.53. $62,600 in 32 per cent. bonds were yet outstanding; balance in the treasurer's hands, $21,243.45. $896 were paid on extermination (scalp, etc.) orders.
CITIZENS OF CLARION COUNTY WHO HELD NATIONAL AND STATE POSITIONS.
Members of Congress .- Amos Myers, of Clarion, Whig, was elected a member of Congress from the Twenty-fourth District in 1862; James T. Maf- fett, elected in 1886 from the Twenty-fifth District.
State Senators .- Christian Myers, of Clarion, elected a member of the State Senate in 1850 from the district composed of the counties of Armstrong, In- diana, and Clarion, served to 1853 ; Charles L. Lamberton, Democrat, elected in 1861, Twenty-seventh District, Clarion, Jefferson, Forest, and Elk; David Maclay, Republican, elected from Twenty-eighth District, Armstrong, Clarion, Jefferson, and Forest, in 1872; W. L. Corbett, Democrat, elected 1876 from Twenty-eighth District, Cameron, Clarion, Elk, and Forest; John H. Wilson, Democrat, elected from Twenty-eighth District, Cameron, Elk, Clarion, and Forest, 1886.
Assembly .- D. B. Long, elected a member of the Legislature in 1842 from the district composed of the counties of Clarion, Venango, and Jefferson ; re- elected in 1843 ; Robert Barber, elected from same district in 1844; re-elected in 1845 ; John Keatly, elected from same district in 1846; re-elected in 1847; Reynolds Laughlin, elected from Clarion, Armstrong, and Jefferson District in 1850; re-elected in 1851; Thomas Magee, elected from same district in 1852 ; re-elected in 1853; Philip Clover, elected from same district in 1854; re- elected in 1855; William M. Abrams, elected from same district in 1856; re- elected in 1857 in the district composed of Clarion and Forest counties ; John M. Fleming, elected in same district in 1858 ; re-elected in 1859; William Divins, elected in same district in 1860; re-elected in 1861 ; William T. Alex- ander, elected in same district in 1862; re-elected in 1863; W. W. Barr, elected in same district in 1864; re-elected in 1865 ; R. B. Brown, elected in same district in 1868; re-elected in 1869; James B. Lawson, elected from Clarion and Forest counties in 1871 ; re-elected in 1872 ; Martin Williams, elected in same district in 1873 ; re-elected in 1874 from Clarion county, along with John H. Wilson for two years; Joseph A. Summerville and M. L. Lock- wood, elected in 1876; J. W. Kahl and Jacob Truby, elected in 1878; S. H. Hamm and M. L. Lockwood, elected in 1880; W. A. Beer and A. M. Neely, elected in 1882; Bernard Vensel and A. M. Neely, elected in 1884 ; Christian Brinker and A. W. Smiley, elected in 1886.
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Delegates to Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania, 1873 .- William L. Corbett was elected a member at large in 1872.
Presidential Electors .- John S. McCalmont, Democrat, 1852 ; John Keatly, Democrat, 1856; George W. Arnold, Republican, 1856; J. N. Hetherington, Native American, 1856; R. B. Brown, Democrat, 1876; James T. Maffet, Republican, 1880.
Canal Commissioner .- Seth Clover, elected in 185 1.
PERIODICALS.
A complete list of all ever published in this county.1 Clarion Republican (Dem.), Clarion Visitor, Clarion Democratic Register, Iron County Democrat (Clarion), Clarion Democrat, Clarion Banner, Clarion Republican (Rep.), Clarion Independent Democrat, Clarion Jacksonian, Clarion Republican Gazette, New Bethlehem Press, New Bethlehem Vindicator, East Brady Independent, East Brady Index, East Brady Spirit, East Brady Review, St. Petersburg Progress, St. Petersburg Oil Field Record, St. Petersburg Crude Local, Edenburg Herald (Daily), Edenburg Herald (Weekly), Edenburg Evening News, Gatling Gun (Edenburg), Edenburg Spirit, Edenburg National, Edenburg Observer, Laborer's Friend (Edenburg), Foxburg Gazette, Lawsonham Torchlight, Cogley Sunday News, Fern City Illuminator, Callensburg Visitor.
CLARION COUNTY POST-OFFICES (PRESENT).
Alum Rock, Arthurs, Asbury, Blair's Corners, Brinkerton, Broken Rock, Callensburg, Catfish, Church, Clarion, Curllsville, East Brady, Elk City, Fair- mount City, Fern City, Fisher, Foxburg, Frampton, Frogtown, Fryburg, Haynie, Helen Furnace, Kingsville, Knox, Kossuth, Lamartine, Lawsonham, Leatherwood, Leeper, Lickingville, Limestone, Lucinda Furnace, Miola, Mon- roe, New Athens, New Bethlehem, Newmansville, New Maysville, North Pine Grove, Philipston, Piny, Piollet, Pollock, Redbank Furnace, Reidsburg, Ri- mersburg, St. Petersburg, Scotch Hill, Scrubridge, Shannondale, Shippensville, Sligo, Strattanville, Strubleton, Toby, Truittsburg, Turkey City, Tylersburg, Valley, Vowinckel, West Freedom, West Millville, West Monterey.
THE CLARION FAIR ASSOCIATION.
In the summer of 1854 the Clarion Agricultural Association was organized, and in the autumn of that year held its first exhibition in the public squares and court-house. Considering the circumstances, the display was a creditable one. The association was chartered May 2, 1855, with the following incorporating members: George Means, S. T. Cor- bett, J. M. Fleming, Robert Sutton, William Frampton, R. Laughlin, G. W. Conser, Isaiah Corbett, A. Myers, Emmanuel Over, Patrick Slattery, C.
1 Those in italics are now being published.
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Myers, Hugh Craig, James B. Knox, Joseph W. Anderson, Charles L. Lam- berton, C. E. Beman, W. W. Barr, A. Probasco, John Klingensmith, John B. Lyon. The shares were one dollar annually. The payment of five dollars at once obtained a life membership without annual dues. The first officers were: C. Myers, president; William T. Alexander, treasurer; W. W. Barr, secretary.
November 8, 1855, the association purchased four acres at the west end of Clarion town, from the assignees of Christian Myers, for one hundred dollars. The lot was fenced, suitable buildings and sheds erected, and a small one-eighth mile race-track made. Here the fair of '56 was held. In 1866 an additional three and one-third acres was purchased from the Tanner heirs, in whom the Myers property had vested.
Judge Myers was succeeded in the presidency by John L. Fleming, with W. W. Barr and David Lawson secretaries, and Miles Beaty treasurer. In 1858 J. B. Lawson became president; T. B. Barber and George W. Arnold, secre- taries ; C. E. Beman, treasurer.
During the years 1862-3-4 no fairs were held. The association resumed in 1865, with George Kribbs at its head ; T. B. Barber, secretary (succeeded by F. G. Keatly); David Lawson, treasurer (succeeded by Theo. S. Wil- son). In 1870 G. T. Henry became president ; T. B. Barber, secretary. In 1875 H. L. McClure, president ; Samuel K. Clarke, secretary. In 1876 Cul- bertson Orr, president ; George F. Kribbs, secretary ; A. S. Jones, treasurer.
June 12, 1877, the society was reorganized under the name of the "Clarion Agricultural and Driving Park Association." The first set of officers were : President, Henry Wetter; secretary, W. W. Greenland ; treasurer, J. Frank Ross. The second, Samuel Pierce, A. H. Alexander, G. W. Arnold. The following were its original members: Frank Ross, W. W. Barr, J. H. Patrick, J. P. Elss, J. B. Watson, Henry Wetter, T. C. Wilson, W. W. Greenland, L. G. Corbett, J. C. Reid, A. S. Jones, R. Rulofson, S. M. Pierce, R. L. Buzard, E. B. Loomis, Edward Wilson, G. W. Arnold, A. H. Beck, C. J. Rhea, A. S. Bell, G. W. Stewart, F. R. Hindman, I. H. Allen, O. E. Nail, S. W. Loomis, J. F. Maffet, B. B. Dunkle, C. A. Rankin, H. Sandt, Thomas Slater, D. B. and H. V. Curll, C. Kaufman, F. M. Arnold, A. W. Corbett, C. Leeper, J. F. Brown, H. Kimble, A. H. Alexander, Joseph Shettler, Kribbs and Hindman, Isaac Farnsworth, A. B. Thomas, C. E. Shaw, Jacob Black, S. Mendenhall, Jacob Hahn, J. H. Barber, S. G. Sloan, F. J. Elslager. Capital stock, $5,000; shares, $50 each. The new association leased twenty-five acres adjoining from the Tanner heirs, put it under fence, and in the summer of 1877 opened the pres- ent one-half mile tract, at great expense.
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