History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . Theyown a steam tow-boat and eighteen coal-boats. Be-tween Morgan & Dixon and the mouth of the Red-stone Creek there is an abundance of coal, but as yetthe deposits have not been Redstone Coal Company, alluded to in the fore-! going as owning about four thousand acres of coalI lands along the Redstone Creek, was organized inMay, 1873, by Westmoreland County capitalists. Atthe head was A. L. McFarland, and associated withhim were Messrs. H. D. Foster, Edward Cowan,1 Wil
History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . Theyown a steam tow-boat and eighteen coal-boats. Be-tween Morgan & Dixon and the mouth of the Red-stone Creek there is an abundance of coal, but as yetthe deposits have not been Redstone Coal Company, alluded to in the fore-! going as owning about four thousand acres of coalI lands along the Redstone Creek, was organized inMay, 1873, by Westmoreland County capitalists. Atthe head was A. L. McFarland, and associated withhim were Messrs. H. D. Foster, Edward Cowan,1 William Welsh, George Bennett, F. Z. Shellenberg,Israel Painter, the McClellans, and others. Theybought coal lands on Redstone Creek, reaching fromthe mouth of the creek to Vances mill, and as a con-dition precedent to their purchases agreed to constructa railway through their territory. The railway com-pany was accordingly formed, with J. H. Bowman aspresident, and a majority of the directors of the Red- stone Coal Company as directors of the railway com-I pany. Subscriptions to the amount of one hundred. ^^?^i^<^ ^Mz^^;4c^^^ ^^0 JEFFERSOxN TOWNSHIP. 627 thousand dollars were received from people livingalong the line, and work upon the road was be.;unwithout much delay. The plan was to grade fromBrownsville to Mount Braddock, where connectionwas to be made with the Southwest PennsylvaniaRailroad. Smith and Prindiville took the contractfor grading. Prindiville completed his portion ofthe work, but Smith retired from the field before hehad fairly begun. His part of the unfinished con-tract was sold to Campbell & Co., of Aitoona, whoupon winding up their affairs with the railway com-pany found themselves unable to get much satisfac-tion upon their unpaid claim of about twelve thousanddollars. They entered suit and obtained judgment,whereupon, in 1879, the road was sold by the sheriff,and bid in by Mr. Prindiville for seventeen thousanddollars. He sold out to Charles Spear, of Pit
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