History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania . COLLEGE TOWNSHIP. 271 tlieir mill was destroyed by fire, Smith, Rhoads &Smith cut and shipped about three million feet oflumber annually. A new mill was built, but , who had until that time been giving his at-tention to the management of the business, went toPhiladelphia to take charge of the Market Street Rail-road. The tirm continued to operate in Burnside,however, and until 1876 manufactured considerablesquare timber and sawed lumber. After 1S76 theygot out nothing but square timber. In 1869 the firmsold to George Trullinger &
History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania . COLLEGE TOWNSHIP. 271 tlieir mill was destroyed by fire, Smith, Rhoads &Smith cut and shipped about three million feet oflumber annually. A new mill was built, but , who had until that time been giving his at-tention to the management of the business, went toPhiladelphia to take charge of the Market Street Rail-road. The tirm continued to operate in Burnside,however, and until 1876 manufactured considerablesquare timber and sawed lumber. After 1S76 theygot out nothing but square timber. In 1869 the firmsold to George Trullinger & Co., of Harrisburg, theeastern half of their ten-thousand-acre tract for onehundred thousand dollar*. In 1881, Trullinger & Co.—having meanwhile taken off much square timberand many logs—sold the five thousand acres to theMidland Coal Company for two liundred and fiftythousand dollars. Smith, Rhoads & Smith still ownthe remaining five thousand acres. Daniel Rhoads,of the firm, was chosen superintendent and treasurerof the BcUefont
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