Chester County and its people .. . works were sold at the suit of the bondholders tothe trustee named in a mortgage, and were purchased by a syn-dicate of bondholders, who reorganized the company and procuredfrom the State a charter for the new company, under the nameand title of the Phoenix Gas Light & Fuel Company. This charter is dated March 15, A. D., 1888. The first presi-dent of the new company was George K. Griffon, and the firstsecretary was Henry R. Griffon. The new company continued tooperate the old works until the year 1895, Avhen they purchaseda tract of ground along the Schuylkil
Chester County and its people .. . works were sold at the suit of the bondholders tothe trustee named in a mortgage, and were purchased by a syn-dicate of bondholders, who reorganized the company and procuredfrom the State a charter for the new company, under the nameand title of the Phoenix Gas Light & Fuel Company. This charter is dated March 15, A. D., 1888. The first presi-dent of the new company was George K. Griffon, and the firstsecretary was Henry R. Griffon. The new company continued tooperate the old works until the year 1895, Avhen they purchaseda tract of ground along the Schuylkill River, abutting on the Phila-delphia & Reading Railroad, where they erected new and improvedworks, at a cost of $30,000. The works were erected under contractwith the Western Gas & Improyement Company of Fort Wayne,Indiana, and the company relaid a large number of the old mains,and have materially increased their business by the change. Theannual output of gas from the present works is about seven millioncubic ^(?, i
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