History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . ons, daily, at a cost of but little more than the mini-mum cost per mile of transportation on a railroad ofordinary grade, thus saving to the company over four-filths of the cost of hauling the same coal in cars bylocomotives, as it would have required over thirteenmiles of railroad to overcome the same are thought to be the most effective planes inthe world. Having brought to a successful issue all these plansfor the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Companys canalsand roa
History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . ons, daily, at a cost of but little more than the mini-mum cost per mile of transportation on a railroad ofordinary grade, thus saving to the company over four-filths of the cost of hauling the same coal in cars bylocomotives, as it would have required over thirteenmiles of railroad to overcome the same are thought to be the most effective planes inthe world. Having brought to a successful issue all these plansfor the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Companys canalsand roads, the increasing cares of his various enter-! prises made it necessary for him to resign the activecharge of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Companysextended business; and the company being loath tolose his services, urged upon his acceptance the posi-I tion of consulting engineer and member of the boardof managers, which latter position he still this time there came a struggle among trans-porting companies to secure control of coal lands, in1 which, owing to his well-known familiarity with the. CONNELLSVILLE BOKOUGH AND TOWNSHIP. geological formations in the coal regions, Mr. Leisen-ring was invited to join the Central Railroad Companyof New Jersey, of which he was elected a director,and whose large terminal facilities were such as toenable them to compete successfully for a large busi-ness. A lease was secured by the Central RailroadCompany of New Jersey of the canal and roads ofthe Leliigh Coal and Navigation Company, securingthereby the tonnage of the mines owned by that com-pany and others, including those of the WilkesbarreCoal and Iron Company. The mines of the latterconi^any, together with other purchases, were mergedinto the property of the company now known as theLehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal and Iron gathering these properties the advice and counselof Mr. Leisenring was sought, and he, together withCharles Parrish, .selected the lands, which are
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