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So Ridgway, with others, sent a bark load of coal to Philadelphia. Col. Shoemaker wa3 engage*? to sell the product. Being an enterprising salesman he had little trouble in disposing of the coal..Then camie the hatch. People couldn’t get the coal to burn. One irate householder fussed and fumed with bellows and kindling. Finally he slamjmed the door shut and hurried off to get out a warrant for the colonel on a fraud charge.The householder returning homefotmd his stove a cherry ^d. He discovered that to make coal burn you must leave it alone.But the damage was done. Ridg-way’s coal mining venture was a failure. He couldn’t tap his mountain of gold.Half a century passed before Gen. George J*. McGee began to see the
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McKean County Democrat

Smethport, Pennsylvania, US

Thu, May 30, 1935

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