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Mountain Treasure HouseHalt*, the Tailor, who is the leading tailor of Middles boro, Ky., has opened a branch house in Pineviile and will be ready for business Monday next. Mr. Hale has many customers in Pineviile, both in tailoringand dry cleaning, and we are proud to have him with us. His reputation as a high-grade tailor should encourage the people to patronize him. The Pineviile shop will be in charge of F. C. Wilson, who is well known here, especially in baseballcircles.—Pineviile Sun.Immense Land HoldingsColored ConferenceHarlan county and the Big Stone M. E S. W. Va., colored ZionGap region as shown on a topo- church, held its annual conference graphical and geological map pre- here last week. Quite a nuiftber of pared for real estate experts resern- preachers from all over Virginia ble a series of Balkan principalities, were here.The Kentennia Corporation owns ablock of territory lapping over from WANTED.—A correspondent for the Virginia line covering in all over Thousandsticks at every mining60,000 acres; the Black Mountain camp in Bell, Harlan and Knox Coal Land Company owns 12,000 counties. Write for terms.gj I The extension of the railroad to | Benham has set the region fairly to humming with activity. Engineers, ^ mine carpenters and operators are ke I met at every turn. The largest ^ | single project under way thus far is I near Benham, where the WisconsiniBHp % *3|e | Steel Company (really the Interna-jn tional Harvester Company) already | has erected 150 houses and has j some 400 men at work building 300I coke ovens and installing an up-to-! date mining plant, with all electric j appliances and an improved coal-S j washing apparatus. The company j intends to produce its own coke to be used in making steel for agricul-j tural implements at its plants tng throughout the Northwest, and has ies gone about the business systeinatic-he ally. Some years ago the Deering he Harvester Company laid the foundation of the project by acquiring about12,000 acres of choice coking coal land around Benham. What the full productive capacity of the holder ings will be is almost incalculable, vi- The company, however, expects i— during the course of the next two it years to develop a plant capable of 00 producing a million tons of coal ies annually and to extend its cokingirt- operations proportionately, althoughto it may mine coal for the open mar-ich ket also.m- Another large development operate- tion under way was given a boost at during the first week in October,at when the L N. let the contractifor a seven-mile extension into theClover Fork field. The line is to be run into a tract of 3,000 acres of land, some of it the richest in thefield, leased by T. J. Asher to theYoung man, if you are a bookkeeper, stenographer, or combination bookkeeper and stenographer and desire a more lucrative position or better connection, write us. We are in a po sition to assist you. :: :: ::00L FOR mPreparatory,CertificateReviewABOUT IT.
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Middlesboro Thousandsticks
Middlesboro, Kentucky, US
Thu, Nov 30, 1911
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