WW Winton PA Coal Leases 1894 Scranton Delaware Hudson

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Bound collection of leases "Coal Leases of W.W. Winton and others with the Following Lessees" Index lists: Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. ;Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad Co.; New York & Scranton Construction Co. Edward Dolph Division; Lackawanna Coal Company Ltd; Willard, Johnson and Watres; O.S. Johnson; F.D. Collins; Brooks, Dale and Dale; Mount Jessup Coal Company, ltd; Jessup Coal Company; Thomas Waddell, G. Mortimer Lewis Mount Vernon Coal Co; Benjamin F. Filmore (Pancoast); Pancoast Coal Company and Rittenhouse-Jessup Option. Compiled by W.H. Winton-Spetember, 1894. Inside front cover, handwritten "Compliments of W. H. Winton" whether by Winton or the book's recipient, I do not know. Cover has the name of Thomas Livey in worn gilt ."...and it is further agreed that if the coal in any of the veins shall not prove to be of a merchantable quality, or if it becomes impracticable to mine the same in consequence of the occurence of faults or extraordinary expense in mining and cleaning said coal, or if the vein shall prove to be of such quality and thickness that the coal cannot be mined and prepared for market without greater expense than is bestowed upon average of the coal taken from veins at the same depth from the surface worked by other parties in the said city of Scranton..." Most of the contents is in dry contract language read more

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