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in area of 4:70 square miles, placed on the eastern border 

 of the broad Appalachian basin, has before it to the north 

 and east the rich and populous but coalless States of New 

 c and New Jersey, with those ot' New England, which 

 look to it for their chief supply of fuel. Moreover, in > 

 York, in New Jersey and i: i Pennsylvania are im- 



mense deposits of rich iron ores which find in the anthracite 

 the fuels necessary for their reduction and manufacture. 



" If now we turn to the West, we rind on the opposite 

 border of the Appalachian basin the coal region of eastern 

 Ohio, and particularly the Hocking Valley coal field, with 

 "inare miles of superior and easily mined coal, sus- 

 taining similar relations to the rich and populous States to the 

 north and west which must in time to come look to it for the 

 supply of a great portion of their fuel. In addition to this, 

 as a further resemblance, the vast amount of iron 

 ores, not only those of southern Ohio itself, but those of 

 Superior, which, with the rapidly increasing export 

 <j in coal from this region, will find their way thither in 

 T quantities to be smelted and manufactured. In view 

 of all these facts, we may with confidence expect to see this 

 coal field and its vicinity the seat of a metallurgical indi 

 comparable to that of the Lehigh Valley and of Pittsburgh." 



jualities of mind which conduce to make a man 

 nent Krt those, it would seem, which oonstil 



mental equipment of a successful merchant. t'.r the two 

 characters ai> united in the s:r I 1 . : . 



-ild not ' L 1874 01 l^ sn . ; 



come int tot only his calculations, but the 



plans of much astuter minds than hifl It i< true that in 1^7" 



:igau was producing of ore, but no 



:ut that the production of tli- nines could, 



within t ve years, reach I 1 .orthat 



then and now thos- 



_ into tli- finally 



lie cost this country 1 i the 



low* 



