Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1884 — Rubbing It In. [ARTICLE]

Rubbing It In.

[New York dispatch.] It is discovered that the first public reference made to the Standard Coal and Iron Company was by the New York Tribune, tn its issue of Aug. 31,1881. It will be observed that the following announcement, cut from the Tribune of that date, calls especial attention to Secretary Blaine’s membership in the new corporation : "A consolidation of nearly all the coal and iron interests in the Hocking Valley Was accemSlished last week by the Incorporation at Cplui.nus, Ohio, ot the Standard Coal and Iron' Company. The land already acquired amounts to about 140 square miles, or 90,000 acres. Among the representative men who are connected with the ; new corporation are mentioned G. Henry ■ Brooks, John W. Brooks, John N. Denison, Oliver Ames, Frederick L. Ames, Oakes A. Ames, Alfred W.'Nickerson, ■Willfam P. Hunt, Cyrus Woodman, John M. Glidden, and George W. W. Dove, of Boston; William D.' Lee. Gov. Charles Foster. Gen. Samuel Tfiomas, William Moneypenny, and John C. Lavwell, of Ohio; Walter P. Warren, Jr., George Chapman, Willjam Walter l-helps, and Joseph Vilas, ot New York; and Secretary Blaine and Gen. James A. Hall, of Maine. A colossal capital has been provided for carrying on the work projected. Since 187.1, when attention was first calledin . that direction, the development of the coal and Iron resources of the Hocking Valley has been wonderfully rapid. In 1875 only 1,250 tons ot iron were mined In the valley; in 1880, according to Mr. Swank's report, the manufacture was 85,175 tons, and In the same year the coal production was 2,800,000 tons.