Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1889 — The Tide That Led to Fortune. [ARTICLE]

The Tide That Led to Fortune.

The great flood that brought disaster upon the dwellers in the Conemaugh Valley turned Gen. Rosecrans from his quiet way and made a miner of him. He was in Virginia when that great flood came on. Jt cut him off from communication with Washington and kept him for awhile in a barren country. While he was thus cut off a farmer proposed to him to go and look at a mountain supposed to have iron in it. The General is a student, and has dipped into most of the mysteries of nature that science knows.. He is fond of investigation. He went to the mountain and now the mountain is coming to him. It proved to be a valuable iron mountain. He formed a company and bought it. . Tha company entered into a contract with a Pitisburg company by which the latter agreed to develop the mine at their own expense and deliverthe iron on the cars at a price that would pay the company owning the mine well. Without any expense beyond the first purchase money for the mountain the company is getting its ore out profitably. Sixteen chambers are being worked, and, to use the miner’s expression, the ore melts like butter. —WusA'inffton letter.