People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — CO-OPERATIVE MINING. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CO-OPERATIVE MINING.

Illinois Miners said to Be Interested In a New Enterprise. Bloomington, HL, Jan. 22. —It is given out that there is a lot of monej behind the newly incorporated Mineworkers’ Coal company of Bloomington to which license was granted Saturday. It is understood that President McBride of the Federation of Labor and

President Crawford of the Illinois Federation of Mineworkers are interested in the enterprise. The company will proceed at once to pump out the shaft of the Co-operative Coal company, abandoned eight years ago on account of excessive inflow of water, and in which a fine supply of good coal was found. There is but one shaft in operation here at present, that of the McLean County Coal company.

JOHN M’BRIDE