Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1902 — BUY SPRING VALLEY COAL MINE [ARTICLE]

BUY SPRING VALLEY COAL MINE

6eatonville Coal Property Changes Hands for $280,000. Spring Valley, 111., dispatch: The Spring Valley Coar company has taken possession of the Scatonville coal mine, operated and owned for fifteen years by the Chicago, Wilmington and Vermillion Coal company. The purchase price was fixed at $280,000. The new owners will in time give employment to 1,000 miners, doubling the force. The Northwestern railway will build an extension of two miles to connect with the mine.