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... coal - producing coun- ties . By 1898 there were five counties producing over 1,000,000 tons a year . They were Sangamon ( 1,700,000 ) , St. Clair ( 1,600,000 ) , Vermillion ( 1,500,000 ) , LaSalle ( 1,600,000 ) , and Macoupin ...
... coal - producing coun- ties . By 1898 there were five counties producing over 1,000,000 tons a year . They were Sangamon ( 1,700,000 ) , St. Clair ( 1,600,000 ) , Vermillion ( 1,500,000 ) , LaSalle ( 1,600,000 ) , and Macoupin ...
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... Coal Com- pany , the Grape Creek Coal Company , and after 1890 , the Con- solidated Coal Company of St. Louis . Mining in the central field , served by increasing numbers of railroads , expanded dramatically in the counties of Sangamon ...
... Coal Com- pany , the Grape Creek Coal Company , and after 1890 , the Con- solidated Coal Company of St. Louis . Mining in the central field , served by increasing numbers of railroads , expanded dramatically in the counties of Sangamon ...
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... coal , they had to stand solidly among themselves to prevent the expansion of nonunion coal fields . The continued importation of immigrant miners and the opening of every seam of newly discovered coal had resulted in an industry nearly ...
... coal , they had to stand solidly among themselves to prevent the expansion of nonunion coal fields . The continued importation of immigrant miners and the opening of every seam of newly discovered coal had resulted in an industry nearly ...
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Of People and Places | 1 |
Structure of Governmental Power | 35 |
Of Men and Machines | 72 |
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| Title | Building for the Centuries: Illinois, 1865 to 1898 Volume 4 of Sesquicentennial history of Illinois |
| Author | John Howard Keiser |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Aug 2006 |
| ISBN | 0252006178, 9780252006173 |
| Length | 386 pages |
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