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will be commenced and probably completed this summer. In any event,
whenever completed, the road will cross the Great Low Grade at and
pass through Rumbarger. This, it will be observed, gives the town
the advantage of two great lines of railroad, a northern outlet as
well as the main line. Rumbarger being located in a rich mineral
country, and surrounded by vast forests of the choicest pine and
other timbers, and supplied with such railroad facilities, must of
necessity become a great commercial centre and shopping point. The
country around it is good for agricultural purposes, much better
than is generally found in this western part of the state.
"Among the improvements now under construction are two
saw mills, one of which will be the largest in the state. These
mills will contain all the modern improvements, such as lath, sash
and door and planing mills and other improvements. It is enough to
say that these mills are owned and will be constructed by John
DuBois, Esq., of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, who is also erecting
about thirty dwelling houses to accommodate his workmen. Other mills
and buildings are now under construction and from the way lots are
selling and present appearances, a great many dwellings and business
houses
will be commenced as soon as the spring will permit. The lots we
offer are 60 feet front and 180 feet deep. Good water can be had
from springs, or by digging wells, favorable time and reasonable
terms will be given purchasers of lots. Strangers visiting the town
will find good hotel accomodations and persons to show them the town
and surroundings. The cars will be running as far as Rumbarger on
the Bennetts Branch Railroad by July and August next. I also offer
for sale one hundred and fifty acres of land adjoining the town,
fifty acres improved and the remainder well covered with pine,
hemlock and oak timber. This land is like all the surrounding lands,
valuable for its minerals, containing coal in large quantities, the
veins being from seven to ten feet thick. For particular information
address John Rumbarger, Jefferson Line, Clearfield County,
Pennsylvania. March 12th, 1873."
It is noted that Mr. Rumbarger gave Jefferson Line as
his post office.
George Shaffer II had built a hewed log dwelling house
in the vicinity of the first Shaffer cabin, which Mr. Rumbarger
stated in his advertisement, "would make a good tavern".
Shaffer had cleared his land west of his dwelling,
along the public road south to the present cemetery, west to almost
the city line and north to the vicinity of Grant Street. That part
of the land lying east of Main Street was low, swampy and but a
small part cleared. Henry Shaffer had cleared the higher land of his
property, beginning a short distance east of Brady Street, thence up
over the hill to his southern and eastern lines. That part of the
land he had
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