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Page 112 COAL MINING

DuBois and the Northwest Mining and Exchange Company also abandoned its operation.

     From the opening of the first mine in 1875 or 1876 down to the time of the closing of the mines in 1929 millions of tons of coal were taken out of the country surrounding DuBois and thus was another natural resource of the community removed which built up large fortunes in New York, Rochester and Buffalo, with comparatively small benefit to the locality from which this wealth was drawn.
 

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