Ligonier Valley Rail Road Newspaper Articles
We have compiled over 1,400 newspaper articles that mention the Ligonier Valley Railroad, or related subjects. The articles were originally published starting in 1873 and our collection runs through 1995. Enjoy!
Ligonier Echo
Wednesday, March 23, 1904
Getting Ready Now For New Railroad
Ligonier Valley Will Soon Have Another Line
Coke Ovens Will Come
Seger Coal & Coke Company Will Push The Work As soon As the Spring Opens Up Coal Will Be Mined, Coke Ovens Built And Railroad Constructed The Valley Will Change Its Quiet For Hum Of Industry
The Seger Coal & Coke Company as soon as weather is fit to push the work will with all speed push the work of mining coal, building coke ovens and constructing railroad. This work will give additional impetus to the industries of the valley and will be a decided improvement to our financial resources. The company is going on with the
work, there is no doubt about that. Ligonier valley will have a boom, real estate will still further advance and work and money become much more plenty.
The stock of the company is being put on the market and sold by the secretary, R. D. W. Bruner. The stock will soon all be sold and the work of getting ready to put the Ligonier valley coal and other products on the market go forward rapidly.
The stockholders of the company held a meeting in Pittsburgh recently which was their first annual meeting, and was held at the company's office, 414 Third avenue. Favorable reports of the progress in the development of the plans of the new company were heard. It was reported by the officers that work is progressing will on the preparations for
mining coal, coking it by building two hundred coke ovens and getting it to market by a new railroad from the mines to Ligonier and thence over the Ligonier Valley Railroad. The company owns some 5,000 acres of coal and timber land which when brought to market will be a source of considerable wealth. We bespeak for the company a successful future.
The director and officers of the company are: Samuel Seger, president; W. E. McMillen, vice president; John Seger, treasurer; R. D. W. Bruner, secretary; W. G. Cronkright, general manager; John M. White, superintendent; C. S. Hallam, fiscal agent; Dr. W. L. Hunter Lewis Kanaub and Thomas Reynolds.