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    <abstract id="aspace_6f80c51c20e5c796662b83bf3d160ed2">Twenty letters from various coal interests responding to an inquiry pertaining to the history of early coal development in West Virginia. The survey was conducted by J.S. McWhorter, Attorney for Gauley Coal Land Company, for the Business Historical Society. Respondents include: C.H. Ambler, W.W. Chilton, Brooks Fleming, Jr. B. Laing, and George T. Watson.</abstract>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Coal Company Records Survey, A&amp;M 2554, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <subject source="ingest">Coal mining.</subject>
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    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85137006" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Chilton, William E. (William Edwin), 1858-1939</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Laing, John B.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Fleming, A. Brooks, Jr.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Watson, George T.</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003031831" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Ambler, Charles Henry,  1876-1957</persname>
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