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Illinois, and located on the Toledo, Peoria and War-
saw Railroad, one mile west of Fairbury, and now
known as the Marshfield Mines. These mines are
nine miles east of Chenoa, the junction of the Chicago
and Alton Railroad, and twenty-six miles west of
Gilman, the junction of the Illinois Central Railroad,
and about one hundred and five miles from the city of
Chicago. Situated as these mines are, between these
two great thoroughfares, they certainly present more
advantages to this company than any other coal prop-
erties dependent upon only one road for transporta-
tion to market. Negotiations are now pending with
these two railroad companies for transporting the coal
to Chicago, and it is believed low freights [illegible] be
obtained.

The Realty comprises one hundred and twenty
acres in fee simple and a perpetual mining right un-
der six hundred more, making seven hundred and
twenty acres of coal lands. The shaft is the best in
the State, no trouble whatever from water, with all
the improvements, including twenty-five railroad cars,
nine good dwelling houses for miners, office and track
scales, etc., a fine engine of fifty horse power, and
tubular boiler, with more than capacity enough for
all purposes, and now ready to deliver one hundred
and fifty tons daily. In these lands are two large
veins of the best bituminous coal found in Illinois, one
of which is five feet, and the other five feet three