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you will be successful in the effort to bring this valu-
able fuel into market in such quantities as to materially
reduce the present excessive prices.

Yours, truly, I. A. LAPHAM.

CHICAGO, Nov., 23, 1865.
This is to certify that I have recently visited the
Marshfield coal mines, located in Livingston County,
Illinois, in company with other gentlemen from this
city, for the purpose of examining the property, to as-
certain its real merits, and cheerfully concur in all the
foregoing statements.

SENECA D. KIMBARK, Firm of
Hall, Kimbark & Co., Bar Iron and Steel Merchants,
193 & 195, South Water St.

I cheerfully endorse the foregoing statement of
Seneca D. Kimbark, Esq.
SHELTON STURGES, Firm of
Sturges, McAllister & Co., Wool, Commission and
Storage, 2, 4 & 6 Rush Street, corner of Kinzie.

The following are a few of the many certificates
that could be obtained from parties who have used
and sold the coal from these mines:
Bloomington, Ill., Sept. 12, 1865.

MESSRS. H. L. MARSH & CO.,
GENTLEMEN: We are happy to be able to state that we have dealt in
coal from nearly all the mines of middle and northern Illinois, and find
yours equal, if not superior, to any of them. We have dealt, as you are