ginia: charter issued March 6, 1894; expires, March 1, 1914; corporators. C. J. Metcalf, J. A. Peyton, C. C. Berry, G. O. Chilton, J. H Morgan, W. A. MacCorkle, Bilton McDonald, W. Richardson, all of Charleston, West Virginia: capital subscribed, $100.00; amount paid in, $10.00; capital authorized, $10,000.00; par value shares, $10.00.

CLARKSBURG TELEPHONE COMPANY, purchasing, leasing &c., telephone and electrical supplies, erecting &c., telegraph and telephone lines, systems, &c., &c; principal office, larksburg. W. Va.; charter issued March 7, 1894, expires March 5, 1944; corporators, D. P. Morgan, N. J. Coplin, C. L. Hickman, T. M. Jackson, A. M. T. Cunningham, all of Clarksburg, W. Va.; capital subscribed, $500.00; amount paid in $50.00; capital authorized; $1,000,000.00; par value shares $100.00.

WHEELING INSTALLMENT COMPANY, buying, selling and dealing in all kinds of furniture and house furnishing goods, of doing a general wholesale and retail merchandise business, &c.: principal office, Wheeling, W. Va.; charter issued March 8, 1894, expires January 1, 1944; corporators, George E. House, Wheeling, W. Va.. J. Philip Herrmann, Washington, D. C., Joseph McArdle, Cleveland, Ohio, L. C. Rice, Wheeling, W. Va. F. H. White, Washington, D C.; capital subscribed, $50,000 00; amount paid in $50,000.00. capital authorized, $100,000.00; par value shares, $50.00.

WOOD COUNTY BANK, carrying on a general banking business not inconsistent with the laws of West Virginia or that of the United States; principal office, Parkersburg, West Virginia: charter issued March 8, 1891, expires March 1, 1944; corporators, Joe Keller, Parkersburg, West Virginia, F. M. Durbin, Grafton, West Virginia, J. M. McKinney, H. S Caswell, William Bentley, all of Parkersburg, West Virginia, John T. McGraw, Grafton, West Virginia, A. B. White H. C. Jackson, B. S. Pope, all of Parkersburg, West Virginia; capital subscribed, $4,000.00; amount paid in, $4,000.00; capital authorized, $80,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

AMERICAN PHYSICIANS' SANITARIUM ASSOCIATION, conducting a hospital for the treatment of diseases of persons addicted to the use of alcoholic liquors, morphine, &c, treating all diseases, &c., &c.; principal oflice, Washington, D. C.; charter issued March 10, 1894: expires, February 1, 1944; corporators, William A. Hammond, Esther D. Hammond, Clara Lanza, L. C. Irvine, M. Lanza, all of Washington, D. C.; capital subscribed, $500.00; amount paid in, $50.00; capital authorized, $200,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

THE FENWICK GAS AND OIL COMPANY, acquiring and holding gas and oil lands and developing the same, acquire and hold necessary real estate, &c., &c.; principal office, Lancaster, Ohio; charter issued March 12, 191; expires, January 1, 1940; corporators, Hugh Ewing, Henrietta Ewing, Marie Ewing, George Ewing, Fenwick Ewing, all of Lancaster, Ohio: capital subscribed, $500.00; amount paid in, $50.00; capital authorized, $400,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

THE FAIRMONT AND GRAFTON GAS COMPANY, leasing, buying, selling, operating, &c.. lands for oil and natural gas, and disposing of the products of the same, &c.. &c.: principal office, Fairmont, West Virginia: charter issued March 12, 1894, expires March 10, 1944; corporators, James W. Rowland, Franklin, Pennsylvania, Jacob J. Gosser, Emlenton, Pennsylvania. William J. McConnell, Franklin, Pennsylvania, Thomas B. Gregory, Foxbury, Pennsylvania, Edward M. Grant, Morgantown, West Virginia; capital subscribed, $25,000.00; amount paid in, $2,500.00; capital authorized, $300,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

THE TRADERS' COMPANY, erection and owning building or buildings in Clarksburg, West Virginia, part to be used as hotel and part as an opera house, &c., &c.; principal office, Clarksburg, West Virginia; charter issued March 12, 1894, expires March 10, 1944; corporators, T. M. Jackson, W. Brent Maxwell, Fleming Howell. John Bassell, C. Sprigg Sauds, L. S. Horner, J. S. Harnee, D. P. Morgan, all of Clarksburg, West Virginia: capital subscribed. $800.00; amount paid in, $80.00; capital authorized, $1,000,000.00; par valae shares, $100.00.

EMPIRE STATE FUEL GAS COMPANY, manufacturing and selling gas for fuel and other purposes, erecting and selling works, selling implements, &c., &c.; principal office, Buffalo, New York; charter issued March 13, 1894, expires March 1, 1944; corporators, Spencer S. Bullis. Olean, New York, Jesse H. Poole. Frank Rumsey, both of Buffalo, New York, JR Droney, W. L. Frazee, both of Olean, New York; capital subscribed, $500,000; amount paid in, $50 00; capital authorized, $1,500,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

W. M. COX GROCER COMPANY, owning and carrying on a wholesale business in staple and fancy groceries, provisions, tobacco and other specialties; principal office, Parkersburg, West Virginia; charter issued March 13, 1894, expires March 3, 1914; corporators, Wm. M. Cox, J. H. Shrewsberry, John C. Brohard; A. B. White, C. A. Moss, all of Parkersburg, West Virginia; capital subscribed, $500.00; amount paid in, $50.00; capital authorized, $100,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

METZEROTT MUSIC COMPANY, dealing in music and musical instruments, both at wholesale and retail, manufacture and sale of same, &c., &c,; principal office, Charlestown, Jefferson county, W. Va.; charter issued March 14, 1891, expires March 7, 1914: corpora

tors, Frank B. Metzerott, Henriette C. Metzerott, Henriette P. Metzerott, all of Prince George county, Md., Joseph E. Luckett, George M. Colton, both of Washington, D. C.; capital subscribed, $250.00; amount paid in, $25.00; capital authorized, $100,000.00; par value shares, $50.00.

BLUEFIELD ELECTRIC RAILWAY COMPANY, building a railroad, commencing at Bluefield Mercer county, W. Va., thence to a point in the state line between W. Va.. and Va., near Graham; principal office, Bluefield, W. Va.; charter issued March 15, 1894, continues perpetually: corporators, John M. Wirgman, William H. Triol, J. Walter White, Frederick W. Halsey, Robert J. Ringwalt, all of Philadelphia, Pa.; capital subscribed, $500.00; capital authorized, $20,000.00; par value shares $100.00.

THE CONSOLIDATED BUILDING LOAN AND TRUST CO. encouraging industry, frugality and home building and saving among its members, make loans, purchase lands, &c., &c.; principal office. Wheeling, West Virginia: charter issued March 15, 1894, expires January 1, 1940: corporators, L. D. Wilson, T. S. Riley, A H. Wiedebush, Ferdinand J. Wingerter, A G. Hadlick, A. D. Garden, Seaton Alexander, John J. Sleekey, Geo. J. Mathison. all of Wheeling, West Virginia; John T. McGraw, of Grafton, West Virginia; capital subscribed, $10.000.00; amount paid in, $100.00; capital authorized, $500,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

THE COLUMBIAN GLASS COMPANY, manufacturing, using, &c, glass insulators and other kind of glass goods, licensing to others the right to manufacture, &c, any kind of glass goods, &c.; principal office, Boston, Massachusetts; charter issued March 18, 1894; expires, January 1, 1944; corporators, Charles H. Jenkins, Arlington, Massachusetts, William W. Downs, Somerville, Massachusetts, William H. Pearce, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Frank N. Glover, Ralph M. Glover, both of Mount Vernon, New York; capital subscribed, $1,000.00; amount paid in, $100.00; capital authorized, $500,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

BERKELEY CANNING COMPANY, canning, &c., fruit and vegetables, buying and selling the same, making cider and jellies and anything appertaining to said business, &c.; principal office, Martinsburg, West Virginia; charter issued March 20, 1894; expires. January 1, 1944; corporators. J. N. Thatcher, Alex. Claton, Chas. H. Miller, has J. Seibert, U. Š. G. Pitzer, all of Martinsburg, West Virginia, J. W. Wood, Hedgesville, West Virginia; capital subscribed, $150.00; amount paid in, $15.00; capital authorized, $25,000.00; par value shares, $25.00.

WHEELING TENT AND AWNING COMPANY, manufacturing and constructing tents, awning and flags, buying, leasing and selling the same, and all sorts of goods, &c.: principal office, Wheeling, West Virginia: charter issued March 23, 1894, expires March 17, 1944; corporators, Theodore Roller, Edmund C. Roller, Carrie B. Roller, Olga Roller. J. C. Williams, all of Wheeling. West Virginia; capital subscribed, $2,000.00; amount paid in, $200.00; capital authorized, $20,000.00; par value shares, $50.00.

ELECTRIC HEATING AND COOKING COMPANY OF WEST VIRGINIA, manufacturing, operating, &c., apparatus, appliances, &c., for heating and cooking by electricity, and for any other purpose for which electricity may be used, &c.: principal office, Baltimore, Maryland; charter issued March 21, 1894, expires April 1, 1944; corporators, George Herbert Whittingham, Baltimore, Maryland, Frank Della Torre, Baltimore county, Maryland, Charles K. Harrison, Baltimore, Maryland, Frederick Bailliere, Ellicott City, Maryland, Edward Hammond, Baltimore, Maryland: capital subscribed, $25.00; amount paid in, $25.00; capital authorized, $100,000.00; par value shares, $5.00.

NEVADA COUNTY GOLD COMPANY, mining and manufacturing business in California and elsewhere; acquire by purchase or otherwise mines, lands, building, &c., &c.; principal office, San Francisco, California; charter issued March 22, 1891, expires March 22, 1914; corporators, Stephen H. Emmens, Millie C. Ohm, Sybil F. Bagnall. H. C. McCoy, Newton W. Emmens, all of San Francisco, California; capital subscribed, $50 00; amount paid. in, $50.00; capital authorized, $1,000,000.00; par value shares, $10.00.

BOGATA-GIRARDOT RAILWAY COMPANY, acquiring concession or contract from the Government of Colombia, S. A., for the construction, &c., of railway between Girardot and Bogota, &c., &c; principal office, New York City; charter issued March 26, 1894, expires March 1, 1944; corporators, S. B. McConnico, Frank K. Kane, Winslow E. Buzby, Henry W. Allen, Joseph Trapnell, Jr., all of New York City; capital subscribed, $500.00; amount paid in, $5.00; capital authorized, $6,000,000.00; par value shares, $100 00.

INTER-CONTINENTAL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, acquiring and executing contracts for the construction and equipment of railways, telegraph and telephone lines &c., in the Republic of Columbia, South America, &c.. &c.; principal office, New York City: charter issued March 26, 1894, expires March 1, 1914; corporators. S. B McConnico, Frank K. Kane, Winslow E. Buzby, Henry W. Allen, Joseph Trapnell, Jr., all of New York City; capital subscribed, $500.00; amount paid in, $50.00; capital authorized $1,000,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

THE UNITED STATES IDENTIFICATION AND GUARANTEE CO., identification and guaranteeing persons and signatures, tracing lost heirs, restoring missing friends, &c.: principal office, Charleston, W Va.: charter issued march 26, 1894, expires March 26, 1944: corporators, John E. Bazler, 57 Broadway, Jos T. Ladd, 50 New Street. Edmond P. Schmidt, 52 Broad street, John T. Bratt, 18 Broadway, F. Burthand, 52 Broad street: capital subscribed, $50 00; amount paid in $25.00; capital authorized, $50,000.00; par value shares, $10.00.

FAIRMONT ARTIFICIAL ICE COMPANY, manufacturing, selling and delivering ice, providing cold and warm storage rooms or buildings, leasing same, &c., &c.: principal office, Fairmout, West Virginia, charter issued March 26, 1894; expires, March 22, 1944: corporators. S. B. Spencer, Monongah, West Virginia: John A. Clark, B. L. Butcher. G. F. Carrell, William S. Haymond, all of Fairmont, West Virginia; capital subscribed, $500.00; amount paid in, $50.00; capital anthorized, $50,000.00; par value shares, $100.00

SAND STONE BOOM AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY, constructing, maintaining. &c. one or more booms in New River at any point between New River Fall and the mouth of Lick Creek, Summers county, West Virginia, &c., &c.: principal office. Hinton, West Virginia; charter issued March 30, 1894: expires, April 1, 1944; J. N. Graham, New Richmond, West Virginia, J J. Swope, Hinton, West Virginia, L. E. Burdette, Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, D. S. McClure, Sunflower, West Virginia, G. C. Altare, New Richmond, West Virginia; capital subscribed, $1,000.00; amount paid in, $100.00; capital authorized $50,000.00; par value shares, $10.00

PHOENIX LITHOGRAPHIC PLATE COMPANY, manufacture and sale of lithographie zire Plates, &c., importation, purchase, &c, of lithographic stone: also purchase of patents covering the said plates, &c.; principal office, N. Y. City: charter issued March 29, 1894, expires March 20, 1944; corporators, Albert E. Curran, Heinrich Louis Benno Toobe, Wm. C. Kellogg, George W. Tomes, all of Brooklyn, New York: Charles Unangst, of New York City; capital subscribed, $1,000.00; amount paid in, $100.00; capital authorized, $500,000.00: par value shares, $100.00.

HOME BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, encouraging industry, frugality and home building, and saving among its members, loaning money to stockholders, &c., &c,: principal office, Davis, Tucker county, West Virginia; charter issued March 31, 1894, expires March 26, 1944: corporators, Chas G. Blake, Owen Williamson, J. W. Johnston, C. E. Smith, C. O. Streby, H. A. Meyer, F. Stehley, F. S. Johnson, R. G. Wilson, H. J. Wagoner, all of Davis, West Virginia; capital subscribed. $1,000.00; amount paid in, $100.00; capital authorized, $5,000,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

IDA GOLD MINING COMPANY. locating, buying, leasing, operating, &c., mining lands and claims in the state of Colorado, doing all things connected with a general mining business in said state; principal office, Charleston, West Virginia: charter issued April 2, 1894, expires March 29, 1924; corporators, George Davis, James N. Carnes, J. R. Guard, all of Charleston, West Virginia; W H Bryant, H. H. Lee, both of Denver, Colorado; capital subscribed, $500.00; amount paid in, $100.00; capital authorized, $5,000,000.00; par value shares, $1.00.

DUDLEY LUMBER COMPANY, buying and selling lumber, purchasing and operating planing mills, carrying on a lumber yard business, &c. principal office, Parkersburg, W. Va., charter issued April 2, 1894, expires March 30, 1934; corporators, L. Dudley, Adam Feik, Mat Leach, William W. Watterson, G. L. Dudley, all of Parkersburg, West Virginia: capital subscribed. $2,000.00; amount paid in, $2,000.00; capital authorized, $100,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

MUTUAL HOME AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, of Fairmont, W. Va., raising money to be loaned among the members thereof for use in buying lots and houses, in building and repairing houses, &c.; principal office Fairmont, W. Va; charter issued April 2, 1894, expires March 31, 1944; corporators, Wm. S. Haymond, Dorsey P. Fitch, F. T. Martin, Robert Talbott, Sam R. Nuzum, W. L Nuzum, H. C. Samples, C. L. Shinner, J. W. Irvin, W T. Ravenscroft. all of Fairmant, West Virginia; capital subscribed, $1,000,00; amount paid in $100.00; capital authorized, $1,000,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

EQUITABLE BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, encouraging industry, frugality and home building and saving among its members, loaning money to its stockholders, erecting houses, &c., &c.; principal office, Charleeton, West Virginia; charter issued April 3, 1894, expires April 1, 1944; corporators, T. O. M. Davis, S. C. Butler, both of Charleston, West Virginia, C. A. Monroe Meadows, Kanawha City, West Virginia, C. W. Young, D. W. Nelon, E. Sears, G. C. Stockton, W. A. Mahan, B. S. Morgan, all of Charleston, West Virginia; capital subscribed, $900.00; amount paid in, $90.00; capital authorized, $5,000,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

DELAPLAIN DRY GOODS COMPANY, buying, selling and dealing in by wholesale, all kinds of dry goods, notions, knit goods, men's and women's furnishing goods of all kinds: principal office, Wheeling, West Virginia; charter issued April 2, 1894; expires, March 31, 1944: corporators, Hulihen Quarrier, J. S. Gibbs, E. E. Baldwin, John T. Klett. E. B. Potts, all of Wheeling, West Virginia; capital subscribed, $10,000.00; amount paid in, $1,000.00; capital authorized, $500,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

KNIGHT AND COUCH COAL COMPANY, purchasing, leasing, operating and leasing to others to operate coal and timber lands, building and operating boats. &c., &c.; principal office, Charleston, West Virginia: charter issued April 4, 1894; expires, April, 4, 1944: corporators, E. B Knight, Geo. S. Couch, E. W. Knight, H. W. Knight, L W. Couch, all of Charleston, West Virginia: capital subscribed, $100,000.00; amount paid in, $100,000,00; capital authorized, $200,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

THE NATIONAL BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, encouraging industry, frugality and home building and saving among its members, loaning money to its members, purchase land, erect houses, &c.; principal office, Parsons, West Virginia; charter issued April 5, 1894, expires April 2, 1914: corporators, W. B. Maxwell, W. F. Randolph, Chas. N. Finnell, A L. Lipscomb, T. F. Hebb, D W, Ryan, J. M. Talboth, J. P. Scott, W. G Conley, ali of Parsons, West Virginia; capital supscribed, $900.00; amount paid in, $90.00; capital authorized, $5,000,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

BLUESTONE ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY, operating and maintaining an electric light and power plant in Mercer county, W. Va., furnishing electric light and power to consumers, &c; principal office. Coopers, Mercer county, W. Va.; charter issued April 5, 1894, expires April 1, 1944; corporators, John Cooper, Coopers, W Va.. B. Moore, J. P. Bowen, Jenkin Jones, Isaac T. Mann, all of Bramwell, W. Va.; capital subscribed, $16,000.00; amount paid in, $1,600,00; capital authorized, $50,000.00; par value shares $100.00.

SAVAGE REPEATING ARMS COMPANY, manufacturing, buying and selling fire-arms, ammunition and other sporting goods, to purchase, dispose, &c, of stock of any corporation &c.: principal office Utica, N. Y.: charter issued April 5, 1894, expires March 1, 1944: corporators. Richard S Reynolds, Edwin H. Risley, Arthur W. Savage, Milton E. Robinson, Henry M Love; capital subscribed $1,000.00; amount paid in $100.00; capital authorized, $250,000 (0; par value shares, $100.00.

WETZEL COUNTY COAL, OIL AND GAS COMPANY, boring, mining and excavating for petroleum, rock, coal or carbon, oil and gas and other mineral substances, &c., &c.; princiral office, Hundred, Wetzel county, West Virginia; charter issued April 6, 1894, expires May 1, 1914: corporators, W. E. Hamilton, T. B Hamilton, A. D Ayres, D. Franklin. J. B. White, W. C. Cole, A F Gilmer, Samuel Lemley, all of Hundred, West Virginia, Cordelia Ashcroft, Burton, West Virginia, J. E. Schull, Hundred West Virginia: capital subscribed, $500 00; amount paid in, $50.00; capital authorized, $200,000.00; par value shares, $50.00,

MORGANTOWN PLANING MILL COMPANY, establishing, maintaining and operating planing mills, carrying on a general lumber, wood-working and house building business, &c. principal office, Buchurst Addition to Morgantown, West Virginia: charter issued April 6, 1894; expires, December 31, 1940; corporators. S. J. Zearley, Scottdale, Pennsylvania, Z. T. Pool, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, J M. Wood, E. M. Grant, R. E. Fast, all of Morgantown, West Virginia: capital subscribed, $500.00; amount paid in, $50.00; capital authorized, $50,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

CROWN LITHOGRAPHING PUBLISHING COMPANY, lithographing, engraving. copying, printing, publishing, &c., bills, papers, cards, circulars, books, &c., &c.; principal office, Charleston, West Virginia; charter issued April 7, 1894; expires. April 1, 1914: corporators, Thos Fenstermacher, Geo. F. Jackson, Oscar Fenstermacher, John Thornburgh, Ellery C. Taukersley, all of Minneapolis, Minnesota: capital subscribed, $50.00; amount paid in, $50.00; capital authorized, $250,000.00; par value shares, $10.00.

THE THIELE CHEMICAL COMPANY, manufacturing, making, selling and vending chemicals, chemical articles, electrical articles, apparatus, &c., &c.; principal office, New York City: charter issued April 9, 1894, expires April 7, 1944: corporators, Felix C. T. Thiele, Siegfried H. Friedlander, Felix Hamburger. Siegfried Koppel, A. J. Dittenhoefer, all of New York City; capital subscribed, $1,000.00; amount paid in, 8100.00; capital authorized, $1,000,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

CHILTON COAL AND COKE COMPANY, mining, shipping and selling coal, owning and holding real estate, leasing the same to others, manufacturing coke, &c., &c.; principal office, Charleston, West Virginia: charter issued April 10, 1894, expires April 1, 1944; corporators, J. E. Chilton, G. O. Chilton, Bilton McDonald, A. M. Hainilton, C. M. Gallaher; all of Charleston, West Virginia; capital subscribed, $500.00; amount paid in, $50.00; capital authorized, $200,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

MOUNTAIN LAKE LUMBER COMPANY, acquiring, owning, &c., real estate, cutting timber and manufacturing the same into lumber: to mine and ship iron ore and other minerals. &c.; principal office, Bluefield, West Virginia; charter issued April 10, 1894, expires April 10, 1944; corporators, John Sweet, Big Rapids, Michigan, J. W. Sweet. Chicago, Illinois, Frank Woodman, W. O. Daum, C. H. Hatcher, all of Charleston, West Virginia: capital subscribed, $500.00; amount paid in, $50.00; capital authorized, $1,000,000 00; par value shares, $100.00.

THE EASTERN TALKING MACHINE COMPANY, introducing into use, using, renting, selling, &c., graphophones, phonographs, and any other analogous instruments, &c.; princi

pal office, Boston, Massachusetts; charter issued April 11. 1894, expires March 1, 1944: corporators, William H. Beck, Charles S. Bell, both of Washington, D. C.; American Graphophone Company of West Virginia, E. D. Easter. Washington, D. C., A. H. Speak, Boston, Massachusetts; capital subscribed, $5,475.00; amount paid in, $5,475.00; capital authorized, $50,000.00; par value shares, $5.00.

HUNTINGTON CONTRACTING COMPANY, solicting, making and erecting contracts for all kinds of public and private works, including the paving of roads, &c., &c.: principal office, Huntington, West Virginia: charter issued April 11, 1894, expires December 31, 1916; corporators, T. L. Doolittle, J. R. Thompson, T. H, Harvey, Z. A. Thompson. W. W. Magoon, all of Huntington, West Virginia: capital subscribed, $5,000.00; amount paid in, $500.00; capital authorized, $50,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

THE RAVEN GOLD MINING COMPANY, buy, operate, lease, &c. mining property of all kinds in the state of Colorado, and doing a general mining business. &c.: principal office, Charleston, West Virginia; charter issued April 11, 1894, expires May 1, 1914; corporators, Edward M. De La Vergne, Edwin R. Stark, Marion T. Stark, Thomas Stark, Charles E. Noble, all of Denver, Colorado; capital subscribed, $1,000.00; amount puid in, $200.00; capital authorized, $1,500,000.00; par value shares, $1.00.

LA PAZ GOLD MINING COMPANY, purchase, lease and own gold mines or other precious metals, ores, minerals, &c, operate, lease or sell the same, &c., &c.; principal office. New York City; charter issued April 12, 1894, expires March 1, 1944; corporators, David N. Brown, London, Ontario, Robert Farley, New York City, Geo. B. Mackie, Bayonne City, New Jersey, A. L. A. Mackie, Daniel Arkwright, both of New York City; capital subscribed, $3,000,000.00; amount paid in, $2,999, 0.00; capital authorized, $3,300,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

THE BUCKHANNON PLANING MILL COMPANY, buying and selling lumber and all kinds of building material, manufacturing same, doing a general planing mill business, &c., &c.; principal office, Buckhannon, West Virginia: charter issued April 12, 1894, expires December 31, 1924; corporators, Thos. A. Loud, C. C. F. McWhorter, W. J. Alexander, J. H. Grogg, L. P. Loud, all of Buckhannon, West Virginia; capital subscribed, $10,000.00; amount paid in, $10,000.00; capital authorized, $30 000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

THE ELLIOTT AIR BRAKE COMPANY, manufacturing, buying, selling and dealing in car brakes of every kinds and description, &c., &c.; principal office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; charter issued April 12, 1894; expires, March 22. 1944; corporators, Gilbert R. Elliott, Boston, Massachusetts, Geo. H. Carpenter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Thos. J. Crozier, Lawndale, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wm. H. Dock, Isaac Collins, both of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: capital subscribed, $5,000,000.00; amount paid in, $500,000.00; capital authorized, $5,000,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

ADVANCE IRON COMPANY, manufacturing and selling iron and steel, iron and steel castings, all other kind of castings, &c., acquire and hold necessary real estate, &c.: principal office, New York City; charter issued April 13, 1894: expires, April 1, 1944; corporators. Josiah H. Mead, Brooklyn, New York, Joshua O. Lee, Chicago, Illinois, Charles A. Murphy, Brooklyn, New York, William W. Shaw, Passaic, New Jersey, Hamilton Young, New York, New York; capital subscribed, $500.00; amount paid in, $50.00; capital authorized, $2,000,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

THE SMITH, HOBSON, BRANDT COMPANY, manufacturing, buying and selling at wholesale and retail, machinery of every description, conducting a general jobbing business in mining, mill, furnaces, &c., supplies, &c.: principal office, Huntington, West Virginia; charter issued April 14, 1894, expires February 28, 1938; corporators, E. H. Smith, Richmond, Virginia, A. M. Hobson, Ansted, West Virginia, Randolph Brandt, Flatbush, New York, T. J. Bryan, Wm. R. Thompson, both Huntington, West Virginia; capital subscribed, $15,000.00; amount paid in, $1,500.00; capital authorized, $50,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

AMERICAN PNEUMATIC COLLAR COMPANY, conducting a general manufacturing business, manufacturing, buying, &c., horse collars, saddles, &c., dealing generally in personal property, &c., &c.: principal office, New York City; charter issued April 16, 1894, expires April 1, 1944; corporators, A. L. Blackman, Noble Smithson, Joseph Brown, Silas R. Selden, all of New York City, Jefferson R. Edwards, Brooklyn, New York; capital subscribed, $500.00; amount paid in, $50.00: capital authorized, $1,000,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

THE BAY BISCAYNE FIBRE GROWING COMPANY, cultivation, growth, &c., of tropical plants; manufacturing all kinds of materials; buy and lease land, erect buildings, &c., &c.: principal office, New York City; charter issued April 16, 1894, expires March, 1919; corporators, Charles A. Avery, Henry A. Howe, Arthur Adler, George R. Manchester, Richard H. Gatling, all of New York City; capital subscribed, $500.00; amonnt paid in, $500.00; capital authorized, $1,000,000.00; par value shares, $100.00.

CLAREMONT PACKING COMPANY, buying, selling, and exporting cattle, hogs, sheep. &c., slaughtering, packing, &c., the products of same; owning real estate, &c.; principal