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Show BEATS THE STEEL TRUST. Independent Concern Secures Valuable Valu-able Lands in Pennsylvania. Pittsburg. Beating the United States Steel corporation, which, it Is said, had been Intending to secure the property, a deal was closed on Thursday Thurs-day by independent steel concerns for 100,000 acres of Pittsburg coal lands, lying in Green, Fayette and Washington counties, Pennsylvania, at a cost of $50,000,000. The property purchased and on which the first payment pay-ment was made, was held by J. V. Thompson of Uniontown, Pa., and associates. as-sociates. . The sale was made to a holding company, representing, it is said, every Important independent steel company in the country except the Jones & McLaughlin company of Pittsburg who are said to be not interested in-terested in the deal. |