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Show COAL COMPANIES TO CONSOLIDATE Attorney Herbert R. MacMillan returned re-turned this week from Boston and New York, where he successfully conducted con-ducted negotiations looking toward settlement of a disagreement between the minority and majority stockholders of the Castle Valley coal company, and the merger of the Panther, Castle Valley Val-ley and Blackhawk Coal companies.and the Consolidated Fuel company into the the United States Fuel company, with $10,000,000 capital. A meeting was arranged in the east between Mr. MacMillan, R. K. Cobb of Boston, a minority stock holder of the Castle Valley coal company, and who had filed a suit in the federal court for an injunction restraining the transfer. As a result of the recent conference, Mr. Cobb is reported as having agreed to a settlement, and has withdrawn his objection ob-jection to the merger. Mr. MacMillan states that the new company will incor-1 porate in Nevada, with E. L. Carpenter o: Salt Lake city, as president. The properties of the companies involved in-volved in the proposed merger are located locat-ed in Carbon county. Moroni Heiner is president of the Castle Valley company, comp-any, a Wyoming corporation, and was largely instrumental in pushing the merger proposition through. The U. S. Smelting & Refining company is a large stockholder in the U. S. Fuel company and for several years there have been ; efforts to get all the independent mines . of the district united in one corporation. i |