in the village of Providence, which, after a time, passed into the hands of H. O. Silkman. It was finally burned.

Among the very largest interests of this city, the Scranton Stove-Works stand conspicuously in the foreground. It is not in the sense of manufacturing exclusively that these works have served to very materially develop the local resources of our city, but in the general and positive upholding of the many advantages Scranton possesses for all classes of manufacturing and wholesale features of trade.

The unremitting exertions to develop the unfathomable resources lying at our very doors have not only served to demonstrate scientific facts regarding it, but have been the source which has carried the name of Scranton beyond the boundary lines of this continent.

From nine to thirteen tons of stove-castings are turned out per day. This product takes the shape of this famous cook and heating stoves, dockash series, which are known beyond the Mississippi River, as well as through the Eastern markets. The works cover an area of two acres, and give employment to 150 hands.

No compliment which we can bestow would be greater than to say that, among the leaders of this trade in the country, the works in question have no rivals, which is borne out by the great extent of their trade, and certainly no statement is more merited, or will be more readily endorsed by their numerous patrons. It remains for us to say that the firm has every facility for doing the largest trade in stove-castings between Philadelphia and Pittsburg. The roster is composed of J. A. Price, President; J. A. Lansing, Secretary; A. C. Fuller, Treasurer.

GREEN RIDGE.

In 1868, GREEN RIDGE had no name or being. Upon the ancient lands of John Dings, Joshua Griffin, Henry Whaling, and Michael Lutz, embracing a green slope on the east side of the Lackawanna, opposite the Indian meadow of Capoose, a mile from the court-house, this village or appendage of Scranton has emerged within the last two decades. HON. GEORGE SANDERSON, the founder of it, a man of strong, good sense and great public spirit, enriched himself by purchasing a portion of these

acres several years ago, and encouraging a village, which, tidy and hospitable as the home of a wealthy class, depends upon Scranton proper for its subsistence, trade, and mail. It is the northern terminus of the Lehigh and Susquehanna Division of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. It has its churches, schools, stores, and street railway, and enjoys the advantages of the Delaware and Hudson Company's railroad passing through it. The new jail is being erected within its border.

SCRANTON GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED.

This young and vigorous company is located at this point. The works comprise ten lots and are run by a thirty horsepower engine and forty power boiler. The furnace-house is 80 x 100 feet, with nine ovens, which show a daily capacity for handling 8000 pounds of metal. This is shown every night in the form of 125 gross of bottles, in turn representing druggists' glassware, beer and soda bottles, wine glasses, and flasks. Eighty-five men and boys are employed throughout the furnacerooms, packing-houses, batch-house, box-shops, crucible-shop, and sand- and crusher-house. The annual product will reach a value amounting to $100,000. They have a standing order from one large establishment in Chicago for all the ink bottles they can make. A special force is kept on this order. Mr. Samuel Hinds is president; Charles Henwood, treasurer; and M. A. Goodman, superintendent.

GREEN RIDGE IRON-WORKS, A. L. SPENCER, PROPRIETOR.

With a capital of $60,000, these works are run by three engines, one of which is fed with culm, while the others use coal costing $1.80 at the bed. An annual output of about four thousand tons of wrought iron, which appears on the market in the form of rails, bar-iron, toe-cork steels, strap-rails, band-iron, horseshoe iron, truck- and car-axles, with something of a specialty in twenty-five pound iron T rails. A force of thirty men are employed. Scrap-iron is purchased by Spencer to any extent, and contracts are solicited by the Green Ridge Iron-Works for working over scrap-iron.

Here are again displayed the direct and positive facilities held out by Scranton's peculiar location and other undisguised natu

ral advantages for the successful conduct of iron manufacturing.

While Lackawanna and adjacent counties supply the market for the products of these works, other sections of this and adjoining States would be equally quick to respond to a greater and more diversified product. It can be added that flat, round, and square iron is shown by these works.

The scrap-iron manufactured by Mr. Spencer is superior in texture and durability.

UP THE VALLEY.

CARBONDALE.

This place was named before the Wurts's had erected a cabin upon its site. The name was compounded by these gentlemen in Philadelphia, in 1822, from carbon found in the dale. D. Yarrington, an old gentleman living in Carbondale, was boarding upon the mountain, in Rix's Gap, at that time when a lumber two-horse wagon loaded with tools, powder, and camp paraphernalia, driven by a weary teamster, stopped at the Mountain Inn to rest after his long journey. The teamster, upon whom devolved the task of finding the unnamed, unknown place, being asked where he was going with his strange load, replied, "To Carbondale." No one knew where this was, but his loaded stuff was prominently marked in large letters," Carbondale, 143 miles from Philadelphia on the Lackawanna River, Luzerne County, Penna."

Mr. Yarrington, knowing that some fellows with vague notions of stone coal had been digging in the woods down by the Lackawanna, some three miles from the Mountain Inn, directed the bewildered teamster to the camp-ground under the hemlocktrees, and then christened Carbondale.

William Wurts the elder paid me a visit in 1857, and gave me the above facts. He then had a bad cough and was exceedingly feeble. He died in 1858.

The city was the first to be incorporated within the limits of Luzerne County, the act of Assembly creating it bearing date March 15, 1851. On the 15th of December, 1850, a large fire destroyed the greater portion of the village, which contained about five thousand inhabitants.

The present population of the city is estimated at 9000. It had a court-house, but the division of the county extinguished its court in 1878. It has two banks, with an aggregate capital of $160,000, twenty public schools, two newspapers, seven churches, a superior water-works, and two military companies. HORATIO S. PIERCE, although a resident of Scranton, is president of the First National Bank, and is regarded as one of the most popular and prosperous men in the Lackawanna Valley.

THE SOLDIERS' MONUMENT.

In May, 1885, Carbondale erected a suitable monument upon the square for her patriotic dead. It was the first city in Lackawanna County to place a stone to commemorate the men who died to save the nation when in peril. The W. H. Davis Post, Commander J. M. Alexander, and the citizens, generally, liberally contributed to the expense of its erection. The monument was dedicated on Memorial Day, May 30, with the most impressive ceremony by various Posts and by the people of the upper end of the county. Its erection was alike creditable to the patriotism and the liberality of the citizens of Carbondale.

VAN BERGEN & CO.'S WORKS.

These works are located here. They are the oldest in the county of Lackawanna, being established in 1833, under the influence of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company.

In 1850, J. Benjamin & Co. conducted the business. In 1873 the present firm entered, and made many alterations and improvements both in men and machinery. Five acres of land are occupied by the machine-shops, pattern- and smith-shops, storagehouses, store, and other necessary buildings. Throughout the entire works the machinery is of modern design and most improved kind, all driven by an engine of sixty horse-power. A large force of qualified mechanics and machinists are constantly engaged in building engines and all kinds of mining machinery. Castings of iron and brass and car-wheels and other fixtures are turned out in large quantities, while repairing machinery in general is made a specialty. The firm is also engaged in the sale of general hardware goods, water-, gas-, and steam-pipe of every description.

Mr. J. B. VAN BERGEN was born in the State of New York, but for many years has been a resident of Carbondale, filling several offices of trust, and was elected mayor for four consecutive terms, from 1869 to 1873.

JERMYN.

Five miles below Carbondale stands the quiet village of Jermyn. A small brook, called Rush Brook, rushes through a defile in the mountain, and from thence the name of Rushdale was applied to the place; afterwards called Baconville, then Gibsonburg, and finally Jermyn, from John Jermyn, who operated here in coal a few years ago. Like all the villages along the Lackawanna, its life depends upon coal-mining, which is carried on by the Delaware and Hudson Company, whose railroad runs through it. Excellent water from a mountain stream comes into the village, which is supplied with churches, schools, stores, hotels, and drug-stores, enjoying a population of about three thousand.

THE JERMYN COFFIN- AND CASKET-WORKS.

These works are located here, and, in spite of strikes, suspensions, and hard times, furnishes peaceful homes for the occupants of a vast territory. John Jermyn is president of the company, which employs thirty-five skilled workmen the year round.

MOOSIC POWDER-WORKS.

Half a mile below Jermyn is located the Moosic PowderWorks. There are three powder-mills within the county in an area of fifteen miles,-one on Spring Brook, at Moosic, one on the mountain south of Olyphant, and this one.

The capital of this company, which was organized in 1865, was $100,000, and it had a capacity of two hundred kegs a day. In 1869 the firm of Laflin, Boies & Yurik, owners of the old Raynor Works at Moosic, was consolidated with the Moosic Powder Company, and the capital was increased to $300,000. The present capacity of the works is 1000 kegs per day. It is in a thrifty condition. H. M. Boies is president of the company, and J. C. Platt treasurer. Both gentlemen are well known

and highly esteemed. Their main office is in Scranton.