A correspondent of the Harper’s Ferry Sentinel says that Messrs. Moler and Keller have disposed of one-half interest in their ore land situated near the Virginia Ore Bank, this county, to the Sparrows Point Steel Co., near Baltimore, Md., the purchasers expecting to commence operations on the land soon.
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