Excerpt from Investigation of Paint Creek Coal Fields of West Virginia: Report; March 9, 1914 Sixth. The investigation disclosed that large quantities of ammu nition, pistols, shotguns, rifles, and machine guns were brought into the district by both parties to the controversy and freely used. There is no evidence to prove that these shipments were made by com petitors for the purpose of creating conditions in this district so as to exclude its coal from the competitive markets in interstate trade. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.