. Root, Vice- President and Treasurer, of Allentown, Pa.; Mr. L. C. Pursell, Second Vice-President, of Allentown, Pa.; and to Mr. James Huebner, Vice-President, Lancaster Division, Pennsylvania Power and Light Company. Most of the material in this study has been secured from data and records owned by the

and, until the internal revenue tax came into effect during the Civil War, sold at the prices quoted. The popularity of these cigars, which were among the first of Lancaster County manufactured cigars, is attested by the com- plaint made some fifty-five years ago by a then "Old Timer" who had lived to

Conestoga or a branch, because in that year he complained 'that a certain person hath seated himself near the mill he built lately at Conestoga'." Other dates, names and places are claimed for "the very first mill in Lancaster County." For example it has been claimed that the first mill was built in 1714 by