Carbon county’s coal mines,
operated by the Union Pacific las!
year produced 364,624 tons, or
19,000 car loadsjjf coaj., t[ie_ y.id.ue
Tho coal company employed 525
men, who received wages aggregat- ’
ing $236,265. Out of thirty-nine
accidents in the mines, three
proved fatal.
H. H.Taft, an expert, of Boston, |
shipped twenty tons of coal east
from Rawlins the other day. This
freight was hauled from the Sem-1
inoe silver and gold mining dis- !
trict, forty-four miles from the,
town. As hundreds of acres of
excellent coal can be secured near
the railroad, Taft’s actions are
mysterious, says the Cheyenne
Sun.
J. 11. Callahan, the popular and
competent manager of the Pacific
hotel, at Rawlins, left there last
week with his wife. They will
visit in Hudson, Mich., the home
of Nirs. Callahan, ami then Mr.
Callahan will engage in the real
estate business in Detroit. Raw
lins loses a good citizen and the
hotel company one of the most
faithful and efficient managers, in
the retirement of Mr. Callahan.
Rawlins folks are buoyed up by
the hope that a spur track will be
built this spring to the sandstone
quarries near there, from which
such excellent building stone is
taken out. It is claimed that a
contract has been made between
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