Updates for April, 2019

Move slide from 1912.

1.  April 5, 1919.  Casper newspaper added.

2.  April 12, 1919.  Newspapers added.

3.  April 18, 1919.  Item about Osage post office added.

Rock Springs Coal.

Rock Springs has several coal related monuments and items on a park downtown located where it's old classic railroad depot is located.  Indeed, the park borders on being a little busy as a result.

This is one of the items there, a State of Wyoming historical sign.  If you click on the photo, you can get a larger version of the photo.

Coal was a major industry in the town, and indeed an entrance to an underground mine, now decommissioned, is very near this park.  In fact, the development of the town over the former underground shafts and tunnels has proven to be a bit of a problem in later years.

A Monument To The Union Pacific No. 1 Mine.

A monument, in Rock Springs, Wyoming, to the first mine in that district.

The mine was, not too surprisingly, a Union Pacific mine. Started in 1868, the coal fueled the transcontinental railroad.

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