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In 1912, Jesse Knight purchased 1,600 acres of coal land and began developing a mine and a company town. Knight named the town Storrs , after the mine superintendent. [ 2 ] The name of the town was changed to Spring Canyon in 1924. 1,000 tons of coal per day were mined from 1924 to 1943, and during World War II , coal production peaked at 2,000 ...
At the height of coal production, from 1920 to 1947, 800 tons of coal were being mined per day, with the D&RGW making as many as nine round-trips a month to the town. [6] When the railroad was abandoned in 1950, the owners of the Sego mine constructed a truck ramp in Thompson to load coal directly into the railroad cars.
Coal City is a ghost town in Carbon County, Utah, United States.Established in 1885, Coal City was initially a farming community until coal was discovered in the area. Small-scale mining began to take place, and because the mining operations were a mile or two away from the mines at National and Consumers, it was assumed that the citizens of the town would lack workplace s
The mine is located in Emery County, Utah, in the Wasatch plateau coal field. [2] The mine is located about 140 miles (230 km) south of Salt Lake City, 34 miles (55 km) southeast of Fairview, and about 15 miles (24 km) west north-west of Huntington.
Winter Quarters is a ghost town in Carbon County, Utah, United States. Coal was discovered in the area in 1875, and later that year, the Pleasant Valley Coal Company began coal mining operations. A group of coal miners was delayed during an early winter storm in 1877, which led to the town's name of Winter Quarters. [2]
The coal mine is one of the busiest in the state and produces about 28% of Utah’s coal. For nearby residents to Lila Canyon, what happens next for the miners and the truck drivers who help ...
At its peak, the town's population was about 300, [2] half of which worked in the mines. The community included thirty homes, a store, a school, the mine office, a post office, and a poolhall. [2] Coal production peaked in World War I, when 2,000 tons of coal was mined daily. [3] In 1938, coal mining activity began to decline and people began ...
By 1898, the Pleasant Valley Coal Company had acquired the rights to the coal from Tidwell. On July 4 of that year, the Sunnyside railhead was abandoned by the D&RGW, and the coal camp located in Whitmore Canyon was named Sunnyside. By 1901, the D&RGW and its subsidiary, Utah Fuel Coal Company, acquired the operation.