Mines and Mining

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Photograph number 1: From tube 45, Super Longwall
Photograph number 2: Sunnyside Number 2 Supervision of long ago. Lauriski, Daughterty, D. Self, Bill Reavely, Markosek, Herbert, Vanwagoner, Cullen, C. Self. Cullen was Superintendent but got run out by the union.
Photograph number 3: Butcher Shop, Mine Office and Wasatch Store, Sunnyside.
Photograph number 4: Pulling coke at the Beehive ovens at Sunnyside, ended 1958.
Photograph number 5: Backfilling via flume Sunnyside, Number 3 Mine
Photograph number 6: Main parting at the head of the Sunnyside Number 2 Mine Slope at time of mine fire on August 17, 1920
Photograph number 7: Twin fan installation at the coal outcrop at fan canyon Number 1 Mine, Sunnyside.
Photograph number 8: Wreck at Columbia Junction. Defense plant Corporation. (On Jan. 22, 1944, two engines collided on the Carbon County Railway near Columbia, Utah.)
Photograph number 9: Aerial Tramway towers Spring Canyon Mine.
Photograph number 10: Another view of Spring Canyon Mine aerial tramway. This canyon is not the access via good road to Price River Coal Company Number 5 Mine and now Castle Gate Coal Company.
Photograph number 11: Trip assembly yard Castle Gate Number 2 Mine at Willow Creek. Building is the change house.
Photograph number 12: Haulage Portal Castle Gate Number 2 Mine. Bridge over Willow Creek. On March 8, 1924 this mine blew up and killed 172 men. It was a combination of dust and methane. One of the most violent explosions in the history of coal mining.
Photograph number 13: Utah Fuel Company office Sunnyside.
Photograph number 14: Spring Canyon Tipple and part of early tent camp. Office and store as indicated is where I obtained my roll top desk years ago.
Photograph number 15: Aerial Tramway headhouse Spring Canyon Mine.
Photograph number 16: Kaiser Company Inc. office in lower end of Number 2 Canyon. (Kaiser Steel operated the mine from 1943 into the 1980s)
Photograph number 17: South facing Book Cliffs overlooking the company owned town of Kenilworth. 1938 Photo. A is the Kenilworth bed. B is the Aberdeen bed. C. Is the portal site of the 8400 foot rock tunnel. E is the site of the original portals. D is the old tramway on which coal was lowered to tipple level. F is the tipple. Canyons at G and H are sites of other portals. The road in the lower right corner was the original access to the town from Price. Kenilworth townsite, now largely a retirement community, is only a little over miles east of Helper.
Photograph number 18: Castle Gate Tipple and townsite
Photograph number 19: Main parting in Kenilworth bed Kenilworth mine. This parting was just in by the 8400 foot rock tunnel.

Dates

circa 1910-1955

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