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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QH8_prospecting_Superior-WY.html
In 1900, while prospecting was being carried on in the vicinity of Cumberland, Morgan Griffiths, Gus Paulsen and a party of prospectors went northeast from Rock Springs to prospect in Horse Thief Canyon, since outcrops of a promising deposit of co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QH6_working-in-the-mines_Superior-WY.html
Men and machines became the rule within the Superior Coal Field. While mules and horses were used in the early years, by the late 1930's, most of the mines had mechanized loaders, conveyors, and cutters. The cutters under-cut the coal, the loaders…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QH5_immigrants_Superior-WY.html
The people who moved into Superior were from diverse ethnic backgrounds. They came from Austria, Slovenia, England, Wales, Scotland, Germany, Italy, Japan and Greece. Other nationalities loved (sic) and worked in various Superior communities contr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QH4_town-development_Superior-WY.html
This map shows the location of the Union Pacific coal mines and coal camps built in the years between 1906 and 1910. The town of South Superior is purposefully left off this map. It was not owned by Union Pacific Coal Company and in this time peri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QH3_opening-the-mines_Superior-WY.html
Prospecting revealed that Seams Nos. 3, 1, 7, and 13, the latter also known as the Van Dyke Seam, were of sufficient thickness to justify the development of mines. Preliminary railroad surveys were made up the long canyon from Thayer Junction on t…