Evanston coal mines. Uinta County, Wyoming. 1871.

Album caption and index card: Evanston coal mines, about 1 mile from the town of the same name, on the Union Pacific Railroad. These beds are the largest and most extensively worked in the west. The vein is from 22 to 23 feet in thickness, cropping out from the side of the mountains, with a dip of 10 degrees north of east. Uinta County, Wyoming. 1871. Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1871 Series, page 33, Nos. 321,322: Evanston coal-mines, about a mile from the town of the same name, on the Union Pacific Railroad. These beds are the largest and most extensively worked in the West. The vein is from twenty-two [...]