Evanston Coal Mines, close-up of the mines. Uinta County, Wyoming. 1871.
Dates
Date Taken
1871
Summary
Handwritten notes on album caption: 57-HS-128. Old no. 322. Evanston Coal Mines, closeup of the mines. Yellowstone Series 1871. Uintah Co., Wyo. 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 to twenty-three feet in thickness, cropping out from the side of the mountains, with a dip of 10 degrees north of east.
Summary
Handwritten notes on album caption: 57-HS-128. Old no. 322. Evanston Coal Mines, closeup of the mines. Yellowstone Series 1871. Uintah Co., Wyo.
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 to twenty-three feet in thickness, cropping out from the side of the mountains, with a dip of 10 degrees north of east.
Descriptive catalogue of the photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories for the years 1869 to 1875, inclusive: Miscellaneous publications - No. 5
Available in the U.S. Geological Survey Denver Library Photographic Collection, Jackson, W.H. Bound Album Collection, (200)1 HMi 1871 v. 3.
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