, 1892-02-13
GIenrock, Its Pleasant Location
and Attractive Surroundings.
Fine Building Stone Which |
Ships TO Chicago.
The Recently Flooded Coal Mine
Reopened and Working.
Good Ranches and Opportunities
for Investment.
STAFF o


lage which. though vet small and very
young, evidently has a very bright future
before 1t. Built on a prominent eleva-
ton, half a mile or more south OF the
Platte river and on the west side of clear
running Deer creek, which is not frozen
even now. Glenrock commands a fine
view of the valley as well as the romantic
rock ribbed bills to the south where a
world of wealth, the most beautiful
building stone, has already been uncov-
cred. Excellent indeed must be the pro-
duct of
THE vERNoN TON oUARRIEs
When it can be shipped from Central
Wyoming and exchanged for the East
erner's cash. The Vernon Brown Stone
companY's quarries are located about
seven miles east of Gleurock On a spur
from the main tracks of the Northwest
ern. Men are now at work In the quar-
ries and thousands OF feet of the stone
are piled up ready for shipment which
will begin next month. The first cou-
tract of the season is for 80. 900 worth of
this stone to be delivered In st. Louis.
By some it may be considered a misfor-
tuue that so many of the good things OF
Wyoming should be owned by non-resi-
dents, but 1t is nevertheless a source of
pride to know that at so early a date the
illimitable and most common resources of
this state, coal and stone, are being de-
ualnraA Tho nrpara - tIa,o 1900
quarries are eastern men of wealth.
Horace G.. Chase OF Chicago is presi-
dent, Samuel NJ. Chase of Chicago is
secretary and treasurer, Sylvester Mar
Adams is, or has been, the quarry sup
e%rintendent and resident manager. j. f.
Berg, foreman, is in charge of the quarry
now. Last summer from fifty to seventy
five men worked in the quarry and ship
ments we're made to Omaha and Chicago.
There are two kinds of steue. buff and
reddish brown. 1t has been used for
tombstones. and Mrs. Rhoades of Casper
is now having a nine foot monument
made of it at a cost of $3.50. Six large
derricks have been placed at the quarries,
steam drills aud the latest machinery are
used. Slabs can be taken from these i'm.
mense quarries any size desired. Some
dressed samples OF this most excellent
stone were secured by the writer and will
be kept at The LEADER Office. Your
correspondent is informed that A. M.
Graft of Douglas also owns immense
1uarries adjoining those mentioned. but
as MIR. Craft was not seen no particulars
were learned.
TIE DEER COAL COMPANY,
Owns and operates the Glenrock mine.
From this mine is derived Glenrock's
chief source of support at the present
time. The mine is situated Just across
Deer creek to the east Of the town, and
is now working sixty-two men. The out
put is about 200 tons per day. Miners
get seventy. five cents = ton and make 50
to 50. so a day. The cause of so small a
force being worked is that last summer
the mine caught on fire, was flooded for a
long time and was not reopened until De-
cemDer, when of course most dealers had
placed their orders. A good spring trade
Is looked for and 1t is expected that the
output will continually GROW larger. The
vein now being worked averages about
seven feet thick aud in quality is a first
class domestic coal. As a steam producer
the Glenrock coal does very well in sta
tionarv engines. 1t is marketed mostly
In Nebraska, but some of 1T is shipped
to Cheyenne. Fremont, Neb, parties
own this mine. f. B. Harrison is the
gentlemanly manager.
THE NINE VISITED.
The LEADER correspondent had the
pleasure Of IA trip through the mine ac-
c%ompanied by Noah Young. the foreman.
Once in the cars aud whirlinR through
the darkness. the trip to the bowels of
the earth was made In a jiffy. Reaching
the face of the slope, l,4l2 feet in and at
a perpendicular depth of about lOS feet,
we alighted from the GERS aud began an
inspection OF the entire room and places
where last summers fire left its destruc-
tive mark and came so near being the
death of eleven miners. This mine is SO
well ventilated. As. 900 cubic feet of air
per minute beinE furnished by the twelve
loot fans, that no oppression whatever
was noticed even BY one unused to being
underground.
RESCUED FROM DEATH.
Readers OF THE LEADER will remember
the account of Jim Payton's trip into the
burning mine last summer when he risked
his own life to warn the miners of their
impending danger. The mine had caught
fire near the air passage. which is only a
few hundred feet from the opening.
Famed by the downward current the
greedy flames sucked up the powder-like
coal and dry timbers as the incoming tide
overrolls the sands. The intervening
space between the point where the all
passage crosses the track and the opening
Of the mine was fast becoming filled with
smoke and dangerous gas, thus cutting
on the only avenue OF escape to the