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If you see a photograph here that you would like a larger picture of e-mail Kathy Hamaker. I'd be happy to e-mail you the photo file so you can print it out on your computer. Please be sure to include the file name and file location on your e-mail. If you have any photographs in your possession that you would like to donate I'd be happy to add them to the webpage.

Please do not ask me to send you all the photos in my collection. It isn't going to happen but I would be happy to send you five or six photos. Send me the file names and location for the photos you want and I'll do my best to reply quickly. Thank you for you for visiting.

The following collection of photos was donated by John Taylor. John Taylor is an avid postcard collector and has many postcards in his collection from Carbon County. He has scanned and donated photo files of those that are relevent to Carbon County.Thank you, John Taylor, for your donation. If you would like copies of these photos please e-mail Kathy Hamaker. Additional photos from this collection can be found in the Hiawatha, Castle Gate, Mohrland, Kenilworth, and Price collections.

John Taylor collection

	Name: Homes - Location: SpringCanyon/JohnTaylor/storrs-1 Homes of Storrs in the early days taken in about 1916.
	Name: Homes - Location: SpringCanyon/JohnTaylor/storrs-2 Upper road (Sowbelly Gulch) to the power house that is still standing (Devils Playhouse). The scaffolding is the original bucket and pulley system designed by a Scottish engineer in 1914 specifically for the ledge mining in Spring Canyon.
	Name: Mining - Location: Storrs/JohnTaylor/JTstorrs3 Carbon County News 1914-10-01 With a roar that could be heard for miles, a boiler in the power plant of Spring Canyon Coal company at Storrs, this county, blew up Monday morning, completely wrecking the power plant, killing two outright and injuring five. This photo shows the damage created when the boiler blew up.
	Name: Mining - Location: Storrs/JohnTaylor/JTstorrs4 Carbon County News 1914-10-01 The explosion was terrific. Minature geysers of steam and boiling water shot forth and enveloped the power room in a maze of scalding vapor. like a shell from a howitzer the boiler was hurled through the roof of the building, landing on the hillside, 100 years away.
	Name: Mining - Location: SpringCanyon/JohnTaylor/JTtramway Aerial Tramway The Bleichert aerial tramway of the Spring Canyon Coal Company conveyed the coal from the mine to the tipple at Storrs, located 3,200 feet distant and 350 feet lower. The tramway buckets each had a capacity of 2,400 pounds each...

Jenn Freebairn

Name: Mining - Location: SpringCanyon/JennFreebairn/Scan0001, Scan0002, Scan0003 Spring Canyon Coal Company miners, September 22, 1942 Back Row (left to right): Bill Bailey, Deloy Safley, Herman Allred, Dick Brown, Earl Hamelwriglet, George Fletcher, Bill Sherman, --- Buhannan, Joe Broderick, Ben Anderson and Homer Jolley Front Row (left to right): Jack Richards, Damon Gregg, Ted Bills, Wilford Biggs, Merril Allred, Glen Anderson, Clair Wall, Dave Self, Frank Stimac, Reed Brady, Sam Davis

C.A. Hamaker Collection

Name: Mining - Location: SpringCanyon/CAHamaker/SpringCanyon1 The remains of the mine shop building at the Spring Canyon mine

Malcolm Howard Collection

Visit Malcolm Howard Photography for more of his photos.

	Name: Mining - Location: SpringCanyon/MalcolmHoward/Mineshop1 Mine shop building at the Spring Canyon mine.
	Name: Mining - Location: SpringCanyon/MalcolmHoward/Mineshop2 Mine shop building at the Spring Canyon mine.
	Name: Mining - Location: SpringCanyon/MalcolmHoward/manwayNo1 The remains of the "Manway No 1" portal is found near the mine shop building at the Spring Canyon mine.
	Name: Mining - Location: SpringCanyon/MalcolmHoward/SpringCanyon2 This rock formation stands at the V in the road. The road on the left goes to Standardville and the road on the right side goes to Spring Canyon Town. At the top of the rock formation was a tennis court for the use of Spring Canyon residents and on the left side of the mountain the rock is in the formation of an Indian face. The Indian face is visable in this photo.

Beth Allred Collection

	Name: Town - Location: SpringCanyon/BethAllred/sprcanyon1 Homes in Spring Canyon
	Name: Mining - Location: SpringCanyon/BethAllred/sprcanyon3 It looks like a row of mine cars have came off the train tracks and slid down the side of the mountain into the building. Photo possibly taken at the time of the boil explosion.
	Name: Town - Location: SpringCanyon/BethAllred/sprcanyon4 Overlooking the homes in Spring Canyon.

Joyce Hanna Stoddard Collection

	Name: Town - Location: SpringCanyon/JoyceHannaStoddard/sprcanyon2 Rows of homes in the early townsite of Storrs.
	Name: Town - Location: SpringCanyon/JoyceHannaStoddard/firsthome The first home built in Storrs. It was complete with a kitchen sink, inside toilet and four rooms.
	Name: Town - Location: SpringCanyon/JoyceHannaStoddard/earlydays Photo shows the early construction of the houses and the store.
	Name: Town - Location: SpringCanyon/JoyceHannaStoddard/traintracks This photo shows mine buildings, railroad cars filled with coal and the train tracks at Spring Canyon. Sam Faddis layed all the track line with his crew.
	Name: Town - Location: SpringCanyon/JoyceHannaStoddard/SamFaddisCrew Sam Faddies' Section Gang - Back row: Jos Reese, Chas. (Fuzzy) Clark, Tom Bird, Wilford Simister, Dave Swanson. Front row: Grover Sommers, Billy Sommers, Robert Faddies, Samuel Joseph Faddies, Samuel Faddies, Nobel Farnsworth. (Sam Faddies is in the famous picture of the two big steam engines at Promontory Point in 1869.)

Gary Ungricht Collection

	Name: Mining - Location: SpringCanyon/GaryUngricht/SCminers1 Dan & Orson Ungricht about 1910. Old car and washing machine can be seen in the background.
	Name: Mining - Location: SpringCanyon/GaryUngricht/SCminers2 Spring Canyon mine entrance about 1910. Dan Ungricht is second from left and his brother Orson Ungricht is sixth from left. If you know any of the other miners please contact Kathy Hamaker.
	Name: Mining - Location: SpringCanyon/GaryUngricht/SCminers3 Eight man coal mining crew at Spring Canyon at the opening of the mine about 1910. Dan Ungricht top - far left. Orson Ungricht top - far right. Front row second from left: Sam Faddis. If you know any of the other miners please contact Kathy Hamaker.

Michael Francis Collection

Name: Mining - Location: SpringCanyon/MichaelFrancis/greekband circa 1915 - Greek band in Spring Canyon. Pavlos Rutzakis, is the third adult from right, playing the Cretan Lyra. Fourth from the left, back row, is Demetri Frantzeskakis, nineth from the right, standing, with the dark shirt, white tie, is Mike Frantzeskakis (Francis), and 8th from right, with cigarette in his mouth, is Frank Frantzeskakis (Francis). The musicians on either side are playing the Gaides (a Greek bagpipe.) Photo donated by Marge Rutzakis Cougiamtzakis.

Ralph P. Anderson Collection

Name: Mining - Location: SpringCanyon/RalphPAnderson/RPFtipple Spring Canyon Coal Company Tipple with railroad cars full of coal.

Eldon Miller Collection

The following photos have been donated by Eldon Miller to the Carbon County Historical Society and the Carbon County UTGenWeb webpage. These photographs have been donated to Eldon Miller by many different sources. If you donated them to Eldon and would like your name to accompany the photograph please e-mail Kathy Hamaker and I'll add it. Special thanks goes to Michael Francis for scanning the photographs so they could be added to the webpage.

	Name: Mining - Location: SpringCanyon/EldonMiller/springcanyon Tipple at Spring Canyon
	Name: Mining - Location: SpringCanyon/EldonMiller/tipple Tipple at Spring Canyon
	Name: Mining - Location: SpringCanyon/EldonMiller/D-01 Spring Canyon flood - August 1943
	Name: Town - Location: SpringCanyon/EldonMiller/D-02 Spring Canyon flood - August 1943
	Name: Town - Location: SpringCanyon/EldonMiller/D-03 Spring Canyon flood - August 1943
	Name: Town - Location: SpringCanyon/EldonMiller/D-04 Spring Canyon flood - August 1943
	Name: Mining - Location: SpringCanyon/EldonMiller/D-05 Spring Canyon flood - August 1943
	Name: School - Location: SpringCanyon/EldonMiller/C-49 A class of students on the steps of the Spring Canyon LDS Church house. Mr. Steele was the principal. Front row, second for right is Elsie Cochran (Peirson).
	Name: Schooling - Location: SpringCanyon/EldonMiller/C-50 A class of students on the steps of the Spring Canyon LDS Church house. 1929 7th grade - Joseph Bunderson, Teacher The following information appeared with this photograph but it is unknown which name goes with which individual. Front L to R: Wanda Warren, Ruth Palmerie, Lucille Walker, Sophia Nielsen (Critchlow), Beatrice Phelps (Dr. Phelps sister), Lynn _____, Valdo Deign, Max Stewart, Harold Johnson, Glen Heath, Doyle Simmons, Behind Beatrice, Vernice Howard ?, Tommy Dowed, Bill (last kid on steps) Clyde Hunter, Harry Redford, Beth Livingston, Jane Seeley, Anna Laura Watkins, Walda Laird, Annie Cullen, Vaunda Day ?? This picture appeared twice in the collection. On the second photo the following students were identified: Ruth, Sophia Nelson, Gallard Jumper, Stan Cadez, Mal Stewart
	Name: Town - Location: SpringCanyon/EldonMiller/J-15 Store at Spring Canyon in the early 1920's
	Name: Town - Location: SpringCanyon/EldonMiller/N-46 Storrs bakery delivery truck with driver in front.





Photographs of Rains

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If you see a photograph here that you would like a larger picture of e-mail Kathy Hamaker. I'd be happy to e-mail you the photo file so you can print it out on your computer. Please be sure to include the file name and file location on your e-mail. If you have any photographs in your possession that you would like to donate I'd be happy to add them to the webpage.

Please do not ask me to send you all the photos in my collection. It isn't going to happen but I would be happy to send you five or six photos. Send me the file names and location for the photos you want and I'll do my best to reply quickly. Thank you for you for visiting.

Michael Francis Collection

Name: Town - Location: Rains/MichaelFrancis/Rutzakiswed Pavlos and Theodosa Rutzakis married 1921 in Spring Canyon. The photo is actually a second wedding photo taken some years after they were married. Pavlos didn't like the first wedding photo because he was sick with scarlet fever and had lost a lot of his famous red hair. Pavlos Rutzakis was sheriff in the mid 1920's to mid 1930's in Rains. Photo courtesy of Marge Rutzakis Cougiamtzakis.

Name: Town - Location: Rains/MichaelFrancis/Rutzakisbro Pavlos Rutzakis of Spring Canyon is sitting on the right in his traditional Cretan outfit, including the pistol in the sash. Also in the photo are his brothers George, Steve and Harry. Pavlos later became the sheriff of Rains. Photo courtesy of Marge Rutzakis Cougiamtzakis.

Lynn Wedel Collection

	Name: Town - Location: Rains/LynnWedel/Rains-1 This photo of Rains shows the mountainside with several homes and a church building taken about 1925-1930.
	Name: Town - Location: Rains/LynnWedel/Rains-2 This photo is taken about 1925-1930 and shows a group of people on the caboose of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad train.
	Name: Town - Location: Rains/LynnWedel/Rains-3 Buildings in Rains. Taken about 1925-1930.
	Name: Town - Location: Rains/LynnWedel/Rains-4 Mountains at Rains. Taken about 1925-1930.

Dale Reid Collection

Name: Town - Location: Rains/DaleReid/bathhouse A picture of a hand drawn sketch of the bathhouse in Rains.

Eldon Miller Collection

The following photos have been donated by Eldon Miller to the Carbon County Historical Society and the Carbon County UTGenWeb webpage. These photographs have been donated to Eldon Miller by many different sources. If you donated them to Eldon and would like your name to accompany the photograph please e-mail Kathy Hamaker and I'll add it. Special thanks goes to for scanning the photographs so they could be added to the webpage.

	Name: Town - Location: EldonMiller/bookA/A-01 An overview of some of the homes in Rains.
	Name: Town - Location: EldonMiller/bookA/A-02 An overview of some of the homes in Rains.
	Name: Town - Location: EldonMiller/bookA/A-05 An overview of some of the homes in Rains.
	Name: Town - Location: EldonMiller/bookA/A-06 The tipple at Rains.
	Name: Town - Location: EldonMiller/bookA/A-09 Overview of the coal camp of Rains.
	Name: Town - Location: EldonMiller/bookA/A-10 Overview of the coal camp of Rains.
	Name: Town - Location: EldonMiller/bookI/I-07 Remains of the bath house in Rains in 1971.
	Name: Town - Location: EldonMiller/bookI/I-08 Company mine house, 1942, in Rains. Each house had four rooms: two bedrooms, a kitchen, a front room, a lean to porch, coal shed, and a rock wall built to keep flood water out.
	Name: Town - Location: EldonMiller/bookI/I-09 Children of Franklin R. Jones and Mary Julia Pulsipher Back: Charles Franklin Jones Front row, left to right: Parley Helaman Derby Jones, Elydor Elwood Jones & Winifred Jones. Information about photo received from Cassandra Broadhead.
	Name: Town - Location: Rains/EldonMiller/rainssnow Rains in the wintertime.





Wattis

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If you see a photograph here that you would like a larger picture of e-mail Kathy Hamaker. I'd be happy to e-mail you the photo file so you can print it out on your computer. Please be sure to include the file name and file location on your e-mail. If you have any photographs in your possession that you would like to donate I'd be happy to add them to the webpage.

Please do not ask me to send you all the photos in my collection. It isn't going to happen but I would be happy to send you five or six photos. Send me the file names and location for the photos you want and I'll do my best to reply quickly. Thank you for you for visiting.

Ervin Alexander Shaw

	A home in Wattis in 1936
	Ladies of the Moose Lodge. Marva Mae Horsley Shaw is fourth from the right.
	This photo shows six of the ladies that lived in Wattis. From left to right: Gertrude Fish, Fern Houskeeper Shaw (husband: Lee Shaw), Dorothy Olsen, Marva Mae Horsley Shaw, Mary Mae Ellis Barker (husband: Wesley Ray Barker) & Joan Harwood.

Eugene Wells Collection

Name: Town - Location: Wattis/EugeneWells/starpoint Starpoint near Wattis

Coreena Johnson Collection

	Name: Town - Location: Wattis/CoreenaJohnson/wattis1 Homes in town
	Name: Town - Location: Wattis/CoreenaJohnson/wattis2 Homes in town
	Name: Town - Location: Wattis/CoreenaJohnson/wattis3 Homes in town

Ray & Allison Hamaker Collection

	Name: Town - Location: Wattis/Ray&Allison/house3 The corrals near the home of Clifford Smith in Wattis. Photo was taken in 1982
	Name: Town - Location: Wattis/Ray&Allison/house1 Home of Clifford Smith in Wattis. Photo was taken in 1982
	Name: Town - Location: Wattis/Ray&Allison/house2 Home of Clifford Smith in Wattis with the mountain cliff in the background. Photo was taken in 1982
	Name: Town - Location: Wattis/Ray&Allison/house4 Home of Clifford Smith in Wattis. Right next to the home is a concrete pad on which there was a bar (a saloon) that served the people of the town. Photo was taken in 1982
	Name: Town - Location: Wattis/Ray&Allison/overview Overview of coal loadout, coal pile, and company buildings at Wattis. Photo was taken in 1982
	Name: Mining - Location: Wattis/Ray&Allison/mine1 Inside the mine at Wattis. Photo was taken in 1982
	Name: Mine - Location: Wattis/Ray&Allison/mine2 Inside the mine at Wattis. Photo was taken in 1982
	Name: Mine - Location: Wattis/Ray&Allison/mine3 Mine equipment inside the mine at Wattis. Photo was taken in 1982
	Name: Mine - Location: Wattis/Ray&Allison/mine4 Inside one of the mining buildings. Photo was taken in 1982

Henry Trauntvein Family Collection

Name: People - Location: Wattis/TrauntveinLH/MyrnaTrauntvein Myrna Trauntvein, as a baby, in Wattis. Some of the homes of Wattis can be seen in the background.

Richard Bissell Collection

Name: People - Location: Wattis/ Homes in Wattis. (larger version of photo is not available.)

Sun Advocate Newspaper Collection

Special thanks is given to Rick Shaw, publisher of Sun Advocate newspaper, for donating these photos.

	Name: Town - Location: Wattis/SunAdvocate/WattisUtah1943 An overview of the town of Wattis taken from the top of the mountain.
	Name: Town - Location: Wattis/SunAdvocate/WattisMineOpening Two men standing in front of the Wattis mine opening on a winter day.
	Name: Town - Location: Wattis/SunAdvocate/1930JapaneseCamp Photo is named by Sun Advocate "Wattis Utah 1930 Showing the Japanese camp on the hill". Caption under the photo reads, "Upper street of Wattis. Building on hill was torn down before my day. Date on photo is Nov 78. This is probably the date a photo was taken of the photo.
	Name: Town - Location: Wattis/SunAdvocate/winter1947 Main Street on a winter day.
	Name: Town - Location: Wattis/SunAdvocate/safetydrill Two little girls stand on the side of the road watching nine men walking down the road in single file. Photo file is named "Safety Drill". Arrows are pointing to the sides of the mountain showing the location of the mine and the tramway.

Eldon Miller Collection

	Name: Mining - Location: Wattis/EldonMiller/smokestack1 Photo was taken the day the smoke stack was blown up.
	Name: Mining - Location: Wattis/EldonMiller/smokestack4 Photo was taken the day the smoke stack was blown up.
	Name: Mining - Location: Wattis/EldonMiller/smokestack9 Photo was taken the day the smoke stack was blown up.

Kathy Hamaker Collection

	Name: Town - Location: Wattis/KathyHamaker/P7180088 Photo was taken on July 18, 2012 from the same location that the photo named WattisUtah1943 in the Sun Advocate collection was taken. No remains of the town are left but a few mine buildings are still here. The remains of the coal pile left from the coal mine are being transported to a local power plant.
	Name: Mine - Location: Wattis/KathyHamaker/P7180087 Looking towards the mountain where the mine entrance was and the location of the tramway leading to the mine. Photo taken 18 July 2012.






Spring Glen

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If you see a photograph here that you would like a larger picture of e-mail Kathy Hamaker. I'd be happy to e-mail you the photo file so you can print it out on your computer. Please be sure to include the file name and file location on your e-mail. If you have any photographs in your possession that you would like to donate I'd be happy to add them to the webpage.

Please do not ask me to send you all the photos in my collection. It isn't going to happen but I would be happy to send you five or six photos. Send me the file names and location for the photos you want and I'll do my best to reply quickly. Thank you for you for visiting.

Don Jensen Collection

Name: People - Location: SpringGlen/DonJensen/davis 50th Wedding Anniversary Alexander George & Emily Frances Oliver Davis, 8 Dec 1911 Front row: Lloyd Jensen, Willie Jensen, Van Fullmer, Richard Davis, Emily Frances Oliver Davis, Alexander George Davis, Fay Fullmer, F. Dix Davis, Nettie Sonberg, Wilma Davis, Sylvia Davis, Clista Davis Middle Row: ? Oliver Jensen, Eldora Davis, Fullmer, Glen Davis, Leland Davis, Floyd Davis, Ed Davis, Evaline Judd Davis, Inez Davis, Frances Davis, Luella Gentry Davis, Elnora Wiseman Davis, Vesta Davis, Pansy Davis Sonberg, James Sonberg back row: Mary Melissa Davis Jensen, James Howard Jensen, Bertha Davis Jensen Gentry, Alonzo Davis, a friend, Louis Davis, George Davis, Will Davis, Ike Davis very back row: Willard Davis

Frances Cunningham Collection

Name: People - Location: SpringGlen/FrancesCunningham/school Spring Glen School

Indexes of other Spring Glen photographs from Frances Cunningham can be seen HERE

Laura Hamaker Collection

Name: People - Location: SpringGlen/LauraHamaker/1958school Third and fourth grade in 1958 in Spring Glen.




Eldon Miller Collection

The following photos have been donated by Eldon Miller to the Carbon County Historical Society and the Carbon County UTGenWeb webpage. These photographs have been donated to Eldon Miller by many different sources. If you donated them to Eldon and would like your name to accompany the photograph please e-mail Kathy Hamaker and I'll add it. Special thanks goes to Michael Francis for scanning the photographs so they could be added to the webpage.

	Name: People - Location: EldonMiller/BookC/C-16A Spring Glen School. A man is leaning against the brick wall by the front stairs. Another man can be seen walking towards the door at the end of the building.
	Name: People - Location: EldonMiller/BookC/C-16B Spring Glen School. This photo has an addition to the building that isn't in the previous photo.


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