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- ~) - <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br />1 <br /> <br />1 <br />1 <br />In 1904, C.F.&I. closed the Midland Mine, and pulled <br />their equipment and houses out of the area. Rocky Mountain <br />Fuel Co. shortly afterward reopened the mine and operated for <br />several years. They felt there was enough soft, low-sulfer <br />coal to last twenty years and decided to invest in new equip- <br />went to double their capacity to seven hundred tons daily. <br />The coal in the area was shipped via Colorado Midland <br />Railroad. The train alternated days picking up coal from the <br />Sunlight area one day and Spring Gulch and Marion the next, <br />taking its load to Cardiff. In 1917, just after Rocky Mountain <br />Fuel Co.'s expansion to the 1600' level, there was a rumor the <br /> Colorado Midland Railroad, due to almost daily derailments, <br />' <br /> was going bankrupt. In 1918, they discontinued operations and <br />' went into receivership. Also that year many of the young men <br /> left the coal mines and went off to WWI. Influenza that hit <br /> <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br />the army camps also was brought back to the coal camps, causing <br />serious problems. <br />On December 1, 1921, the last train chugged out of Sun- <br />light area, pulling the track as it went. The only mine re- <br />maining in the area to serve the local domestic market was the <br />Sunlight Mine. <br />There are no cultural or historic resources eligible <br />for listing on or in the National Register of Historic Places; <br />furthermore, since mining activities were initiated at Sunlight <br />prior to 1910, if any cultural and historic resources existed, <br />they were destroyed by the previous mining operations. <br /> <br />