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mercantile business but as a boarding house for the bachelor <br /> • miners.4 Further expansion occurred in 1902 when a larger, <br /> separate building was erected on a new location, the stock being <br /> relocated in February of 1902 5 (Figure lA and Figure 2) . <br /> Store managers who served during this time were C. O. Redd, <br /> and L. A. Hanawald. They were followed by E. T. Hind, F. J. <br /> Young, and E. O. Nordgren who closed the store in 1909 . 6 <br /> Also in 1901, "the company erected some seventy odd <br /> cottages, containing from 3 to 6 rooms, all lathed and plastered, <br /> painted and finished up in a neat and modern style. They were <br /> warm and comfortable, and mark an innovation in the manner of <br /> building houses in coal camps. *7 Water was supplied to the town <br /> by gravity feed from two reservoirs. Pipes were laid along one <br /> side of each street, tapped at convenient intervals by hydrants <br /> and fire plugs, each equipped with a fire box containing 100 feet <br /> of hose. 8 Each home also had its own outhouse. <br /> For structures 16-28 , house construction consisted of <br /> • building a 24 ft. east-west by 28 ft. north-south foundation <br /> composed of 10" to 15" diameter log pilings buried into the <br /> downslope subsoils. The length is variable depending upon the <br /> degree of slope. One specimen was measured at 6 feet. Very <br /> little effort was spent on excavation of a foundation pit, the <br /> logs being trimmed to length and placed in a hole at the height <br /> necessary to bring the pilings level grade. Pilings were placed <br /> in each of the four corners with intervening pilings being driven <br /> at intervals of 6 or 7 feet. Once the pilings were in place, <br /> 6" by 6" bearing beams were laid along the tops of the pilings <br /> and secured by toenailing 16 penny, roundhead, wire nails into <br /> the beam and piling on the interior and exterior lateral sides. <br /> A central north-south bearing beam was also established. Rough <br /> cut 2" by 5" by 13 ' floor joists were then laid east-west at <br /> 4 . Ibid. <br /> . 5. Ibid. <br /> 6. Shoemaker, Len; "The Roaring Fork Valley" , 1958 , Sage <br /> Books, Denver, Colorado. <br /> 7. Camp and Plant, Vol. II, No. 3, Saturday, September 13 , <br /> 1902. <br /> 8. Ibid. <br /> 5 <br />