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were appointed as postmaster. 10 On February 15, 1902 , the Coal Basin Club opened its doors for business. The Club had four main rooms : a card room, reading room, billiard room, and barroom as well as a private apartment for the manager. The barroom was located i.-.mediately behind the veranda. The billiard room was located in the first room to the right (Fig. 1, #31) , the card room being the first room (Fig. 1, #30) on the left. The reading room was located in the second room on the left. Beneath the north side of the building was a large cellar used for the storage of liquor and other bottled goodsll (Figure 6) . Because of financial difficulties in 1902 and 1903 , Osgood relinquished control of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company and the Coal Basin holding to George Gould and John D. Rockefeller. Population in the town fluctuated according to production, the population dropping from 269 in 1901 to 150 in 1905 . Wages varied from $80 . 00 to $160. 00 a month. Monthly rent for the company houses was $2 . 00 per room per month for 3 or 4 room houses, and $18 . 50 per month for 5 rooms. There were 53 four room houses, 7 three room houses, 2 six room houses, and 1 eight room house built for Superintendant Stewart.12 On January 12, 1909, the residents of Coal Basin packed only the necessities for the annual winter trip to the lower elevations of Redstone and Carbondale. During the spring of 1909 , national financial problems led to the decline of the smelter industry in western Colorado and the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company closed the mine permanently (Figure 7) . 10. Shoemaker, Len; 1968 , "The Roaring Fork Valley" , Sagebooks, Denver, Colorado. 11. Camp & Plant, Vol. II , Sat. , September 13 , 1902 and "The Crystal River Pictorial" . 12. Camp and Plant, Vol. I . i4