Lex Anteinternet: Dare we, and should we, Wyomingites that is, ponde...: It's a scary thought for a lot of folks. Burkburnett Texas, February 17, 1919. Clearly a boom was on when this photograph was tak...In the Sunday Tribune, the paper was asking the same thing.
Or rather featuring miners from Kemmerer where mining has been a feature of local life, and employment, for generations but where that seems to be rapidly passing away.
Passing away with it, it seems, are pension plans that a bankrupt mining company has received permission from a bankruptcy court to apparently dishonor.
Kemmerer was in the news locally due to a couple of generators in a coal fired power plant being shut down, which is part of what consumes the locally mined coal. It's also been in the news as a solar energy farm is going to be established there. It seems, accordingly, to be the sharp focal point of a lot of economic evolution in the state, something that isn't fun at all for those enduring it.
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