. Book of the Royal blue . est where the little hamlet of thirty housesnow stands, with its railroad, planes, mines,schoolhouse, store, church and railroad and its appurtenant buildingswere the first indications of a coming town,and when the village was well established,the church on horse-back arrived toerect the first altar to the countrys Methodist Episcopal Church is yet theonly religious occupant of the new parish. The town is located upon ground rising2,800 feet above sea-Ievel, and though onthe summit of highlands of the Alleghaniesin this section is still encompa
. Book of the Royal blue . est where the little hamlet of thirty housesnow stands, with its railroad, planes, mines,schoolhouse, store, church and railroad and its appurtenant buildingswere the first indications of a coming town,and when the village was well established,the church on horse-back arrived toerect the first altar to the countrys Methodist Episcopal Church is yet theonly religious occupant of the new parish. The town is located upon ground rising2,800 feet above sea-Ievel, and though onthe summit of highlands of the Alleghaniesin this section is still encompassed upon ailsides with towering hills, for, situated in aslight declivity, it seems to be rising fromthe midst of a walled pocket. It is a busyplace. The mines give work to the neigh-borhood, and the miners represent thestalwart yeomanry of the section, and com-pose a most respectable element of Americanmanhood. Work begins, in general, in themines at in the morning and lasts,with the dinner hour excepted, until A TYPICAL MINER in the afternoon, when over the hills andthrough the fields may be seen, tired anddusty, the miners making their ways home-ward. It does not take a very close observereven to see that the miners who home-ward plod their weary way have laboredhard and long, for their steps are slow andmeasured. Their coal-dust-blackened facesmake a strange sight to the eyes unused tothese singular conditions. The mine located at Wabash is knownas the Wabash mine of the Davis Coke& Coal Company. The coal at presentbeing taken from the mine is found in afourteen-foot vein, that lies within only afew feet of the surface of the ground, andthe mine is entirely free from dangerousgases and specially hazardous are, however, perils and risks inci-dent to this life, even under this mostfavorable situation, that make it an adageof the section : When you go in in themorning, you dont know whether or notyou are going to come out in the openings
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