Raynors HCA 2014-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/6/2014
A good content Western settler's letter, 2pp. 4to., written, on Beckwith & Lauder's stationery, by transplanted mason S. H. Steers, Evanston, Wyoming, Jan. 15, 1886 concerning the coal mine explosion and the Mormon Church and women, in part: "…there was an accident in one of the Coal mines here Monday night 13 men killed. It was a pretty tough sight men all blown to pieces find a leg in one place and head in another. The gas caught fire and caused an explosion. It woke me I thought it was an earthquake. It sounded to me like a Cal. shack [shake] but found out different in the morning…there has been quite a good lot of brick buildings here this summer. Brick layers got $4.00 to $4.50 per day. When it began it got cold some got as high as $5.00 & 5.50. This is a pretty good wages country…but the summers are rather short for mason work. Tell Jim there is no danger about the Mormon girls. I am Bullet proof against them. It is nothing to see a man here with two wives and sometimes three and they are pretty prominent men some of them too, but the women are not very smart as a general thing mostly foreigners that live around here. I am pretty well posted among them & I have been dealing with them all the time since I have been here…I praise the Mormon church and that keeps me all right with them. It is the policy to do it here…". Some soiling, else VG
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