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Show 22P April Energy Mining myths, legends survive: (Continued from page 21B) miraculously avoided felling laefy victim to a disaster. The ladya husband was killed in the mine and the body was never recovered from the underground shafts. The White Lady wanders every night in the vicinity of the mine and inside the underground tunnels looking fen: the body of her husband. The White Ladys husband was killed in a mining accident, but the company failed to pay the guaranteed money to ease the womans struggle to feed her family. After a confrontation at the mine office, the widow was angry and driving too fast for the narrow winding road. The vehicle ran off the road and the woman died in the accident. The White Lady still roams the canyon seeking revenge on the mine officials. A family consisting ofa man, wife and two children, one boy and one girl, lived in Spring Canyon. The husband and son were killed in a mining accident, leaving the widow to fend for herself and infant daughter. Three to four weeks later, the woman was doing the laundry V i ? clothes in the Spring Canyon wash and someone kidnapped the baby The infant was thrown into ' the wash and drowned. The woman subsequently lost her mind and died. But the White Lady still searches along the wash banks for her baby and seeks revenge for the childs death. A couple lived in the town of FBeriess, next to a store that had overalls displayed in the window a Tim couple had one infont child. The husband died while working in the underground shafts not due to a mining accident, but from blood poisoning caused by an infected tooth. Since the death was not mining related, the company did not have to pay compensation or benefits to the widow: Destitute and hungry, the young widow did not want her child to suffer and starve to death. After drowning her baby in the wash, the mother lost her mind and was placed in the Provo mental treatment facility The woman escaped from the fa- Underground employees work to extract coal from cility returned to Raeriess to find the Standardville mine. Abandoned coal camps and her child and eventually died. ghost towns fill chapter after chapter in Castle Valley's But the White Ladf Bfl zanmining history. Older Castle Valley residents enjoy ders the area searching for her visiting with former neighbors who lived and worked in towns like Latuda, Consumers, Peerless, Spring baby -- 'r Welcome to Price Price City is a Great Community & Supports the needs of the Energy Market Canyon and Standardville. The former neighbors and swap stories, share memories and relive the experiences - good and bad - stemming from living in the towns. The conversations frequently turn to one popular, particularly fascinating local myth or legend - Carbon Countys White Lady STANDARD LABORATORIES, INC. PRICB : c 2002 Coal Analysis and Sampling Environmental Capabilities Soil, Overburden, & Rock Mechanics Contract Laboratory Operation Quality Assurance Programs t . Skyline Facility P.O. Box 916, Price, UT 84501 Telephone: (435) 448-2644 Fax: (435) . . . 448-265-7 Where quality is standard! |