Show WYOMING TOWN BEING RAZED HOMES SELLING FOR 30 TO EACH attractive three room loom cottages in good condition axe aae to be had for 30 apiece and numbers of four room houses for 40 at cumberland 75 miles from here toe the only stipulation being that the buyer take his house home with him at the time the union pacific coal company closed the mines minea at cumberland about a year ago the entire town WELS aas bought from the company by the ketchum builders supply company of salt lake city dismantling of the town has been going ahead steadily during the past year and now taking up the pipe I 1 line haz has been started many houses have already been beem sold some of the buyers having moved their new homes intact others having takeru taken them away in sections there were about houses in town also several school houses a church an amusement hall store warehouses hospital machine shops a depot and other buildings dismantling will contin ue for about another year about seven miles of railroad tracks are being taken cumberland to blazon many wall signs bearing the terse phrase safety or sorrow aro are reminders of tine the men who were at one time employed although known as a comparatively safe camp it Is said that cumberland averaged at times one fatality a month cumberland however held the record for taking out more coal with a single hoist in a day than any at hermine in the united states also the states record for a weeks run and for a months run the slope when the mine was closed was a mile down and about four miles in length all ail entrances have been sealed with concrete otherwise gaa I 1 would be escaping before the ketchum crews leave the entire town will be razed and nothing will be left standing the mine entrances will be blasted to further close them |