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That's about right on the dates for Sweetwater County. Nothing happened until the railroad arrived. Carbon was founded in 1868 and abandoned in 1902 when the railroad bypassed it to eliminate mileage and a helper grade -- and by that time the Sweetwater County and Hanna mines had come into their own. Carbon's mines were gassy and troublesome, but the town did grow to 3,000 at its peak. It's a ghost town now, nothing there but a cemetery and some old waste dumps, and a baffling maze of roads. <br /> <br />Wyoming is indeed the largest producer of coal and trona in the U.S. It produced 35% of all U.S. coal in 2003, or 376,270,000 tons. No. 2 coal state in 2003 was West Virginia at 139,711,000 tons. As far as trona (natural soda ash), Wyoming produced 10.6 million tons in 2003, compared to a world total of 37.8 million tons of natural and synthetic soda ash, combined. The only other mines are at Parachute, Colo. (mothballed in 2003) and Searles, Calif. The Searles Mine is nameplated at about 15% of total U.S. capacity, but most of the mines are operating well below capacity. <br /> <br />OS
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