Coal speculator buys up Hanaford farms in 1906

Posted 12/1/06

John McNeil, a mining man of Denver, Colo., was touring the Upper Hanaford Valley, buying up more than a dozen large farms to mine for coal. He spent nearly $100,000 buying land and took out options …

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