Dakota Datebook: Coal Mine and New England Picnic

Coal Mine

by Jim Davis

June 17, 2019 — By 1932 there were over 360 underground coal mines listed in the coal mine inspection reports, but on this date in 1874, “The Bismarck Tribune” was in receipt of correspondence from the Sweet Briar Coal Mine, one of the first commercial coal mines in the West River country. Located 25 miles west of Bismarck on the proposed line of the Northern Pacific, the pa...