RE: RE: Contracts Northguy question 1: "and for some reason you pumpers think there is 300 plus miners there...then where are they all staying?"
Answer: New Elk Coal Mine now employs 320 workers with plans to hire up to 150 more over the next 18 months.
All workers who are forced to sleep in their cars have been invited to stay at NorthMom's house.
Northguy question 2: "pumpers think there is 300 plus miners there...then where are they all staying?...there is no camp..if they were all staying in Trinidad wouldn't the town be booming?"
Answer: "The mine has been a phenomenal economic driver for both Las Animas County and the city of Trinidad," Beatty said.
"you others that think I am crazy and I would love to face these guys in a court."
Nothing like going to a gun fight armed with a dull pocket knife.
Thanks for posting the article from the Cheiftain SeanJ.