Hi, i have not . seen such a Thurber list. i guess you know the company owned town had in excess of 10,000 and there were camps of contractors, peddlers, and com men which some say brought the population to 30,000, counting the Bartenders in Mingus, Palo Pinto County, joining Thurber on the north. They had a bar , horseshoe shaped, larger than any between Fort Worth and El Paso. Newcastle mines were northeast 40 miles at Fort Graham- Newcastle area. Many there were Czech & some settled in West, Texas with Czech new immigrants. On Labor day they have a Westfest with State fair quality Ethnic bands and food and arts & Crafts, all Czech, Norwegian, German, Mexican Spanish Tejano, and I think others have been added, maybe Asian Indian. Thurber workers were recruited from other US mining towns and all over Europe, all short- less than 5'4 if possible, for miners, as the hard coal TP Coal and Oil mined was in many thin levels. TP railroad imported them for TP coal to fire locomotives California bound. A tall man would have to kneel. Small mules pulled coal cars in the mines to the elevators. Acme Brick plant there hired men any size. many Texas cities including Fort Worth and Waco had streets paved with Thurber brick, coal fired. Many are still visible. Many Thurber photos are in Bank historic calendars and Tarleton and Stephenville libraries. Marilyn Giesekie Mills Ewers left a large folder of information in Stephenville library that she did not include in the history of the Three Way School District. There is a library kept clean and dry and climate controlled on Johnson Ranch in old Thurber limits containing everyone who lived thereand what they did and were paid and family and country of origin. I understand it is closed to the Public. Erath and Palo Pinto county census should list many Thurber folk. Of course in the 10 years between census, hundreds could have come and gone. Newcastle mines records should be in Jack County or Graham, Texas. or at least in old newspapers and books there. The Acme Brick plant moved down the tracks across the Brazos to Weatherford, Parker County. Another less known TP service town was Clyde, Texas, at the top of the Baird, Callahan County Hill In the deep sand and shallow water there At the botom of the hill in Badlands country, Baird gets its water from the Baird Lake. TP brought Czech and Portugese truck farmers- vineyard, fruit and vegetable specialists to raise fruit nd vewgetables for California bound Pullman cars. a high school boy named Howard Johnson skipped a class at Baird High to sell sandwiches to passenger trains, before he started his restaurant chain I think it was Conrad Hilton who bought his first hotel in Cisco, Texas on borrowed money during the oil boom. They rented beds in the halls for 8 hours of sleep to drilling crew members. When the Acme Brick Smokestack memorial off I-20 was dedicated, there was enough coal left to run Fort Worth 600 years, so now we get our lignite from East Texas for one electric plant and Wyoming coal from open pits- 100 to 200 cars a day go to San Antonio area for a Generating plant which was to be neuclear, but changed to coal by voters during construction. At one time before John L. Lewis and oil killed Thurber, they fenced the town and called out the Texas Rangers. Must have been wild, because in Oil Field boom towns, the slogan was one town or riot- one Ranger. Take care, Charles Wyly ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]