Where did the coal for the furnace and stoves come from?
We do not have a certain answer to this question, but the railroad would have been a great consumer of coal in the early days, requiring local sources of available coal to burn. Coal is found in great abundance in the Four Corners region and most recently has been mined on a large scale to supply coal-powered electricity to the Southwest. The Hopi people have used coal historically to heat the rooms of their pueblos. The closest, most readily available coal to both Flagstaff and the line of the Santa Fe is believed to be in the Gallup, New Mexico area.
