RAWLINS, WYOMING - Bits of history are being unearthed as excavations are done for the Spruce Street reconstruction project in Rawlins.

Artifacts being found include pieces of Rawlins' old waterline made of wooden slats held together with metal bands. Most of the line had rotted or crumbled, so only two short sections of it could be recovered.

A Rawlins historian says the wooden waterline may date to about 1910-to-1918, when water was first brought to the city from wells west of town.