Near Acme, A.K. "Archie" Craig and Ora Darnell created the Acme Coal Company in 1907. By 1911, the company had opened Acme 1 and Acme 2 and completed most of the townsite development. Acme provided residents with amenities such as a store and schools, as well as entertainment including a theater, a six-man football team, and a baseball team with its own grandstand. Mine companies established their own mining towns as model camps that supplied miners' needs, including electricity, running water, company doctors, athletic fields, general stores, ice cream parlors, and more. These services helped maintain a contented and stable workforce while also bringing mine companies revenue through rent and store profits. Camp buildings were uninsulated prefabricated structures meant to last only as long as the mine, but even by U.S. standards the mine towns were considered nicer than most, and newspapers of the time expressed pride and surprise at how neat, clean, and well maintained miners kept their towns. Sheridan supplemented camp life with services not found in the mining camps, such as a high school. During the heyday of the Sheridan mines from 1911 to 1926, a trolley ran hourly between the mines and Sheridan, and on payday it sent three times as many cars to the mines, while passengers willing to sit on the roof rode for free.