loading coal the hard way

[jim currie]

shoot it down bust it up then shovel it into the cars , see the rail on the right.also the lack of supports hock:
Jim

[MountainMan]

Must be a pre-OSHA image! Reminds me why they call the ceiling "the hanging wall".

[nachoman]

pre-union, too. Labor was cheap.

[Squidbait]

Ya load sixteen tons,
and whaddya get?

[Ralph]

Ya load sixteen tons,
and whaddya get?

Yeah, I'm sure those guys owed their souls to the company store!

Ralph

[MountainMan]

Interesting shot, though - five guys with nothing but one pick and one axe. Not exactly high output mining.

[jim currie]

Ya load sixteen tons,
and whaddya get?

Yeah, I'm sure those guys owed their souls to the company store!

Ralph

they did this is a shot of the workers getting ready to setting up the short wall in the victor america mine in mount Harris co (a company town ) in 1942. the same year that a explosion killed 34 miners . so some of the six in the photo might have been a fatality then.
Jim