Old pictures from the Anthracite
coal region in
Pennsylvania.
This page made by Mike Reilley
MPREIL@AOL.COM
Early strip mine
operation
Blasting at the strip
mine
Today's giant
machines
Miners attempting to rescue others miners
trapped because of a cave in at a"BOOTLEG" mining operation in the Byrnesville area.
Date around late 1930's.
Cardboard disks that were used to identify
the coal company that sold the coal. These were usually put in the prepared
coal.
Copy of old paycheck from
1914.
Earnings were : 121 hours @
.183 = $22.14
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More pictures and the
population of coal
region
towns in
1950
RELIC OF THE PAST IN
BYRNESVILLE
This wash house was part of the Locust Run
Coal Company. The building was used as a garage, a lamp house that serviced
the lamps that miners used in the mines and as a
place for miners to wash after they were finished work.
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