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Notice the preparatory cut and the 3 charge-holes near floor of the mine.

13. Coal Nearly Ready to be Shot Down

Print possibly overexposed.

14. Area worked by Coal Cutters

Looking down a mine shaft.

15. Interior of New England Coal Mine

16. Area Worked by Coal Cutters

Miner works on pile of shot down coal.

17. Shot Down Coal at Jamison Coal Mine No. 9

J.P. McGee, Acting Research Director, and Jack Smith, in Charge of the Gas Turbine Development Project discuss proper positioning of the turbine rotor in its casing.

18. Proper Positioning of the Turbine Rotor in Its Casing

19. Coal on Belt at Jamison Coal Mine No. 9

'This miner has just completed loading a mine car of weighing net about two and one-half tons, and is waiting for a locomotive to come along and take it out and give him another empty car. An industrious miner will load about six and sometimes eight of these cars in one day. This is a wooden mine car that is now being rapidly replaced by steel mine car equipment. The number of post shown in this picture indicate again the immense amount of timber required to conduct operations in a safe manner.'

20. Loaded Mine Car

21. Miner Testing for Gas at Consol. No. 32 Mine

'Note the wooden mine car. It is of the Barnestown shaft which was the first shaft, of 100 feet in depth, in the valley.'

22. Miners at Work

23. Miner Testing for Gas in Jamison No. 9 Mine

Two miners operating a loading machine.

24. Miners Operating a Loading Machine