Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-10-14 | Page 9 | This Woman Dug Coal Fifty Tears

THIS WOM WOMAN N DUG COAL COA FIFTY YEA YEARS Old Bridget McHugh the oldest woma wom women r n I coal miner In the world Is dead at the age of 80 years after fifty yearn year of wor worK as a pit brown In the berton coal fields Mrs 1 McHugh i shoveled the mined co colt coal t from great piles plies at the mouth ot of th the mines mites into cars She She- was strongly built and antI hearty and was regarded as an epert expert ex e pert mine worker Her working hours hour were from 6 In the morning to too o or ur Ii i o'clock at night Old Bridget was a a a- grandmother and wo wn of her sons Ions ar are aro employed in the colliery col- col liery ry where she he worked for fifty years year Y ar