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Show weekly ty-- v. " , - :v . M " I Q With the nation pro-ceeding pro-ceeding spasmodically from the throes of one coal controversy to another during dur-ing recent years, public interest in-terest in miners, what they do and how and where they work has been heightened. Hence, the tapping of a mountain of coal about 100 million short tons of it in North Carolina recently re-cently was big news. The coal is on the right side of a mountain at Sanford, N. C, and from 50 to 60 tons of it come to the surface sur-face during a normal production pro-duction day at the Cumnock Cum-nock mine of the Raleigh mining corporation. The photo above shows a safety-tube, easy-grade tunnel running 1,500 feet under Deep river to cuttings on the other side of the stream. :. . : ' V ! - ' :'; - :f -s v.s ' " ... v I ' if: ' , t X V i - ld - : : " ' it' ' ' . :' . 7 - ::- . . '.V.-V V"- V ' - "r ' ' J t O As shown above, a miner is cutting away at a 36-inch-wide seam with a completely mapped and drilled potential of more than 14 million tons in the Cumnock mine. The workman work-man is guiding one of the latest -model "crawling jack-saws" which separates top cuts and undermining under cuts by piston action ac-tion saw. Cuttings in the mine (left) are at right angles generally to the entrance en-trance slope. In this photo a miner levels fresh - cut coal pouring into a dump truck from a conveyor running run-ning back to the cutting. t A little mountain of coal slowly grows at pit opening of the Cumnock mine as output of 60-man, 60-man, around the clock, machineried operation pushes coal upwards. This stockpile likely will never grow large, because easy transport facilities mate for easy distribution. |