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Show ! -another com mmj .LZ xrr ' ' m - -.-: '---v ', 4 -4 - ' . , - - , S w - weekly "- . - , i ; - - v-,-i , ? M ",' " " 1 - " ( a S " ' " . ' - I O With the nation pro-c pro-c e e d i n g 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 sur-. 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. ' " ; - A' ' ; '-a l v i ; - i i i ' f ' "-v - i ' !' ' ' f ; j ' ' -v ' k J ' , . -' , , , 1 1 y-jV ,;f 4 ' ' f 4 - s i A ill- " V. -," , t I 1 4 x . """ vi i ' J ' ' r ' ft 4 v - V. i - r ' i" t " - 1 - , ; " , t L " - v 'I 4 s . i t v Sixm(SJm' ' I! I '( 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. ssvv Is . ' 'If X s ' ' . , -. ' l t f , s s ' " J 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 nii for easy distribution. |