 THE MINE Now you go up the chamber, taking care not to stumble over the high caps, into the notches of which the wooden rails of the track are laid. On one side of you is a wall, built up with pieces of slate and bony coal and the refuse of the mine,...  Coal and the Coal Mines - Página 129por Homer Greene - 1889 - 246 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Robert A. H. Morrow - 1891 - 324 páginas
...¡<l4-li4ll.Hl Colliery Disaster. strikes a certain point on the face with it, turning it »lightly at each stroke. He has taken his position lying on...The laborers have loaded the mine car, removed the lock from the wheel, and now hold back on it as it moves by gravity down the chamber to the gancrway.... | |
 | Charles Alexander McMurry - 1904 - 392 páginas
...the laborers. He takes up his drill, balances it in his hand, strikes a certain point on the surface with it, turning it slightly at each stroke. He has...tap, tap of the drill into the coal. The laborers, having loaded the mine car, remove the block from the wheel, and now, grasping the end of it firmly,... | |
 | Charles Alexander McMurry - 1904 - 328 páginas
...the laborers. He takes up his drill, balances it in h'is hand, strikes a certain point on the surface with it, turning it slightly at each stroke. He has taken his posi-' tion lying on his side perhaps, and then begins the regular tap, tap of the drill into the coal.... | |
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