[PRCo] Re: Spur

[Dennis F. Cramer]

To me, slag has always been a term of waste coming from a steel mill. 
Typically the waste from a small mine would have been the boney pile.  This 
mine seems large enough to have a cleaning facility.  Miners have always 
been very efficient at getting the pay dirt and there was usually little 
waste.   By this time the UMWA would have had enough of an influence to pay 
workers by the hour rather than the ton.  The coal would have been loaded 
from the large structure directly over the railroad.  It is too hard to see 
the details of the smaller loading (or unloading) beltway.




Dennis F. Cramer
      Trombone