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Jim Slaughter's Narrative History: Coal Faces
"You had a main roadway, and at the end of the main roadway, at right angles to that roadway, were two coal faces,
each about a hundred yards. Now, the coal was fed onto these belts, and the two belts fed onto the main belt, in
the main roadway, and out, into tubs. Now the three main shifts that did this work on the coal face�we'll start
with the cuttermen. They went in, cutting machine, a jib, with picks in, and they would cut approximately four foot
under the coal. Now they did this all the way down the face."
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