Description
Photo of Men of Hanley Co. Mines, Summerville, PA. HANLEY COMPANY MINES MAKE EVERYDAY COUNT FOR SAFETY 966 DAYS SINCE LAST ACCIDENT 966 DAYS SINCE LAST LOST TIME ACCIDENT Front row: C.T. Morrow (plant manager), Wade Haugh (motor man), Harry Swartz (laborer), Sam Marshall (laborer), Frank Miller (driller), Adam Bish (loading machine operator), Ben Henry (loading crewman), Henry Coleman (loading machine operator), Ted Roberts (plant superintendent). Rear Row: Dan McLaughlin (driller), Malcolm Kinnaird (laborer), Cal Powell (motor man), Tom Spare (sprager), John Brogan (sprager), Frank Smith (shot firer) Clarence Walker (laborer), Herman Grosser (foreman), Rastus Geer (laborer), Lion Swab (laborer), Jay Wayland (driller). These men drove the main heading in #2 mine through the hill. It came out on the hillside, on Corsica Road, above Reed Wolfgong’s house. The early plan of the company was to build a trestle across the valley, and put an entrance on the Harold (Lefty) Smith farm.
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This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.
