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(May 1960) Independent Miners, through their association, have been receiving mine safety instructions from federal and state officials. Instructors and students in the eight-week course include, front row, from left, Russel Albright, Robert Erb, Joseph Bednarczyk, Frank Deloroso and Gilbert Bridy; back, Therodoe Deek, instructor, Clarence Kashner, association president; and Gerald Kettle and Harold Shomper, state mine inspector.
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(May 1960) Independent Miners, through their association, have been receiving mine safety instructions from federal and state officials. Instructors and students in the eight-week course include, front row, from left, Russel Albright, Robert Erb, Joseph Bednarczyk, Frank Deloroso and Gilbert Bridy; back, Therodoe Deek, instructor, Clarence Kashner, association president; and Gerald Kettle and Harold Shomper, state mine inspector.

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  • (May 1960) Independent Miners, through their association, have been receiving mine safety instructions from federal and state officials. Instructors and students in the eight-week course include, front row, from left, Russel Albright, Robert Erb, Joseph Bednarczyk, Frank Deloroso and Gilbert Bridy; back, Therodoe Deek, instructor, Clarence Kashner, association president; and Gerald Kettle and Harold Shomper, state mine inspector.
  • (July 1960) Members of Coates Coal Co., Centralia, picket after repeated failures between the company and District Nine, UMWA, and the trustees of the Anthracite Health and Welfare Fund. Workers claimed the company has not paid into the fund during 1959 and 1960.
  • (1960) Alaska Colliery, located at Mount Carmel Junction, closed its operations on April 30, 1954. Since 1873, when Franklin P. Gowen, president of the Philadelphia And Reading Coal and Iron Co. opened the mine as part of his giant venture , the colliery had run, employing as high was 925 men during its peak years. A shaft was sunk 300 feet into the Mammoth Vein. One of the most curious tales of the colliery is the disappearance of William Condron, who was just hired as a mule driver even though he was not yet 17. One November morning in the No. 4 Slope, when quitting time came in the afternoon he began to drive the mules out. He turned to a buddy and said, “Take my mules in fro me, I'm going back to get my watch I forgot. His buddy took his mules to the stable. By the evening, the boy had not returned home. The next morning two members of the family when to the colliery to investigate. It was discovered that the boys check was still on the “in.” Parties were sent to search, but could not find any trace of him. And, until the day that the colliery closed in 1954, no trace of him was ever found. Some believe he might have fallen into a pool of slush in an old working. A few though that someone might have harmed him while he was alone. Some said he ran away. At a hearing afterward, men testified they searched everywhere. Others said some areas were too dangerous. The body having never been found, Reading did not pay compensation to the family. Whatever happened to the boy is now one of the secrets of the abandoned mine. The Alaska, like any of the many collieries, had its share of accidents, which maimed and killed its victims.
  • (1960) Alaska Colliery, located at Mount Carmel Junction, closed its operations on April 30, 1954. Since 1873, when Franklin P. Gowen, president of the Philadelphia And Reading Coal and Iron Co. opened the mine as part of his giant venture , the colliery had run, employing as high was 925 men during its peak years. A shaft was sunk 300 feet into the Mammoth Vein. One of the most curious tales of the colliery is the disappearance of William Condron, who was just hired as a mule driver even though he was not yet 17. One November morning in the No. 4 Slope, when quitting time came in the afternoon he began to drive the mules out. He turned to a buddy and said, “Take my mules in fro me, I'm going back to get my watch I forgot. His buddy took his mules to the stable. By the evening, the boy had not returned home. The next morning two members of the family when to the colliery to investigate. It was discovered that the boys check was still on the “in.” Parties were sent to search, but could not find any trace of him. And, until the day that the colliery closed in 1954, no trace of him was ever found. Some believe he might have fallen into a pool of slush in an old working. A few though that someone might have harmed him while he was alone. Some said he ran away. At a hearing afterward, men testified they searched everywhere. Others said some areas were too dangerous. The body having never been found, Reading did not pay compensation to the family. Whatever happened to the boy is now one of the secrets of the abandoned mine. The Alaska, like any of the many collieries, had its share of accidents, which maimed and killed its victims.
  • (1960) Alaska Colliery, located at Mount Carmel Junction, closed its operations on April 30, 1954. Since 1873, when Franklin P. Gowen, president of the Philadelphia And Reading Coal and Iron Co. opened the mine as part of his giant venture , the colliery had run, employing as high was 925 men during its peak years. A shaft was sunk 300 feet into the Mammoth Vein. One of the most curious tales of the colliery is the disappearance of William Condron, who was just hired as a mule driver even though he was not yet 17. One November morning in the No. 4 Slope, when quitting time came in the afternoon he began to drive the mules out. He turned to a buddy and said, “Take my mules in fro me, I'm going back to get my watch I forgot. His buddy took his mules to the stable. By the evening, the boy had not returned home. The next morning two members of the family when to the colliery to investigate. It was discovered that the boys check was still on the “in.” Parties were sent to search, but could not find any trace of him. And, until the day that the colliery closed in 1954, no trace of him was ever found. Some believe he might have fallen into a pool of slush in an old working. A few though that someone might have harmed him while he was alone. Some said he ran away. At a hearing afterward, men testified they searched everywhere. Others said some areas were too dangerous. The body having never been found, Reading did not pay compensation to the family. Whatever happened to the boy is now one of the secrets of the abandoned mine. The Alaska, like any of the many collieries, had its share of accidents, which maimed and killed its victims.
  • (1960) Alaska Colliery, located at Mount Carmel Junction, closed its operations on April 30, 1954. Since 1873, when Franklin P. Gowen, president of the Philadelphia And Reading Coal and Iron Co. opened the mine as part of his giant venture , the colliery had run, employing as high was 925 men during its peak years. A shaft was sunk 300 feet into the Mammoth Vein. One of the most curious tales of the colliery is the disappearance of William Condron, who was just hired as a mule driver even though he was not yet 17. One November morning in the No. 4 Slope, when quitting time came in the afternoon he began to drive the mules out. He turned to a buddy and said, “Take my mules in fro me, I'm going back to get my watch I forgot. His buddy took his mules to the stable. By the evening, the boy had not returned home. The next morning two members of the family when to the colliery to investigate. It was discovered that the boys check was still on the “in.” Parties were sent to search, but could not find any trace of him. And, until the day that the colliery closed in 1954, no trace of him was ever found. Some believe he might have fallen into a pool of slush in an old working. A few though that someone might have harmed him while he was alone. Some said he ran away. At a hearing afterward, men testified they searched everywhere. Others said some areas were too dangerous. The body having never been found, Reading did not pay compensation to the family. Whatever happened to the boy is now one of the secrets of the abandoned mine. The Alaska, like any of the many collieries, had its share of accidents, which maimed and killed its victims.
  • (1960) Alaska Colliery, located at Mount Carmel Junction, closed its operations on April 30, 1954. Since 1873, when Franklin P. Gowen, president of the Philadelphia And Reading Coal and Iron Co. opened the mine as part of his giant venture , the colliery had run, employing as high was 925 men during its peak years. A shaft was sunk 300 feet into the Mammoth Vein. One of the most curious tales of the colliery is the disappearance of William Condron, who was just hired as a mule driver even though he was not yet 17. One November morning in the No. 4 Slope, when quitting time came in the afternoon he began to drive the mules out. He turned to a buddy and said, “Take my mules in fro me, I'm going back to get my watch I forgot. His buddy took his mules to the stable. By the evening, the boy had not returned home. The next morning two members of the family when to the colliery to investigate. It was discovered that the boys check was still on the “in.” Parties were sent to search, but could not find any trace of him. And, until the day that the colliery closed in 1954, no trace of him was ever found. Some believe he might have fallen into a pool of slush in an old working. A few though that someone might have harmed him while he was alone. Some said he ran away. At a hearing afterward, men testified they searched everywhere. Others said some areas were too dangerous. The body having never been found, Reading did not pay compensation to the family. Whatever happened to the boy is now one of the secrets of the abandoned mine. The Alaska, like any of the many collieries, had its share of accidents, which maimed and killed its victims.
  • (1960) Alaska Colliery, located at Mount Carmel Junction, closed its operations on April 30, 1954. Since 1873, when Franklin P. Gowen, president of the Philadelphia And Reading Coal and Iron Co. opened the mine as part of his giant venture , the colliery had run, employing as high was 925 men during its peak years. A shaft was sunk 300 feet into the Mammoth Vein. One of the most curious tales of the colliery is the disappearance of William Condron, who was just hired as a mule driver even though he was not yet 17. One November morning in the No. 4 Slope, when quitting time came in the afternoon he began to drive the mules out. He turned to a buddy and said, “Take my mules in fro me, I'm going back to get my watch I forgot. His buddy took his mules to the stable. By the evening, the boy had not returned home. The next morning two members of the family when to the colliery to investigate. It was discovered that the boys check was still on the “in.” Parties were sent to search, but could not find any trace of him. And, until the day that the colliery closed in 1954, no trace of him was ever found. Some believe he might have fallen into a pool of slush in an old working. A few though that someone might have harmed him while he was alone. Some said he ran away. At a hearing afterward, men testified they searched everywhere. Others said some areas were too dangerous. The body having never been found, Reading did not pay compensation to the family. Whatever happened to the boy is now one of the secrets of the abandoned mine. The Alaska, like any of the many collieries, had its share of accidents, which maimed and killed its victims.
  • (1960) Alaska Colliery, located at Mount Carmel Junction, closed its operations on April 30, 1954. Since 1873, when Franklin P. Gowen, president of the Philadelphia And Reading Coal and Iron Co. opened the mine as part of his giant venture , the colliery had run, employing as high was 925 men during its peak years. A shaft was sunk 300 feet into the Mammoth Vein. One of the most curious tales of the colliery is the disappearance of William Condron, who was just hired as a mule driver even though he was not yet 17. One November morning in the No. 4 Slope, when quitting time came in the afternoon he began to drive the mules out. He turned to a buddy and said, “Take my mules in fro me, I'm going back to get my watch I forgot. His buddy took his mules to the stable. By the evening, the boy had not returned home. The next morning two members of the family when to the colliery to investigate. It was discovered that the boys check was still on the “in.” Parties were sent to search, but could not find any trace of him. And, until the day that the colliery closed in 1954, no trace of him was ever found. Some believe he might have fallen into a pool of slush in an old working. A few though that someone might have harmed him while he was alone. Some said he ran away. At a hearing afterward, men testified they searched everywhere. Others said some areas were too dangerous. The body having never been found, Reading did not pay compensation to the family. Whatever happened to the boy is now one of the secrets of the abandoned mine. The Alaska, like any of the many collieries, had its share of accidents, which maimed and killed its victims.
  • (1960) Alaska Colliery, located at Mount Carmel Junction, closed its operations on April 30, 1954. Since 1873, when Franklin P. Gowen, president of the Philadelphia And Reading Coal and Iron Co. opened the mine as part of his giant venture , the colliery had run, employing as high was 925 men during its peak years. A shaft was sunk 300 feet into the Mammoth Vein. One of the most curious tales of the colliery is the disappearance of William Condron, who was just hired as a mule driver even though he was not yet 17. One November morning in the No. 4 Slope, when quitting time came in the afternoon he began to drive the mules out. He turned to a buddy and said, “Take my mules in fro me, I'm going back to get my watch I forgot. His buddy took his mules to the stable. By the evening, the boy had not returned home. The next morning two members of the family when to the colliery to investigate. It was discovered that the boys check was still on the “in.” Parties were sent to search, but could not find any trace of him. And, until the day that the colliery closed in 1954, no trace of him was ever found. Some believe he might have fallen into a pool of slush in an old working. A few though that someone might have harmed him while he was alone. Some said he ran away. At a hearing afterward, men testified they searched everywhere. Others said some areas were too dangerous. The body having never been found, Reading did not pay compensation to the family. Whatever happened to the boy is now one of the secrets of the abandoned mine. The Alaska, like any of the many collieries, had its share of accidents, which maimed and killed its victims.
  • (1960) Alaska Colliery, located at Mount Carmel Junction, closed its operations on April 30, 1954. Since 1873, when Franklin P. Gowen, president of the Philadelphia And Reading Coal and Iron Co. opened the mine as part of his giant venture , the colliery had run, employing as high was 925 men during its peak years. A shaft was sunk 300 feet into the Mammoth Vein. One of the most curious tales of the colliery is the disappearance of William Condron, who was just hired as a mule driver even though he was not yet 17. One November morning in the No. 4 Slope, when quitting time came in the afternoon he began to drive the mules out. He turned to a buddy and said, “Take my mules in fro me, I'm going back to get my watch I forgot. His buddy took his mules to the stable. By the evening, the boy had not returned home. The next morning two members of the family when to the colliery to investigate. It was discovered that the boys check was still on the “in.” Parties were sent to search, but could not find any trace of him. And, until the day that the colliery closed in 1954, no trace of him was ever found. Some believe he might have fallen into a pool of slush in an old working. A few though that someone might have harmed him while he was alone. Some said he ran away. At a hearing afterward, men testified they searched everywhere. Others said some areas were too dangerous. The body having never been found, Reading did not pay compensation to the family. Whatever happened to the boy is now one of the secrets of the abandoned mine. The Alaska, like any of the many collieries, had its share of accidents, which maimed and killed its victims.
  • (Jan. 56) Strippings by Susquehanna Coal Co. near Kulpmont.
  • (Jan. 56) Strippings by Susquehanna Coal Co. near Kulpmont.
  • (Jan. 56) Strippings by Susquehanna Coal Co. near Kulpmont.
  • (05.05.1923) Kathryn Colliery at Dunkelberger.
  • Scott (1907-1928)- Shortly after the 1902 strike, a railroad spur was constructed by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) from Brady to Kulpmont (seen in background), where the Scott Breaker was to be built. Scott Breaker was built in 1907 when its shaft was completed and named after Thomas A. Scott, president of the PRR. Mineral Railroad and Mining Co. built the breaker, which was annexed to M.A. Hanna's mines in 1917. The breaker was abandoned in 1928.
  • Scott in Kulpmont.
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  • Scott in Kulpmont. (A smaller version of the real thing.)
  • Greenough, east of Kulpmont.
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