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61. Tour of Hanna Coal Company Mine Site, Cadiz, Ohio

62. Visitors Pose with Hanna Coal Company's Mountaineer Shovel

63. Visitors Pose with Hanna Coal Company's Mountaineer Shovel

64. Visitors Pose with Hanna Coal Company's Mountaineer Shovel

People standing by 2 of the Mountaineers 8'8'' crawlers (Cats).

65. Visitors Pose with Hanna Coal Company's Mountaineer Shovel

66. Visitors Pose with Hanna Coal Company's Mountaineer Shovel

Rimbol, Apthorpe(E.O.G.); Pallister, Tom (Case); Pigott, Conway (Stl. Imp); A, William (Case).

67. Visitors Pose with Hanna Coal Company's Mountaineer Shovel

68. Visitors Pose with Hanna Coal Company's Mountaineer Shovel

69. Visitors Pose with Hanna Coal Company's Mountaineer Shovel

'50 Cubic-Yard Shovel at Georgetown No. 12 Mine of Hanna Coal Company, Division of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company: These electric shovels are used to remove the earth and rock overburden from the coal seam. In a month's time, they will each remove as much as 1,600,000 cubic yards, or some 2,400,000 tons. If this material were to be loaded into open railroad cars, it would fill some 48,000 of them.'

70. 50 Cubic Yard Shovel at Georgetown No. 12 Mine

'The nature of Hanna Coal's surface mining operations is illustrated here. Among the company's seven strip shovels for removing the overburden and uncovering the 52-inch vein of coal, are four giants weighing in the neighborhood of 1,800 tons each, equipped with booms up to 120 feet long, and with scoops having a capacity up to 50 cubic yards. Each of these large shovels can move enough stone and earth per year to cover a football field more than a mile high.'

71. Hanna Coal Company Shovels at Work

'The nature of Hanna Coal's surface mining operations is illustrated here. Among the company's seven strip shovels for removing the overburden and uncovering the 52-inch vein of coal, are four giants weighing in the neighborhood of 1,800 tons each, equipped with booms up to 120 feet long, and with scoops having a capacity up to 50 cubic yards. Each of these large shovels can move enough stone and earth per year to cover a football field more than a mile high.'

72. Hanna Coal Company Shovels at Work