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49. Miners Loading Coal Into a Hand Loaded Loading Machine

Caption on back reads, 'Making a cut in the coal face is this Mastodon of the machine age - an underground cutter.  Rubber tired for mobility, and mounting a 9-foot cutting blade armed with whirring steel bits, it can cut a full 360 degree arc.  This and similar machines give America's bituminous coal mines almost unlimited capacity for production.'

50. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine at Mine No. 32, Consolidation Coal Company, Owings, W. Va.

Two miners cut coal at Pursglove No. 15

51. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine in Pursglove No. 15 Mine

52. Miners Operating a Cutting Machine

53. Miner Operates a Coal Cutting Machine Prior to Blasting