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'All sizes of 'White Oak' prepared coal are loaded into railroad cars with loading booms to minimize breakage and preserve the best appearance of the coal. It would be useless to carefully mine and screen our coal if we did not use proper care in loading it into the railroad cars. These booms lower to the bottom of the car when it is first placed under the tipple for loading, and raised from time to time as the car fills up. Note how perfectly screened this lump coal appears on the boom! Not a sign of slack to be seen. Treated for dust if desired.'

37. Lump Coal Being Loaded onto Railroad Cars

Coal traveling on a conveyor.

38. Conveyor Belt at Jamison No. 9

Coal traveling on conveyors. Credit Must Be Given. Not to be reproduced without written license from William Vandivert.

39. Coal Being Processed

Coal on a conveyor.

40. Oil Treatment, Stoker Coal

Miner examines coal traveling down a conveyor inside the Hutchinson Preparation Plant, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company.

41. Interior of the Hutchinson Preparation Plant

Conveyor belt in the middle of the mountains.

42. Raw Coal Conveyor System

'A sheltered conveyor brings the Disco product from the carbonizers to this sheltered mechanical cooling wharf. A method of careful cooling in motion prevents spontaneous firing of the fuel and avoids injury to the structure of the product. The wharf is contructed of a series of grates, which are successively raised and lowered in a wavelike manner to keep the Disco product in motion and convey it slowly, while it is being cooled, down to the discharge end of the wharf.

43. Sheltered Conveyor

Georgetown Preparation Plant's raw coal conveyor and the refuse loading bin are shown in this picture.

44. Georgetown Preparation Plant

Conveyor outside of preparation plant unloading coal. Miner helps fill up the mine car.

45. Conveyor Unloading Coal

Looking down from top of a raw coal conveyor at receiving station.

46. Georgetown Preparation Plant

'Same story as shown in views of our lump and egg. Stove coal is evenly sized and perfectly prepared. Loaded with booms just the same as other sizes. To be doubly sure no impurities get into the railroad car, we wash this size at two White Oak mines. Treated for dust if desired.'

47. Coal on Conveyor

A conveyor belt runs to a coal shoot at the preparation plant, possibly Miracle Rune Mine.

48. Preparation Plant