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after that and they take that out, their gonna get a lot of coal. And I know,
because I was in there. In the mines there. My brother and another fellow
that's from here, they blew[?} drew[?] a gang/ that came from the Owl Hole
all the way in there, in coal--see, there's a tunnel goin' in all the way. So they punched
the tunnel on the left and they got into that coal, not way far, they just went about
let's see about maybe about sixty feet and they got out into the coal. but
then they drove that there gangway all the way to the strippin', where Butler
was takin' that coal out, all the way out to there. And boy, are they coal there!
Oh gee, is that a high one! Whel. Full. The busters[?] that the old time miners
worked long time ago, they're all filled up with coal. They crushed in, you kno
that far. Well, that's all standin'. Yup. that's all standin' all the way out to the
Owl Hole. And that, that's---oh my God I don't know [?] there's a million tons in
there to get out of there. And then that whole hollow, there's all coal in under there.

AV: Is there?

JS: Yeah, that's all coal in through there. And it's high coal, high and deep. Some
places you know there are different veins. there's veins, well they had a vein
runnin' from Number Two clean into Number Ten, and down Number Four
down in here. Runs anywhere from six feet well some place you'd come up Seven,
eight feet, then she'd dip down to about five feet And then she'd go up a little
bit again and that's the way it went all the way to...they didn't mine that!
That was all of that they didn't mine that. They had bigger vein now,
and better coal, so they takin' that and left that there.
In Buck Mountain there's a place, too, they have a place there, oh
I don't know, that ain't too high neither, it's about six, seven feet high
somethin' like that. And it's pretty tough coal to mine you know. And they
left all of that, they didn't bother. Oh they must be a lot of coal down below
where that tunnel where you see down in that big hollow down
in there. There was a, I don't know if that school house is standin' there