Local mining photograph (suspected)

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Great photo Stephen. Thanks for sharing.

 

Hard work and primitive tools!!! Pretty integrated work force. Excellent view to explain the use of tunnels. Looks like there may be one at the top of the photo also. How’d you like to duck fifty times a day pushing a heavy wheel barrow through those cramped tunnels? Wow!

 

Pls keep up the research,  John Garner

 

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Subject: Local mining photograph (suspected)

 

This is mostly for Mssrs. Garner, Link, Hamilton and Shaw, who showed up for the Rorer Iron Mine tour. Others may also find this interesting and have something to say about it. In a Facebook group run by local historians in the Blue Ridge area, this image turned up at a recent library event. They had an open call for people to bring in local images for scanning. There is no other provenance, other than someone brought it in for scanning at the Blue Ridge library. 

 

Keep in mind, the Rorer Iron Company had a mining operation just north of the Crozier Iron furnace, but I don't have any information about it. More likely, this photo may be from the mine operation that was in close proximity to the N&W Station and the BR Springs resort. 

 

Of interest here, for those who journeyed up and down the pit mines on that cold day back in January, this photo shows how men used a tunnel system to extract "outward" rather than "upward-and-downward" to a temporary narrow gauge track. We were talking about how this might look, and perhaps this image answers our question. I offer this image in the hopes that it is local, but as my mother often said, "if it ain't true, it ought to be..."

 

Stephen Warren - Roanoke

 

 

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