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8. The corn crib in position adjacent to the mule barn,
as it will be installed on the layout.
Powder house
Every mine needs a place to store explosives. There was only
one shift at the mine, and explosives were used only after the
shift ended or during the lunch break. This was so every man
and mule could be accounted for.
The powder house was located east of the tipple and north of
the company store. It was enclosed by three earthen bunkers
to direct a blast away from the houses that were located far-
ther up the hill. There are no known photos of the structure,
but the prototype is known to be of concrete construction with
a roof that would easily give way during an explosion. This type
of roof isn’t known.
Information about the type of construction became avail-
able after I had purchased a kit as a stand-in for the structure.
