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Item
Title
D17170-21
Date(s)
- 1944-03-18 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Munday Y. Loss (at right) and an unidentified miner were photographed in March of 1944 hauling coal out of the Skookum Slope mine in Wilkeson, Washington. The Wilkeson Coal and Coke Company had re-opened the mine in March of 1942 to provide coal for the war effort. They had signed a contract with the U.S. Defense Plant Corporation to produce coal for conversion to coke, to be used in making steel. Over 75,000 tons of coal were shipped to Tacoma before the mine was once again closed on November 1944. (Identification of Mr. Loss provided by a reader)
Coke industry--Wilkeson; Coal miners--Wilkeson; Mine railroads--Wilkeson; Coal mining--Wilkeson; Wilkeson Coal & Coke Co. (Wilkeson); Loss, Munday Y.;