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Story of Copper, The - Mining R4 of 5 Pt. 2 of 2

Reel Number: 221619-12

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1920s,1928

Country: USA

Location: Arizona,butte,Jerome,Michigan,Montana

TC Begins: 01:02:58

TC Ends: 01:07:22

Duration: 00:04:24

The Story of Copper - Mining R4 of 5 Pt. 2 of 2 Continued... Title: “The miners are brought in cars through a tunnel...” Electric locomotive pulling cars w/ miners out of concrete tunnel; miners out, some into double-decker elevator & prepare to raise to surface. 01:03:41 Title: “Trains of standard railroad cars enter the mine...meets shaft 1000 feet below surface...” Railroad cars loaded while pulled under chute. 01:04:03 Title: “At Butte, Montana...” Pan over large mine above town at base of piles of tailings; pan across 01:04:30 Title: “A shift entering cages at Butte.” Ext. outside large structures. Men into skips & loaded. 01:05:12 Title: “A drift ventilated through air pipe made of canvas.” POV along tunnel track w/ ventilating pipe above. Rag blowing in breeze; cart w/ poles in stope & man placing timber. 01:06:08 Title: “Wet Drill. Water passing through the drill...” Man on ladders & planks in stope working air-powered drill. 01:06:46 Title: “The Square Set Timbering method... Timbers held together w/ rods, men moving thru & operating drill. Heavy Industry; Laborers; 1920s; Natural Resources; Company Town; Environmental Destruction; Tunneling; 1928;

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