re: Coal miners headed to work in the 1900s

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You do what you gotta do to survive baw. Going down in a salt mine ain’t much different. Only the sardine can is a little bigger.

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There was a salt mine near where I grew up before it flooded before I was born. It had huge caverns where they used trucks and other heavy equipment to mine the salt. To hear the old timers talk about it, it wasn't much different than an industrial job on the surface.