Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-02-13
BELLVlLLE, ILL.

SbS3alto The Nl7oS.
We worked half time for while
but have started up again. Where l
worked half time there is work every
day now, and where they had shut
down entirely they now run three and
four DAYS per week Where | work at
Shilo they have electric mining mach
ines and | am running one of them. 1t
mines seven feet The rows are about
81 feet wide on an average so You shoot
that down and load it and get 40 cents
per ton. You don't do any mining in
that mine. Just drill holes and shoot
and load. The company lays the track
and you get paid for all the dead work
You do and everything except loading
and shooting or settling few posts Is
| deadwork. You mine slate or such as
that. Then at night you tell the mine
boss. He pays you for the time you
work at the rate of So. 36 per day. In
regard to 'Bonny Boys fear for the
cold weather, this is not the coolest
place in the world by any means. We
have cold spells and there are warm
ones similar to the winters lin Ala
bama. OF course it is some colder but
not enough to hurt There are some
people here who would like very much
to see him and his family out here.
would like to see every union man
come to this state as | know they
would do better.
"Bonny Boy said the letter made
him think times were better here thar
there. | would venture to say thu
miner who gets six months every day
in Illinois on the average mine viii
come close to making as much as thu
average miner in Alabama will il
twelve months OF course | haven
been there for about eight years, bu
times were better there thenthan now
saw where Carl Jones had moved
his boarding place to his brother S
Carl you had better come and bring
your boarding boss and his wife to SCI
the "Warbler.
MAMA Pet" tells me to she'll dow
the corn and tell hint or her, don
know which, if there is any chance fo
a miner here I have told the trutl
in every letter and intend to still O.
So We have worked three days
week for three weeks here. We work
ed steady and ext ect to keep it up un
til the first of April and if they sigl
the contract we will work at least fou
days per week and good chances TO
six all summer, but there are lots 0
mines that run two and three and fou
days in summer Some shut dow
entirely in the summer, but we cal
always get work somewhere. The cit
wages for labor is 81. 20 per day, eigh
hours, but in winter, except sin thi
case where work all over the countr
is dull they work every day. Now
in answer to your question, MAMA
Pet, - / will say don't know whethe
the rich will give the crumbs to a min
er's wife or not, but there is mine
who will and and there are thousand
of others here who will 60 the same
You insinuate as if | was the boy tina
took the long journey and was glad t
get back. Don't you worry, for if,
had taken care of the money / hav
made since | left on that journey,
would be right in the swim ant
could have gone back but learnt,
that work there was bad on every side
and will say now that | never expec
to work down there any more, unles
the prices change very much, nor an,
miner would who had worked for
while in the north or southwest You
say You think you know me- l al
certain | have no iGea who you are
unless you are a cousin of mine. |
you really want to know everything
that / might be able to tell in regar
to the work, just write to me and ad
dress it to 405 East LIST st. at this cit
and 1 will give all the information
= can
Some one from Alabama please te
me through the News how Jno. Deg
nan came out in his trouble, or has h
been tried. If not when and wher
will he be tried.