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Two oil cans (each holding about 1½ pints) are given to each pair of drillers, one can for black oil and one for miners’ oil. These cans, properly filled, are given out to the men, as they go on shift, at the “oil-house,” located near the shaft underground. This “oil-house” is in charge of the “oil boy,” whose duty it is to keep the cans clean, to fill them and to give them out at the beginning of the shift. The cans are returned to the oil-house at the end of the shift.

Kerosene is used in the hat-lamps in wet places.

The “oil-houses” are provided with three tanks. In some instances these tanks are charged through pipes coming down the shaft from the surface oil-house. These tanks are provided with oil-pumps and graduated gage-glasses.

Shovelers or loaders operate in gangs of 8 to 12, and are supervised by a “straw boss,” who is provided with a gallon can for illuminating oil. The cars are 20 cu. ft. (1 ton) capacity. Under ordinary conditions one shoveler will load 20 of these cars in a shift of 10 hours. They use “half-spring,” long-handled, round-pointed shovels.