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The Mine Safety and Health Administration lists two operations under this township, and they are in different trades. One is a coal preparation operation working anthracite with 8 people; the other is the Summit Quarry about 6 miles east, working crushed stone with 9 — and the company that runs the quarry is an anthracite company by name.

That is the detail worth keeping. In this valley the stone business and the coal business are not always separate firms, and a truck sold by one may have spent its life working for the other.

Those two sit in the middle of a dense coal field. The Mine Safety and Health Administration records eleven coal operations within 10 miles of here and every one works anthracite — the Williamstown Mine about 3 miles south-east with 6 people underground, the Markson Bank about 4 miles east with 7, and the Black Creek Breaker about 4 miles north-west with 2.

So the operations are many and small. The Rausch Creek workings east and south-west run 4 to 7 people apiece, the Nova Coal operation about 8 miles east works with 5, and a pit about 10 miles north works with 1.

Those names describe different jobs and different trucks. A breaker sizes coal, a washery cleans it, a bank and a strip dig it, and an underground slope brings it out of the hill — and what each one loads out is a different product at a different stage.

So a truck here may never have been near a working face. Between the Rausch Creek preparation plant about 8 miles north-west and the slope about 10 miles north there is a whole chain of handling, and haulage exists at every link of it.

Coal trucks and breaker haulage, tri-axle dumps and aggregate haulers off the quarry, flatbeds, day cabs and road tractors, rollbacks, service bodies and the pickups every small operation keeps beside its big truck.

Between the Summit Quarry about 6 miles east and the Williamstown Mine about 3 miles south-east the two trades turn over separately, even where the same company stands behind both.

• Just tell us, since the two leave different residues.
• Can you collect from a washery?

A bank works out or a washery stops taking material, and the truck that served it has no obvious second home.

So it stands between the Nova Coal operation about 8 miles east and the Big Mountain pit about 10 miles north, on ground that has no further use for it.