Posted by Butch on August 16, 1999 at 22:42:38:
In Reply to: Miner's Tags posted by Mike on August 14, 1999 at 18:07:23:
: I have found some coal mine tags from a mining town that existed between 1885 to 1952.
: These tags have numbers stamped on them, would you know the significance of these
: numbers...did they identify the miner or the number of carloads of coal?
The tags more an likely have his social security number on in case of fire and need of identifying the body the body. I can at least tell that is what was put on my tags when I work the Bull Frog located just outside of Beatty NV