Again a article from the Contra Costa Times of Sunday June 8. The main part of this article is on a land project on the edge of Antioch, where they want to build over the old coal and sand mines that are there. But they do go into the history of the area and how they mined from the 1850's to 1907 for the coal. Interesting to find out the a journeyman miner could be as young as 13, and a apprentices as young as 8. Again this site can be slow and you can get pop-up ads http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/content_syndication/local_news/6027382.htm George --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM).