I did not say that the house were not good. I have been inside them in the 1930s. A lot of company stores where good. In once instance the company store, where I lived ,forgave several months of bills, due to a strike, for the miners who lived purchased. there. As to Victoria owning that mine. It is possible. The mines in the Star junction area were owned by Washington Coal and Coke. In the early 30s. Approx 1933 they were sold to H, C. Frick who was part of U.S. Steel. Grant