This tale was told by Shelby Dyer to me. The old Crystal Block Coal Co. mine at Sarah Ann,WW never had any paydays. the mine only worked 2 or 3 days a week, so the miners were all "scrip bound", and had to take their pay in food at the company store. Shelby fially got a job at another mine, where he did much better. He laughed and called the Crystal Block mine a "coffee sack mine", where you filled your bag in groceries at the shifts end <grin> Shelby B. ************************************** Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001)