Gilsonite Miners

At the Rainbow Mine Gilsonite Mine workers beginning their shift are left to right beginning back to front are: Loren Anderson, Mr. Merkley, Gerald Stewart Harden Nelson: 2nd Row-Fred Richens, Marvin Peterson, Parley Parker, Warren Billings: 3rd Row- ?Mr. Gardner, Mr. Beck, Jay Hafen, Bert Case, Mr. Merkley, Lawrence Workman, Unidentified, Unidentified, Unidentified: 4th Row- Mr. Allred, Unidentified, Vernal Workman: 5th Row: Roy Warburton, Francis McCarrell, Ernest Case, Sol Case: Front Row-Thomas Silka and Marion Hatch. Those miners wearing the white cords around their bodies are miners who fill the sacks with the Gilsonite and then tie the sacks shut with one of the strings from the bundle wrapped around their neck. The sacks are hoisted from the mine or brought out on a rail car. By the end of the day miners are covered with Gilsonite dust. Jensen Book page 474, also on disk 164 as photo #6734a.