PHOTO: Carey Salt Mine Employees (1947); Winn Par., Louisiana


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Submitter: Shirley Armstrong & Rebecca Hubbard

Date: Apr. 2000

Transcription: Jo Branch

Date: 23 Jun 2008

Source: Winn Parish Enterprise, 12 Jun 1947





Carey Salt Mine Employees Set Outstanding Safety Record



THESE MINE EMPLOYEES AND THEIR SUPERVISORY STAFF are responsible for the outstanding safety record set
by the Carey Salt Mine Company on the Natchitoches highway near Winnfield.  A certificate of Honorable Mention was
awarded to the Carey Mine in the National Safety Competition sponsored by the Bureau of Mines after a safety record in
1946 of 73,522 man hours without an accident.  The same award has been received two years previously.  

Three employees in
center are displaying the two honorable mention certificates received in previous years and the Joseph A. Holmes Safety
Award given by the U. S. Bureau of Mines for the meriteroius safety record.



Pictured left to right, front row are:

Eugene Kelly, Odus Holland, Sam Hubbard, J. C. White, James Riffle, Julius Smith, David Burt Worsham, and Walter Womack.


Second row, left to right:

W. H. Cameron, General Manager; Luther Scott (colored), Claude O'Neal, Lee Davis, Hershel McDaniel, Chester Camp, Henry
Warner, Elbert Foshee, J. R. Sholars, Night Foreman; Jason Trotter (colored), Leander Harris (colored).



Third row, left to right:

Al Tracey, Superintendent of all employees; Vernon Keen, Roy Miller, Mine Foreman; J. G. Richmond,
Bill Maxey, Haraford Smith, Ray Bachan, Coy Conn, Bill Harris (colored), Arthur Kiel (colored), and Clyde Brown (colored).

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Photo by AL'S STUDIO.




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