Volume Four of Then, There Were Mines, is all about the men who lived, worked and sometimes died in the Almagrera mountains.
- Where the hundreds of men come from and where they laid their heads.
How they performed their allotted tasks at the Observación mine. - The army of young boys who spent their childhood working alongside their fathers.
The itinerant shaft sinkers who sunk the hundreds of shafts and drove the underground levels. - The ways in which the mine owners exploited those who worked for them.
The dangers that the men faced every day just to get to work. - The diseases of poverty suffered by the men and the available treatments and cures.
The scandal of the Jaroso hospital and faith in prayer. - The slow rise of socialism and the mine owners reaction to the men’s demands.
The giving with one hand, and the taking away ...