no safety issues, almost anything can be made safe. you should have seen that place when they opened it up! there would have been so many better mines to make a tour out of but this was "convient" because it was in a park and the county already owned the land and planned to do that one. i highly doubt youll see advancements made there which is a real shame because the county wont dump some money in the mine. we went down and talked with them several times about things we could do there and how we could run our 80 year old mine motor inside for special tours making them more money but they pushed it aside and said its not in the budget. lackawanna wonderful at its finest. even up to just last fall we made attempts to get stuff down there when i learned we had to relocate it from my dads and they never returned any of my 5 phone calls, nice. hence we are working at no.9 and pioneer and theres big plans in the works for both some of which we have already done and will be seen on this years tour season so cmon down! also, which must be noted, this is the countys fault not the operators of the mine. the suppeys do a great job keeping that place up and running and safe for the public. they are real good people and pretty good friends of ours. they are a great source of knowledge and help! they were all for our ideas but said theres no chance the county would go for it.
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