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On August 31, a 100-year-old miner's cap was stolen from the Helper Museum, located in Carbon County- two hours south of Salt Lake City. The hat was an antique reminder of Carbon County’s past life of blood-coal mining and the railroads.“When I came in Monday, I noticed one of our cases had been moved,” said Roman Vega, Director & Curator of Helper Museum.
“In early mining in the 1900s they didn't have hard hats that they currently use today,” Vega explained. “What they would use and what they would have would be a soft cap.”The front of that soft cap has a place to hold carbide or an open-flame lamp. “Depending on what you were looking at, this would be the only light source that the worker would have had when he was underground.
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