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From: "DGoldsborough" <>
Subject: Re: [MDGARRET] Looking for info re "tokens"
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 23:39:55 -0500
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Pat,

I am learning something new every day. I had never heard of "scrip" but I
think (it was a LONG time ago)
I heard of tokens being used.

My neighbor is really into this; however, I didn't know he had a computer.
He said he checks E-Bay everyday but is mostly interested in tokens that
were used in Garrett
County.

Doris G.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Thompson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: [MDGARRET] Looking for info re "tokens"


> Doris,
> My Dad told me that at Kempton, the mine paid the miners with Scrip, which
> they in turn used to make purchases at the (mine owned) general store.
> Sounds like the inspiration for the line from the Tennessee Erie Ford
> song, "I owe my soul to the Company Store".
>
> True or not, I can't prove it, but he told me when the mine ran out and
the
> store closed down, the scrip was dumped into the mine.
>
> I am sure, had the mine owners only have known the value today of scrip
for
> antique collectors, it would have been a part of their children's
> inheritance.
>
> Pat -T
>
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