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<br />' Black powder used in the mine was stored in the powder house. Built in 1914, it is a <br />one-story 20 by 20-foot-square concrete building with a steel roof, and is located in a small <br />drainage west of the shop. All that remains of the shop area is a foundation measuring about <br />t 80 feet by 45 feet. A complex that contained a hoist house, a small hoist shed, a building for <br />a steam-powered ventilation fan, a water tower, and a mule barn made up the mine portal <br />area. The hoist house and foundation for the fan housing, measuring (about 30 by 60 feet) <br />are still existing. <br /> The two room hoist house, which rests precariously on the edge of the hill near the <br />' mine portal has overall measurements of 47'-l0" x 25'-5". From early photographs it is <br /> believed the smaller room was built first and the larger, more solid room an addition at a <br /> later time. The foundation and floor are of poured concrete. Walls are constructed of 3" x <br />" <br />' 4 <br />wood stud framing and galvanized corrugated steel siding with cement stucco on wire <br /> lath. This structure has two types of windows. Three (Type A) windows on the north and <br />' west walls are 6'-6" x 2'-1 1" sliding sashes with 9 lites per sash and 4" flat casing. The south <br />half of the building contains five (Type B) windows which are wood double hungs <br /> measuring 2'-]0" x 6'-6" with a 9 lite configuration per sash and 4 1/2" flat casing. The roof <br />' is constructed of 2" x 6" wood rafters with galvanized corrugated steel roofing. In the larger <br />room that measures 31'-2" x 25'-5" the cable wheels and electric motor are still present on an <br /> equipment platform and bear the manufacturer's name "Allis-Chalmers". The smaller room, <br /> 16'-8" x 10'-9", also still contains some hoist equipment. The two doors, one on the west <br /> exterior wall and one on the room dividing wall are 3'-0" x 6'-5" wood raised panel doors in <br /> which the horizontal panels are stacked vertically. The south wall on the smaller room is <br /> deteriorating and sections of the wall are missing (see drawing A1). <br />Mules were used in the mine until 1956; however, slopes in the mine were so steep <br />' that the mules could not pull a loaded car. In 1909 a steam engine-powered hoist was added <br />to pull cars from those areas. The steam-powered ventilation fan was installed in the east air <br />course in 191 1. Prior to that ventilation was provided by a furnace and stack in the west air <br />course. <br />Photographs of the above described structures are included in Appendix A. <br />' Appendix B contains the measured drawings. <br />t <br /> <br />1 <br />-10- <br />1 <br />