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• County: Gilpin
• Volume: 17
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: A

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the floor of the shaft honeeL Guard-rails are used to prevent'
persons frog falling in the shaft.
'i'he head frees' 1e' 2-post, 171' x 12" pine tiabere and 16'
high. The sheave wheel ie• oast iron, 3' in dieaeter'aad filled
with rope.
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Ez Dnpont powder - 40~,, German Ineoloid Yuee~6=X'oaps and
wooden tamping bare are employed. Exploeivea in excess of one
.day's supply are not stored underground.
The average amount of exploeivae'kept in storage Se 26¢r
This is kept is a trams, iron-covered magazine situate 126' east
of the shaft house and the magazine is used for the storage oP
powder only. 011 other supplies axe stored in tho shaft house.
Ho device for thawing piwder is provided as tho kind'oY ,
powdor used dose not harden except in extremely cold weather;'
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Tha main opening is a•ehaft 300' in dopth. Tho first forty
feet of the abaft is oribbefl wibh 8-inch loge and atolls baoY.ed
with lagging are used in the balance oY the shaft. Tho shaft io
divided into two compartments each 4! x 4' in the nlearynrid used
' for s bucket-way and lafldor-way, respeotiv'ely. The ladder=way la
eQuippad with safe end aeoure ladders but hna nd~landings ne tho
~ shaft inalittee 480. The ladder-wag oontnins air, steam and water
ripen. ,
Lovala have beon•driven as follows: 30-Yt. level; east 200';
west 60'. 1B0-ft. level: east a00'; west 100'. ~~0-ft. levels seat
'd, 40'.,;2?0-ft..leveT; east 7B'. Consiflerable atoping has been'done
in all. oY the lovalsr '
Ootive work is confined to extending tho 180-ft. lovel.
'; 0 winzo•oonnoote the 1B0-it. level with tho 30-Yt. level
;and kopt in good condition and properly equippuU with ante enfl
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