MINEBK00149

• County: Teller
• Volume: 14
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: A

No ahai't house; head frame a 10 X 10, 30 ft, high; sheave
wheel a 3 ft. :ast iron; engine, rooom, blaeksmixh shop and
flxrnaee room all under one roof; building is a 30 X 65 frame,
1_Ton roof suitably protection against fire is provided;
ore Nausea 16 X c5 fY•a;se;• water supply Altman Water Company;
lighting ~aadles; Surface transportaion by wagon road to
R. R, at Independence; ores shipped to Colorado City,
F JC P L O S I V E S
Indepenflent 40ja; fuse Victux•; wooden tamping bars are provided
for employees; eaploaives are stored in :.+agazine provided for
that purpose alone,vrhiuh ie located 5U ft, iioa, shun; average
amount kept in storm e about 50 lbs. Character of magazine
and X 8 frame, iron covex•ed. Mine is provided with an 8 Y. e
fr ame, Steam heated uuildi.7g for the.^inp, poAder; oils sad
candles are stored in engine re;om.
1Li17iiQG: Main oneninp; 1a a 4. X 8 ahaft,• 800 feet deep, square
aettod vrith d X Bra. 1Sine hag tn?ps and. dra:vings.
HOISTiWG by steam hoist ++;ith cage; men are raises sari lo~'ered
with ..*.oirainc rs:achinery; :able is a 7~8" round steel gable,
begin is +~ee six years; hooka usyd at end of cable elampe,
3arue aer~ ;;hac~ey six ^nnt~^ ~aro; eago •is ernxipped +•rith bonnet
ant safety clutches, rrhioh were testes, tiro vPPKfl epo; no
safety devi:o is e::rplcyed to rrevent overwinding; bell 'line
a 1~4" steel c;~b13; Statle codo of slenals are employed,
•rrhioh are posted it: engine Y•ooL:, a.t collar of phi•J•t rind ~aoh
level rrtation; r:11 +.~_yuns iii: prohibited from xidiri~ on
loaded canes ::n~i this notice is f~ofited at collar of shaft;
notloe etatlnY the rnaxi:mam number of men Permitted to ri•ie at
one ti:ae on cape is pouted at collar of shaft and each level
station; ordinary station chairs are used.; cage pttldes are
4 x 4 Oregon pine; shaft at all stations is provided with guard
rails; all :•:inzes and mill holes are covored or surroandnd
rrith Yustrd rails; mine rcethods,overhand stoping Piston and
H=.m~er drills, as well as hand steel la emnloyod; timbering