MINEBK00202

• County: San Juan
• Document: Manager
• Suffix: A

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`?- w•a5 {ound that the mill's capacity was eighty-five instead of sixty-five tons; this necessitated
~ ' " more power. The engine and boiler, rated at fifty horsepower, were not able to do the
our Board of Directors I have purchased and erected a too-
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i.; work. Under direction of y
t^ horsepower Curless engine and a roo-horse-power Fraser & Chalmers boiler, also put in a
~• lant, which furnishes seventy-five lights, and will save $5 per night over
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' small electric light p
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f,, ;, the old method of lighting the mill with ZeSOect and run Png day and night, and handling
The mill is now complete in ever}' P
eighty-flue tons of crude ore daily.
'I'RAiVIWAY.
The Bleichert tramway was completed on August 7+ tuudaakes up supplies requiredlat
parts. It brings into the mill eight tons of ore Per who built this tramway under contract,
the mine. The Trenton Iron Co., of New Jersey, as stron and substantial as it could
have spazed no expense in its erection, every pazt being g er da includin oil etc.
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be made. Three men will operate the tram at an expense of ~rj p Y,
1VIINE I1Vff'ROVF,NIENTS.
At the mine a lazge force of men has been employed since spring opened, preparing
for the increased output required when mill and tramway should be ready to handle it. The
old buildings, bunk house and cook house were only adequate for the accommodation of fifty
men, whereas an average of zoo men have been employed, living in tents, etc. A large two-
story boarding house, roo x 20 feet, with an addition r8 x roo feet, has been built. It con•
tains kitchen, dining room, store room, foreman's offices, sleeping rooms for t25 men, bath
room, etc. The whole building cost ~4,$0o and the excavating for it, in solid rock, cost
another 5x,ooo• Every piece of the building was packed up on mules, which added greatly
to the expense.
It was deemed expedient to put the terminal of the tramway at the point where the
fourth and lowest level can be run on the mine. This level will not be started until next
year. This left a gap between the third level and tramway of ¢So feet. These have been
connected by a gravity tramway, built of wood, the loaded car pulling up the empt}' one.
Its capacity is fully equal to the Bleichert tram. Its cost was some $2,000, and it wil] be
in active use for at ]east two years. In order to expedite work on the third level, whant
the rock is very hard, I have purchased a Leyner air compressor and air drills. The p
is now being taken up to the mine.
It has taken ten months to drive ¢So feet on the third level. This machine will drive
it from roo to rso feet per month at about the same cost as 45 feet per month by haud work.
It is absolutely necessary to push work in this level so as to have the ore bodies opened up