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a <br />r. ails, <br />The shaft is secrrrad by a pillar of grotand on each eide.to <br />sufficiently insure safety, <br />Ail winzas or mill holes are not covarrjd or surrounded witl <br />guard rails, <br />The shaft is not bang sunk, <br />i <br />The method o8 ore extraction is by overhand. and underhand _;•1.:- I ; <br />stoping. <br />Machine drills arH employed, 2 I/4 Ingersoil~8ergeant, <br />IJo hand drilling is done, <br />Stnal].s and lagging rae aged 1n timbering, Thasa era insuF- <br />ficiant. <br />Red and white spruce timbers are used; thoy arH papered by <br />hand, The condition of the t1!mbaue is only fair., <br /> <br />The chutes arH loaded by hand, <br />9nckets loaded uy hand and from chutes aro used in under- <br />grouuid trauunimg. Tha buckets are of the Mines and Smeltor• SuptLly <br />Company mrkH and the track is Uullt of K prnrnd T rails, <br />SufJ.'ici.Hnt ventilation is affected through shafts and 1HVe1f <br />Pio noxious gasses era cruet w1.th, <br />All old timbers have not bssn removed from the underground <br />workings, <br />Pha shaft is divided into two coinpartunants, It is pravldad <br />with a ladder-way Tha ladders era aecassibla,2he ladder.-way als <br />eor-tains air. pipes, <br />Tha ladder-way !s provided with landings npt to exoead 20' <br />feet apart excepting from the 840 foot 1avHl down, <br />Thsre are no winzas or. man_way;i gonner,t;~ng the lavela, <br />Asada from the shaft tharH !s one exit frrnn the 5I4 Paott leve <br />through thH Vindioator workings, Thiy is readily aoaHSSib1H to the <br />employes, ~ <br />Canrllas ar.H used t'or. utndar.grmrnd 11ght1rtg, <br /> <br />