MINEBK00279

• County: Mineral
• Volume: 6
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: A

MINING AND MINE METHODS.
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Ths'Charice draft has three compartments, two of which are
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egixlpped with skips. The north comp artment has one continuous ladder !.
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~rnd holandi.nga except at elch level station, whic:n are ai>out
100 feet apart. inhere are thlrteer: levels including; the Nelson ~~i:

ttirtnol level. The shai't is sunk on the vein and has a dip oi' ~i
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55° to tine west. All levels except the lOt;7., 11th., 12th., and ;,;;,
1'Sth. cormect vrith the Amatir«st on tits north, at a distance of
about 800 feet'. The tr.ird level connects wit;1 the Cornmodore vrorl:-
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ings~ om the south.Al'~1 ore fro!n t'rre i'ii'tH level doom is lovrered to ~
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the Sdelsan tunnel, inelndin~• half of the ore from the fifth level. X11;
All of the other ore is hoisted to the surface. and hauled by vra~on ~'
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to the railroad. IC
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Work is beirrgr carried on atLthe present time on all levels ail
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except ,the loth„ 11th., and 12th.; this wont being; urine me at._ the i
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old wor9cings and in the same vein, the Ametl!,yst. The maps and i
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dravrinp;a are up to date uid may be iiad by applyini,; to H.H. Haning-
tozi,'204'13os+.on'Auildinpy nenver, Oolorado.
mhe hoisting'is done by skips, the amne insclrinery being; us ad !I
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-for raising and lowering me rt. Weight of load hoiatad about 3,000
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lbs. Mstance hoisted about 1,500 feet. The cable is a one inch,
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round'stael, dn.good condition, and ikla boon in use about six
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mouths. The cable is attached to tits bail of the skip vrith
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clamps which vrere chained abort tyro rnonths ago. Thera era no sai'e-
roof, ~
ty de•vices employed to prevent overvriudini,•, Ti:a eutterial is i~oisted Ii
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frorn.several'levela. The bell. line is a five iich Manilla rope i
attac•ied to a ten elnd twelve inch +rong. They use tholr awn coda. if
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This is posted do the .engine room, at the collar of the sh~rft II
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and. at each level station. Parsons era prohibited 1'rom•rffting orr
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loaded skip, but thin outer is not posted near the collar of t•he
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ehnft. Neither ie there a notice stating the maximum runnber• oi' ji:

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mere permitted to ride upon a skip at mre time, poatad at the ~~,
co.~lar of the shaf't'and at each level station. The skips are ''
' loaded from cars. The s]cip track in the Chance is oi' 12 lb, rails ~'I
but'nre boi.rilc replaced with 30 lb T, tells.
The stations are all cut on the woat•eide of the airaft,