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Skips are ioadu.d..from cars. Sixteen lb. rails .spiked to the <br />wall plates of shaft timber, i'or skip traclt, The level stations are <br />all on the west side of the shaft. The shaft.is not provided with <br />guard rails at all stations. The sit aft is secured upon each silo. <br />by a pillar of ground. sufficient to secure safety from fire seventh <br />level dovrrt. Some of rite vrinzes and mill holes are covered and <br />surrounded with gur~rrd rails. The eilai't is not being sunlt. <br />TUPTITI':L, <br />Tice Company, or ?Tolson twmel cor:nects vith fire P/009 ter tU!!llel <br />to main o?>er!ittg of tutulel in "lest CJillo~,~ r, reek. Ti!e trartsnorration <br />c?gar/ces fro^: Happy Ti:ougi!t shaft to the Humphreys mill is 75TH <br />per ton. T.as is paid to the 67ooster tunnel Company. T is hauling <br />is :.ill dclte by horses, ^u~ it0rse pulls a tr•ai!! of ten c,:,rs, Tile <br />cars are ~?~ G^ long, 7,+ .} l~~n vride, and ?~ .} 1~2" deep, ohere are <br />bvildin%~, Hoar the entrancs to the PJ,.oster tunnel. Tiaev are of <br />c.rood, ~nd are to tine north of t'.:e tunnel, Haar :south of scone. <br />T_^.e tl.mnel is provided ~,ii;h sufficiol~lt doors at a reasona;le <br />distance fro.,i entrance to preve!!t the admission of noxious fumes <br />or gases frog! file buildings should fire occur, The doors are about <br />fifty feet from tiro entrance, They can not be operatert from vrithont <br />Lot I have ordered same so arranged. <br />~'ho ore is extracted by overitsad stoping. There are no mach- <br />ine drills erlployed. Both si:J;le and double hand drilling is used. <br />T+'!o tlnberirlg consists of stull.s, square sets and lagr~ing, <br />It is su1'i'icient in ~nost.plares. The timbers :+re dt-y, white and <br />reri sprucp, prepared Uy hand. Tho±~ are in ~ood cone?ition except <br />some of t:ns tirtberir>tq itl the sr!+zi't 1'ro + rite seve?tth level, up. <br />The underg•rou!td tta~.r,iit!g is done by i.and :!:.d gravi'atibu. <br />they use 1:11uo and Smoltsr Supply Co's cars, ~r;_e trackage is of <br />1G :L'a, T rams ilt n_:aft, rt!!d t3 lb, T ra is on lovely, <br />Avera+~;e arnonllt of crater dea.LC wits, 1,500 l,cils„ throu.it tiro <br />STolson tlx!ulel. Thet•s is no pu tpinl, plant. VenCilation is haft through <br />Sdohaon tunnel, and Happy ThouLgPtt and Ameti{}rsC s. arts. It ie suf- <br />ficient exco t in Zile north purt;of the mine, rToxio is gases are <br />always rnet vr:Lth vdien the wind is i'rom tiae south. They do not seem <br />to knovr rho mature oi' the Sarno. <br />A1.1 old timbers crave riot buss rA,,,nyed fro. <br />i tiro underground <br />workings, <br />