MINEBK00364

• County: Lake
• Volume: 13
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: A

,;_ . -. Explosives. _. .: '
Gelatin powdar tF0 per oont 3e used in blasting,with German
Inaolold fuae,wooden tamping bare are provided,no powder man
etployed-explosives are stored in megaaine provided for that
nurpose,whioh 1e 150 feet Prom buildings-Amount kept in storage
250 ibe.Yngazlne of wood oovered with iron, nine is provided
with devioo for warming powder-Eleotrlo.No combustible stored
with powder..
1[ining.
There are three shafts sunk on the property,ona 225 Peet in
depth-one 90 Peat-and one 70 feet in depth,tha main workings is
in the 225 Poot ahaft,at the I00 foot level all the ahaPts are
conneoted on this level.There sre maps and drawings of the rains
Hoisting:-Method employed is by electriaity,raen are raiaed,and
lowered by maohinery,weight of load hoisted IE00 ibe.Cabie of
~~S inoh steel,in use one Year,and fastened to safety hook by
olampe and thimble,natorial hoiatod from one level-boll line oP
j~t; inoh manilla ropo-3tining Bureau oode employed-signals aro
?,oatacl in engine roots and Dollar of shaft.
Yirie methods:-l[othod of oro oxtraotion is by atoping and dr1P-
ting,maohine drills aro employed:-Ingereoli-Rand-Also hand
drilling-Timbering ie by drift eetta,and atulis-auffialent-
,Nntive timber used prepared at saw mills,oondltion of tirabers-
good,ordlnarY mine ohutes used,trammitrg by rsen with ordinary
'nine oars on B ib.to the yard rail.-No water-Ventilation is by
nstural draft-good.8hafta are divided into Lao oompartmente,and
provided with ladder ways.
Lighting underground ie by eleotriaity and oandloa.
Stntiatioo.
A•rorege toonage per Aonth:-50U.--Gross tonnage D~ Year;-6000,
?oral )iu.of last in shafts:-jXS.-OOat yar foot:-X25.00.
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