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• County: Clear Creek
• Volume: 17
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: A

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'Dupont powder"•- 40i; Garnan Insoloid furie,-5-% Dope and
(wooden tamping bars aro timployed. Exploeivee'in'eroess-of bne
day! a supply aro not stored tmderaroiuld.
The-overage"amount of oxploeives kept in storage is 500.
~, Thie Sa 'rittired in a'amall frosts, iron-oovered magasane situate
'100' east of tho shaft houee and is ueed'for the stortige.of .
,powder only. All tither supplies are r;tored in the t3haft houee.
Ho devioe Yor thawing powder ie provided.
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Tho main openitt~ Se a ohaft 416' in depth and tiaborad
,with square sots its entiro dopth. The shaft is dividod into
two compartments that ore used for ti ladder-way and buolcot-way,
reapeotively+ The ladder-way le equipped vrith eafo, saoure and
aooaesiblo lndders,'oontaina nir pipes and enoh lovel station
providoe a landing as tho shaft dips at an angle of 4Y.°.
At a dopth of ?.00' a drift is run oast 800't At n dopth
of 4001 a drift is run east 000' and went 00'. A lnrao amount
of stoking,has boon Bono in those drifts.
In tho east 400-ft. drift n Dross-ont is beinu dxivon
oouth and Dome etoping le do no.
A numbor of amal7. shnfts havo been stalk nn this group
but all era in poor•oondition and abtuldonoA.
Wost of the main shnft is n shaft 60' in depth and oast'
of the main shaft is another shaft on tho same'voin. The first
montionod'shaft le 100'.dlstant and tho latter in 700' distnnt
from the main shaft. As 'rapidly as possiblo theses two shafts
,,will be planed in shape dad wood for additional exits.
I About 700' from tho shaft a winso oonneots the 400-ft.
level with the A.00-ft. lovol and in in godA oondibl.on and prop-
iorly equippod.
Elootrialty is tho method omployoA for hoisting and tho
(men are raised and lowered with the hoisting mnohinory. A fond
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