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

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AIIBFA CEPLANT- Contin.
.!coal is used for fuel: The Boiler was last 3nspeoted'on April let,
11916. .. ..
A ma.rY. on the rope ie used instead of R positive indioator
.and is in plain viey+ oP the engineer who operates at the engine.
!The engineer is twentq-eight gears of age, .has had eight•genre o3
!experienoe and ie not addicted to the uoe'o~ intoxioati'ng liquors.
The ehaYt house ie a Prams, iron-aove'red building 30' z 60'
sand the smith's shop ie 3n thin building. The ohanging room ie a
'.small room ~on the east side oY the shaft house and is immadiutely
ad~oininG. The head frame ds 2-poet, lU" x 10"'pine tiob'ere and
24' high. The,ehesve wheel is oast iron, 4' in ddameter'and tilled
',with rope. There era tyro ore bins o~ the east sidd of the shaft
;house of 30 tone and 60 tons oapaoity, respoetively, nnd'ore is
trammed direot from shaft house to thbeee ore bins. Ti©bers are
propared outside on tho dump. '
The ettgine room, working eha~t, smith's shop dnd~furnaae
!room are all under one roof. Proteotion ngai'net fire ie provifled
'by mesne oY a hose attaohed to etetiru P~~P~
The collar of the shaft is of ouffioient hclght'to prevent
persons from tripping and falling in the shaft and in also pro-
~vided with a good end sufficient door to prevent materinl from
'Yelling in the shaft wh11e dumping.
8erosene and carbide lamps are usefl for lighting on the'
ourfnoe. '
E X P L O A I V F A.
Aupont powder - 4096, Amerioan fuse, 6-X ones nn6 woodon
tsmping bare are employed. I5xplosives in exoess of one day's
euDply are not storo0. underground where aetive wort. le~oarri'e0.
Ion.
', The,avexnge amount of exploaiYeo kept in u~oraQe is 600.
~Thie is stored in the tunnel near the ohaft and ins'enough away
from where aotive work is oarrieh on to be~sidze for the a©ployea.
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