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• County: Teller
• Volume: 14
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: A

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Head frame is 10 X 10, 24 ft, high; sheave wheel 24' oast iron,
rope filled. Collar of shaft is of snffioient height to prevent
parsons from tripping and falling into shaft. Bleokamith shop
a frame 12 X 12,iron covered;engine and furnace room are
under one roof. Suitable protection against fire is not pro-
vided. Two ore bins 16 X 40 esoh. Good wagon road to ditman.
Ores are sold to Portland mill.
E X P L O S I V E S.
Giaat 400; Fuse Victor, Wooden tamping bars are
provided for employ ea. Eaplosivea in excess of one day~e supply
are not stored underground, but in a magazitre provided for that
purpose, ahioh is a frame 10 X 12 iron covered, located
2oC ft, from the shaft,and 500 iba is the average amount kept
• thawer
in storage. Yine is provided with a steam heats!! , a frame
6 X 6 0118,
candles and other combustibles E,re stored in engine room.
Y I N I N G.
fain opening a two compartment shaft 4 X 8, 1100 ft,
deep cribbed ^•ith 3 X e,and 4 X 8, divicbed into 11 'leuels.
ROOkliff shaft 4 7. 8, 800 feet deep, two compartments,-cribbed
with 3 X 8.
NO?~H st'PliS ~saft 340 Pt, Seep ~rith e minze 300 Yt, deep,at
bottom level is 3-12 X 8, cribbed with 3 X 8.
HOISTING by steam v~ith skip. Yen are raised anfl lowered
with hoisting machinery; r.eight of load hoisted 2500 lbs
a distance of 100 ft.. Cable a 7~8• round steel oable,hea
been 1n use two years. Clamps are used at end of aeble,whioh
were changed one year ago. Skip is provided with Safety
olutchea,btit no bonnet„ Clutches are tested once a week;
Bell line a 1~2r stall cable. State node of signals are
employefl,and is posted in engine room, at oollar•pf shaft
and esoh level station, Notice prohibiting persona from
riding on loadefl skip is posted at Dollar of shaft and notice
stati.tlg the number oP men permitted to ride o21 the skip at
one time ie posted at Dollar of daft and'eaohFlevel statioII.