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-4- <br />AL work is Carries on At »resent on the rumberland vein <br />which is 3'700 feet from{ portal of said tunnel, running <br />drifts both ways and getting ready to do some stoping, <br />there is a little stopi~-g' h eina, done on this vein. The <br />method of ore extraction id overhand stoping and drifting <br />with air drills, IngPrso7,l. Hammer and piston drills are <br />used, The method of timbering is stulls_and square sets- <br />COYerPd ~vit.11 laAp'in$. The timbers are n7nA and spruce, <br />mostly prepared by hand and are sufficient to secure safety, <br />tindergro~.~nd tramming is clone by hand and. eiectrir r.~otprs. <br />Steel cars are used for tramming, Chutes are loaded by hand <br />acid gravit7l, The system of ventilation is natuxatl. hTain- <br />age is a ~~C~h under track, Ali old timbers have hee?r <br />removed from underground and the sanitary conditions are <br />good. Electricity and candles aTe used foT iightinp under- <br />ground. There is one shaft through to surface oat in use <br />only for manway if necessary with good 1addArs. The mine <br />has two exits one through shaft and one out through the <br />main tunnel, The manway is in good shape and ready at all <br />t:i_~~es for em»l0yes, <br />S TAT I S T I C S. <br />Total number of feet in drif+s 2200 <br />About twenty seven miles of track in drifts and tunnels <br />in ti;e mine, cost per foot oannot be given on develo»e- <br />ment as the manager is away, <br />Cost of powder per lb. x,15 <br />Cast of fu91 per ton X12,00 <br />Cest of transnprting ore per ton 4,00 <br />Cost of treatment smelting ore per ton X4.00 <br />Cost of milling ~?,. 00 <br />Average assay value of ore »er ton s~15.00 Cumberland vein. <br />Cost of mining. ore ~?,r,0, <br />M E N F Aa P L O Y ~' p, <br />6 machine drilimen X4.00 for 8 hours shift. <br />2 machine hebners 3.50 ~~ <br />8 mine2'$ 3.00 a <br />li <br />3 Timbe.rman 3,50 " <br />6 trammers 3.00 !¢ ,~, <br />