MINEBK00542

• County: Custer
• Volume: 6
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: A

' SURFACE PLANT.
The pourer plant leas four grater tune boilers, one b4ine and S;nolter
ore
Supply Co., and tsrreo Atlas, made by the Atlas errf:;ine vrorks of
35 ft, Indianapolis, Indiana, oi' 125 H.P. each. They carry a pressure
of 100 lbs., and have never been inspected.
Tyre mine -ilas one fifteen drill., hand, air compressor,
ride
Tho hoistirrg• plant has tero steam en; ines, and 1 electric
The
motor of 25 ]:.~"1.
Tho hoists at•e mre, fir:,t r^:otiou, ':0 x 72, from the Union
•9'au ~~~iQ(A ~
of Iron rrorics, at ., one 1? x 1.1 air hoist or: the 500
i:im- foot level of the old shaft and one eraser and Chalmer 14 x ?. fi 19
in station, near tiie old draft, i:a tnnrrel level,
The ery;iueersoperates the enn.•irre at engine, by means of a posi-
d>-L
tive indicator ~f,0~r i.oist, 'Phey. are Back 30.i.^~ears old, and have had
five and ten years of oxpe;•i.ezzce rrs erv;irreers, rexpectively.
neither is addicted to the use of into:sicsating liquors,
Tae smith's shop is located near the ~eut' of the turn:el. The
carport®r.si:op and maci_izre shop are rzzulor the same roof, but
are ::uparate :rcm t:.e resat oi' the buildings. Fire protection is
had. b~ means cf pw:rps, ru:ich :x re sui'ficicnt and ample ibr the
purpose, Tile ciraut;e and dry room is over the boilers,
Thero is a phznt ::t ci :icir tiro Limbers aro prepared, neexr the
smith's shop.
' Tine ore is run direct to the grusirer, and then through an
izrcllne chats to t:^.e r,oncent~°ntor. i'he water suppl,-/ is obtained
from Poison ^priu(,;s, American ''La;;, Toledo, and Fran1:11n mines.
LlBctricity is used for• liintiz:g.~
A rra~;on road r•wzs f:•om ti:e rc.llroad station ~~t '^,est Cliff, to
tho mine, a dist;arce o'.' aizout 9 miles.
The ore is treated by concentrati.nr:;, cyanidlnf;, arul smeltinlr„
those beiry,; a concentrating, cpauid~Lnp; pL..ut nt the seine,