MINEBK00617

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

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the use of intoxicating liquors; there is no shaft house;
end frame and 8 X 8 47 ft, high; sheave !rheel 5 ft '
ast iron; engine room, blacksmith shop and ittrnaee
room all under one iroof suitable protection against fire
is provided; changing room in engine room; ore bins, 16
X 40, frame. Altman. Water Company supplies water,
lighting by eleotricty and candles; Transportation C.S.&
C.C. D. Railroad; wagon road to l:idwar;
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p~'. Dupont and Independent 40~; fuse Z.L. Wooden
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i „ tamp in„ b~s• are provided for employees. Explosives are
~,~'~ stored in magazine provide;: lc. t~~t purpose alone which
~L' is located 200 ft. from shaft; average auw~.ir.t Lunt in
~~ storage 700 lbs. magazine is a log building covered '
~ ~~~ with stone ;~:.: ..arth 8 X 12 ft, device for thawing
~~} powder is a Prame,eteau, heated 4• X 6; oil's and candles are
stored in engine room and not with powder. '
1~INING: Lain opening is a 4~-1~?. X 9, 1,000 ft. deep,
cribbed don/n to 500 ft. squared netted to the bottom from
that point, divided into~l2 levels;'work 1s carried on
at the present time in the 4th, 5th and 10th levels; mine
has maps and drawings.
HOiSTIbfG: by 8 flteaIIl h01flt and skip; n,en are raised and
lowered with hoisting r_achinery. Cable 7~8" round steel
cable in use tyro years. ;took used at end of cable clamps;
was chznged. Rix molltha aqo; skip is equipped with safety
clutches and bonnet; safety clutches tented once a
Week; condition of bell line,ifl a 1~4" steel sable and an
8" gong; State eo~ie of aignal~ are employed and posted
in engine room at collar of abaft'and each level station .