MINEBK00617

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

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~ Hook is employed to prevent ov erRinding; pager is employed
3~8" steel oable pull bell is uaded and electric gystem.
State code of signals are employed, which are posted
in engine roam at collar of shaft and eaoh level station;
ail persons f+re prhhibited from riding on loaded pages
and this order is posted at collar of shaft; notice
' Ctating the maximim number of men permitted•to ride on
page at one titae is posted at oollar of shaft and-eaoh.
level station; The Coltxirn Chair is used at stations.
Cage guides 4 X 4 & 4 R 6 Oregon pine; all stations are
~ provided with passageways around working shaft; ail
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stations are x190 Provided with guard rails; shaft is
secured by pillars of ground on eaoh aide sufficient to
insure aefety; all winzed and mill holes are covered
or surrounded with guard rails: Mine method, overhand
stoPinG+ filled 9topea; Hammer and Fir~ton drills are
employed; timbering square sets, etulla and lagging;
' timbers used, native spruce and pine,in good oondition.
Chutes ere loaded by gravity ahd by hand; Underground
tranmiin8 with oars anrt 12,E 1`"'rail treok; trAOkage 18,000
ft. Drainage natural, and ventiilation is good,by oonneo-
tion cith other mines. Noxious galas arc not met with
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and Sanitary oondition is good.
Shafts are divided into two and three compartments and
are yrovldua with ladderways,whieh are safe, soothe
sad eooesaible,and landings are provinwa eooonneotingd ~
20 i't. npert; there are winzes and ma Y
levels;and at ieaEt one is ke-t in good repair and
e~yipped with ladders; mine has more than one exit for
employee, through Nos. 1, 2-~ 3 shafts and the Dead
pine,ea Bell ea Ajax and Portland mines and ell are
readily eooeeaible to employes. Lighting underground
by eleotrio lights and oandlea'