MINEBK00617

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

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Y I N I N 0. •
Development, main opening is main or Lee shaft,
three oompartment, timbered With 1o X 10, 1300 ft deep.
Smuggler shaft 225 ft. deep,inoline, Yo Dade shaft 180
Peet deep, 4 X 8, oribbed; Seith ahaft•200 ft. deeps 4 X 8
oribbeil.wlth 8 X 8. work~is being •oarried on at present
time in +.he l;ain and Empire shafts; line hee maps and drawings
of the property.
HOISTING, by steam with oars and sego. 1(em-ere raised and'
lowered with hoisting maoninery; welgfi'E of load hoisted
2,000 •l be. a distanoe from 18o to 1300 ft. Qeble l• round
steel oable,bean in use 18 months. bucket hooka-used at and
' of oable olampe,same were ohi~ngod abuut sip r:.onLhs ago;
oag a ia'equipped with honni~t'and safety olutohoe,whioh
are tested evory-day. Hun7aell Safety hook'is employed m
provent ovorainding. Material is hoisted from 7 levole:
oep;or in not employed. Rell line 1~4 inoh ~eteel•oable
and gong; state oo!ie of signals ar~3 employed and -are poaterk
in engine room and at collar of shaft but not in ttre ltlvel
stations; F11 persons nre Prohibited from riding; on loaded...
oage,but thin order is notrostad at oollar of shaft nor at
airy of the level stations. A notioe Stating the mexir~um
nur.ber of t^.en permitte!i to ri+1e up@~n nape at onoa is not
posted neithf'r at oollar or eha#'t or et lover stations.
The Liontana ohairs are: employed on level etatlons i~oge
guides,4 ~ 5 Oregon Pine: ali level etP+. ions are Pinvi~in+i
evith passegewaY around vaorking shaft,and shaft is providad
at all stations '.+itn i;uard rails and is aeoured by Pillr{re
of ground on Naoh side sufi'ioient to insure safety; all
wiaaes and mill holes are oovered or surrounded wlth guard
rails, with Lha exuevtlon ui' une,known as Tho Yiastorn inveaU-
ment~winee On Lho 8th level.
MIME YSTHODB, filled atopee ae well as open atopes: maoh'ine
drills aro emplyyed: Baugh, Ingersoll- Rard, Shaw,Oleveiand~
'~ and Leyner drills; timbering by stalls and legging.