MINEBK00656

• County: Eagle
• Volume: 17
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: B

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feet of drifts and levels and 250 feet of winzee and raises.
The ore after reaching the surface ie trammed by hand
to the ore bins from which it Se drawn and crushed to nut
size in a Hlake Crusher and passes into a bin at the head of
an aerial jig back tram and thence to .the mill.
UNDERGROUND~RUIPMENT. 'i.
The mine Se equipped with Electric Lights, air lines,
Icater lines, air drills, good chutes, care and treck. The
Ihoieting cable ie a 1 inch practically new steel cable and
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!is fitted. with a safety hook, which is annealed every :.-..
jtwo weeks. Candles and carbide lamps are used in addition
to the electric lights. Men are net allowed to ride ,on the
care.
MINE SURFACE EQUIPMENT.
Shaft house, engine room, blacksmith shop, boiler roan
'office, ore house, powder house, tramway and water works.
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I The hoist in the engine room ie 12x16 Duplex Geared
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hoist with 4 f oot drum and is equipped with positive indicator. ~:, i ,

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hand compressed air forge oonnectione, all oompreased air ~
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used around the mines being derived from the air aomproesors 'I
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let the mill. The boiler for hoisting engine ie a 40 H.P. Il ~ _
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(size 4 1/2 Peatx 12 tent, ~D three.1'noYi„
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(carrying sixty, pounds pressure and using spring wa tl

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The offioe ie in the euparintendonte reeidenoe about two ~
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''hundred feet distanoe from the shaft house. I'
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The ore house has three 600 ton oro bins and one ~ a,
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'100 ton bin, xhioh are.kept filled eo that if anything should i I j
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doley profluotion from the mine ~ ~,
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days supply to deaw upon. Tho arushor and the elevator, ~ ,~;! ~ ;
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whioh elevates the crushed materiel into the bin at the head
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oro drivetl by s 6 H.P. bloat. Motor, the eleatriolty
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ifor both this motor and ,the lighting Y .i
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fat the mill by water psror• ,,
The powfler stands about 160 feet from the othor ~ ~ l'

!builflings and is trams, covered with sheet iron. About ,V
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~i1500$ of powfler is_ueually kopt in atorapo. it
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~, The rater sor all purposes is obtainod from a water
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