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• County: Gilpin
• Volume: 12
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: A

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M I H I II G & MIKE METHODS -
- Contin.
Steam is employed for hoisting. The men are raised and
lowered with the hoisting machinery. A load oY 1.000 is hoisted
at one time Tor a distance oY 62b' with athree-quarts; inch
steel wire sable that has been in use fivo months. The cable
is in good condition. A eaPety hook and chain f htenod on with
sookot and .babbitt metal is need. This hoe boon used five months
and is in good condition. Material is hoisted from two levels'.
The State node of ai$nals and pull bolls are usod. The
bell line is 1~4 in. twist wire. Thp Dods of signals ie posted
in the engine room, at the Dollar oY the ehaYt and ut each level
station. Herbons arc prohibited from riding on loaded buckets
and thin ardor is posted at tho Dollar oY the ahaYt.
Tho maxi-
mum numbor or men pormitted to ride in tihe bnokot at ono time
is throe. >
Buckets are loaded by hand. Ho skids arc Hoed and the bno-
kot tans on the bed plank. The shaft is secured upon each aide
by pillars of ground awCYioiont to secure satety but no guard
rails are need at the stations nor passage ways.provided around
eha2t at tho level stations. A eaYe and anfYicient ladder hoe
been providod for the shaft men sad a bnikhoad has boen placed
in the shaft over thorn.
The method or ore extraction ie by moans of einking~
drifting and etoping. Waugh and Hardhit machine drills are need
- and some single baud drilling is done.
Tho mothod of timboring is atolls ooverod with lagging-
and ie sufficient. Tho•timbers arc proparod by hand from spruce
and pino.and are in good condition.
Chutes are loaded Dy hand end gravity. OnQerground trnm-
mlag Se Bono by hand and stool buokota sad Hood trollies are
need.on a traokrsgo o: ld" guago Had Hd T rails.
Theze is ao inter to bo doalt With.
_ The ventilation is natural sad aufiiolent. Ao noxious
gaeoe are met with.
The sanitary aonditioae aze good and nll old tieebore have