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<br />• - EaPZOSIVES.
<br />California Giant powder, 40;0; German Insoloid f~ae; 3R.
<br />_Silver 11eda1, oapa and wooden tamping bars are eaPloyed.
<br />Explosives in excosa oT one day's supply are not stored
<br />undorground. Tho average amount or explosives kept in-ptora~e
<br />is 500. This ie kept ir_ a Yrame,_iron-clad magazine stationed
<br />110' east of the ehaft_house and used for this purpose alono.
<br />Tho oil is stored in a small room in one,oorner of the shaft
<br />horse. Candles are_atored.in a magazino used 1'oi• this purpose
<br />only.
<br />The dovioe Por thawing porrdor is a tin tank hosted by
<br />means oY hot crater. Tho tank is kept in tho sham house,
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<br />dopt}r and oribbod with round timbers for a distanoo oY 2b' and
<br />stalls in the balanoe oY the sham. The shaft is divided into
<br />two aompartmenta, one being 3' x 3' in the olear and used for. s
<br />buoket-way, arc? the otl~or oomPartaent 2}' z 3' in the olear,
<br />used for a laddor-way.
<br />The ladder-way oontnina air pipes, ie kopt in good repair,
<br />with landings 2b' apart and Se oquipped with sate, aeouro.and
<br />oasily aaCaeaible laddora.
<br />Dxifta in the YittaburC shaft have been run as Yollowa:-
<br />l0U-Yt. level; east, 200'; west, 100,. 200-tt. level; enst~ ?,b0';
<br />west, 125•. 30U-ft. levol: east, 400'; wort, ?,00'. 400-tt. level:
<br />east, ~}b0'; west, 3b0'• b00-tt. level;_enat, b30'; west. 150'.
<br />60U-Pt. level: east, G28'; wont, ---.
<br />'/00-rt, lovel; east. 683';
<br />west, ---. 800-tt. level: east ~.
<br />834 west, 1b0!.
<br />nearly all oP ?he ground above tho Tonrth lorol is atoped
<br />ont and is preotioelly abnndoned. Leesoba are doing eoae atoping
<br />between tho tonrth and the third lovole and etoping 1e boing
<br />done between tho eig~h and seventh lerola on the oast eido of
<br />ehaTt.
<br />nusorons aroaa-ants and upraleea have boon ands Dnt on
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