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j <br />Egyptian - 4. - - <br />- B%P1,03IVES . <br />'or• ~ California giant, 40~, powder. German Insol~id inns and <br />1 b - 3 asps are need. The average amount of explosives kopt is <br />11 storage is x00g.~The powder is kept in a wood. 'iron-oovered, <br />om- ~nagaziae stationed abint 1b0' north of the shaft bonne. oiler <br />oandlea sad other oombnstiblea are .not stored with the powder <br />but are kept Yn the shalt bonne: Ho device for thawing powder <br />h4a been provided. Eaplosivea in eaoeea or one day's supply <br />Z are nRt stored underground: The employes are provided with ~l~ <br />`t' wooden tamping Dara. <br />M1H IHG•do IIIHE METHODS. <br />The main shalt is 800' in depth,.timbored with sgnaro <br />-sate for a distance of 4U'. The balance oY the shaft is timb- <br />Bred with stulle. The shaft is divided into two compartments, <br />epoh 4' z 4', one need for a bnaket-Tray and the other 2or a <br />ladder-way.- <br />At a depth of lb0' from the anrlaoe a drift hna Deen <br />run west 18U'and at the x0U' level a drift has Deea run west <br />`- x00'. dt s point 145' went oz the shalt the'vein makes a ~nao- <br />tioa with a spur on the hanging Ball. other levels have been <br />~ Q=ivoa on sash Bide of the ehait but nre abandoned. Driving <br />aitd etoping ie Deing carried on at the present time in both <br />the 1b0' sad the x00' levols. The main shalt is 1111ed with <br />water np to tho lSOU' level. Do work is oarriad on below the <br />e• xU0' levol. <br />the main shalt has ea additional ezit through a ehrsst <br />178' east. Conneotiona nre made with the 176' level at a point <br />1T6' east of the main shalt. ibis ezit !a kept in good oeadit- <br />ion, properly equipped with eaZe and secure ladders-and easily <br />aoosesible to the employee. <br />the ladder ray ie properly equipped with safo sad oeonre <br />lnddera with lnndinge Eb' apart. sad does not oontnin sir. <br />eteas or water pipae. <br />Steaa 1e the method earployed Zor hoietin~. The men ere <br />i. ~ <br />'~ <br />~!~,i:~ <br />i <br />1i~~~ <br />~' <br />~: <br />j ~. <br />;~ <br />i' <br />t;. <br />'' <br />] ~, <br />~i <br />i <br />i <br />~; <br />i <br />