MINEBK00705

• County: San Juan
• Volume: 15
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: A

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The Eing i;nited Mines Co. 3-
0 Fc E S AND O i7 E Il O D I E S. Contin,-
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i'he 1en;Ynt 4000 feet, heigJ~t is I000 so far as Y.nawn,
The character o_^ ti_e vein filling is quartz with
iron and cooper pyrites, Tile character of the enclosing
roc'rs is manzonite, uuartzite and lime, It is mostly
smelting ors, i'he metals are gold, silver, lead and cop,
The gangue is ouartz, ~ .
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SUnF~ACE PLANT, •
the surface plant consists of one boarding houso,
t •.vo blacksmi th s ops, one~ore houoe, one compressor hour ,
cne other large building used for storo rooms, 4160 nn I
ore bin and ohed:; at the head of the tramway, j
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:C ;]iercules Ciant, sloe turning insuloid Pnnor and I~
wooden tampering bars are used. Ezplo:zivon in ozcosn oP '
one days u:,e are otored in a wooden building 200 Poet from
tunnel. About ;i00•pounds are l:opt in storago, a hot water
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boi'lcr is usod for thawing povrdor. No conbustiblon aro ~
atorrd in powder house vrith Powder, Cil candloe and other
supplioe aro stored in a ntororoorr: for that purposo,
I d I I J I I I C A I J D 11 Z N J; u l i 'l J I U D t 3,
': ho main opur,ing is n IG00 foot croaocut tunno7., Thin
Ss whoro thy, vein nrtn ntr.uel:, wlth drifto running oYf in •
both directions on uaL1 vein I200 foot. Thoro io ono uprnini
connucted vdth upper worklnl;s that Se dlvldod into twe
compartments, one nluu fr, usod Lo dump oro throur~r from
uppor leVUl and ono nido la uood i'or man-way, with ].nddorn
in food shape and rsruly for umployon n.t n7l tlmao, Tho
mot}wd oS' oro urtraction in drSPtinL and utoping with hnnd
,1r71~ a both alnEp]® and doublo hnnd am bsing usod, 'fhe
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