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Gardner - 4. <br />• - E a P Z O S I Y E 9. <br />Dn Pont powder - 40~,; German Inaoloid fuse; b% naps and <br />wooden tamping bare are employed. Explosives in exoess of one <br />day's supply are not stored underground. <br />The average amount of eaploaives kept in storage is 200. <br />Pewder Ys stored in a frame, iron-oovered t~egazine•situate 100' <br />east of the shaft house vdhioh is used for the storage of powder <br />only. All other supplies are stored in the shaft house. <br />Bo devioe for thawing powder ie provided as-the powder <br />does not hardeff eaoept in extremely oold weather. <br />S I a I E G & M I S E M E T g O D 6. <br />The ma4n opening ie a abaft 1,03b' deep whioh ie oribbed <br />with 2-inoh plan3c for a diateabe of 60' item the auriaos, the <br />balanoe of the shaft being timbered with atolls. All oi•the <br />drifts from the eurfaoe down to the 400-ft. level are in very <br />bad oendition and have been abandoned for man^ years. <br />- SeleW the 400-ft. level - inoluding thla level - drifts <br />are run ae Fellows:' <br />400-ft. level: east, 60'; west, 400'. <br />600-ft: level: east, 100'; west. 700'. <br />600-ft. level: east, 60'; west. 4b0'. <br />Below the 600-ft. level the abaft 1e full of water and an <br />examination oauld not be made of the workings. A great deal of <br />etoping has been done affd in moat of the plaoea where work has <br />bees aenduoted down to the 600-ft. level the ground ie praoti- <br />1 <br />oelly worked out. <br />Aotive work is oarried on by the lessees in the east 400- <br />ft. and 600-ft. levels. Werk 18 aeatiaed to etoping. <br />The abaft ie divided into two oompartmenta eaoh 4' $ 4~ <br />in the olear sad used for a ladder-way and buokot-way respso- <br />tively. The ladder-way does not oontaia bones or pipes of say <br />-:kind, hen le.ndinge varying from b0' to 7b' apart and ie equipped <br />~. <br />