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• County: San Miguel
• Volume: 14
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: C

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SnRr AC E PLANT.
''r The curface plant consists of ;-100 hp boilar6. spring
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! 1-70 hp and 1-75 hp., electric plant; 1-250 RR 4Jestinghouse
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' generator, x--350 hp Alin Chalmers generator, one
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,II~,~~: f blacksmith shop, one machine shop, and carpenter shop

~ilj~~ :.j all of the above a_~e at the mill. Other buildings are
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100 to 300 feet frcn Bullion tunnel.
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1 E JC P L O S I V E S.
' Repsuno Oel;tine 400, powder, Z. L. ?~@ortefl German Rise
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excess of one dots suPPlp are not stored underground.
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ii The average amou*?t. of explosives kept. in storage is 5000
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rounds, this is kept. in a rock tunnel wl*h an iron
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1 feet Eton main tunnel. The derice for tha~ring powder is
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;: Zt I N I N G AND N. I N ~' M E T H O D S.
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This isnknown as the Bullion tunnel ez ninth level. There
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2' is a shaft being sunk from this tunnel which is lniown as
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~jY; tunnel 700 feet lower than the above, which is known as
the ?ennarirania tur-n91 anc~. is driven on the same vein
7 !or a distance of 4000 feet, and connected with the Bullion

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i what la known as the Pandora veiny which crosses the