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-4- - 6U5 <br />S~uggier IInion vein. Ali ore from the Pandora mine is <br />brought to surface through the Pennsylvania tunnel. <br />The Pandora is worked on lease. Three levels are being <br />worked by Lavender and Company. The Smuggler Union is <br />drawing some of the old stapes in. 3, 5 and 7 levels <br />e <br />and also xKmning the Pennsylvania tunnel. The, mthoa of <br />ore extraction is overhand stoping and drifting with air <br />and hand drille. Ingersoll hammer.ard piston drills are <br />used and some single hand drilling is done. The method of <br />timbering is stalls and square sets covered with lagging. <br />The tiiab ers are pine and spruce prepared by hand and- <br />are sufficient to secure safety. Underg^ound tramping is <br />done by electric motors, horses, mules and hand. One <br />and two ton ateel•cars are used for tramming. Chutes <br />are loe~d by hand and gravity. The system of ventilation <br />is mostl~• natural. Sometimes assisted b;~ fang for anc~. <br />upraise. The arstem of drainege is natural through tunnels. <br />Electricity and can dler~ are used for lighting urider- <br />grc~~nd. There are two eh2fts in use, with two compartments. <br />The Union Abaft as cage and ladder-way and 26 shaft as <br />skip and ladder-way and air pipes. La driers are twenty <br />Peet apart in all mam-ays and shafts, they are in good <br />condition. <br />S T A T I S T I C S. <br />~'otai number of feet in shafts 3050. <br />About Porte miles of traok in drifts and tunnels in the <br />mine. Cost per foot ssntnot known. <br />Cost. of powder $:15.per ib. Average per month #1500. <br />Cost of ;1ze1 per ton $9.00 <br />Cost of transporting ore to smelter $6.00 <br />smelting <br />Cost of~tasitm*Dt~ .$4.00 per ton. <br />Cost of milling #.~5 per ton. <br />MEN Elf PL OYE~D. <br />25 machine drillmen $4.00 for 9 hours. <br />8 machine helpers E.50 <br />50 miners E.O~ • <br />