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• County: Clear Creek
• Volume: 6
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: F

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EXPLOSIVES.
The explosives used are the 40° and 60 u, 1-1~£3 in.
Repauno GelatinE, 5X caps and German insoloid fuse, same
being handled exclusively by a powder gang.
The powrL>r is stored in a frame magazine, covered
with iron, set in the side of the hill, about 150 ft. S. 1i. of
the mouth oi' the tunnel. Averace amount of pow;der kept in
etora~ e, 2000 lbs.
The property is provided crith a powder thawing drvioe,
located in the rear of barn, same, oon,,ieting of hat crater
pipes runninm under wooden shelves, nn which the powder is
placed,
Oils ar.e stored ir. barn.