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<br /> <br />The ore is extracted by back stoping. They employ ?.'~ and ? 1~ <br />Sullivan machine drills. They are about to abandon all hand drill- <br />ing. <br />The timbering is cribbing and square sets in ahafb, and stulle <br />and lagging in the stopea, It is sufficient. The timbers are dry, <br />red and vrhite spruce, prepared by hand, and in good condition. <br />The cL-utes are loaded by hand ad F'ravitation. <br />The underground tramming is done wit'r. buckets ou trucks, and <br />run by baud. They use Traux cars, and ?iondrie aria Bolthoff buclcete, <br />T.^_e trackage is of 8 lb, T. rails <br />Ventilation is 'r_ad tlrroubh shaft, and they ^.rill soon mrike <br />, ' . <br />COll]1BCt lU17 with the 400 ft. lovel oi' the 1Ra ry I?cKimrey mine. It <br />is sufficient. There ors no noxious gases. <br />All old timbers have been removed from the underp;rou::d working <br />The shaft is divided into two co~:pa~~tments a?id is provlded <br />rr <br />•.vith a ladder way, with landings as provided b~~ law. The larlr'ers ae <br />safe, secure and accessible, anil the ladder-way contains air pipes, <br />Thera are no vrinzes or man-vra;.~s connecting levols. The mine <br />has oily o:re exit for emplo~rees, viz. through main shaft. This is <br />readily accessible to employees. <br />The lir;hting underground ie by candles, <br />