MINEBK00914

• County: Lake
• Volume: 10
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: B

S U R F A C R P L A N T (Coat inuedl .
There. is suitable protection against fire provided. Dry or changing
house in engineroom. Timberyard on dump., The water supply is from
mine. Surface lighting is coal oil.,
The surface tral~soortation is by railroad and wagonload. Tho mine I~1~
has no mill or reduction works.
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E X P L O S I V E S,
' T}ie explosives used are of the 40R 7~Rths Giant powder caps XXX,Ger-
man Insoloid fuse. '
Iron or metal tamping bars are not employyed; wooden tampi:Ig bars
are provided for employees. Prnader monkey not. employed.
Explosives in excess~of one day s supply are not stored under
ground; but are stored in a magazine provided for that purpose
alone. The magazine is 100 ftm from working shaft or other build-
inLa, Amount of explosives kept in storage 100 lbs,
The magazine is a wooden box buried in dump. Tile de"vice for thaw-
. ing prnvder is of galvanized iron water jacketed,
Oils candles or other combustibles. are Ilot stored with powder.
T.t I N I N G.
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The property is developed by a vertical shaft 4 X R two compact- ~'.
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ment,cribbed with 6 X 8 cribbing and is 71G ft deep. ` ;,,
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The work is carried on at the present time in drifts. i ~ .S
flaps and drawil~ga at office. III
Non are rained and loworad ~
The hoisting method employed is bucket.
weight of load hoisted 1,000 lba; distance ~~I
with hoisting machinery,
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hoisted 7W ft.
The. cable is of steel 7~Fths and in good condition. Has. been in 'I
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use seven months. The hook used on end oP cable is chainhook,has it
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been in use seven months. There are no safety deveces in use to pre- r
vent over~windilV;. '~ l
The bell line ie of steel wino and in good condition. ~~
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The state code of signals is posted in the engineroom,nt collar of i,
shaft and at each level station.