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• County: Conejos
• Volume: 15
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: A

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room are all under one roof; lighting underg-round by Dandies.
3URFACE tranaportatlon,wagon road to Monte Vista; the mine
is not shipplrlo at present.
. E X P L O S I V E S.
Dupont,non-freezing powder; fuse used German, hood tamping
beta are provided for employee; oxPlosives are stored in
magazine provided for that purpose alone,tvhieh is boated
150 ft, from shaft;avarago amount kept in storage 150 lbs.
magazine is a 7 ,X 9 frame.-
EfINII1G:
Hain opening a 5 X 9 cribbed shaft 150 s't, deep,
HOSITING: Steam hoist and locket; men are raised and lowered
with hoisting maohinery;weight of land hoisted 1500 lbs.
a distance of 150 ft, Cable a 7~8 round steel Debts, Could.
not asoortain how long cable had been in use, Buoket hook
used at and of cable a safety chain and olipa; same'tvere
ohanged 60 days ago.,Heil 11z1e a 1~2~ Hemp line; State Dods
of signals are employed, whioh are posted in engine room;
and will be posted where required ae soon as they Dan get a
supply, Notioe stating the maximum number of men permitted
to ride on buokete• is not .posted at Dollar of shaft nor at
any level station; shaft at all stations in provided. with
doors; all tvinzoe and mill holes are oovered or surrounded
with guard rails,
NINE btETHOD, overhand stoping; single and double hanfl drilling
is employed; timber by atulis and lagging; timbers used
native spruoe and pine;oondition in good;
IJndsrground tramming by buokete on truoke;
Drainage: Amount of gallons per minute 150, which io pumped
by a No 5 Cameron pump. Ventilation natural, Noxious gases
are not rnat with end the sanitary condition ir, good.
Hhaft is divided into two oompartmente and to provided with
ladderway which is safe , seouro end acooesible; lalydinga
are not provided in iadderway as proaoribed; at toast one
mamvay is kept in repair and equipped with ladders; mine has
two oxits,by an upraise free the 1st level to suriaoa•