MINEBK00984

• County: Summit
• Volume: 13
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: A

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Wooden tamping bare are provided,No powder men employed,explo-
sive~ are stored in magazine provided for that purpose,whioh is
situated IOO feet from workings, average amount of explosives
(kept in storage:-150 ibe.Character of magaaino-wood.Yine has
device for warming powder,ooneisting of sheet iron heated with
warm water.llo oil s,oandles or combustibles stored with powder.
_ Yining.
The main opening to the mine ie a tunnel 1400 feet in length,
fifty feet from the breast of the tunnel aonneotion is made
with a working known as the rail road tunnel,shiR~ ?+ ~ ~a At^*~~p
egress,atoping is done along the back of the tunnel for almost
its entire length,as the tur-nel is drove almost entirely on;~,~::
the vein for its whole length.
Yine methods.
Stoping and drifting is the method used in extracting ore,thero
arc no machine A1111a employed-hand drilling is uoe~-singles
Timbering:-8tulis is generally ueed,in places where the vain
widens Dribs arc planed-euffiolent.Ordinary mine chutes are
used In the mine-tramming done by man,with ordinary mine oars,
on I2 ib.rali.No water handled-Ventilation:-Natural draft.
Statistics.
Average tonnage par month:-IOO.Oroee tonnage per year:-1200.
Developemant:-Total No. of feat in tunnels:-I40G.Coet per Yoot.
X7.50.
Yen emploYad. '
5 Yinere. X3.25. per day. d hour shift,
r r g r r
i yoreman. X5.00.
Cost.
Ooet of timber(nominal~ Average coat per month:-125.00.
• • powder:-15 ote.per lb. • r • r X15,00.
ltverete assay vniue ore per ton:-135.00.
Cost per ton mining ore;-12;50.
• • • tsaneportation end treatment:-13.75•
General semarte.
Mo paTeOne under I2 yeose employed-Ali shells and pits oovered-
lro atrat-tera allayed unde~~ound-Ali socidenta reported-Yine
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oarrye no indemnity insussnoe,oasrya no ineusanoe for enploYees.
Yine Sa a re6ulas produoer,rorl[sd oontinuoualy.Yins le not aub-