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• County: Clear Creek
• Volume: 12
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: A

Blue Ridge - 4.
- S URFACE PLANT-Contin.
builging covered with elaterite. The building is 22' x 35' in
size and divided into two parts, one used Yor a blacksmith
shop and the other Yor a carpenter shop. There is one ore bin
_ oP 75 tone capaoity and 75' north of the. portal. Ore is tram-
mod,direot Yrom tho tunnol to the ore bin.
E R P L O S I V E S.
CaliYornia Giant, 40 ti, powdor;.German Inaoloid Yuse; 5-
X Daps and wooden tampinE bare aro used. A powder monkey is
not employed.
Explpsivoe in exoese oY one day's supply are not stored
_undorground. Tho averago amount oY exTlosivoa kept in storago
is one ton. This ia,atored in a oonoreto building. with dirt
raoY and wood door, l0' x 12' in size, and situate 100'. west
oY tho portal of tho tunnels and used Yor the storage oY pow-
der only. pile; Dandles and other combustibles aro stored in
tho parpenter shop. -
Tho devioo Yor thawing pov+dor is a oared-sawdust room,
6' a 6', heated by n tin tank filled vrith hot water. This is
situato 125' oast of the portal oY tho tunnol.. ~+~• • -' u
Id I A 1 ii G k id I A E id E T R O D S.
_ Tho main opening is a tunnel, 2,700' in length. drivoa
on thq Bluo Itidgo voin. The entranoe oY.tho tunnel ie timbored
with poste and Daps Yor n dietanoo oY :500' but the balanoo oY
tho tunnol rogcciroe but vorl littlo tlmberin~. The only uotivo
wor'.e oarried on is somo etoplnE on tho Senator vein at tho
breast of the tunnol qnd stoping on tho Capital vain at a point
1.000' fro+~ tho po-tel. Tory little atopinZ has boon done in
tho tunnel and oro Droducod has boon ta'ren Yroe Lhe vein mat-
tor Sn driving the tunnel. YlorY. has boen oonYined to dovelop-
meat but Prom thls tine on tho ore produotion will be on n
much larger eoalo as tho vvin is 1Krgo and of a fair erorago
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