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

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ORES & .ORE BODIES-Contin.
Central Tunnel whioh is the main openin and the only work so
far done, the tunnel being driven Yor the purpose of develop-
ment, drainage and transportation. There is ono ore shoot
opened i~p on the Shatter vein .tor a diatanoe.of 1200' but this
voin.is worked and owned by another ooapany,the ore Doing trans-
ported through the tunnel. Bo exaaination was made of the
Shatter vein at this,tiue.
S U P. F A C E p L g n T.
Tho surfaoe p7,ant consists of ono, 350 h.p. i7orthington,
water tube boilers ono, over-shot, 2 h.p, water wheel for
totes; one, gllie-Corlias air compressor; two, stage, air oom-
pressora; two, Duplex steam compressors; ono, 5 h.p. oloctrio
motor Yor running small Yatt; one, 25 h.p. oleotrio motor Yor
aunnine large tan,
The water used in the boiler is sup»lied Yrom the mains
of the City of Idaho Springs, Colo. and the pressure oarried
is 130. The boiler was last inspeoted in April. 1910, and 1a
in good oondition. Soft ooal is used Yor Yuol.
The engineer id Yorty years oY age, has had twenty years
of oxporienoo and is not addiotod to the use oY,intoaiaating
liquors.
Tho power house is situate 3p0' east of the portal of
the tunnel and is 36' a 100', The building Sa built oP brink
and divided into two oomPartmontn, one being used Yor a boiler
room and the other Yor naohino shop and oomproaeor room. Ono
hnndrod oast or the mouth or the tunnel ie a frame building,
12' a 20' nand for the tans Ynrnlehing ventilation in the tun-
nol. l:tsat et this building and irulpolataly ad~olnini; it is
the bleokumith ehop~ 20' a 30' is oize. Tho fan house and .
enlth'a shop nro oovered with olatorite. Thera are nleo ono
frame •ttioo building, 2g~ a 30+~ 260' snot of the tnnnol sad
tRO, tRO-story and Tour, one-story Yrame dwelling honaea nboat
:500' o~nth of the tunnel.