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

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- SIIRFACE PL61TT- Contin.
size. The east side of the building is used for a blaokamith
ahoy and is 28¢' x 28' in size, A second story is added to the
compressor room, 10' x 26', ttaed as a watehman's tower. Itorth
oY the smith's shop, and adjoining, is a ooal bin, 10' x 12'.
Tho power house is boated 7:50' southeast of the portal and is ~~!' I
30' x 40' in size- Tho Blaisdell aompreasor and water rheol are ~~ .~ i',
stationed here and the ftand oonproesor is stationed in the oom-
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pressor hoµae at the portal of the tunnel. All of these buildings !'~,
are Yraae and iron-olad, Three, one-story, Yrame dwelling houses
are situate as Yolaowa; one, 750' southeast oY portal; one, 350' ; '
noxthoast oY portal; one, 1,300' northwest oY the portal. Two
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small stables near the pain building. 100-ton ore bin. I:
Clear orook passes tvithia 100' of the poorer house but in '!!
order to oonvey water to water :rhoel it is nooeaeary to pipe ~ ~'~
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thin Yor a .distanoe oY ono mile through a 14" steel pipe.
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S;:an Dry E.~tinguiahora are used Yor protection against
uooidont by Yira. N.eroaena in used Yor lightinW on the aurPeao.
E% P L O S I V E S ',
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Ropano,~IO~o, powder; Victor fuse; 6-X oaps and woodea tamp- ,'
ins bare are used. k porrdar monkey is employed.
Erplosivoe in oxoeae oY one day's suppl;~ are not stored
underground. The avoraga amount aY explosives Y.opt in storage
Se 1.,000?. This is stored in n tunnel, provldod with wood and
iron-ooverod doors. boated 200' north oP the main building. '
This tunnel Se used Yor the etora~e oY powder only, oils, oan- ,
dloe and other ooabuatiblea boin~ stored in the ooUprossor room.
The davioo Yor thawing po:vdor is a aaall building near
the powder tunnol..The building is heated by assns o: a stove.
1d ! b 1 H l; lc L I I1 E 1d E T H O D S.
iho anin opening Se a orosa-out tunnel, 6' z 8• in the
oloar, and 4.900' in len~th~ driven Sor the purpose of dorel-
opaent. Tho tiro lE0' of the tunnel !s tlnhored elth goats and