MINEBK01014

• County: Lake
• Volume: 17
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: B

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-_ iTLr^. AND ORGANIZAi'iON. ,i~
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The plant is awned by the Western ZSnc Oxide Company, ~ i
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inoarparated under the laws of Calorada, with a capital ! ~.
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stock of b0000 shares, psr value $1.00 each. ~' '
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The principal office of the company is in the Delaware ~ ~' !v

j Black at Leadville, Colarada and the officers of the company ~~
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are as follawe: ~i ~ 1
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I President, Haward E. Burton, Leadville, Colorado. ~ II

Vice President, A. B. Augustine, Leadville, Calorada. I
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Secy. and Treas. H. E. Rupp, Leadville, Calorado. ~
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General Mana er A. B. Au
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Superintendent, Mr. Sin Clair Lead villa, Calarada.
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CRUSHING DEPARTMENT.
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The crushing department consists of Blake crusher
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ralls and automatio sampler, but as same trouble has been ICI ~~ ~~
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ex erienced in
p putting the soft wet ore through the orueh~r, 9~
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a Jeffries Hammer Crusher has been ordered and will be ~ ,
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installed upon arrival. ~ j C~
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FURNACE ROOM.
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The farness roam, whioh is a eeperate building from
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the crushing department, oantaine sight rectangular brink j!I
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furnaces whioh are 8 feet x 8 feet eaoh.
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The bottam pert oP these furnaoos are kept full of I' ~
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water, whioh has s oooling effeot an the gratoe abovo it. i T S;',
The grates used are heavy asst iron with 3/8 inoh round I~ ~I
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p grates ueod •f or burnin l
erforations and muoh resemble the g i i f `I
wood in boiler praotios. ~ ~
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From the furnaoss s large horizantal sheet iron flue ( !
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or cooling chamber l4 feet in diameter andSdO feet long) leads II i
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by a cirouitoue route to the bag house in nn adjoining I '
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building. Tho fumes from tho burning oharge 1n the ~ ~'
furnaoee era propelled to the cooling ohamber by a large (; '~
blower whioh ie driven bye 60 H.P. General Eleatrio Motor. ~ I
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BAO HOUBE. 4
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The bag house aoneiste of QBB oanvns bags enoh being ~ •~
twenty-Tour inohee in diameter and twenty foot high. As the ~ i ~ ;I
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zinc oxide settle into these bags it io drawn off in barrels, ~ ~ ~
whereat is kept until a shipment of the oxide is obtained,
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