MINEBK01050

• County: Teller
• Volume: 8
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: B

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?i allcetaaiona is provided with doors. All the winzes or
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+ mill holsss are surrounded' with guard rails.
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The shaft is not being sunk.Th83 methm~l• off' azre
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~~ extrsctioa is by ovorhand stoping. krachine drills are
~; ( employed'. The machine drills are 2~4 tnch
; ~ Sullivam and ZngersoTT Sergeant air drill. There•ia
{ hand drilling, single. The method' employed' of tira-
liering is s•tulls and lagging. ZL is sufftx~fesrG.
; ~ The tim~bera used are red snd white spruce and are
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;! ~, prepared by hand. They are in good coxm-ition e~ccept
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~ i;n the olld w®rkinga. All the chn~es are loaded by
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, grav5tatior.. The syeten employed of underground
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I tramming is by buckets placed on trucks and are
;~! loaded and uua by hand. The buckets aro of the
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Hendrie and Eolhoff make., The trackage is
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;~! The system of ventila,tiorn employed is
through connections with Zoe abaft on all levels,
eocc~ept, 7& 8 it is sufficient as there• are r_o
nortous gases met with. All the ml.d timbers haue
I-• :'~' bben rem~aved from thg underground workings. The
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I ahaftt.ia d#vided Tinto two compartments. The shaft.
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,, 1's proviided-with aladder-way and they are e~Fe and

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i accessable. The ladder.way coataina the air
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pipes only. The landings prokided in the ladder
a ways Mot to exceed twenty feet apart from the

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~.; 200 Ft. level down. There are wiazes and man-ways
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connecting the le~iels.The mine has mare than one
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exit for employee it is from;~~the 6th level througg
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1`:. the Qold Dollat shaft and from the fourth level thri
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4I the Oold Dollar tunnlei. It is accessable to
' employes: -The lfighting corder ground is by .
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