MINEBK01061

• County: Teller
• Volume: 7
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: B

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ends, Prom the 8tit, level, to t'ne lat. are nat.
All vrinzea or mill hones are covered or,surroundod vrith guard
rails, The s::ai't is not be.irtl; sonic..
~, The ore is extracted by overhead s*.opitzg. Thep use machines
and hand drilling. Tito machines,are Sullivan and Rand, 2 1~~1 inch.
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`p The hand drilling is single and double.
Tho timi7erir.(• is atolls and larging in t'Ye s*.opes, and square
gate in the ahal't. It is sufficient in +.ite atApea, but inauff.i-
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cient in part of the shaft,, and in the lovel stn*.iona.
i~ m•„ re Bred by hand and are in
i~_ timbers are red spruce, p p
good condition,except in the,wlnze on the 13th. level. '!'its chutes
are loaded by gravitation. '
The underground tranuninl; is done with b~lekets on trucks,
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loaded i'rom chorea and. 'r.,y hand shoveling and run by hand. The buck-
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otq are oi' the Hendrie and I1olt?tof'1' malts, capacity 1,500 lbs.
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The traaltage is of U lb. 'P rails.
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v)entilatio)~ iH had theVUgh~,levels, drii'ta and upraieos. It
is sufficient except in the vrlnzo. lio noxious gases are mat vritit.
The old timbers in tho underground workinl;H are being >Joiatsd ,
every day.
'Phe Hiraft is divided Into two comna:rtments, and is equipped
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with ladder-vray, Tha laddF<rs are accearsihlo. The laridex• way con-
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'i tains a.ir pipes. Landings are trot provided in rho ladder vraty, not
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I'~, to exceed twenty fret apart.
II There ors no wlrtzea ,or man-ways ronuact•in~;~ levels, L•ut this
has heart ordsrad, done. ,
The ruins !vaH more tlutn ono exit fo'r emp'loyeea, viz. Prom the
hth. 5th. and 0th. levels thtv~ul;'h the Laf'ayotts, T,uck,y Oustt anti
Orpha JRay vrorkinga. '1'heao exits are readiay ar,rsHHlblo to ornploynea.
i The lil,hting uiularl,~round 1a by candles.
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