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<br />MINING qND MINE METHODS. <br /> The main shaft is 300 ft. deep, and is 4 1~?, x 9, and timbered vrith <br /> squnre seta, grid has a good ladder vray,•vrith a Station every sixteen feet. <br />. the Hummer shaft' ie 17.7 ft.• deeps timbered vrith 3 x F3, sawed cribbing. <br />There are about b00 feet of drifts and cross cuts in this• ahai't, h4r. Anstie <br /> is sinking a winze about 30 feet from the mouth of a small tunnel on the <br /> Plorlds Fair Claim, under the r.4ldland Terminal tresils. They are taking cut <br /> some lour grade ore. There is some talk of sinking the Hutmner s'ieaft 300 feet <br /> deeper. <br /> Vlork is being carried on =a the present time in wince on the 1`forlds Fair <br /> Claitn and in the Hummer shaft. These are all nevr vrarkinga. T."re Company had no <br /> maps or drawings. <br /> The hoisting in the Hummer shaft is clone by bucket, and the hoisting <br /> machinery is used for the raiaity;• and lowering of men. The weight of load <br /> hoisted E300,1be. Distance hoisted 127 ft. The cable is a 3~4 in. round, in <br /> fair condition. To not knovr how long the cable has been in use. Chain and <br /> clamps are used on the end of the cable. Can not say hour lmtl± since same <br /> was changed. They have no safety devdces to prevent over-vriuding. <br /> i?uterial is hoisted from only one level. Thenevr StaCe code of signals <br /> <br />tsoloid is emplo;,~ed, <br />rives nee Perswts are prohibited from riding on a loaded bucket. This order is <br /> <br />s a not posted about the mine. 'J.'i.ere is uo notice stating the maxianum number of <br /> <br />m the men permitted to ride upon tits bucket Fa ono time pooped ¢t the collar cf <br /> <br />orage the abaft and at each level station. <br /> <br />L' pow- The bucket is loaded by hand shoveling. A11 leVe1 9tat1011e are not <br /> <br />en- providecl vrith a passage vray arounci al~tai't. The:sh.d't is aocured by a pillar oi' <br /> Cround upon each aide, suff'ir.ient to secure artfety, T.he shaft is npt being; <br /> sunk, <br />The ore is extracted by over and wuler•hand atopin~~;. Thero aro no machine <br />drills employed, the drilling being done L;,y Yuuul, sinp;ls. <br />The timbering is etul.ling grid laggity; and is fair. The timbers are <br />white spruce, prepared by hartc] acrd are in r~~ool1 ranrlltion, <br />The underground ,trarmning is done with buckets, on trucks, and run by <br />h8nd~. They use Fairbattks rJ;oree buckets arai cars. Ths trackttga is of C lb. <br />T roils. Ventitlation is ]tad throurgh chart, It ie fecir. <br />All old timbers have ;eon re~woved from the wuierl;routtrl workings. <br />The shaft is dividsd into tvrc compartments surd is provided with laddsr- <br />weY. The ladders are safe, secure and accessible. The laddor contains no <br />ateam~ water or air pipes or boxeo, ' <br />