The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1915-07-10
METHODS
AT CARPENTER
PROPERTY IS BEST EQUIPPED or
ANY IN THE DISTRICT :
WILL OPERATE BYTOP sLICINc
Ore is Being Mined From Top Of De-
posit by Several Methods Which
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Will Give Place to One
Through the courtesy OF Superin-
tendent Martin OF the NJ A. Hanna Co,
a reporter for The Diamond Drill was
given the privilege Of a trip through
the underground workings Of the Car
penter mine yesterday. Our journey
was an exceedingly interesting one
from start 10 finish The interest was
heightened because the Carpenter is a
new property and the management is
taxed with th burden of starting min
ing work. a task that is no easy one, for
"a mine that has been started wrong
is hard proposition to handle.
Captain Greer. who has had charge
OF the Carpenter mine from the time
that the shaft was started at the grass
roots, was our guide and II there was
any nook or corner in the property
that Captain Greer didn't bring us in
to Il was because there are too many
places for him to remember all at one
time
A Modern Changing House
We have on several occasions writ
ten about the surface equipment at the
Carpenter and covered all of II except
ing the changing house or dry. 1t was
the first time that we had visited this
building and we were certainly sur
prised at the model OF comfort and
cleanliness that IL is. The building is
40 X so and divided into two main sec
tions; one for the digging clothes
and the other for the wearing clothes.
The room for drying the working
clothes OF the Carpenter employees is
in the west end of the building and
partitioned OFF from the other room.
The men enter this room from the
mine, take of their working clothes
and hang them on hooks suspended
from small pullys in the ceiling by
chain running over the pully, The
miner attaches his clothes to the hook,
pulls up the bundle until II is high
enough above the floor to be out of
reach and then fastens the other end
to the iron rail that divides the rows
OF clothing. II he cares TO he can
lock his clothing so that no one can
get to IL without a step ladder or by
cutting the chain.
After having divested himself OF his
dirty clothing the miner can II he
chooses. step into the shower bath
room where water OF all degrees OF
heat and cold can be had on he can go
at once TO the wash trough in the ad-
joining room
This wash trough is somewhat dir
ferent from the ordinary in that the
trough is covered with heavy wire
netting and the miner gets his wash
dish from his steel locker and washes
in that. the trough being used for
dumping the water into The first plan
was TO use the water in the trough
but individual dishes were decided to
be much more sanitary and the use OF
the trough for washing was discon-
tinued.
Each miner is given steel locker
in which to keep his wearing clothes
and he may lock Il with a paddock II
he chooses The company furnishes
the wash basin but the miner must
return il on checking in for hisfime.
The building is completely furnished
with toilets and wash accommodation
OF all kinds. the Captains changing
room being in one OF the corners and
the shift bosses in another
The Carpenter Ore Body
The ore body At the Carpenter pro-
perty lies In northeast and south
west trough that cuts diagonally a.
cross the northwest corner OF the
forty. The Carpenter shares with the
Wilkinson property on the west. the
Monongahela on the northwest and
the Columbia on the north. the ore
deposit The MonongaheIa Is under
lease to the M. A. Hanna people; the
Wilkinson is owned. half by Pickands-
Mather a Co and half by the wilkin-
son estate and is not under lease. The
Columbia Is owned half by corrigan-
Mckinney & Co and half BY the Shell
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OF county prohibition in the spring,