Transactions . Fig. Fig. 5. The Gran by Mix is and Smki/tkr 411 Fig. 4 shows a nearer view of the gallows frame coarse ore binson either side and hoist room in front. The gallows frame is nowentirely covered in. Fig. 5 shows the shipping and loading bins at the terminus ofNo. 3 tunnel, where the crushed ore is loaded into Great Northernrailway bottom-dump 53-ton steel ore cars. These bins are ca-pable of loading 900 tons into cars in half an hour. The 3,000 tons of crushed ore are hauled to the smelter, 24miles distant, on branch lines of the Canadian Pacific railway and< Sreal Northern
Transactions . Fig. Fig. 5. The Gran by Mix is and Smki/tkr 411 Fig. 4 shows a nearer view of the gallows frame coarse ore binson either side and hoist room in front. The gallows frame is nowentirely covered in. Fig. 5 shows the shipping and loading bins at the terminus ofNo. 3 tunnel, where the crushed ore is loaded into Great Northernrailway bottom-dump 53-ton steel ore cars. These bins are ca-pable of loading 900 tons into cars in half an hour. The 3,000 tons of crushed ore are hauled to the smelter, 24miles distant, on branch lines of the Canadian Pacific railway and< Sreal Northern railway, in special steel bottom-dump ore cars, andthe 65 or 70 cars of ore required daily are brought down in fourtrains. The grade from the mines to the smelter is about 3 percent, and the great difficulty experienced is in getting the emptycars back up to the mines again. These ore trains are weighed at the smelter on track scalesand are run out over the ore bunkers and the ore dropped into thedifferent bins. Here t
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