. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1914, 23 inches by 48. It hastwo drums 10 feet in diameter, and is so constructed that a third drum may be speed is 1,000 feet per minute, using a 1%-inch cable and 5-ton skip. The Nordberg compressor has a capacity of 2,800 cubic feet per minute, and is drivenby a Westinghouse synchronous motor direct attached. There are two receivers, each 30 feet long by 10 feet in diameter, and from thesethe air passes into a re-heater before being delivered to the hoist. Any surplus airnot required to operate the hoist will be used in the mine. In addition
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1914, 23 inches by 48. It hastwo drums 10 feet in diameter, and is so constructed that a third drum may be speed is 1,000 feet per minute, using a 1%-inch cable and 5-ton skip. The Nordberg compressor has a capacity of 2,800 cubic feet per minute, and is drivenby a Westinghouse synchronous motor direct attached. There are two receivers, each 30 feet long by 10 feet in diameter, and from thesethe air passes into a re-heater before being delivered to the hoist. Any surplus airnot required to operate the hoist will be used in the mine. In addition to this air plant there is a Rand compressor of 2,000 cubic feetcapacity, belt-driven from an Allis-Chalmers motor. The company have erected severalcomfortable houses for the miners, and a small village known as Frood Extension hasbeen incorporated. Plans for a rock house, dry house, magazine and thaw house are now ready, andthese buildings will be erected during the summer of 1914. Mr. J. H. Stovel is superintendent, employing 100 Construction of Headframe at Worthing on Mine North Star Mine The mine, which was reopened during 1912, was operated continuously during shaft was timbered through the open pit about 170 feet, and then continued throughthe solid to a total depth of 300 feet. Stations were cut at 120 and 240 feet, and thelevels developed. Several new buildings were erected, including a large power house,in which is installed a Canadian Rand Corliss valve compressor, of 1,700 cubic feetcapacity, a double-drum hoist and electric transformers and equipn:ent. All themachinery is operated by electricity. 120 Bureau of Mines No. 4 The greater part of the output in the year was taken from the first and secondlevels. The shaft is being sunk to the third level. The ore is hoisted in cages in anincline shaft. Mr. J. H. Smeltzer is the mine superintendent, employing about 145 men. Worthington Mine The old Worthington mine, situate about twenty-five miles west of Su
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