. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1914, ee Robbboilers, 200 each, one Fraser and Chalmers blower, capacity 12,000 cubic feet of airper minute, two Brown hoists, one Otis elevator hoist, ore dock and travelling cranes. Mr. R. H. Watson is manager and Mr. J. A. Murphy superintendent, employingon the date of inspection 75 men. Gypsum Near the town of Caledonia, on lots 10 and 11 in the first range, township of Seneca,the Alabastine Company, Limited, operated their gypsum mine and plant for the manu-facture of gypsum products continuously during 1913. The gypsum is high-grade and occurs in
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1914, ee Robbboilers, 200 each, one Fraser and Chalmers blower, capacity 12,000 cubic feet of airper minute, two Brown hoists, one Otis elevator hoist, ore dock and travelling cranes. Mr. R. H. Watson is manager and Mr. J. A. Murphy superintendent, employingon the date of inspection 75 men. Gypsum Near the town of Caledonia, on lots 10 and 11 in the first range, township of Seneca,the Alabastine Company, Limited, operated their gypsum mine and plant for the manu-facture of gypsum products continuously during 1913. The gypsum is high-grade and occurs in a flat-lying bed about 80 feet below thesurface. It is mined by the pillar and room method, the ore being hoisted throughan incline shaft, an auxiliary vertical shaft being also provided. Drilling is done byelectric rotary drills. During the year the storage bins of the company, near the Grand Trunk railwaystation, were burned, and a new building erected at the mine. Mr. A. J. Parkhurst is manager, employing 125 men in the mine and Plant of Crown Gypsum Company at Lythmore Carson Mine This mine, owned and operated by the Alabastine Company, is situated about threemiles south of Caledonia. A good quality of white gypsum is mined here and teamedto the mill at Caledonia. The workings now extend over an area about 350 feet longby 250 feet wide. The waste rock is used for pillars. A vertical air shaft about 75 feet deep has beensunk, at a distance of 800 feet from the mouth of the main incline shaft. The gypsumbed is about four feet in thickness. The mine is operated during the summer months. The Haldimand Gypsum Company The above company has been organized to work a gypsum property situated aboutone mile west of the Alabastine plant near Caledonia. A 2-compartment vertical shaft, 11 by 7 feet, has been sunk to a depth of 61 feet. Mr. James Old, Toronto, is president of the company, and on the date of inspectionall work was in charge of contractor James Blake, of Caledonia. 1
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