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42. Steam controls
43. Mucking machine
45. Tamping dynamite
47. Fine crusher
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Tom Reed repairing a foot valve for one of the pumps which pumped water from the mine. The ever present miner's lunch bucket is in the background on the floor. Most miners used the same lunch bucket for many years until it became too dented to close. It was often hammered back or bent back into shape.
52. Machine Shop
53. Shaft house
55. Cyanide mixing
57. Tamping dynamite
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Tamping in dynamite prior to blasting a section at Gilman. Holes that have been prepared are shown with electrical connections to the blasting caps and the dynamite. Joe Fear prepared the blasting caps on the surface. Bottom series of holes were detonated first to keep the miners from having to work so much loose debris - a true demonstration of the principle of gravity.