CROWN PRINCESS.
. The Crown Princess Company are opening out from the new leveMo effect communication with No 3 winzfc. The manager has had to devote a considerable amount of labor to the performance of dead-work in laying open this.new level, so that crushing will not be resumed for about three weeks. There is no work being done on the upper level, nor has the * specimen leader in.the main lerel been touched, though the gas was expelled, experimentally, .by .placing a furnace^in., the rise at the end of the driver At the other end of this drive Mr Beecbe has placed an air tight door in. order that n.o air can gain admittance to the drive but through a stbpe communicating with the specimen s'.iaffc. . The air. id thus drawn up by. the -furnace,* and Ventilation completely restored. By using similar means a purity ,6f air was obtained for the main level, when operations were being carried on in that level in the time of the Crown Prince. Having erected an air-tight door in the drive communicating with the shaft, at a little 4istance..from the latter, the air^wss forced back and through a channel which took it into the lower workings, and they have since been entirely free from foul air.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1954, 9 April 1875, Page 2
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210CROWN PRINCESS. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1954, 9 April 1875, Page 2
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