Show electricity IN MINING this is certainly an age of electricity in mining and old methods and ancient practices pertaining to the mining industry are feeling the beneficial results of the intro of the electric fluid especially is this the he case with great low grade propositions in isolated districts and regions where long distance transmission enables mine owners and companies t to operate economically and at a profit where heretofore mining operations were at a standstill owing to the excessive cost at of power the inability to obtain fuel cheaply or to the absence of adequate transportation facilities electric power when compared in in cost to any other motive power is so much heaper cheaper so much more reliable and so much more convenient to use that every mining operator who can is substituting this innovation for the old steam boiler the old water wheel and for other methods of operation at both mine and mill whon when once installed the e electric plant is operated at a comparatively small expense it requires but a small force to care for it and the power is ready to be turned on at a moments notice every small stream carries with it the latent force which can be easily transformed into a mighty power which can be turned on or off at will and which can be cheaply utilized in the operation of the hoist the turning of the drill or in the transmission of ores from mine to mill or Tail railroad road by aerial tram the electric plant is ready for use in and out of season by day or by night while mine workings mill buildings mining camps and surroundings can be illuminated at any time by the turning of a key the pressure of a button it is truly marvelous the way that electricity tri city for light and power has gained favor with the mining men of the west during the past few years its adoption has solved many intricate problems connected with the mining industry it has found its way into interior camps and its use has overcome obstacles pertaining to mining to uch such a degree and extent that where profitable operations were formerly impracticable they are now successful to a marked degree surely this is an electrical age and no class of men are more benefited by the use and application of electricity than is the miner and mining operator |