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Show NEW MACHINES INSTALLED. Ferry -Hancock Mine Now Has Compressor Com-pressor and New Boilers. Tho new bollera and compressor have been Installed at tho Ferry-Hancock properties prop-erties at Park CUy under tho direction of Will J. Gray, though further work is at a standstill until the underground sta-t.or sta-t.or on the tunnel levol is completed, for here tho hol3ling plant Is to bo placed. The. compressor has already been tried and found to work perfectly, and tho bcllers also aro In splendid condition. Tho hoisting plant will be operated by air, and tho point in tho tunnel whore the shaft is to bo put down to tho deep is now being cut out to provide pro-vide ii station room of generous dimensions dimen-sions It will be sixty feot long and tho gallows frnmo over tho shaft will stand twenty-four feet high, says tho Park Record. The work of cutting tho station is now something like half done and tho expectation is that it will require about two weeks more to get tho task sufficiently suffi-ciently well along to permit of laying tho engine foundation. |