1 CIS-INDUS MINES.
2 New hespital and
3 workshop and quarters
4 forthe Assistant Sur-
5 geon.
6 Warcha Mine,
7 Accidents.
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9 A
10 REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NORTHERN INDIA
11 the year in No. 21 Bagy, north face, but so far has not caused
12 any hindrance to work. New drains were laid inside the
13 mine during the year—(a) in block No. 8 Pharwala,
14 89’ X 6” X 6’, and (4) in the old tram tunnel from working
15 block No. 4 to the mine mouth, 676’ X18” x15”. This latter
16 completes the system of main drains !along the old tram
17 tunnel from the mouth of the m'ne to block No 14, and from
18 block Mo. g in the old tram tunnel to block No 22in the
19 new tram. On the surface of the mine hill new drains were
20 made to a length of 1,011 feet, and holes aggregating 50,000
21 cubic feet were filledin. Five worked-out portions of working
22 blocks 13, 15,16, 17 and 18 were filled with waste salt to sup-
23 port the roof and pillars. All tunnels, shafts and road-ways
24 in the mine were kept in safe condition, and were properly
25 fenced, wherever necessary, during the year.
26 The Mine and Warthgan] Depét tramways and rolling-
27 stock were maintained in goud working order during the year,
28 and necessary additions were made to the rolling-stock.
29 Rails were laid from block No. 18 to No. 22 Sujuwal in the
30 old tram tunnel, a distance of 280 feet,to take the tramway
31 closer te workings in progress.
32 39. The Assistant Surgeon, whose appointment was
33 sanctioned by the Government of India in the letter from the
34 Finance Department, No. 640-S. R., dated 7th February 1g00,
35 relieved the Hospital Assistant and assumed charge of his
36 duties on the 10th October 1900, The building in which
37 the dispensary was located has been extensively altered so
38 as to convert it into a hospital for in-patients at a cost of Rs.
39 2,447-0-4; and the workshop, which was inconveniently near
40 the hospital, has been removed anda new one constructed
41 at accost of Rs. 2,102-8-6. A house for the Assistant Sur-
42 geon was also constructed near the hospital at a cost of Rs.
43 3,201-11-0,
44 40. Little tunnelling was found necessary in the Warcha
45 mine during the year, the total length driven having been only
46 84'2 feet. A tunnel was commenced in working block No.
47 2 for the purpose of connecting the workings in the new mine
48 with the entrance tunnel completed during 18g9-1900 by a
49 more direct road than exists at present. This tunnel will
50 further shorten the lead from the workings to the new store-
51 yard at the mine mouth, and will pass through a sounder
52 part of the hill than the road now in use does. All the waste
53 salt was utilized to shore up parts of the old mine adjacent
54 tothe new mine. A masonry frontage. to the new mine
55 entrance was built during the year at a cost of Rs. 594-12-9.
56 41. Three serious accidents occurred in the Mayo Mine
57 during the year, two of which terminated fatally.
58 A trammer, who was pushing a pair of coupled and loaded
59 trucks in the 1,000 drift tram, stepped to one side after start-
60 ing the trucks, but unfortunately to the wrong side where
61 there was not sufficient standing room, and the trucks in
62 passing squeezed him against the side of the tunnel. His
63 skin was scratched slightly on the left side of the pelvis bone
64 and the Hospital Assistant, who examined him very soon
65 after the accident, reported that the injury was slight. The
66 man remained in hospital four days, and by that time it had
67 become apparent that he was hurt internally. He was taken
68 home at his own request, and died eleven days after the
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