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No. 1 raise is connected by a crosscut to No. 2 raise, and
extends to the surface as an air shaft. The seam on this
level is 5.1 feet thick at the portal, but thins to 2.6
feet at the face. It contains no partings or concretionary
bodies, and consists mainly of bright coal.

By September 7, 1943, the lower entry had been
driven 150 feet. On this level the seam measures 2 fcet at
the portal and 1.6 feet at the face. A large, lens-like
projection of sandstone from the hanging-wall starts 66 feet
from the portal and persists for 30 feet. This ‘cut-out!
locally pinches the seam to less than 1.8 inches.

Coal removed from the upper entry had to be lowered
by cable down a steeply inclined track to an old bunker at the
foot of the hill, a vertical distance of nearly 200 feet. This
required a hoist at the portal. The new entry is 120 feet
lower, and coal is now trammed a short distance on a trestle
and emptied into a newly constructed, 2-compartment bunker
having a capacity of 2,400 cubic feet, or about 65 tons. This

bunker is provided with a screen that separates most of the
slack.

Work planned for this winter (1943-44) included
completing the lower entry as far in as the present face of
the upper entry, and then driving raises between the two
entries. No large amount of coal will be removed until work
in the lower entry is complete.

Removal of coal from the raises is facilitated by
the high dip of the seam, which is 54 degrees to the south-
west. This allows the coal to slide into the cars from the
chutes. Mining is hampered by the necessity of removing con-
siderable rock with the coal. For this reason a compressed
air drill is used in the drift, whereas coal augers are used
in the raises.

No partings are present in the seam, but some wall-
rock must be removed.

The coal is hauled by truck to Fort St. John over a
poor road, a distance of about 83 miles.