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060104J6 To: R. A. Bleich From: R. J. Kujawa Subject: Report - December !S5 CONSTRUCTION: Curing the month the constructicn crew completed of the sanitary water pump, the partition in the river bin and of metai supports under the mill tailings bait near the boom. installation tnstallation Considerable preliminary work was dene on the truck loading conveyor and on the exterior wails of the river bln. The trdek leading conveyor will not be com pleted for seme time as the work must be dene during slack leading times. it was possible to reduce the effective size of the construction crew by trans fers and filling vacancies in other departments. ENGINEERING: Tcm Robertson is drafting the changes and repairs needed In the high grade ventilation circuit. Ha' tv 111 complete this In early -January* During the month no new work was started as it .-.'as pTanned to start in early January cn proposals and designs for increasing prod v.ction during !o6 and 196?. As was outlined by 0. F. Stewart, this will require an examination of the entire operation. A tentative outline will be submitted by January 10. SAFETY: There were three lost-time accidents during the month to Conald Hutton, John Carson ar.d Lyle Slc-fke. In addition, there ware no-iost-time accidents involving Clarence Bally and Herbert Orr. Me have experienced several months with very lew dust counts in the dry mill. If the next set of readings is lew, I think we should follow your suggestion, sweep down the dry mill and have the State Board of Health (Mr. wake) collect a set of samples at the same time that ud I'tnicn collects samples. Roth sets of samples should be counted before Mr. I'ake leaves so that he can check cur entire procedure. Also, this would tend to reduce any possible chance for evasion. Then, If he will write a report, I think we may be able to officially pin down cur dust count. If the past is any indication, Mr. 'Make will not want to do this without much prior discussion. M1SCELLAHECUS:The weather during the month was good. The mill feed bins required bin tenders for short pesfi-ods only. However, at this time there seems to be some deterioration in the fair weather. 15171493 oeeio-u7 .' ' ' n: R. A. Blelch -2- January 5, S66 t The construction crew will probably be on snow removal for some time. The 22 inches of snow at the mine in fourteen hours has caused the usual problems. This will be reflected in trcubie with the feed bins. The Sortex Company attempted to separate vermlculite with their electronic color sorter. This was not successful so they tried their air separator. This does not arouse any enthusiasm here so the Idea will be dropped. RJKujawa/jbg c.c. J. A. Kelley L. H. Krupp . 0. lovick J. U. Bansonce 0. F. Stewart 15171494