in England, are of high pressure, direct acting, with 

 thirty-inch cylinders, have Cornish valves, and move 

 with a sixty-inch stroke, working generally under 

 seventy pounds of steam. The hoisting cables are of 

 the best crucible steel wire made over a quarter of a 

 mile in length is used. The cables are inspected daily. 

 An enormous cog-wheel is provided for attachment 

 and working pumps of thirteen-inch column if ever 

 the aid of such a power should be required. The 

 hoisting capacity of the engines is 3,000 tons a day. 

 The steam service for all the engines above and the 

 pumps and engines below necessarily demands an ex- 

 tensive range of boilers, and the boiler house with 

 its high brick stack is furnished with boilers of the 

 old type, and four Lancaster double-flue boilers, four 

 feet by twenty-five feet, are supplied by a heating 

 feeder; their furnaces are ever glowing, and the 

 smokestacks belch forth black clouds of smoke the 

 sign of industry. The handsome power house is 

 next in view, and here a Ball engine of 150 horse 

 power exerts a powerful dynamo that generates the 

 electric force to drive the three forty-ton motors used 

 in the levels for hauling distances of upwards of two 

 miles from the pit bottom, and also for supplying 

 light where its use can be applied above and below. 

 Attention is drawn to the so-called "Pullman cars" 

 for conveying miners to the No. 5 shaft, some miles 

 towards Nanaimo River, in the south coal field. A 

 closer look evokes a smile; while the rubber springs 

 are there, yet all is rough and bare, but safe has been 

 the transit for years past no accident has happened, 

 no life endangered or limb hurt, in the many miles 

 they've run. Near by the office is the goods depot, 

 where "everything" required is kept in store and is- 

 sued on order from the proper source. The powder 

 magazines are situated about two miles on the No. 5 

 railway and issues are made in kegs at appointed 

 times. 



The "stables" and their grounds are a department 

 by themselves, and with their noble horses and well- 

 kept rolling plant are an indispensable provision for 

 transferring supplies for uses of the mine, and the 



