TIHES FROM HILLS
SERIES STORIES
FOR MINING ME)
A SERIES OF PROSPECTING AR
TICLES BY DEAN PATTY,
ALASKA COLLEGE
CONTINUATION OF RECENT
MINING ARTICLES FOR AL
ASKA PROSPECTORS
“What he didn’t see was a state
ment to the effect that the com
pressor was rated at so many feet
of free air at sea level and at 60
degrees temperature. His mine is
up there in the Broad Pass country
and must be at least 3,000 feet
high. As I remember it, a com
pressor operating an ordinaly j
gauge pressure of 80 to 100 pounds
loses about l-30th of its capacity!
for each 1,000 feet altitude it has. j
That means that his compressor
will only deliver about 90 percent
of that 75 cubic feet or 67 1-2 cubic
feet. Then during the summer
months the thermometer often
gets up to 80 and 90 degrees at his
cabin. Each 10 degree rise means
a further reduction of over two
percent in the capacity of his com
prsssor. His compressor won’t be
big enough to run one drill. And
the chances are that he will have
a lot of leaks in his air lines too.”
By this time they had reached
the cabin. Supper over, Jack start
ed to wash the dishes while Larry
rummaged around in a box under
the bunk. Pretty soon he emerged
dragging out some books, and re
sumed the conversation where it
!had broken off an hour before,
j “Nov/ here is some dope I goo
ion air compressors while I was tak
ing the short course in mining at
the A'aska College four years ago.”
He scanned the pages and read:
Data necessary to have when sc-,
'ectine an air compressor. 1. Kind
'of power, a. Steam, b. Electricity,
c. water, d. Internal combustion
engines. 1. Gasoline, 2. Kerosene,
3. Crude oil or Diesels. 2. Volume
of air required. Depends upon, a.
Number of drills b. Kind of drills,
c. Other machinery to be run by
compressed air, e. Maximum sum
mer t ° mnorature f. Gauae pres
sure desired at drills, g. Distance
; from compressor to working .place.
I -‘W'” I can answer the first
Y-nest'.on right now, easily enough,
harry.” We can’t use steam for
'we haven't any wood or coal. It is
1100 miles to the nearest electric
plant, and wo c^n’t use water pow
er in the winter.”
( ‘‘No we couldn’t use it in the
winter hut we could in summer.
jThat little stream below the tun
nel has plenty of fall and I believe
• it carries u water to run r
smali i‘ impreer.’
“Sc ,l'e could,” agreed lvs uart
'er, “I’ve workpo on irrigation i
California If you get anv dope
in that book tei'ing us how to Cal
cutta the horsepower I can figure
cut th° ,ir:.o ; of water flowing.
(To be continued)
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TONY GOING OUT FOR
FIRST TIME 25 YEARS
Twenty-five years is a long
time but it has been just that
length of time-a quarter of a cen
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man of Kodiak, has been Outside.
Today, he is in Seward, an out
going passenger on the Admiral
Rogers and is going tt take a
chance in the wild and wooly
j East.
“Tony” is known throughout
the width and breadth of the Ter
ritory and it is few camps that
have failed to see him during these ;
past 25 years.
j Cleveland, Ohio, is his desti
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weeks with relatives he plans to
; return to the land of his adoption,
Alaska, in March.
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ago. Their many friends hope the
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Jack Lien, fur buyer, was among
the local arrivals today from the
Westward on the Admiral Rogers.
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last summer >is readily adapting
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