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(Fig. 25a) "West view of Arrowchis Shaft showing head frame, loading platform (walled in on windward sides), simple built-in screening plant, a rick of sacked gilsonite, and two stockholders, R. L. Hedrick (left) and Harry Pearson. The upper deck served as a protective shed for the loading platform and as a floor to hold each digger's sacks, as they were hoisted from the stopes, until they were sorted, graded, and screened, after which they were ricked on the loading platform below for shipment."
(Fig. 25a) "West view of Arrowchis Shaft showing head frame, loading platform (walled in on windward sides), simple built-in screening plant, a rick of sacked gilsonite, and two stockholders, R. L. Hedrick (left) and Harry Pearson. The upper deck served as a protective shed for the loading platform and as a floor to hold each digger's sacks, as they were hoisted from the stopes, until they were sorted, graded, and screened, after which they were ricked on the loading platform below for shipment."
Multimedia Archives, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Original Source
"Gilsonite : a general discussion with special reference to the Arrowchis Lease of the Western Gilsonite & Elaterite Company" by Arthur L. Crawford. [Salt Lake City, Utah?] : [s.n.], [1940]
"Gilsonite" by John L. Kemmerer. Thesis (M.S.)--Dept. of Geology, University of Utah, 1934.
"Dissertation on the history, occurrence, mining, and economics of gilsonite" by Irving Craig Roberts and Glen A. Carey. Thesis (B.S.)--Department of Mining Engineering, University of Utah, 1949
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