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Caption: Course Catalog - 1887-1888
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58 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. through shafts, drifts, stopes, etc.; keeping of records, plans, etc. Surveys required to determine best locations for test borings, shafts, adits, etc.; methods of reconnoitering. Mining Engineering i. Attack.—Tools, implements, machinery and explosives, with principles governing their use. Methods of boring, sinking and driving through hard, soft, wet, dry, loose, or compact material. 2. Timbering.—Objects, methods, etc.; framing, fitting, bracing. 3. Transportation.—Underground haulage, hoisting, use of chutes; apparatus and appliances, cars, tracks, switches, cables, cages, motive power, connections; haulage in inclines, " man-engines," etc. 4. Drainage.—Pumps, pumping, sumps, ditches; drainage of working shafts and inclines. 5. Ventilation.—Means and appliances. Importance of subject; laws of various states and countries. Discussion of fundamental principles and practical applications, with results. 6. Buildings and Machinery.—Hoisting apparatus, air compressors, power drills, etc. 7. Exploration.—To determine general character and extent of deposits in advance of development; methods and aims. 8. Development.—Blocking out of deposits to prove values of partly explored ground, and to prepare for further exploration. Exploitation Laying outwork; trimming of coal, ore, etc.; stoping, overhand and underhand; winzes and intermediate levels; economical handling of product. Methods to be employed under various conditions. Dislocations Faults, upthrows, downthrows, feeders, leaders, rolls, swells, etc. Means of overcoming difficulties. Dressing of Products.—Coal screening and washing; sampling and grading ore; assorting, crushing, spalling, cobbing; concentrating. Mining Machinery.—Elements of construction, designing of plant, combination of parts; setting, arranging, adjusting. Preservation and operation, general economy. Organization.—Economy of management. Secondary superintendence; division of labor and adjustment of responsibility. Prevention of accidents.
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