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Rh The descending skips were pushed off the cage at the bottom of the pit, and were in like manner attached to the descending rope by another man. The skips were thus attached to the rope at any irregular intervals just as they came, without loss of time; and sometimes there were as many as 100 skips on the ascending rope and 100 on the descending one.

We found the system to work perfectly, and it reduced the cost of hauling out to less than half the cost of ponies.