Kirk Power Plant (S.D.)

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Drawn by: H.J.S.

Traced: H.J.S.

Scale: None

Blueprint for the Access Stairway for the Ash Handling Crane at teh Kirk Power Station. The sheet features drawings of the plan, side views, and view "A-A".

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Drawn by: Warren

Scale: 3/4" and 1-1/2" = 1'

Blueprints for the access stair for Loading H.M.C. trucks ar the Kirk Coal Bin. The sheet features drawings of the plan, view at top of S2, channels, brace, and exp. metal treads. The sheet also has notes on the charge numbers "71101 Lab. // 71103 Mat // 82001 Lab // 82003 Mat."

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Drawn by: Luckie

Scale: 1" and 1-1/2"

Blueprint for the access stairs for loading H.M.C. Truck at the Kirk Coal Bin. This sheet features drawings of hand rail, and steel ladder.

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Drawn by: EB

Blueprint shoes the exisiting piping plan at the Kirk Power Plant. The sheet features drawings of the plan view kirk income area (scale: 1/2" = 1'-0"), map of Kirk water system (scale: 1" = 100'), and an isometric view (not to scale).

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Blueprint of the overflow for Hearst Tank at the Kirk Power Plant. The sheet show drawings of the profile of overflow line (scale: 1" = 60' H and V), catch basin at discharge (scale: 1/2" = 1'-0"), cross-section of tank (scale: 1/4" = 1'-0"), and a Topographic map of the area (scale: 1" = 200').

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Blueprint for the proposed final plan at the Kirk Power Plant. The sheet features drawings of the plan view (scale: 1/2" = 1'-0"), the elvation view (not to scale), elevation view side (not to scale), sketch final plan, map of Kirk Water System (scale: 1: = 100') and detail B (Hearst II Tank) (scale: 1/8" = 1'-0").

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Blueprint of the Kirk Water Service. The sheet features the turbine room, boiler room, centrifuge room, 33KV Sub, a railroad, Whitetail Creek, a warehouse, 14" Hearst Siphon, surge tank, 12 inch lines, 8 inch lines, overflow line, Old Abe siphons, valve house, drains, and a retaining wall. The sheet includes a legend. The sheet has lines in both red (Homestake Mining Company lines) and green (Black Hills Power and Light lines).

Abstract

The Hydroelectric and Kirk Power Plant Operation Records consists of daily operation logs from the Homestake Mining Company's power plants. The bulk of the records date between 1918 and 1965.

Abstract The Homestake Mining Company was founded in 1876 and operated for 126 years, ultimately growing into the oldest, largest, and deepest gold mine in the Western Hemisphere. A critical contributor to this large-scale success lies in the company’s early acquisition of water rights in the Black Hills. The water rights collection housed at the Homestake Adams Research and Cultural Center details the mine’s systematic attainment of these water rights, as well as the legal struggles that occurred in...