There is at this point, used by the State in the prosecution of the
work, the shaft-building, a carpenter's shop, a blacksmith's shop, a
saw-mill, powder-house, gas-house, ash-house, wood-shed, and a barn; and
in connection with the work, a store, a boarding-house, the Thacher
farm-house and out-buildings, 4 first-class and 7 common shanties. The
cost of buildings at the Central Shaft in July, 1866, was $11,080.13.
The cost in November, 1866, was $12,026.83. The annual rent of that
portion leased to operatives is $736.
A farm, containing 250 acres of land, with a dwelling-house and barn,
has been purchased, adjoining the Central Shaft, for the sum of $3,000.
The land was well covered with timber, about one-half of which has been
cut for the purposes of the shaft and tunnel. There is estimated to be
one million feet of hemlock timber still standing, which will be wanted
in the progress of the work. This purchase was an advantageous one for
the State, there having been already realized from it an amount equal to
its cost.