Dori Tharn opens the rope fiber samples and the hoist’s load-and-stop book at the eastern hoist chamber above the deep cart line. Before anyone moves a cart or changes a mark, the crew checks a pale strand showing through the outer twist near the lower drum. The long light air brings its own pace to the passage.
The latest page holds 21 test lifts completed under load. Dori Tharn reads the previous count (17) before the next mark is made. It is a small pause, long enough for the people at the rail to hear what the number leaves out.
The examiner has found no failed fibers; the crew argues that a rope can pass a bench test and still behave badly under a stop. The current record does not settle that disagreement. The difference between those accounts is visible here: a rule on the board and a working condition just beyond it.
Residents and workers have had their first chance to question the measure in public. The entry belongs to the renewal hearing file at the eastern hoist chamber above the deep cart line. The next check will be made by another crew, asked to repeat the measure without borrowing the first crew’s conclusion.
When the shift closes, the file remains beside the marked place. The next trial will record a full stop with a stone load matched to the heaviest routine cart. Until then, the route, schedule or allotment stays as it was at the opening bell.
