The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-05-28

stepping stone to the eventual placing of the industry on a plane
with its Importance H. e, a department in itself, whose
,end will have a place in the deliberations of the cabinet).
Bnt now tina. a bureau is an assured fact, the question of Its OF.
,anizaton is the important consideration. As the success of the
bureau will depend to a large extent on the DIRECTOR ms selection
should be a matter for careful consideration. lie should by all means,
be a trained man, whose ability is unquestioned M whose experience,
possible, should cover all branches of the industry. There are
. men who measure up to these requirements, but who, by reason
Of a practice far in excess of the $4,000 salary attached to the office,
do not feel called upon to accept the appointment
The mining industry, one of the largest of the country s active
:. ..u.;ons furnishing il is estimated, over 60 per cent of the freight
bonaled nv the transportation companies in this country, has at last
ssoured a enlarged recognition of the government" When We con-
slider that from 5000 to 10000 men lose their lives annually In and
about mines and in view of the many terrible disasters i 'e past Icy
months from explosions, ant. the like, and then anz "a one u "e
nrncinal duties of the new bureau will be to study the cause Oh these
'and to recommend the removal of the same, no one can feel antagons-
tic.
In this connection Mining Science says, edlto1ahy;
AGITATION on this movement has continued Tor some ni'een years.
.bo,ch Of first it w a marked more by sentimentalty than by hard,
.roost endeavor. In 1904 the American Mining Congress took up the
work and has since ably carried it to the successful cumhnauoh' MI
body by the stimulation of public interest," by Jill oree pies"
brought to bear by the secretary, who took up ms " as
;noton and by other persistent and energetic eHorts' Is "recu ir
the passing of the bill. The original measure 0 a department :"
Mines met with but little success, and it was a very unsatisfactory and
a;sannointine struggle until in 1907 President Roosevelt PROMISED sup
port to a Bureau of Mines provided the mining men "o"o I'M nef
.oouost 70 that. A SOP to Cerberus but a step in the right direction,
was GLADLY accepted by the men working for the betterment OF the
industry with the above results.
There was no little opposition to the bill from various sources ue
main objection being that the bureau would accomplish u hte
which would tend to the good of the industry at large that through
the bureau the government would usurp from the duties OF the ndl'd-
ual states and numerous other Of greater or lesser import hese NJ
tagonsms evidently have received but little attention and the fears
as TO the annoyances to be engendered may be set at rest as the func-
tons o, the bureau are not to be those of the police, but Will consist
of inquiries and scientific Investigations toward the benefaction OF
the mining industry and to publish the results for general distribution
The first work will undoubtedly be carried on in the testing OF fual
explosives, and the investigation of mine explosions, duties whnh
have been, of recent years, thrown upon the overworked forces of the
United States Geological Survey and undertaken by sufrance ana
sanctioned by special appropriation without giving any assurance Tor
permanence MOI enlarged activities. The new bureau will have proper
financial support and every facility to perform its work to the hshes1
possible good of all concerned, and the results cannot but be beneficial
to the mining public