The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-12

d 'r1nufng July l the government Is 10
= bureau OF mines. Congress has
"a a bil authorizing 1t and the presi-
n 6aa signed TIE bill. So has the gov
R'snt decided to give the second great
rdusIry within It's borders, an in
u which furnishes 65 per cent OF all
lfafrht, a degree OF recognition. SO
he nations purpose to INQUIRE 1nto 1nto
EafH OF 1000 miners within the last
II faken form. So has provision
made for putting on permanent
"a new lifo- saving corps, one which
M Into the bowels of the earth when
n and noxious gases run riot and
10 life men who would otherwise
cafe by the hundreds, So has pro-
"A been made for placing the lore OF
*corId I'm the hands of the mine oper-
large and small. that hc may be
y, mako the prospect pay and get the
|rossible returns from the developed
rs,e or four hundred thousand dollars
lfhis year, be appropriated for the
NJ M TINT industry which yields the
l0 SO. 00O, 900, 900 year I'm wealth,
lamount is not proportionate TO the
j10.000 q year for agriculture, which
4 81, 0o0. 900. 900, nor with $500, 900 for
I-iep. which yield but $50, 900 a
n But IL is a degree of recognition
Is probably the best spent money
Ness has ever appropriated,
What Bureau Means.
rrcatinG this bureau the govern
Is buying the lives OF 1000 men a
for. OF the 5000 a year now being
4 two thirds might be saved. IT is
N but 5000 each for their lives ii
N were no benefit aside from life
The truth OF the possibilities
"a is proven by a comparison be-
tho number of men in each thous-
Employed in mines who are annually
here and In Belgium where bureau
past decade the United States has
annually 3.iS men in every thous-
IL being granted that for statistical
res the fraction of a man may be
In Belgium los men TO the thous-
vsre killed. Yet the death rate In
I'M was greater than II has ever
In this country until a bureau OF
inaugurated safe methods. We
I19.6S4 men in the last decade. Had
|bto been the same as that of Bel
1855 lives would have been saved.
percentage OF deaths in mines has
(sed In the country steadily since
assumed great proportions, Penn
ia alone kills regiment of men.
each year As the mines grow
X the danger increases. The gov
mt has decided to buy safety for Its
B miners in the same way that Bel
has bought II. It has created
D OF mines.
ing IN this country Is mushroom
n. The present decade has pro-
l two and half times as much in
raI wealth as that which ilumedi-
-preceded II. The backbone Of this
ction Is coal and iron. and IL is
that are making this nation the
lBt OF world powers. This great in
N has grown so suddenly that 1t is
Ik Without form and void. Every
I Who has found coal under his land
Iegun digging it out in the method
most readily presented. itself. Few
d this country have known the fine
!; Of the business. Individual com
1r have made limited Investigations
| ned them selfshly. Smaller con-
could not finance Investigations
have CROPPED in the dark. Untold
has resulted. Gruesome tragedy
kalked abroad.
TO Investigate Conditions.
the government proposes 10 in
4 ate the conditions under which 50
men go unnecessarily to their
M 1t proposes to find out why, in
500, ,o00, 900 tons Of coal a year,
1000 tons are wasted. 1t proposes
.kch the consumer how 10 get as
heat out of one ton of coal as he
~ getting out OF two. il proposes
I out WY 80 per cent OF the lead
Inc are lost in the milling even IN
well organized fields as those OF