Bisbee daily review., 1911-11-26

COpp1r stocks, the market Tor W0lcH So long. X ramd advance In prices king. The past week, -owever, has puCes ana tue advances have general said that the copper situation is .me past with every evidence that Il connections have been made the Wa ter from tho Mag will be piped and flow Dy gravity through the Oliver, the water from these two mines LOW on naturally through the float, son, be joined between the Hoatson and ths Junction by the flow from the Brggs. Thus a general pipe line aill be established from four mines mines with the Junction shAJ as me terminal and can be there pump ed to the surface doing away with the necessity ot a pumpIng station at each Of the four other shafts
 It is expected that the completion of these connections wil thoroughly ,eutl.ate al five of them and that with the circulation of air tat re- suits there will be little need of con densors.
 From this important series of con uecuou further safety in furnishing more methods of progress to the workmen is insured
 Working For Safety
 Both Ot the companies, the Copper Queen and the C. and A. are doing all tat Is possible to minimize the danger to the operatives in the mines. Mining is ever hazardous and 1t is as much benefit of the company as to the man to make that hazard, fl possible a negligible quauity. There are no devices to enhance sSEety that come to the attention of the companies that are not fully invest igated and wCen found feasible intro duced. There is a tendency when ever an accident occurs to lay the This is recognized and it is desired to give no opportunity for an impTes- siCn Of negligence, or that the acci- dent was preyentable.
 When one compares the number Of acCiGtnSs that loccurred in former years and the Seriousness of them with these Of tEe present. day it will be readily seen that progress has Eeen made which is directly trac- able 10 the efforts Of the companies.
 4 few years ago one of the most Cummen czusCs Of accidents was missed holes. Today sucn accidents are seldom known. This result was arrived at by the putting up of black boards on each level of every s-ait on which are posted bulletins oi the hCics fired and the results These are inspected before the next shift goes to work A record of the shots fired and the results thus kept has reduced ( e number Of such accidents til they are almost unknown It IS true that such accident occurred a short time since in ihe C. aud A. work ings and did not prove very serious All the holes a. thi5 particular work ing were reported clear. All ihe men insist that they counted carefully and heard the number of shots there should have been. A miner put his drill in one of the empty holes and an explosion foliOz cd. The face Of the rock might have warned him and he might have taken 8 spoon and examined but he did not do this. lt would appear that the shct wcs' an inSerfect one and sthaf not all o1 the powder iu the EOle exploded.
 This blackboard system has achisy- ed much Iu reducing dangers that were common in the past
 Most of the accidents that now oc- eur are in new workings To avoid these the companies have established a double system Of inspect on As it goes Of an inspection is made to discover loose stones or rocks and before the new shift goes on tho second inspection is made and yet most of the accidents tnese days a oocasioned by falling earth or rocks new workings.
 The accidental death of a miner .n the Lowell snatt last Sunday nom ing was a luther proof that familiar ity with danger begets an absence of precami0n on Che part ot t1c men themselves for the testimony before the coroners jury showed that only g comparative lew men took the rcubie 10 obtain lights on leaving the cage in the Lowell shaft and starting on the walk through toe drift from the Lowell 10 Che Gardiner tO enter the cage at that shaft. 4 very large majority iu their haste to leave the shift that was just going of took the cnenees dut4iFed in walking through the drifts without lights. The man who met his death. miner Uf eighteen years expcrieBce did this. The voltage of the wire from which he received was (not considered high enough Co cause a fatal accident
 Precautions for safety that have been aud arc being taken and institu- ted by the two companies are tco many to be mentioned in this article and will be the subject Of another or other seperate articles at future time