The copper era and Morenci leader., 1913-05-30
IN THE M l \ 3: 5
BROTHERHO E SUPR [ ME K
 ARIZONA MINES
Each Year to the $16,ooo Men Who Work Below the Surface.
According to State Mine Inspect

According to State Mine Inspector
 Jack Roland, a practical miner of
 many years experience, mining con-
 ditions in Arizona are better in the
 state by large margin, than in any
 other in the union, or in any country
 in the world
 Six thousand men are employed in
 the mines of Arizona. In the past
 six months only twenty-eight acci.
 dents have occurred among this great
 army engaged in the most hazardous
 of occupations.
 1 Inspector Roland has left Phoenix
 for Kansas City where he will visit his father, now old and i'll, and whom
 the son has not seen in many years
 Boland's heart is in the great work
 he has taken on at the bequest of the
 state: He is the idol of the great
 working army and treated like an
 interested partner by the great
 mining companies like the Copper | Queen, United Verde, Miami, Superior
 and Pittsburg, Old Dominion and oth- CTS, who have come to understand they are dealing with a man who knows his business, and who plays ab- solutely square with everyone Be- land believes the mining industry of Arizona overshadows all others, and that eventually and before long, Phoe- liA Ouo1ASSS HIGH VIII dWdh6n to the fact that they are missing their big gest opportunity in not cultivating the closest relations with the splendid mining territory of which the city is | the natural center and feeder
 Arizona is not only the richest mining empire in the United States said Roland just before leaving for the east, but the conditions of the industry are far in advance of any other country in the world. The wages paid are the highest The men for this is the attitude of the big mining companies toward their em- ployees want to go on record as declaring the mining industry of Ari- zona is more permeated with the spirit of brotherhood, dovetailing the interests of employers and employees, than any other industry in any other section of the world
 The spirit of cooperation I find everywhere. That is the reason the percentage of casualties in Arizona mines is less than in any other sec tion. It is my business to do every thing in the power of the state to inn prove conditions below ground so as to minimize the dangers to the men. 1t is pleasure at this time to pay a tribute to the heads of the Copper
 
 gigantic mining concerns in Arizona along this line. l never make a re- quest for an improvement, some new appliance, any little, or even big thing looking to increased safety of the men, hat the mine owners do not cheerfully grant I believe there is a standing order for all superintend- entS to meet the mine inspectors more than half way in any worthy under taking for the safety of the men.
 Tt is a pleasure to talk for pubii- cation along such lines. It's pretty fine old world we are living in after all, when the hearts of men are right : towards one another. The big mines ! are paying fine dividends but they are also paying better wages to their | men than those in any other state. ! The mining pay rolls of Arizona will aggregate over twenty million dollars i a year. That is, the money which i goes nnto general circulation, and into Phoenix as the great, natural dis center of the state. And i have no hesitancy in saying the mine 1 owners who put this vast twenty odd 1 millions into circulation every year would be more pleased to see the wholesale end of it come to the capi- tai city of the state. Phoenix is by a wonderfully fertile valley and I want to pay my tribute to it's richness and it's importance to he development of the metropolis of he state, but after all the great big of Arizona which is the real thing which in the end is to make Phoenix a really great commercial ,ity, is mining.
 Why, don't you know that the mining industry of this state at this ime is paying out wages every year 1t the rate of eighty dollars per cap- ta, for every man, woman and child | n the state? Ray, Bisbee, Globe, Jerome, Prescott, Miami, everyone should be a splendid feeder for a wholesale center such as Phoenix is leStined to be.
 Since I have been State Mine in- pector 1 have never heard any sug- sestion of a strike, of any discontent. As the army of miners are loyal to he owners and the owners are loyal o the men. It is great to work with ;uch spirit behind your work. The good God give me more of it. It {; makes a man like me think of the millennium as actually in sight.
 Do you know this mining atmos- ,here in which I dwell continually is filed with romance, sentiment This ( ak about mining experts being nee ,ssary to pass on-mine values is a ( United Verde was turned down on an ,xpert opinion for a paltry fifty thou and. So were the great Bisbee hold ngs of the Copper Queen. I believe ( he same is true of the Old Dominion aid Roland, ith a twinkle in his ; merry eyes as he bade the Democrat nan goodbye.