Arizona republican., 1914-11-16
HUNDREDS 0F
 MINERS STUDY
 RESCUE WORK
Bureau of Mines Rescue Car Leaves After M onths Spent at Arizona Camps. Companies Cooperate in the Work

After three months spent in the min ing districts of the state, in which pe- riod approximately 1000 miners re- ceived instruction in first aid and mine rescue work, Bureau of Mines Rescue car No ? pulled out Saturday night for it's annual visit to the camps of Cali fornia and Utah. During the cars stay in Arizona, certificates of proficiency in mine rescue work were issued to over 500 men. and interest aroused in safe ty first" methods in every camp in the state, that culminated in the contests at the state fair.
 Tn. this work the Bureau of Mines has the hearty cooperation of the min ing companies" said Dr. J. c. Roberts, in charge of the work in the Rocky Mountain region, during his recent visit to the fair.
 While the companies were at first actuated by humanitarian motives in the adoption of these methods, first aid has since been found to be business proposition. The managers not only find that the percentage of accidents is greatly decreased, but that when they do happen the men reach the hos pital in better condition and take less time to recover. Then, too the spirit aroused in the men is of the best, for it leads a man to look after his fellow workman while on duty
 "Of course there are various meth ods of getting the men to take an in terest in the work, all of which have proven more or less successful. In some cases the companies allow the men full time for the hours they spend in this work, but this method has not always been entirely successful. At one mine the company paid the men $1 an hour for helmet practice, and when a disaster occurred not one man could be ' found ready to enter the mine. The best results are obtained where the men themselves are anxious to be prepared | to render service to their fellows"
 That the mining companies are com ing to insist on the practice of first | aid was strikingly illustrated recently in one of the big camps of the state A man suffered a broken leg while or duty and was picked up by fellow workman, who carried him out of the mine and to the hospital on his back without first binding up his injury The man who carried him out wa: | promptly discharged for failing to ren- der first aid service to the injured man
 Eight cars are maintained by thu government for the purpose of givint
 instruction and promoting safety il
 the mining districts of the country
 Two of these are assigned to the inter
 mountain states, the others being use'
 in the coal mining districts of tn
 east Car No ?, in addition to Arizona
 covers the states of California, Utah Colorado, New Mexico, and souther Wyoming The northern Rocky Noun
 tain states are in the territory of ca
 No. 5.
 The bureau of mines has recent fitted out a special car which will car
 ry, in addition to the regular crew C
 two men a surgeon, a mining enginee
 and a stenographer. This car will b used for inspection purposes, as we as for the imparting of expert instruc tior and the giving of lectures to tn miners in the districts sviited. At pres ent each car in the field carries
 mine foreman" and first aid instruo | tor, whose duty it is to give eours % of instruction in first aid work an rescue work at each camp visited.
 The eight cars now used by the gov
 ernment for this purpose were donate
 by the Pullman company to the br
 reau of mines. having formerly see
 service as Wagner sleeping cars. II " stead of converting them into touri
 lsleepers, the company generously turnt
 the cars over to pr. J. A. Holmes. hea
 of the bureau, in the interests of mil T safety, the only cost to the goveri - ment being the expense of altering u VI cars for this service.
 II Each car carries full equipment u meet any of the exigencies which ms 'e arise in a mine disaster. In additit u to fire extinguishers and stretchel '' ten sets oxygen apparatus are ca
 ried with a number of storage tan
 for charging same The breathing a
 paratus used is the Draeger type. fitt
 with oxygen cartridge potash tank al ,s breathing bag, but without the cumbe +o some helmet. Instead of this, mout Q piece is used, tight fitting goggles b is ing worn to protect the eyes fro