Bisbee daily review., 1914-11-18
SAFETY INSTITUTION
 CAR LEAVES STATE
 AFTER A LONG VISIT
More Than 1000 Miners in Ari- zona Were Instructed in Res cue Work and Other Phases Of This Excellent Movement.


 
 PHOENIX, Nov. 17-After tbree
 months spent in mining districts of
 the state, in which period approxi.
 mately 1000 miners received instruc-
 ton in first aid and mine rescue
 work, Bureau of Mines Rescue Car
 No. 2 pulled out Saturday night for
 It's annual visit to the camps of Cali.
 ornia and Utah. During tbe car,s
 stay in Arizona, certificates of profi-
 ciency in mine rescue work were is.
 sued to over 600 men and interest aroused in safety first" methods in every camp in the state. that culmi- hated in the contests at the state fair
 Tn this work the Bureau of Mines
 has the hearty cooperation of The
 mining companies" said pr. J. c. Roberts, in charge of the work in the Rocky Mountain region. during this recent visit to the fair.
 l While the companies were at first actuated by humanitarian motives in the adoption of these methods erst eid has since toen found to be a lcls- laess proposition The managsrs Il, only ind that the percentage ys a,- ud'nts is greatly decreased. bu. that when they ao happen the men tea 'li | th' hospital i' better coa6itiop anC take less time to recove~. Then, too, tnt spirit ar7 sed in thu men is of the hest, fo. it leads a nan 10 look l:i's his fellow wofkul1 while or 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 eases the companies allow the men full time for the hours they spend in this work. but this method has not always been entirely success ! ful. Al one mine the company paid the men S1 an hour for helmet prac- tice, 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 1 are anxious to be prepared to render l service to their fellows"
 That the mining companies are coming to insist on the practice of first aid was strikingly illustrated re- gently in one of the big camps of | the state. A man suffered a broken | leg while on duty and was picked up | by a fellow workman, who carried | him out of the mine and to the hos | pital on his back without first binding | up his injury The man who carried him out was promptly discharged for failing to render first aid service to | the injured man.
 Eight cars are maintained by the . government of the purpose of giving 1 instruction and promoting safety in ] the mining districts of the country. Two Of these are assigned to the in- termouutain states, the others being used in the coal mining districts of the east Car No 2 in addition to Arizona. covers the states Of Calitor- mia Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and southern Wyoming. The northern Rocky mountain states are in the ter ritory of car No. 3.
 The bureau of mines has recently fitted out a special car which will car ry. in addition to the regular crew of ! two men a surgeon, a mining engineer and a stenographer. This car will be used for inspection purposes, as well as for the imparting of expert instruc- tion and the giving of lectures to the miners in the district visited. At present each car in the field carries a mine foreman" and a first aid instruc- tor. whose duty it is to give a course of instruction in hirst aid work and rescue work at each camp visited.
 The eight cars now used by the gov ernment for this purpose were do- mated by the Pullman company to the bureau of mines, having formerly : seen service as Wagner sleeping cars. | Instead of converting them into tour .st sleepers. the company generously turned the cars over to Dr. J. A. ' Holmes. head Of the bureau, in he in- ' terests of mine safety the only cos1 ; to the government being the expense . of altering the cars for this service.
 Each car carries full equipment 10 i | arise in a mine disaster. In addition 10 fire extinguishers and stretchers. a ten sets oxygen apparatus are car i ried with a number of storage tanks for charging same. The breathing ap psraus used in the Draeger type, ht- ted with oxygen cartridgt, potash tank and breathing bag, but without .he cumbersome helmet Instead ot -hs, a mouthpiece is used, tight-ht ling goggles being worn to protect .he eyes from smoke oxygen is car | ried at a pressure of approximately V ? LOGO pounds, being reduced to normal A pressure by a system of valves. I
 Every mining company of import i lnce in the state is equipped with | similar apparatus and drills in its { use are frequently held. y