The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-07-18
MINE RESCUE CAR
IS IN GOlDF|ElD
EXPERTS WILL GIVE TEN MIN
ERS INSTRUCTION IN
WORK

With Edward Steidle and George
w. Riggs. junior mining engineer
and first-aid instructor, respectively,
in charge, mine safety car No. of
the bureau of mines of the depart
ment of the interior arrived in Gold
field this morning, attached to the
regular train of the Tonopah & cold
field railroad from Virginia City, aft
er a stay of four days there. The
car will remain in Goldfield until
next Saturday morning.
Soon after its arrival. the car was
placed on the Goldfield Consolidated
Mines company tracks near the mine
office of the company. AT l O'Clock
this afternoon Messrs. Steidle and
Riggs began the training of crew
of ten miners from the various prop
critics of the camp in the work of
rendering first aid to the injured.
The government experts will tomor-
row morning begin the instruction of
the same crew of miners in the mine
rescue work. During the entire stay
of the car in Goldfield the same crew
of miners chosen will be given eight
hours instruction daily, four hours
each morning in mine rescue maneu-
vers and four hours each afternoon
in first-aid work The mine rescue
work will be performed underground
two days.
Professor j. G.. Scrugham of the
University of Nevada, who is largely
responsible for the present tour of
the mine rescue car through Nevada,
will arrive in Goldfield Thursday to
take notes on the work of the gov
ernment experts and will go with the
car Saturday to Tonopah, where it
will remain a week. Messrs. Steidle
and Riggs will make an automobile
visit of four days to Manhattan for
the instruction of crew of miners
there. Leaving Tonopah, the car
will go to Blair, Fallon and Reno. ar
irving at the last named town in time
for Messrs. Steidle and Riggs to wit
ness the mine rescue and first-aid
! contests between teams from all
parts of the state, which will be held
on the campus of the university on
Labor Day, under the auspices of the
Nevada Safety First commission.
Speaking Of the purposes for which
the mine rescue cars are maintained,
Mr.. Steidle, foreman in charge of car
No. 5, said:
'In the camps which we have Wis
tied already and are still to visit we
have and will instruct two crews Of
five men each in the mine rescue and
first-aid work. We do not aim to
teach more than ten men in each
camp. We feel that the complete in
struction of ten men is far better
than to partly instruct more than
that number. The course requires
four days of eight hours each.
"The interior department main
tains in all eight mine rescue cars.
The regular station of our car is at
Billings, Mont, but we cover North
and South Dakota, Montana, Idaho,
Oregon and Washington. California
and Nevada have no car, but move
ment, fostered by the Nevada Safety
First commission and Professor
Scrugham of the University of Neva-
da, has been launched looking to the
acquisition of a car for Nevada and
California, with station at Reno. Our
car always winters in Billings in or
der that we may be in close touch
with the coal mining districts of Mon
tana and Wyoming, in which acci-
dents are more frequent during the
winter months"