The Nome daily nugget., 1915-08-05

| "Section 10 STATISTICAL RE- lCORDS: That the mine inspector shall distribute blank forms, requiring statistics of accidents, labor and pro- duction or such other information as the Governor may require, which shall be filled in and returned to the main Inspectors office, to be made and used under the same conditions and re- strictions as now required by the II. S Theological, Survey and the 1T. s. Bureau of Mines, by the persons in charge of mines or mine workings, on or before the 31st day of December each year.
 Section II. SANITATION: That in any working mine, the inspector may lrequire a sufficient number of portable, water-ti tight privies to be provided for the underground employees, such pri- vies to be taken to the surface and cleaned every twenty-fohr hours
 l "Section 12 GUARDS FOR DAN GEROUS MACHINERY: That any owner, lessee, agent, operator, manager or superintendent of any mine, mill, tunnel, shaft, quarry or metallurgical works, wherein laborers are employed, or machinery used, shall provide and maintain reasonable safe guards for all cogs, gearing, belting, shafting, coup lings, set-screws, conveyors, vats, rolls, and machinery of other or similar de- scription which it is practicable to guard, and which can be effectively guarded with due regard to the ordi- nary use of such machinery and ap- ipliances and to the employees there from. and with which the employees of Iany such mine. mill, tunnel shaft, quarry, dredge, Or metallurgical works are 10 come in contact while in the per 1 formance of their duties and if any machinery or any part thereof is +. q defective condition and it's operation would be extra hazardous because of such defect, or if any machinery is not | safeguarded as provided for in this l Act the use thereof is prohibited and a notice to that effect shall be attached l thereto by the employer immediately l upon receiving notice of such defect or lack of safe guard, and such notices shall not be removed until such defect has been remedied or machine safe- guarded as herein provided
 "Section 13. SAFETY OF SHAFTS (a) That when any shaft is sunk on. any vein or ore chute, or body of ore,1 or any shaft sunk for the purpose of mining ore. pillar of ground shall ba left standing on each side of the shaft of sufficient dimensions to protect and secure the same, and in no case shall stoping be permitted up to or within such proximity to the shaft as to rem der the same insecure, until such time as the shaft is to be abandoned when said pillar may be withdrawn.
 tb) All abandoned mine shafts, pits. or other excavations, endangering the life of man or beast, shall be securely covered or fenced.
 "Section H. LADDERWAYS: That Ievery shaft. wnze. raise or incline of sleeper slope than forty degrees from the horizontal, and deeper than forty feet, through which men are obliged to | travel, shall be provided with a ladder way. Suitable ladders, or footways, shall be provided to connect floors or sets in stopes and other places re- quiring communication in mines. Every mine shall have in addition to any me- 1 least one proper ladder or footway | communicating from the lowest work ings of the mine to the surface
 That permanent ladderways used for ascent or descent of persons in the mine, shall be sufficiently strong for I the purpose demanded, and shall be firmly fastened and kept in good epair. | In vertical shaft, the mine inspector may, at his discretion, by an order in writing. direct that the ladder shall be l inclined at the most convenient angle Wnlcn Ine space Tn Wnlcn the lauuef IS fixed allows, and every such ladder shall have a platform at intervals of not more than fifty (5O) nor less than twenty (20) feet The said platforms shall be closely covered, with the ex- ception of an opening large enough 10 permit the passage of a man. and shall be so arranged that by no means could a person fall from one ladder, through the opening to the next ladder. This shall not apply to placer mines.
 "Setcion 15. PASSAGEWAYS AROUND SHAFTS, GUARD RAILS lFOR SHAFT STATIONS. ETC: That all stations or levels shall have a pas
 sageway around the working shaft so that crossing over the hoisting con" lpartments may be avoided All sumps shall be securely planked over At all shaft stations a gate or guard rail must