Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-04-29
MINE RESCUE CAR
 TO BE IN K|NCMAN
 FROM JUNE 4 TO l5

Washington, D. C., April 2O.-Mine Rescue Car No. 1 of the United Stat es Bureau of Mines, in charge of En- gineer E. D. Gardner, and crew of trained men, will reach Clifton, Ari- zona, on April "A. The car will be on exhibition every day from 800 a. m. to 500 p. m. until May 7, and free lectures will be given to miners on first aid to the injured, the use of mine-rescue apparatus and safety lamps, mine gases, and safe and dan gerous mining practices. On May 8 the car will go to Bisbee, Ariz., where it will remain until June 4, after which date it will proceed to Kingman, Ariz., to remain until June 15.
 This mine rescue car is one of the eleven now in use by the Bureau of Mines for training miners in first aid and rescue methods and the use of mine rescue or oxygen breathing ap- paratus. The car has a crew that in cludes two experienced miners, min ing engineer in charge, and mine surgeon, and is equipped with the lat est rescue and first aid apparatus and supplies. At a moments notice the car is ready to proceed to the scene of a mine disaster, where the bureau men cooperate with the state mining inspectors and mine officials to do everything possible to assist or save miners who may have been injured or entombed.
 The saving of human life, decreas- ing the number of injuries to the miner, and lessening the sufferings of injured miners are the central featur- es of the Bureaus work.
 Miners are taught how to use rescue apparatus mad how to take care of an injured comrade. The lectures, when possible, are illustrated by lantern slides and moving pictures which show good and bad methods of mining and how accidents may be easily prevent ed. These lectures are given in the car when suitable meeting place can not be procured elsewhere, but lantern slides and moving pictures cannot be shown in the car.
 Each car carries oxygen breathing apparatus, a supply of oxygen in cy- finders, safety lamps, apparatus for reviving miners who have been gass- ed, and the charts, splints and band ages for demonstrating first aid methods. Some of the training with rescue apparatus will be inside the mines, also in smoke or fumes, so the wearer will understand the apparatus and how to use it. A miner, when trained and wearing the ap- paratus, can enter a mine after a mine fire or an explosion and work in poisonous atmospheres for two hours.
 Many thousand miners have been trained in the use of this rescue ap- paratus at the Bureau of Mines cars and stations. It is hoped that in the near future every mine in this coun- try will have trained apparatus crew and that every mine or group of min es will have equipment ready for use in case of emergency. Many miners have been saved after explosions by rescue parties wearing the apparatus. Also, the apparatus has proved of great value in fighting mine fires.
 The instruction and training in of first aid to the injured are also given by crews of the rescue cars and stations, and this instruction is given either in connection with rescue apparatus training or entirely sep arately, hence is applicable not only to underground workers, but to all hose employed in or around the mines md metallurgical establishments. vnTrr n r,vrr,%rH r.r~r-