Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-02
SAFETY RECORD OF
M0CTEZUMA COPPER
FIRM CELEBRATED

Employees and officials of the Mocte-
lilies, held a celebration at Nacozari
Saturday night and Sunday in honor of
pany. The surface workers Of the COM
pany have operated Tor 120 consecutive
days, or 44,7o6 shifts, without single
time-lost accident
Considering the number of men en-
ployed and the nature of their duties,
this is considered remarkable record.
The departments that took part in es-
tablishing the record included the
power house, concentrator, machine
shop, blacksmith shop, foundry car
penter shop, mine railroad, supply de-
partment transfer gangs and all work
ers on the surface.
The celebration began Saturday night
with a grand ball in the salon of the
recreation hail. which was artistically
decorated for the occasion Special mu-
sic was furnished by the two bands
from the Fernando circus, which were
engaged for the occasion. The recrea-
tion hall was crowded to capacity and
the dance continued until far into the
night. Sunday morning large parade
was held in the main street of Naco-
zari.
Sunday afternoon the entire Fernando
circus was thrown open to all employees
and their families, the entire circus
having been chartered by the copper
company and 1900 tickets distributed
to the' employees. The committee in
charge of the two days entertainment
was made up of the following promi-
nent Nacozari men: Jesus Lugo, Igna-
clio D. Montana, Julia Paco, Ignacio B.
quez, Dionisio Alvarado and Francisco
B. Molina. Much credit is due these
gentlemen for the satisfactory way in
which all events were managed.
The safety first work, which GER
tainly has been received by the en-
ployes with enthusiasm beyond expec-
tation, has been carried on in all de-
partments of the company for several
years. Results such as the record set
up for the last three months speak for
and shoW what can be done
when the issue is properly handled. The
are composed of the fol-
lowing:
Board of directors of the general
= Frank Aver, William Il.
H. H. Horton and Wash
ington Mclean, Jr
Concentrator operation committee. u
Francisco Quijada, Francisco 7. Mo-
reno, J. M. Shipman, PaD.o Noriega and
Transito Espinoza.
Concentrator mechanical department
H. Brossamer, H. Little
wood, Jesus Cervantes, Jesus Escal-
ante, Jesus Molina and Rosario Melen-
dez, William T. Macdonald is secre-
tary of the concentrator committees.
The different shops and the power
house are supervised by the following
Electric shop, Alfonso
Gonzales; machine shop, Carlos Ca
zarez foundry. Dionisio, Alvarado; car
penter shop, Felipe Nevares; power
house, Florencio Encinas; supply de-
partment, Isidro Vazquez; mine rail-
road, Manuel Garcia. A. j. Houle is
secretary of the above committees.
The safety first issue is carried out
by all departments and is kept before
the employees in various ways, the most
conspicuous of these being large iron
discs attractively enameled in blue and
bearing safety first slogans in white
lettering, all slogans being those sug-
gested by employees. These discs are
placed in prominent locations in all de-
partments and are a pleasing reminder
to bear in mind first, last and always:
Safety first