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Show ; MiMNti l.ws. ln view of thu many tenible ac.-id.;nt.i wIujIi liave . luppeiidl to minors iu iVuu-ylvania I during tlo- la-t year, Uov. Lieary, in his annual mcv-age, -troiwly re..om- nitiid-i the ias.sage of a luw to more etlectually secure the .sul-ly of ihus-1 who delve in the earth. W- all pvol-' i leet the awful loiJ of lilii lioiu the biun-, biun-, ing of the limbering in evi-ral of thr i mines at Gold Hill, Nevada, in ihe spring of 1S60. The men Were Mili'o-cated Mili'o-cated bijeause the .-.ingle :n. tui-' of os-eape os-eape wan on lire. We rrli-r to the.-e! mattern at the present tinir-, because of the governor's reeomim-ndation of tho' passage by the legislature of a general! law governing mining mattcrb. It' the1 legislature doea a3.i ueh a law, it should especially embody a provision; reauiring the construction, in all decpj mine?), ol'amjilc means of ipuiek egrfs?; tor the mineirt, in ea.so of an accident. 1 Kv;ry deejt mine otighi. (o be provided withatlea-t two nhalus. ior is this' requirement a hardship upon (he owners own-ers of mines. The pecuniary low to the proprietor:! of the Hold Hill mines,: resulting from tho mines taking lire, wa.H greater tliau would have been the coat of fifty extra shafts. These extra ex-tra shafts are often lavorable to economic eco-nomic working and arc always a mvesi-ty mvesi-ty to purify the atmosphere in deep and damp mines. |