Show I DEPARTMENT OF MINS IS URGED Immense Industry Demands Place in Cabinet Says House TWO JOINT MEMORIALS TO PROTECT LIFE AND SAND CON CONSERVE CONSERVE CONSERVE SERVE RESOURCES I of Utah can an have hae Its Tf It f th the way wa S a national department of mines and g will u b created and the President another nother member to his oft will appoint familY th the cabinet That a depart eli ria of af mines mine and nd mining has long been beens s needed n i l a universally recognized ct not nt only in the west vest but In the mining districts as well Every Ever day thi grat Industry te a growing and ex exIa din and am the Ih necessity tt for a distinct Ia ading complete branch of the executive rod iti I Its welfare and I to look after becomes beCOme dally daily more urgent were Intro house yesterday ye in I n the th worded joint me memorial vigorously vigoroUS Pd fd I twO wo W l 1 N NOI and M JO of which Mr morial of Weber Web Is h the author These I Kuhler point out in a clear and force forcen the th fact that the mining in manner manne til HI n conducted in this country now is L dust rainless and wasteful manner and ands In a attend ended with startling loss of life s h Year year The application of scientific c recite would not method the memorials m m tilt the th lives tend and health of those protect R sinne ione f in m mining but as well would con cone n god the mineral minerai resources of the nation e despoiled jep Id can never be re hi h once on 1 J The memorials are Loss Of Life and Waste House Hou joint memorial No mining industry is annually annual adding The g arl two to wo billions of dollars to the wealth States and Is la furnish furnishing ng the fhe f for more than half a million directly engaged ed in the mining in mn own as lIS well as furnishing the material lu absolutely necessary to the employment I Ind additional number of ot men nr Or f a still larger nd The loss IO of life being 35 in m coal mining operations In the 1009 10 1 ir per States Stalls as against 1 11 35 per pet 1000 in I England through a lack of proper pre pm in mining operations over which supervision Is exercised hut tut ut little if any Y s a dI to the government from which the th man is supposed to have hae great ration than the dollar and fr r The product of the mines hen hn exhausted cannot Ot be replaced and Whereas The enormous waste of metal through the application of un unscientific resources r apPlication scientific methods of mining m ning and treat treatment treatment ment and the enormously extravagant waste of fuel fu through both carelessness md nJ unscientific methods Is a 3 menace to tour tour tour future industrial growth and ur Whereas The United States Is la the only nation In which this im important important important industry receives relatively such small consideration therefore be It Resolved B By the house of ot representatives tins mes of the state of ot Utah the senate con therein that we urge upon the of the United States the im importance ImpOrtance importance of ol the creation of a department f mines with its head a member of the presidents cabinet through which human lit If may receive protection and the rain min mineral eral nal resources may be conserved and pro production production production increased j through governments governmental control and the application of scientific hods and be It further Resolved Rf That a copy ropy of these reso ions be forwarded to the senate anti and anaho andI ho I 1 house of representatives re of the United States Stat and to each eadi of our representatives cs I the th United States congress and that he le governor of this state be Instructed to with the president of the I i States requesting his on in IA i bringing about the creation of a of mining through which the industry may receive that govern o em etzi recognition and assistance ce to it il is S entitled as one of th U t two gral industries of oC this coun counT counTr T Tr Joint Memorial No 10 To the S Sc tate and House of of o the United States of Amer Amerau Amerin au CI la in congress assembled Tour fooT m t te e legislature of th lie lite tate stAte of Utah Itah respectfully represents hat Whereas Th Tb worlds continued indus Industrial industrial trial advancement requires a continually production of minerals both f for r montary mon br commercial and manufacturing I turing ring purposes and Whereas In order to maintain a suf ol increase in volume of mineral reductions It Is necessary that there oe De applied the th highest scientific knowledge knowledg o a the problems of ore production and treatment and Whereas The nature of these problems pro sins lems justifies their solution for the bene benc benet if t of f vry citizen of the United States which ran can be best accomplished through I De governmental supervision and assist assistance ance aDee of a department of mining the head f r which is a member of the presidents therefore be it Resolved B By the house bOWie of ot ves of Utah the senate concurring herein that we most respectfully urge uria pon the of or the United States ne importance of creating a department f r mining as a separate executive depart nest of our national government anti anil bat hat a copy of this memorial be forwarded to te our senators and representatives in Ingress gress and be bt it further Resolved That the governor of th thi the i tie of ot Utah be requested to common I te le with Ith the president of the United States tales requesting his cooperation in ringing about a out the creation of a depart department meet ment of mining through which the rain S g industry may mav receive that govern gaven Dial recognition r and assistance to tn VI which it IB is 11 entitled as one of the two tw real t productive industries of ot this cour coun I |