Show a j r L t Communicated 1 KILLING A GOOD BILL To The Salt Lake Herald The T e object of oC this letter is to call catI the th attention of the miners of or the state of oC Utah to the disregard shown to the will wUl of ot the governor of oC this state and also to the miners rs therein In the seeming in difference or opposition to the passage pas e of a bin bill for Cor the metal mines by our legis le ls lature I read in the paper today of the killing of C P Larsons bill No 33 23 Having a copy of oC this bill I know something about It and I must say that a better bill for the protection of miners was never pre to any body of men for consider atlon and Jt it Is absolutely in jn line with the great mining states In placing the mines under one head metal and coal mines with one inspector over all and alid whatever number of deputies he be may many need The Th bill also provided that the in shall have a knowledge e of both classes of or mines It Is It the only bit bIL that provides for COr two openings s after a tain tam depth has been reached but it was turned down and I dont suppose we shall ever eer have such u a law upon our statute books bool unless a overtakes some mine as it did the Oaks mine in York shire England which was worked with only one opening Some timbers were dropped down the shaft which knocked out the shaft haft timbers and caved the shaft leaving ZOO see men th there re to die It seems e s a pity that hat so many sons of toll toil I must musE DC oe in order TO bring these things Thirtyfour miners had to be sacrificed in the mine last summer in order to teach the lesson that it is 18 wrong to stor storo powder underground Will a bill bUI preventing such a thins the future become a law It If so we know how much it has cost In human lives How many lives will It cost to teach our legislators that it is wrong wron to work a mine with only dO opening Time alone will ten tell How many lives will it cost to teach them that it is wrong wron to work a mine over the mouth of which stands an inflammable le structure How many did it cost to teach the lesson at Avondale Pa Two hundred and sixty Fire broke b 1 out In a building near the mouth of or the mine and the smoke poured into the mine and killed all That too was lone one oue in the old days lays when the they mined solely with muscle ro to brains The C e P Larson bill bUt has a jt clause forbidding such tures at the entrance of a mine It Is 13 J a bill bilI which would be the means of saving a lawsuit to the many companies as s It provides that no inexperienced man shall halI work except he be be In charge char e of oC an ex man who shall do all nU acres sary timbering Um whether temporarily or permanently as the case se requires An Ani It provides that all places pla es shall shan have hae tim ber placed within easy reach It is a shame that a bill bm like C P Larsons should meet such an ignominious I death while other bills bUls governing metal mines such as the Brink bill can live on The Brink bill protects no one but the in tor of mines nes H Hf He and Ills lila family amU will I t be protected with 2000 a year vear For my part I would much rather see them do f nothing unless they do tie something b J create an office Only Onh last Monday we learned that fenders fender on street curs cars were good The papers did some hard h rd work on that thal proposition pr and won out in the end and last Monday the fender was atc but I 1 see no way for ro Ih the miners to get legislation for metal miners un en less they see bee to it that miners mIn rs not op orators are sent to the legislature le With Witha a majority of mine roIne owners on ori the com corn committee commIttee on mines If IC any IllY action auction on om their part would create a wrinkle In Ia their pocketbooks PO k WILLIAM GOWER Marysvale lI ry valc Jan IS 18 |