Show SAFETY FIRST recently when the talk turned upon the doings of embryonic engineers the old timer related the following incident it happened at alta not many years ago soon after the ore was first opened in the old columbus consolidated an eastern stockholder wrote to superintendent jacobson asking for a place for his son who had just left college he was given a job beg pardon lie he accepted a position but instead of being put on as a or trammer where he belonged lie he was assigned the place of helper to an experienced machine man things went fairly well the first shift with the miner doing all tile the work and the engineer standing around and looking wise that is things went well until the round was in and the holes were loaded and ready to shoot the miner explained tile the next step carefully assigning to his new helper the task of holding the extra candle to su supply aply a light in case of need the tenderfoot who has been in the breast when a round was lighted and who has seen the spitting writhing fuses through the curling smoke clouds as the miners go methodically about their task of shooting will appreciate the feelings of the young engineer at that time the first fuse was lighted without incident as was the second but the third blew out the light turning quickly for another the miner caught a glimpse of his helper fifty feet down the drift running like a seared scared coyote making for home and mother here bring back that light he yelled and the answer floated back out of the darkness not on your life do you think I 1 want to stay in there and be killed and he continued his getaway get away to the open air though the round was ruined and it was found necessary later to dig out four missed holes |