Show COAL MINE legislation utah might well take a lessen from wyoming in it correspondence tribune evanston wyo jan 27 the utah legislature in its ha efforts to make inako laws governing mines might iman some things by a vi visit 81 it to the coal min mines cs 0 f wyoming the statutes for or tho government of such buch mines hero here may sound bound all right in simply reading and yet work an injustice la in cases tar far greater thin than casual examination of 0 the laws law would suggest today I 1 was shoun two pretty i saying that such and such a man had bad been examined by the mining board arid and found duly qualified fied to oct act as fire ross boss in coal mines the state mine inspector makes out and signs this kind of 0 certificate and one of these entitles tho the man to whom issued to ser ice in a coal mine as fire boss providing he be secures a situation this of 0 course ho he can do because the state says bars to the mine owner you must employ him and that the certificate must be e framed and hunk hung up in the office of 0 the company A tire fars boas ass has the tha duty of 0 goldir through tho the mine where he be is 1 employee employed every day in the year to examine and see eoe it if any gas fas Is in the rooms or anywhere in the th mine inc to endanger the tha lives of 0 the onen men n as well as the mine for this service the state faxes a dolly dally rato rate of 0 3 or 21 per week even it if it only requires an hour or so on sunday n and any other day when the tha mine Is idle to make examination this may all bo be very well as far oa as it goes providing it always prevents accidents from gas but in case it does not bow Is the mine raine owner benefited this inspection does docs not in any way lessen the responsibility of 0 the mining company in case of accident the company Is held beld just as responsible tor for accidents under this state slate inspection as it if it was left tree free to employ its ita cholno of 0 fire bosses or di discharge charge them at will the same rules apply also to other bosses in and about the mine each being renu required ired to pass before an examining axam board consisting of the state mine inspector as chairman and two members appointed in the county where the mine Is located by the district judge presiding over a court in sald said county officials of ecial coal mining companies look upon tile the wyoming laws sin as being very much against the interests of the comila companies and as placing them much at the mercy of their employees and the public once it makes no difference whose fault rally may c cause a an ac accident eident to life or the cadlo company Is still held responsible tor for dam ages acea |