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Show HOSPITAL MATTER RESTS. Mine-Owners Hesitate to Abandon a Certainty for Uncertainty. Senator Thoma9 Kcarns and David Keith conferred at Park City Wednesday Wednes-day with a committee composed of J. A. Langford, president of the Miners' union; David Baxter. Joseph F. Kcarns and Bartlett McDonald. In reference to the proposition that the hospital funds of the Silver King and Kearns-Keith mines be turned over to the new Mlnersf hospital at Park City. No decision de-cision was reached In the matter. Messrs. Kearns and Keith desiring to confer with the directors of their companies com-panies before entering into any definite arrangement. Another meeting with the committee, will be held on September Septem-ber 10, where It 1 expected that the matter Will be settled one way or tho other. "Personally I have not favored a change of our hospital arrangements," said Mr. Keith yesterdnj "Of course It 'makes no difference to us to whom the money is paid, except that we are IntereKed In having the miners receive re-ceive the best possible attention. We have Very favorable contract with two of the hospitals in this city, the Holy Cross and St. Mark's, and I am afraid that If we should give them up at this time and something should happen later that would necessitate another change we would not be able to make fmch fa-forable fa-forable arrangements again. It la always al-ways a more or less precarious proportion propo-rtion to get a new hospital upon a solid financial basis. The hospitals here are on such a basis now and havo every facility for the correct treatment Of patients. There Is always danger that a new institution of the kind might not prove a complete success, and In this case the possibility presents Itself that we might be compelled before long to make still another change. It appears to me, therefore, a rather poor policy to make a change when there Is no possibility pos-sibility of Improving the situation and a grave chance that we would not be so well off as we are now." |