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Show ARTICLES DESIRED i THEFBEE LIST Coal Mine Inspector Pettit Writes to Utah's Henatots Concerning Matter. , RESCUE APPLIANCES AND SAFETY LAMPS INCLUDED Not Made in This Country, and the Tariff Makes Price Too High. .J. E. Pettit. state coal mine inspector, in-spector, has sent a communication to Senators Keed Smoot and George Sutherland Suth-erland urEiiifr them to use their efforts to have mine rescue appliances aud safety lamps placed on the free list. Mr. Pettit s communication to the Utah senators follows the receipt of a ! communication from J. A. Holmes, head of the technologic branch of the geological geo-logical survey at Washington, accompanied accom-panied bv a 'memorandum, being used bv Senator F. M. Simmons, iu an effort ef-fort to have these appliances placed on the free list iu the tariff bill now receiving consideration at the hands oi the national congress. . This memorandum shows that ihc number of men killed in mine accidents in this country has been steadily increasing in-creasing for the last fifteen years. Incomplete In-complete record? for 1007 show that 3200 men were killed and three times as many more were injured in the mines of the United States in that year. The introdnclion of the rescue appliances appli-ances and the more general use of safely lrfmps in iraseous mines will material' reduce this loss of life and injury, it is held; but these appliances are not manufacturered here in satisfactory form, neither arc they likely to be produced pro-duced here, until there i a larger demand. de-mand. Satisfactory appliances arc made now only in Germany. Ungland. France and Belgium, aud while the price is not high, still the usual tariff duty makes the nirgrc-garc cost almost prohibitive. pro-hibitive. If they can be placed on the free list here for a few years, sufficient suf-ficient quantities will be used" to demonstrate demon-strate their value aud create a demand. Mr. Holmes thinks, and they will then be produced in this couutrv at prices which will bring them within reach even of the smaller mines. Value of Appliances. The memorandum sets out that the special feature of the rescue apparatus is that it supplies to the wearer a sufficient suf-ficient amount of oxygen which, if breathed by the wearer or operator, enables him to spend at leasL two hours exploring a mine full of poisonous "ascs. and to repeat this experience indefinitely indefinite-ly by enmiug out of the mine, a sufficient suf-ficient length of time to replace the exhausted oxygen cylinders with new cylinders replenished" with another two-bours' two-bours' supply of oxygen. Rescue appliances "in the form of special spe-cial breathing apparatus are now manufactured man-ufactured at two or more places in Kug-laud Kug-laud and the same number of places in Germany, the memorandum sets our. but. no satisfactory types are made j here, neither are " tlfere an- plans I in existence for their maunfac- ! ture here. The value of at least : two type? of this apparatus, om; i iu Knglaud and 'the other in Germany, has been recently demonstrated in tlie successful fighting and extinguishing of not less than one dozen fires in "coal mines through the efforts of the government gov-ernment exports, who are investigating the causes of mine explosions and in the resucc of several lives following a! few of the recent mine disasters, it ' is set out. .and it is believed that with a more general use of ibe apparatus in the United States a large number of the existing coal mine' fires could be easily extinguished and many mine explosions ex-plosions prevented. Mine safety lamps are intended for use in mines where fire-damp or other dangerous mine gases exist. The memorandum mem-orandum sets out that no type? of these lamp? arc being manufactured here, but satisfactory lamps are beinjr turned out in Germany. Belgium. England and 1-rancc. These lamps range in price in the countries whore they are manufactured manufac-tured from $3 to $5 apiece. hut the tariff makes the price prohibitive here. The cost or two sets of mine rescue apparatus, ap-paratus, complete, rcadv for u?. is onlv about 1200 in German v or England where they are made, but the tnriffilutv on them here keeps them out of this country. |