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Show UNUSUAL SIGHT PREPARED AT FAIR & g tts us a WILL- SHOW METHODS OF RESCUING TVI IXE rescue and first aid work in Utah coal mines, as illustrated bv the Utah Fuel companv at I , iVi the state fair. ' ' , . ..$ " X ' ., , - - if ' - 7 1 V . ' V . r ' 1 ' , -, ,f t' i ' I ' - ' - : - . L z , - A ' V01V ew exceptions, the hrowt"tl iint1 progress of Utah's! I various industries has been interestingly in-terestingly ' visualized each year at the ('tali stale fair by a eon- j stanlly incieainji; mini her of displays ; ami exhibits. ! One of the most important and fascinating fas-cinating features of the development of Utah's mining industry the perfection of mine rescue work "and first aid to injured among the coal mines of the Mate has, however, up to the present time; formed one of the exceptions. The thousands of visitors to this year's state fair, winch opened yesterday, yester-day, will, however, be given ari opportunity oppor-tunity of witnessing daily exhibitions m mine rescue and first a"id work on a scale never before attempted anywbere in the west, with the exception "of the fnine rescue ami first aid world-wide contest held at the Panama-Pacific exposition ex-position last vear. 1 Tiie Utah luiel company of Salt Lake, miners of (,'astlegate mid Clear Oeek coals, and one of the largest coal producers pro-ducers in the western country, has constructed con-structed an actual, life-size' reproduction reproduc-tion of a coal mine tunnel on a space seventy-five feet suiaro at the state fair grounds, and is bringing to Salt Lake the world champions in mine rescue res-cue and first aid work. Tunnel Is Constructed. Members of this team at about 4:30 each day will don their smolte helmets and the other equipment with which tliey enter snioke and gas-fiiled mines and give an exhibition of practical mine rescue and first aiil work, as actually practised in the principal mines of Utah. The Utah Fuel company has constructed construct-ed this section of tunnel,' nearly seventy feet long, ten feet wide and six and a half feet high, on a raised platform and one sjde will be open in order that thousands of spectators may gather and witness she actual operations through which theV members of the rescue team go when they enter a smoke and gas filled mine to rescue imprisoned miners. The company has also constructed on this platform a practical "smokehouse." "smoke-house." This building is smoke tight, and at 4:30 every afternoon will be filled with smoke" from burnt sulphur or burnt f ornialdehyde. and the men of the company's rescue team must enter en-ter this smokehouse and give a practical prac-tical exhibition of testing their helmets and other apparatus. Tt will be as vivid and realistic an exhibition in rescue and first aid work as has ever been shown west of the Mississipni river, not even excepting the San Francisco exhibition a vear ago. when the Utah Fuel company 's Sun-nyside Sun-nyside mine rescue and first aid team won the championship of the world. Has Much Equipment. A large building has been constructed by the company on its space at the fair grounds where charging pumps, oxygen cylinders, life lines, safety lamps, snioke helmets and all other " paraphernnlia that goes to make up the equipment of a mine rescue and first aid team in the coal mines of this state will be displayed, dis-played, with explanatory cards. ft is believed the Utah Fuel company's com-pany's exhibit and daily mine rescue and first aid drills at the Utah state fair, beginning tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, will constitute the most pretentious pre-tentious effort that has ever been made in the west to familiarize the citizens I of a state with the progress and development devel-opment of the past ten years in bringing bring-ing the mine rescue and' first aid work to its present high stage of efficiency. , The Utah Fuel r.ompan v is expending more than $20(J0, according tn o.ncials of the company, on the construction of tht life-size tunnel and smokehouse at the fair grounds and in bringing its prize-Tvinning mine rescue and first aid i team to the fair. It is doubtful, however, if any subject sub-ject of greater interest could be visualized visual-ized for the thousands of Utah citizens who will, throng the fair grounds this week than the methods that are used to rescue men caught in fire or smoke-filled smoke-filled mines when acid en ts occur, together to-gether with first, aid to miners who suffer minor injuries in the performance perform-ance of their daily work in mines. Courage Is Required. The high degree of physical and mora courage and clear headed ness required of a man to don a helmet and make his way thousands of feet into a smoke and gas-filled mine or whore a dangerous ! fire may be raging, with certain Heath staring him in the face if he loses his head for a sinple instant or forgets to do the right thing at the right time, will bo better appreciated, perhaps, when state fair visitors pre th1 1'tah j Fuel company's mine rescue t"am filo i slowly into the " mokohouse ' : at. the fair fciennds this week while dense i clouds of burnt sulphur arid formalde- j i hvdo pour from the door until it jp efnpnd on the tram. ! ! The Utah Fuel com pa ny maintains three fully trained mine rjt-ne tenuis in each of its mines, and from twenty- ; five to 00 men at eah mine are ex- ; partly trained in first aid work. The ' nion who go on the min rnto tams (are selected not only for their phvsb'Hl ' strength and 'onrag hut for their abil- i itv to keep their hpadn under all ron i ! ditions and for eonlnos? in the far of 'great dancer. The com pan v pa vs the men for their day timo drills at the mine, but fhe mn of a'l the teams ron- : tribute many evenings to ln.'tnr"'? nn mine rescue work an-i hnur nf .-rod-.-. I '. Of f if ia Is oi the enmrnv rWlsro that ton niurh credit r-annot he givmi minf-r- ! who put in so mit-h of thr-ir tirre and ; wnrk so hard to bring min'- r'-:i" aid I ', firct O'd wnrk tn ,-.n fffi'-iTi -u- |