| Show MINES HELP FEDERAL MERAL FE BUREAU washington D C may tay 27 it la Is the idea of representative jo seph howell of utah that the vork which the federal burell of 0 mines la Is now tiow doing with respect to the coal mining industry ot of the tile country should bo be extended to tho the met minee mines of the west and mr air howell oell ll believes this cla in be accomplished complis hed if thu the people of the tac western mining states will ili interest themselves in tl subject and make effort efforts to stir up sentiment Bentli nent in favor of the project since tho the establishment of the bureau of mines A few yeara years ago atti work his been de devoted oteI exclusively sive ly to the protection of life in alie coni minis and tremendous b r 8 hive have accrued from these efforts experiments with diplo alvs and safety devices have resulted in the promulgation of scientific information of incalculable value to tho the inari irs and anti operator operators the only reason this work has not been extended to include minea mines la Is because congress h in ts not appropriated the tile money for that purpose the officials of the bureau of mines are ready to undertake the additional duties dutle A at any time howell in a letter to john dern of silt salt lake city president of the american mining lining congress outlines hie his views on an this subject aa its follows for sonic time past I 1 have been making a somewhat thorough investigation vesti gation of the tile work being done by the bureau of minea mines and I 1 find that its ac activity tivit hae has thus tar far been cOn confine find exclusively to accident and relief work in the various coal mining fields of the tile fist fast ami anti no attention whatever haa has been accorded the mines of the est on inquiry I 1 am convinced that this condition Is due wholly to the tile fact that the appropriations been so limited as to render impossible any extension of the worl ot of the bureau into new fields tho the offers fro and experts are comp i in fit aind efficient and would I 1 am confident welcome uel corno any 0 opportunity of branching bran cling out so as to include the mining fields in the scope of their investigations it la is possible to make tho the bureau of mints mines a source of incalculable benefit to the western mining interests it if the proper anve investigations atiga tests of metals and other scientific burk urk which a national bu raati of mines should make could be success successfully full and satisfactorily conducted congress might bo be prevailed upon to make inake the necessary appropriations of funds for enlarging the bureau of if it the pronounced prejudice at present existing in the minds of tho the eastern people against increasing the functions of the bureta so aa as to include mole than the work nork it Is now doing tint that Is accident ind anti relief work in coal mines could be overcome in this connection I 1 suggest hit that you as aj the held field of the inari nit rl cin can mining con congress gregs to together ether wita other leiding leading mining nien inen should devise delte some iti thod or of creating public sentiment favoring an in enlarged bureta of nines and th tit if it nn all active c atnip aln be in augur which anity in ly finall result in causing congress to tike take the till td cletion ion ou nia depend upon tit sup port of any plin pi in as I 1 am ani fulli convinced that the tile mining interests would calvo rt greit aid ili from a it bureau of mines operated on oil broad scientific lines 4 congressman howell on february bill mide mado a speech in lit jhb house of representatives at ives in which aich he lie sail probably no bureau ot of the ga ROV ern ment creat created d in recent eara ears ha come in lesponne les ies to so 80 popular and NIde widespread spread a demand as that which brought forth the bureau of mines correspondingly laret r n suits are expects el I 1 from its work orl by the people of the country countr ind and they expect congress cong reee to make ide le quite quate provi provision bion for the tile con summa tion of it itu plans kt U present the efforts of the bu reau ire confined almost exclusive ly y to the nuison jut elion of the Y saving of life among the coil anines of tin till countr in which litch branch of the mining industry more than seven hundred thousand men are eng aged hut but throughout the Ne gestern estern states in ili which the tile great metal mining in tenses are concentrated the bu reau of mines Is 1 soon expected to begin the organization of its work kork to help this branch of the indjar and these states are it oklay to congress to make adequate provit provision lon tor for the organization of this work nork during the next fiscal year the bureau of mines has al at ready won the confidence of the mining engineers throughout the country it Is rapidly securing the operation cooperation co of both the mine owners onera ind the mine workers it bids fair to accomplish the tile large and anti beneficial result predicted predict id by its friends han they urged its isaab ashment Ish lish ment |
