| Show 1 I 1 HOME FROM 8 A 1 IN almi LOA Lm i TI or 01 MIM LON of 44 the ChI chicallo calco lufair due duo cargol lai fail to spry john den dern und and othar live onea ones lorin lil lilg ue the AI tc ahw acue ehni prof james E talmage Tal niage a biroc tor of the museum at salt lake city and well known to almost every miner of coil and those identified with adro carbons in carbon county and elsewhere throughout eastern utah Is to back in utah froni from the cast where ho he attended the american mining fining congress at chicago october to and later the big demonstration at pa ila under tho the supervision of the national bureau of mines it iu Is seldom that a national conclave proves so successful in every way as the chicago mining lining congress says dr talmage I 1 have no doubt that it was largely the result of the splendid efforts put 1 forth and the intelligent campaign conducted by john dern progressive gres sive and enar energetic getic pre president of the organization this state was well represented and Is deserving of great credit our delegation included such mon man as cov gov william spry jease jesse knight J R belcher duncan jac echle dr i r kingsbury harry jc josph ph and others all of whom took an active part pirt in the discussions president durn dern and governor esses spry both made great ad in pittsburg I 1 witnessed what I 1 consider an epoch making demonstration str atlon by the national bureau of mines howing showing the causes and dangers of coal mine anil and other mine explosions the demonstrations last ed two days more than twenty thousand prominent men were in at including preside dt tatt taft were produced great eipel galleries gatt erlee showing har e elly ialy and unexpectedly suh disaster come about after jamon demon commendable plan plans and roeana means were ft ere kt t forth by which moat most all euch such could be averted at druetto Dru ceton n near birg arg a tremendous explosion of coal dust lust wae vira produced seven ven hundred hun dried feet feets blow the earth surface by geuns u of a simple blast of black powder thie this was done to show how caully the coal dut dust that accumulate along the tunnels of an ordinary mine will explode causing great havoc to auch such properties lee and effecting nearly always an appalling loe loss of 0 human life in la carrying on the great work ork of presenting pre tenting such disasters dl asters the bureau of mines child have bit upon no better method or ePI exploit Olt ing the and enlisting a nation wide support rt of mining men and interests teresta In than that of the pittsburg demonstration |
