Show UNCLE SAM S A 11 ACTIVE ar rr ON M MINERS I 1 i aks RESCUE ESCUE K WORK experiments in carbon county proving most satisfactory says state mine inspector james E pettit during the past year the united states go government has been very active in in experimenting with ith used in coal mines requesting manufacturers to submit certain amounts of the various grades of ex made by them for tet by the gL geological A specially fitted testing plant was built in pittsburg under government e experts at the head of which blood dr J A holmen asa As suit a test of per mib sible explosives has been issued to the different powder manufacturers mine officials and state coal mine inspectors throughout the country it ii 14 ejected that a fioril fil ril law will be passed that only such explosives that pass muster in th the feht ing plant will be allowed to be used in coal mines since the removal of the tariff from the rescue apparatus made abroad the lead loading ing coal mining companies of the country are investigating the practical utility of the several so called life saving apparatuses for use in mines at the time of fire and explosions in this state an agent of the tile company has given an exhibition at the castle gate mines to a number of mine officials engineers and J E pettit state coal mine inspector with the result that before long well uell trained corps of men will be stationed at the various mines who will be able to use the apparatus in cac u of accident the man part of the apparatus ii carried on the back and consists of a frame cartridge holder cooler pressure reduction valve and euc u tion nozzle two to small tubes provide communication between this part carried on oil the back and the smoke mask or respiration helmet that is 13 worn on the face there are two easily oxygen cylinders which supply oxygen to the nose by the arrangement of tubes another tube takes care of the air exhaled passing it through cartridges filled with potash and other chemicals to take out the cai bonic acid gas caused by tile breathing of the berbon u wearing the helmet |