Show SAVING LIVES OF 01 COAL MINERS during the past week state coal mine inspector pettit has been conducting training classes at the various camps oi of the county in the use of the drager rescue apparatus which has been adopted by the utah fuel company the apparatus is the recognized standard of the uni j ted states pettit pet tit says it has proved successful and odds adds that three hundred and forty are in use in the various coal mines in the country the drager consists cons ests of two tanks of pure air strapped to the back of the man who goes into a gas filled mine this air is fed to the nostrils by means of a tube leading to a helmet h ea which envelops the wearers wearer gs head another tubs carries off the exhalation which parses through two other tanks filled f with pot polish potash ash plates this purifies the air by removing the carbon dioxide and the air is then passed into the original tanks again A supply of two h hours ours is carried the apparatus including all that is is carried by the miner weighs thir ty six pounds the air for the tanks is taken from larger tanks which are filled in pittsburg the headquarters of the company in america the cost of the apparatus is one hundred and fifty dollars and the re filler costs one hundred and ninety dollars the removal of the duty on the machine which is a german production has cheapened the cost about seventy five dollars the utah fuel company has purchased aweve of the outfits one will be stationed A at sunnyside Sunny side one at castle gate one at winter quarters and one at somerset colo making nine machines in this state and three in colorado in case of the occurrence of gas three men are equipped and sent into the shaft t or it is the aim to have a supply of two hundred hours on hand and to thi md nd a sufficient number of supply tanks have ha e been installed within a year or two pettit bettit believes when the national bureau of mines gets into working order a station will be established in salt lake city this would obviate the necessity of sending east for a supply of condensed air if so it may be be called caled pettit says that the training class e es s should be conducted and will be every two weeks in this way there are always a sufficient number of men familiar with the apparatus to respond in case of emergency ge ncy another machine called a is used in connection with the drager outfit but this machine has not yet been installed in utah the is a resuscitating device that promotes artificial respiration the only man saved alive in the primero colo coto disaster recently was restored to life by the use of the |