Show TARifF INJURY TO MINE WORK I I Duties on Life Saving Apparatus Appa ratus Might Prove Costly Cost Cost- ly Iy in Lives WILL ASK FOR FREE LIST Senators Smoot and Sutherland Sutherland Suther Suther- land Asked to Use Their I Influence I J. J E. E state coal mine tor has received a communication from J. J A. A Holmes head of ot the tho technologic branch of oC the geological survey at Washington accompanied b by a memorandum memorandum memo memo- which Is being used b by United S States Senator Ji F. F M. M Simmons In an nn effort t to have safet safety lamps and rescue appliances placed on the free fre list of ot tho tariff bill which is now beIn boIng bo- bo In Ing considered by tho national Con Con- gress greEs The communication of ot Mr 1 Holmes sots sets forth that thaL these articles arc very Important for use In connection connect with the saving saving- of oC life mon I among the miners that both hoth aro 1110 expensive and that neither of ot the articles are manufactured at present in the tho United States Stales Inan in an any satisfactory form orm and are not lIkel likely to bo O manufactured In this countr country coun coun- tr try until there Is IR a 0 larger larg-er demand for them Jt It Is hold that If It they can be placed on till the fice list for COT a a. few years ears sufficient quantities will be Introduced Intro Intro- to lo demonstrate their ther value and create a demand tind they then will willbe willbe be manufactured In the United States nt at prices which will bring them within reach rench of even tho smaller mines Tho movement mo hug has met with the tho approval ap ap- pro al of ot the state mine Inspector and ho he has communicated with Senators Reed Smoot and George Sutherland asking that they u use l their efforts in behalf o of the placing of ur these appliances ances on the free list Tho plan of or those who aTe are backing tho movement Is to have havo placed on the free flee list until after December 31 1911 rescue appliances for use In mines to together to- to gether other with the necessary accessories such as reducing valves flexible rubber Tub rub ber tubes mouth breathing outfits potash cartridges measuring bags water manometers refill pumps oxygen oxy OX- gen tanks antI and 01 other her articles as well as the safety lamps for mines Ufo In tl er pd The special feature of or tho rescue apparatus is IR that It supplies supplieR to thc tho wearer u sufficient amount of oxygen which breathed b by the wearer or operator oper ator enables him to spend at least two hours exploring a n mine full tull of ot poisonous poison polson- ous gases and to repeat this experience en ence co Indefinitely by coming coming- out of the mine long lonE enough to replace the ex exhausted cx- cx hau hausted ted oxygen cylinders with new I cylinders filled with an additional two hours hours' of or tho supply oxygen Rescue appliances In the form of Hp special breathing apparatus are manufactured manufactured manu manu- at present ont at two or more places in England antI and at two or more mor places in Germany It Is said that the thc alue of at least two types of this apparatus apparatus ap ap- as manufactured one In England England Eng Eng- land and one olle In Germany has been demonstrated recently In the tho successful success success- ful CuI n fighting and extinguishing of not less than one dozen flies fires In coal mines through h tho efforts of the government experts who are Investigating In th the causes of mine explosions und and In the rescue of or several lives following some recent lecent mine disasters It Is believed that with a more mOle general use uso of oC such apparatus in tho United States a a. largo Q pr c coal nl mine Ures could bo bocas cas easily 11 c extinguished ind nd m many ri explosions prevented Th The cost of or two ets of the mine rescue apparatus with appliances I complete complete- and uRd for use Is I about 1 o In f Germany or England It t Is sam mat me tile u usual uaL inn it HillY on Items makes the almost tive he To 1 Pre Present Prent nt Mine l safety lamps are aro Intended for tor use In mines where fire damp or other dangerous mine gases ases occur It Is said that satisfactory safety lamps are arp being manufactured In Germany Ger man many Belgium England and l France rance the cost ranging from Cram 3 S to 5 each In Inthe Inthe the countries where they thov are arc manu manu- It II IB pointed cl out that the number of oC men killed In mine accidents In the United States State for each one thousand men employed lias been Increasing steadily for ton tn or 01 fifteen years cars DurIn Dur Dur- In ing 1307 1107 the last year for which complete com com- records ha have been heen received the number killed reached and about three times as man many were Injured It Is held that the Intro introduction of ot rescue apparatus antI and the moro more general use o of safety lamps In gaseous OUS mines will materially Il reduce this loss losE of life It also atso Is believed that b by the tho end of three years the value of the apparatus will have o boon demonstrated and the demand lem will become sufficiently great to warrant their manufacture In the United States and that after that thal date the tho Imposition of oC tho ordinary tariff duties on these materials material can not be I construed as hindering efforts to save the lives of or tho miners |