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Show BEST MINES SAFETY STATION IN WEST NOW AT SALT LAKE SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 11, 1928 Completion of the new Mines Build' : ing at the University of Utah has made possible the establishment at the University of the best equipped and arranged United States Bureau of Mines safety station in the west. This will be second only in size and importance to the station at Pitts' burgh, and will serve directly all mining min-ing and metallurgical workers within with-in a radius of 150 miles of Salt Lake City. The benefits from the station acruing to the mining and metallurgical metallurgi-cal industry of Utah will be numerous. numer-ous. New courses are being added to the curriculum of the School of Mines of the University which will utilize the opportunities and facilities offer-' ; ed by the new station. These courses will include the following: first i year, first aid; second year, mines ' rescue instruction; third year, a com-! ! plete safety course; and fourth year, instruction in sanitation and industri- j ' al hygiene of mining and metallurgy, j It will now be possible for the Uni-t Uni-t versity to give to the mining and met-! met-! allurgy industry men trained in the means of protecting the health and ! safety of all who are engaged in the industry. A liberal portion of the new Mines ' Building will be devoted to this work. J On the first floor will be a large in-) struction and demonstration room j with facilities and equipment suitable for class instruction in the various courses. A steropticon and a moving picture machine permanently set-up will be located here. This room will I accomodate a class of forty, giving , 1 ample room for demonstration pur- j ' poses. Across the hall will be an apparatus ap-paratus room which will house twelve sets of self-containing oxygen breathing breath-ing apparatus, reserve oxygeir tanks, and oxygen pump, electric cap lamps, and charging rack, approved flame safety lamps, self secuers, gas masks, and various approved appliances for testing mines air. Instruction in mine rescue apparatus work will be given in this room. The filial instruction in mine rescue work will be given in the "smoke room", the atmosphere of which will contain irrespirable gases. On the second floor of the building the general offices of the station and a research laboratory will be located. The station will be under the supervision su-pervision of Dr. Arthur L. Murray, surgeon and acting district engineer of the Bureau of Mines in Utah, Idaho Montana and eastern Nevada. In addition ad-dition to Dr. Murray the personnel of the station will include a mining engineer, en-gineer, a foreman miner, a first aid miner and a clerk. |
