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Show if tl.e legislative assembly will p.ir: a law requiring all uniler-groui uniler-groui d mines to be properly timbered, tim-bered, will place around the miuer every protection possible lo li.'e and lir-tb. the people engaged in that perilous calling will rise up and acknowledge their riht-1 have finally been recognized. The immense- uua:.titie3 of previous metals annui lly withdrawn to the surface are not as valuable as are the lives of those who get it out. A mining inspector should be created who has power to close a mine if deemed unsafe. That the leading mines of Utah, those bett developed, are in a safe condition may lie true yet many of those on the line between be-tween "prospecls" and 'uiine" re undoubtedly unsafe. |