Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-09-24 | Page 7 | Started in Coal Mine at 13

i IN COAL COALMINE COALMINE MINE AT 13 A picture comes from Irom a trade magazine which annually awards a trophy to the coal mine showIng tho best beat safety record Each person employed in the winning mine gets a 1 certificate of at honor sIgned by the dIrector of the tho U S bureau of o mines mine The picture shows tho the dIstrIbution distribution tion lion of ot these certificates to em cm of ot a mine mino on which the trophy for tor 1925 has his Just been be be- be- be bestowed bestowed bestowed stowed The Th safety competition is I a good thIng thine Its It's If a Good thIng thine for forthe forthe the bureau of ot mines to encourage it But Dut theros thero's there food toad for tor further thought In lines prepared by sponsors of o the tho contest The Tho gentleman doing dolne the th dis dis Is shaking hands with tIe the company's company oldest miner John who is 58 8 years old and has worked d underground 45 years ears Forty five years underground underground- and hes he's he but 58 St With a i record like that thit John may not have learned much about living HYIng but he certainly ought to have learned all there Is to know about underground safety How m many y more John ners there thero are In the coal minIng trade men men who went down into the black shafts at the age aee of 01 13 and have ha spent all their working hours there there ther since we w dont don't know But Dut w wo hope there thero arent aren't many The day when boys bos boy of ot 13 turn turn- turned turned ed coal miners miner has passed now We trust It has passed forever We congratulate the mine mino In which John Is employed on Its trophy Inning trophy InnIng But Dut as for the case caso of ot John Johnas Johnas Johna as an Individual with his year 13 13 ar arold old start as a miner and hi his Is 46 45 unbroken years year years at It since since- since Its It's It a bit difficult to become en- en enthusiastic en enthusiastic about It somehow even If John ohn Is getting a II richly em em- embossed em- em embossed embossed bossed certificate of ot- ot honor from Uncle Sam nn nf