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Show Fire Hazard of Many Other Mines Heid Just as Bad I JACKSOX. Calif . Sept. 19 (By The Associated Press). A telegram from II. Foster Ba!n. director of the United Sta'.os bureau of mines, to Byron O Ipickard. head of the bureau in this ! district, commenting on the lessons to I be learned from the Argonaut disaster disas-ter was made public here by Mr. Plck-lard. Plck-lard. It said. "The safety codes now prescribed by 'law are Inadequate in not requiring jfor deep metal mines that there should ibe hoisting equipment in mors than lono exit, mechanieal control and pro-jpor pro-jpor splitting of air currents and provisions pro-visions for their reversal In erriorgi n ciss. ' As a result many metal mines In I America are working with fully as great fire hazards as at the Argonaut ' No cost, however, which will per-imlt per-imlt the financing and operation of necessary mines is too great if it affords af-fords real protection to life and property." prop-erty." Mr Bain added that "after each has done everything possible there will remain re-main an unescapable life and property loss In mining as in other industries. !bu until wo do all that Is possible wo jmay not salve our .-onyeience." |