Coal-Mine Accidents, Their Causes and Prevention : A Preliminary Statistical Report (Classic Reprint)

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The general supervision of the work of the coal-mine inspectors in New Mexico and Indian Territory was transferred on June 10, 1907, by the Secretary of the Interior to the Geological Survey in aletter from which the following paragraphs are extracted: I have to request that from and including the lst day of July, 1907, you will take up the practical administration of the act for the protection of the lives of miners in the Territories, approved March 3, 1891, and the act amendatory thereof, approved July 1, 1902, and the supervision of the work of the coal-mine inspectors in New Mexico and the Indian Territory appointed pursuant to said statute, and those who may here after be appointed in such Territories in which the aggregate annual output is in excess of tons of coal.

In this connection it is suggested that the officers of the Geological Survey having the matter in charge should not only investigate the general mining conditions in the Territories, but also the nature and extent of the mine accidents, particularly those resulting from explosions, and report to the Department the results of such investiga tions. These reports should contain also suggestions as to how the mining conditions may be improved and accidents prevented, without undue hardship to the operators.

In a letter dated June 14, 1907, this supervision of the work of the coal-mine inspectors was placed by the Director of the Survey under the technologic branch of that organization. In endeavoring to carry out the suggestions of the Secretary relative to the improve ment of the mining conditions and prevention of mine accidents in the coal mines of the Territories, a number of examinations of the more dangerous coal mines of the Indian Territory were made by Clarence Hall, Samuel Sanford, Rollin T. Chamberlin, and the expert in charge of the technologic branch. Other and more extended examinations of the coal mines of both Indian Territory (oklahoma) and New Mexico have been planned. Meanwhile Mr. Hall and his associates have been investigating the nature, extent, causes. And results of a number of disastrous coal-mine explosions in several of the States. These studies have been carried on in connection with the general investigation of the waste and destruction of coal in mining operations.

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