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Page 1 - An act to amend an act entitled 'An act for the protection of the lives of miners in the Territories...
Page 4 - That in each organized and unorganized Territory of the United States wherein are located coal mines, the aggregate annual output of which shall be in excess of one thousand tons per annum, the President shall appoint a mine inspector, who shall hold office until his successor is appointed and qualified. Such inspector shall, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, give bond to the United States in the sum of two thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties.
Page 15 - ... feet or more in depth, and employing ten or more men, and cause the same to be made known to each owner or operator of a mine in Montana by printed circular instructions, to the end that a uniform code of mine signals may prevail. The said inspector of mines of Montana may add to or change such code of signals as circumstances may require, but no change of signals shall go into effect until a time specified by him, not less than sixty days nor more than ninety days from the time such change shall...
Page 24 - Whenever a coroner is informed that a person has been killed or dangerously wounded by another, or has suddenly died under such circumstances as to afford a reasonable ground to suspect that his death has been occasioned by the act of another by criminal means, or has committed suicide...
Page 14 - ... provided for. The safety apparatus, whether consisting of eccentrics, springs or other device, must be securely fastened to the cage, and must be of sufficient strength to hold the cage loaded at any depth to which the shaft may be sunk. The iron bonnet of the aforesaid cage must be made of boiler sheet iron, of good quality, of at least three-sixteenths of an inch in thickness, and must cover the top of such cage in such manner as to afford the greatest protection to life and limb from anything...
Page 28 - Martin, of the United States Geological Survey, has designated the coalbearing rocks of the Bering River field as the Kushtaka formation, which, he states, "consists of several thousand feet of sandstone shales, arkose, and volcanic ash, with many coal seams." In a later report he places the thickness of this Kushtaka formation at from 3,500 to 4,000 feet and assigns it to the Tertiary age. The prevailing strike of the measures throughout the portion of the field I examined was northeasterly, varying...
Page 6 - ... not been a resident for at least six months in the Territory for which he shall be appointed; and no person who shall act as land agent, manager, or agent of any mine, or as mining engineer, or be interested in operating...
Page 49 - States in the sum of two thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties. SEC. 2. That no person shall be eligible...
Page 15 - In regard to metallurgical processes, ore bodies, chutes or deposits of ore or location, course or character of underground workings or give any information or opinion respecting any mine or metallurgical process, obtained by them in making such inspection, except in the way of official reports filed for record, as...
Page 9 - Act, and all data possible in regard to the manner of working the same; whether by shaft, tunnel, incline or otherwise; the condition of the hoisting machinery, boilers, whims, engines, cars, buckets, ropes and chains, used in the mines; also the appliances used for the extinguishing of fires; the manner and methods of working and timbering the shafts, drifts, inclines, stopes, winzes, tunnels and upraises through which persons pass to and fro while engaged in their daily labor...