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cxxiv MINING LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA. Off. Doc.
no wood or other combustible material shall be used excessively
in the construction of said stables, unless surrounded by or incased
by some incombustible material. The air current used for ventilating
said stable shall not be intermixed with the air current used for
ventilating the working parts of the mine, but shall be conveyed directly
to the return air current, and no open light shall be permitted
to be used in any stable in any mine.
Section 3. No hay or straw shall be taken into any mine, unless
pressed and made up into compact bales, and all hay or straw taken
into the mines as aforesaid, shall be stored in a storehouse excavated
in the solid strata or built in masonry for that purpose. After
January first, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, no horse
or mule stable or storehouse, only as aforesaid, shall be permitted
in any bituminous coal mine.
Section 4. No explosive oil shall be used or taken into bituminous
coal mines for lighting purposes, and oil shall not be stored or taken
into the mines in quantities exceeding five gallons. The oiling or
greasing of cars inside of the mines is
strictly forbidden unless the
place where said oil or grease is used is thoroughly cleaned at least
once every day to prevent the accumulation of waste oil or grease on
the roads or in the drains at that point. Not more than one barrel
of lubricating oil shall be permitted in the mine at any one time.
Only a pure animal or pure cotton-seed oil or oils, that shall be as free
from smoke as pure animal or pure cotton-seed oil, shall be used
for illuminating purposes in any bituminous mine. Any person
found knowingly using explosive or impure oil,
contrary to this section,
shall be prosecuted as provided for in section two of article
twenty-one of
this act.
Section 5. No powder or high explosive shall be stored in any
mine, and no more of either article shall be taken into the mine at
any one time than is required in any one shift, unless the quantity
be less than five pounds, and in all working places where locked
safety lamps are used blasting shall only be done by the consent
and in the presence of the mine foreman, his assistant or fire boss,
or any competent party designated by the mine foreman for that purpose;
whenever the mine inspector discovers that the air in any mine
is becoming vitiated by the unnecessary blasting of the coal, he
shall have the power to regulate the use of the same and to designate
at what hour of the day blasting may be permitted.
ARTICLE IX.
Opening for Drainage, Et Cetera, on Other Lands.
Section 1. If any person, firm or corporation is or shall hereafter
be seized in his or their own right of coal lands, or shall hold such
lands under lease and shall have opened or shall desire to open a