Reports of the Inspectors of Mines of the anthracite and bituminous ...

Off Doc.] Third Anthracite District. H
EXAMHATIOS OF APPLICANTS FOR MlSE FOREMEN CERTIFICATES OF
Qualification.
The annual examination of applicants for certificates of qualification
for mine foremen was held in this district at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., June
19th and 20th. The board of examiners were G. M. Williams, inspector
of mines, Jacob Roberts, Jr., coal operator, and Michael Finn, miner.
The following-named persons, having passed a satisfactory examination
were recommended to have certificates qualifying them to be mine
Lewis
foremen under the mine laws : Thomas
E. Thomas, Sugar Notch ;
J Davies Daniel TV. Davies and David F. Hughes, of W ilkes-Barre
James Rowe, William J. Walters and William R. Pritchard, of Plymouth;
Isaac Butten, of Xanticoke, and Evan
Ebenezer Hunter, of Wanamie ;
R. Williams, of Ashley
The provision requiring certificates is promoting a greater desire for
knowledge of the laws regulating the ventilation and management of
coal mines, and will in the end result in preparing better informed men
to fill the position of mine foremen. Hitherto, the standard of the examinations
has been rather low, but in my opinion, the standard of
qualification should henceforth be made higher in many respects.