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in those mines where it appears to be absolutely
necessary to continue the practice.
"In those mines where the coal is undercut by
pick or machine—and this includes not far from
ninety-five per cent, of all Ohio mines—we also
believe that there would be some increase in the
amount of fine eoal. Some of this increase would
be warranted and would be in the interests of
conservation. There would be an incentive for
the miner to put in his mine ear the fine coal
which he is obliged by law to send out of the
mine but which is now in part left underground
because the miner realizes that under the present
system he is not paid for this coal. It also seems
probable that the miner would be more willing to
draw thin pillars whieli. as we have said, contain
more fine coal than is mined in the rooms, and
that he would consent to work in certain portions
of some mines where the coal is in a crushed con­
dition and where he today refuses to work, be­
cause he claims he cannot earn a full day's pay.
"As to whether or not the adoption of the mine-
run system would cause miners to shoot their
coal harder, even when the coal was undercut,
and thus would result in an increase in the
amount of fine coal, we are unable to determine
in light of conflicting testimony which we have
received on this point. It would appear to be
the part of wisdom to provide safe-guards for the
mine owners, which shall operate in case their
fears in regard to this matter are realized, but
the restrictions on the miners need not be so care­
fully defined nor enforced by the same penalties
as in the case of the impurities.
"Accompanying this Report will be found the
drafts of several suggested bills which cover the
various recommendations made by this Commis­
sion."
The proposed measures the Commission would
have enacted are:
NUMBER ONE.
A BILL
To supplement section 936 of the General Code
and to conserve the mineral resources of the
state by requiring plans of proposed mining op­
erations to be first submitted to The Industrial
Commissions for its approval.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the
State of Ohio:
That section 936 of the General Code be sup­
plemented by the enactment of sections 936-1,
936-2, 936-3, 936-4, 936-5 and 936-6 to read as fol­
lows:
Sec. 936-1. Every person engaged in the opera­
tion of a coal mine in this state shall cause the
same to be operated by the double panel system,
the single panel system, the long wall retreating
system or the long wall advancing system or some
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such other system or combination or modification
of such systems as:
1. will result ill the least ultimate waste and
loss of the coal deposits therein and will best
conserve the same;
2. will best protect and preserve tin* health,
safety and welfare of the persons employed therein;
and
3. will permit such mine to he operated at a
fair and reasonable profit.
Sec. 936-2. The owner, lessee or agent of each
mine, shall, semi-annually and in the same man­
ner as required by the provisions of section 936
of the General Code, fib- with Tin* Industrial
Commission of Ohio, for its approval, duplicate
copies of an accurate map on a scale of not more
than two hundred feet to the inch, which map
shall show clearly delineated thereon all the pro
posed excavations and workings which are to be
made in such mine during the six months im­
mediately succeeding the date of such filing. Such
map shall bear endorsed thereon the certificate
of the engineer making the same and of the mine
foreman in charge of such mine at the time of
such filing, which certificate
SHALL HE ACKNOWLEDGED
by such persons before a notary public in the following
form:
I niining engineer of
hereby certify thai this
map is correct and shows all the excavations and
workings which are proposed to be made in such
mine during the six months beginning
I mine foreman of ....
hereby certify that I have carefully
examined this map and it correctly repre­
sents the excavations and workings which are proposed
to be made in such mini* during the six
months beginning
The State of Ohio, l
t ss.
County. |
Be it remembered that on this
day of 19 before me,
a notary public in and for the county and state
aforesaid, personally appeared the above named
and and
acknowledged the signing by them of the above
certificates to be their free and voluntary act.
Notary Public.
In the event that such proposed excavations
and workings receive the approval of such In­
dustrial Commission, that Commission shall make
and enter on its records such an order as is just,
reasonable and proper and shall cause such ap­
proval to be noted in writing on one of such
copies of maps and shall forthwith return such