Download or read book Thirtieth Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of Mines to the Governor of the State of Ohio written by Ohio State Mines Inspector and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thirtieth Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of Mines to the Governor of the State of Ohio: For the Year Ending December 31, 1904 We have reached a period in the history of Coal Mining in Ohio when the most competent mine managers and most successful mine operators are pleased to testify that the truest economy in the production of coal is found in the application of methods of mining which make the conditions in their mines in advance of the requirements of the Mining Laws, rather than to be delayed in their Operations and annoyed by an order of the Mine Inspector for the enforcement of the law. And in such cases it must be a pleasant. Rather than an unpleasant duty, for an Inspector to visit and record the conditions of such mines, and pleasing to all those connected with them to afterwards read the report of the Inspector, to say nothing whatever of the advertisement in favor of good management. It is well also to remember that we have reached a period when many of the coal seams in the state are being worked to a point of exhaustion, and in order to supply the demand for a commodity that contributes so much to the comfort and welfare of the people it is necessary to penetrate the earth to a much greater depth, at considerable more cost, greater danger, and possibly much more serious loss of life and property. Many deep shaft mines have recently been opened in various part of the state, and the pent-up gases liberated to a greater extent than ever before, and the many small explosions occurring should be looked upon as the sounding of a positive alarm of the presence of greater danger to life and property; and the necessity of the application of the best possible methods of reducing the danger to a minimum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.