Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1908 — MINE INVESTIGATION ENDS [ARTICLE]

MINE INVESTIGATION ENDS

Foreign Experts Examining Our Pits Will Make Some Statements in the Future. Pittsburg, Oct 16. After two months of Investigating mining conditions in the United States, under the chaperonage and at the request of the government, Victor Watteyne, chief of administration of the mines of Belgium; Karl Messner, privy surpervislng counsellor of mines in Germany, and Captain Arthur Desborough, representing England as a ipinlng expert, have completed their investigations following a visit to Monongahela, W. Va., where the great minedisaster occurred last December. Together with about fifty mine experts of this country the three foreign experts will hold a meeting here today and later comprehensive statements covering the results of their observations of mining conditions in the United States will be made pub lie. The Investigations, from which it is expected a decrease of fatalities in mines will result, were made In the coal fields of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, lowa, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wegt Virginia. The foreign experts will embark for their homes next week.