The owner, agent, or operator shall provide that a bore hole shall be kept twenty feet (20') in advance of the face of each and every working face and at a forty-five degree (45°) angle at intervals of eight feet (8') on each rib of the working face when driving toward an abandoned mine or parts of a mine suspected of containing inflammable gases or of being inundated with water.Acts 1893, No. 125, § 5, p. 213; C. & M. Dig., § 7264; Pope's Dig., § 9320; Acts 1949, No. 268, § 3; A.S.A. 1947, § 52-606.
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