The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-04-28

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING ENGI-
NEERs.-This distinguished body will hold its
Spring Session in Staunton, commencing on
the Both of May and continuing for a week or
more. During the sessions of the Institute
there will be excursions over the various rail
roads passing through and near Staunton.
The mineral deposits and developments along
the line of these improvements will be visited
and examined, and in this way the attractions
they offer for investment will be presented to
the world of capital through the very best
| channels.
The April number of the Nayinias devotes
considerable space to setting forth of the
programme In reference to the meeting it
has the following, which we heartily endorse
and commend to our people generally
1--WE are confident that our people, Virgin
ians all whether native or adopted, will see to
| it that nothing is wanting to make this the
most enjoyable, instructive and rememberable
meeting that the American Institute of Mining
Engineers has ever held. The local members
are now consulting as to ways and means,
| and an inspection of the list will show that
they are men whose promises mean things
done. The proverbial hospitality of these
states will be dispensed wherever opportunity
and occasion will permit, and in their name
we ask for the largest possible attendance, not
only of members and their wives and daugh-
tiers, but of others that would see our large
mineral and other resources, and the develop
ment of them that is now being made, and
hear about them under exceptionally favora-
BILE circumstances"
The American Institute of Mining Engi-
neers was organized in 1878; it now numbers
nearly 900 members, among whom are most
of the leading mining engineers, biologists
chemists, metallurgists, ETC., of North America.
Its volumes of Transactions" eight bulky
ones of which have been published, are second
to none that are now issued in the number and
value of their scientific, metallurgic, mining,
and other contributions. The School Of Mines
Quarterly, of New York, in it's last ISSUE says
Its meetings are among the most important
professional events of the year, and 1t may well
be ranked among the foremost educational in
situations of the country-a professional school
with distinguished engineers as students, and
specialists as their instructors An attendance
at the meetings will richly profit any student
OF engineering not only the subjects of
the papers, but engineering progress in gen.
eral finds it's way into the discussions. Not
merely theories, but actual practical facts
The papers themselves are rarely read entire,
but the author in a brief, pithy summary often
more interesting and Ineligible than the pa
per itself, gives an outline of his experience or
investigations, and the conclusions derived
therefrom. The cut-and-dried printed reports
of the discussions give but an imperfect idea
of the pleasure and profit of the meetings."
The objects of the American Institute of
Mining Engineers are to promote the Arts and
Sciences connected with the economical pro-
duction of the useful minerals and metals, and
the welfare of those employed in these indus
tries, by means OF meetings for social inter-
course, and the reading and discussion of pro-
fessional papers, and to circulate, by means OF
publications among its members and associates
the information thus obtained"
The Virginia members of this Institute, al
phabetically arranged, are the following:
Water g. Berg, Richmond, Va; r. Boyd.
Wythville, Va; Geo. w. Bramwell, Stone
Cliff, W. Va; Stuart M. Buck, Coalburg, W.
Va; H. Firmstone Longdale W. Va; Frank
]. Hearne, Wheeling, W. Va; Jed. Hotchkiss.
Staunton, Va E. s. Hutchinson, Cannelton,
W. Va; j. E. johnson, Longdale, Va; T.
Catesby Jones, Lynchburg, Va; John s. Ken
nedy, Rocky Mount, Va. James F. Lewis,
Quinnemont, ". Va; Orleans Longracre,
Cave, Va; s. Fisher Morris, Quinnemont. W.
Va; Charles J. Nourse, Casanova, Va; Earl
W Oglehay, Wheeling, W. Va; William N.
Page, Ansted, W. Va; G. A. Randall, Ferrel
Va; Geo. 7. Wickes, Lowmoor, Va.