The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-20
ENGINEERS VISIT But TE
A Party of Sixty See the Sights
of the Big Camp.
ARE R0YALLYENTERTAINED
Local Members of the Profession Make
the Visitors Stay an Interesting One.
Guests Highly Pleased With
Their Reception.

A party of members of the American
Institute of Mining Engineers and their
ladies spent the greater part of yester-
day in Butte, seeing the mines and
smelters and such other sights as Butte
has to interest the stranger paying a
visit to the city. There were Sc mem
bers in the party, including the ladies,
and they were given a very pleasant
day by the local mining engineers, who
spared no pains to see that the visitors
were handsomely entertained.
The visitors are on their way to San
Francisco to attend the fail meeting of
the institute, which is to be held there
Sept. 25th to 2Sth inclusive. The party
is composed mostly of eastern engi-
neers, who are sojourning to California
for the benefit of a conference with
their brethren in the profession.
The party travels in sumptuous style,
with a special train of six Wagner cars.
They arrived in Butte over the Great
Northern and were met by a committee
composed of all the local members OF
the institute, headed by John Gillie and
E. H. Wilson. The day was spent in
visiting the various mines of the camp,
the visitors being given carte blanche to
explore any of the mines. The party
divided up, some visiting one mine and
some another, each division being pro-
vided with a guide. After seeing the
mines and smefters the visitors were
driven about the city till evening, when
they were entertained at dinner at the
McDermott hotel. The visitors left in
the evening for Anaconda, where they
will spend to-day. All were enthus-
iastic in expressions of appreciation OF
the courtesies they were shown in
Butte.
The party comprised some of the most
eminent mineralogists and biologists OF
the country. among them being DR..
James Douglas, president of the insti-
tute; DIR. r. W. Raymond, secretary;
Theodore D. Rand, treasurer; Thomas
Dwight, assistant secretary and treas
urer: Ernest Fleming, a representative
of the Prussian government. who Is IN
this country to study mining methods,
and many other engineers of renown.
DR.. Raymond is a witness in the big
mining suit now on trial in the district
court.
The personnel of the party is as fol-
lows: James Douglas and wife, Miss
Edith M. Douglas, DR.. r. w. Raymond,
wife and Miss Raymond, David Will
Jams, editor of the Iron Age, and wife,
w. L. de Camp, Miss de Camp, I. Rob
bInS, IT., .. M. R1cHaTOSOH anu Ihco-
dore Dwight, New York; Miss M. G.
Briggs, Durham, England; Miss Bell
Toronto, Canada; Miss Bliss, BROOKLYN;
Mrs. John Meigs, John Cabot, jr., Potts
town, Pa; Theodore D. Rand. Thomas
M. Eynon, Philadelphia; Heinrich Refs
Ithaca, NJ Y: Prof. N. w. Lord, Co
lumbus, Ohio; w. G. Parke and wife
and Miss Parke, Scranton, Pa; Otto
Muhlhauser, La Sale, Ill.,; Edwin Lud-
low and wife, Hartshorn, l. t.; A. U.
Sheafer, Pottsville, Pa; Ernest Flem-
ing, Berlin; e. w. Parker and wife,
Washington, D. c., of the geological
survey. F. E. Backman and wife, Buff
lalo: A. D. Chdsey, Miss Chidsey
Easton, Pa; E. L. Gurnsey, Philadel-
phia: William r. McIlwain and wife
Reading, Pa; Samuel Thomas and wife
Catasaqua, Pa; Mrs. e. D. Billinger
Syracuse, N. Y. Prof. W. P. Blake and
wife. New Haven, Conn: w. F. Downs
Jersey City: Allen Wood Ill, Consho-
| bocken, Pa. W. F. Crane, Bisbee. Ariz.
E. M. buckingham, Boston; B. F. Chy-
noweth, RockIand, Mich; John Lilly
Lambertville, N. J.; A. Thies, Soutf
| Carolina: c. w. Goodale, Great Falls
| Mont: C. L. Wright, Keswick, Cal.
Mrs. A. M. Grace. Denver; B. F. Fack'
enthal and wife. Mr.. Thomas, Easton
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