The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-26
A VISITOR FROM JAPAN
Professor of Mining in the Impe-
rial University.
COMES TO SEE THE MINES
VIII View the Shelters To-Day and
Will Then Go East-Japanese Col
lege Professor Spending His
Vacation in America.

America is SO close now-only II
| days from Yokohama to Vancouver
| that l have come over to spend my
| brief vacation here"
! That is statement that brings for
! chilly to mind that fact that the world
| is smaller than it used to be- and that
! Americas next door neighbor on the
| left is not so far away as one used to
think The speaker was Wataru Wa
tanabe, professor of mining and metal
| lurgy in the engineering college of the
japanese Imperial university at To-
kyo, Japan, now a guest at the Mon
tana.
As he says, he is over to spend his
summer vacation in the United States,
but he must be back by October. for
then the fall semester of the university
begins, and he has course of lectures
to deliver on ore deposits and assaying,
subject upon which he has been lee
turing for some time.
Accompanying Mr.. Watanabe is Fl
Tanikawa, zone of nv pupils as Mr..
Watanabe explains "a young man
who wants to learn something about
the country. He will probably remain
else how could he learn?"
delightful conversationalist is Mr.
Watanabe. He is a gentleman of evil
IDENTIFY broad culture, speaking perfect
English. and having that Characters
tic Japanese courtesy that makes his
companionship pleasant. He was edu-
Gated in the universities of his own
country and at the famous school OF
mines at Freiberg, Saxony.
In this vacation | thought it would
be good thing for me to come over
to America and see your country
again. 1t is IA years since / have been
here. Then l crossed the continent on
my way home from Saxony. But your
country is so big, and has develop I'd
and improved so much it is necessary,
If one proposes to keep abreast of the
times, to come and get personal view.
From the newspapers and journals ona
learns much, but there is nothing Xix ;
seeing for yourself
''On arriving at Vancouver we came
at once to Butte, and have been there
several days, looking over the mines.
OF course l am making nothing like
detailed mination-simply taking a
superficial view. We went over the
above ground works, but did not go be
| low.
| Our object in coming to Anaconda
| is to secure a view of the great smelters
| / shall endeavor to secure permission
| to go through them. You do things on
| such a magnificent scale in this coun-
| try that it is rare pleasure for a Jap
| anese, coming from a country com
| paratively small, and one where things
| are done on a small scale, to view your
| undertakings. From here we will go
East, stopping at Chicago to visit the
japanese consul and American friends,
| and then on to New York. Returning
| / shall probably stop off in Colora do. to
view some of the mines there. and will
! go home by way of San Francisco.
THE Imperial university at Tokyo
| is large institution, having about q
| 900 students The faculty is about 100
strong. Many chairs are held by Amer
| leans and Europeans; a number of
nationalities are represented. In the
| engineering college there are depart
ments of civil engineering, mechanical
| engineering, ship building, electrical
engineering, chemistry and mining and
metallurgy. | am not alone in my de-
partment, there being several other
professors.
| "Of course there are no great mines
| In Japan. but such as there are absorb
our graduates every year. There is
| little gold in the empire. but a great
| deal of copper. In fact, you can fin1
traces of copper almost everywhere in
the country. but it is not mined on the
extensive scale it is in this country.
! There are some silver mines in Japan,
but because of the low price of the
| metal they are idle.
| Japan at present as a nation Is in
prosperous condition. The people are
happy and contented and commerce is
| growing. The new treaty, while of
| great Importance, is not greatly dis
| cussed or agitated. Everybody APP
pears satisfied with it and hence there
| is no discussion"