The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-03
HARVARD MINING ENGINEERS.
Special Facilities Being Prepared mt
the University.

BOSTON, Sept. 2.-This week party OF
young men are working in and about the
coal mines of Pennsylvania. Busy as they
are they are not miners. but are a party
OF Harvard students under one of their
instructors. studying practical mining OPP
erations. The demand for competent min
/ ing engineers has increased of late years
to such an extent that the great Eastern
university is devoting special attention to
/ this department OF engineering
| This Held work is only an indication of
! the attention which Harvard is giving to
mining engineering. On the historic
Holmes Field. where athletic battles We're
once fought, there stands a brick structure
which was formerly the Carey building
the headquarters of the crew and the nine
but which is now the Rotcll building OF
the department of mining aid metallurgy.
| and which today is being rearranged and
enlarged for its new purposes.
Whar was formerly the tank where the
eight practiced in expectation of the fierce
struggle on the Thames with Yale. or on
the Hudson with Cornell, has been SO
changed that today the most assiduous
athlete of former times would be lost in it,
Strange looking hoods, queer "muffie" fur
naees, and tables covered with chemical
apparatus are in the place where the oars
once splashed: for the tank room is now
the laboratory of metallurgical chemistry
where instruction in practical metallurgy
ana assaying is given the young men of
Harvard who are ambitious to become en-
gineers of mines or assayers. Where were
once the lockers and shower baths are
now lecture rooms devoted to instruction
in these branches.
But the most surprising change of all is
Ep
cage. now known as the Simpkns Metal
lurgieal Laboratory in memory of the late
Congressman John Simpkins, jr, class of
1893. This laboratory will contain, when
hnished. complete outfit for the treat,
ment OF ores. and will extend into a new
wing which is being built to the east.
me Mining Department of Harvard is
branch of the Lawrence Scientific School,
OF which Prof Nathaniel S. Shaler is Dean
and is in charge of Henry Lloyd Smythe.
Harvard. A. B.. 1889. C. E.. 1885, Professor
OF Mining. Another Indication Of the at !
tentIon which Harvard is giving to mining
engineering was the securing of George S. |
Raymer as instructor in mining. Mr.. Ray
mer, after seventeen years of practical ex-
perience, is now equipping the laboratory.
When completed. the Cage viii be far
different from what 1t ives in former days.
Where once the pitchers and the feeders
stood is now the huge concrete foundation
Tor ten-stamp mill. The former Cage |
viii contain a complete ore-dressing plant, |
including besides the ten-stamp mill the |
following machines: Crusher Hartz Noun
tain jigs,. collum jigs. hydraulic sizers. |
grinding mill, humping table frue van
ners. slime-belts. buddies amalgarnat ting !
pan, settler. rotary pump, cleanup pan, /
and automatic sampler
In the new wing will be the smelling |
works consisting Of a lead and copper
stack furnace, reverberatory roasting fur
mace, revolving roasting cylinder. smelling |
and gas furnaces root blower, and assay
ing furnaces.
In the south part of the new wing will |
also be an assaying office which viii coz
sist Of muffie and crucible furnaces and |
complete apparatus for assaying and anal
wing ores and minerals