Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1906-01-16
SIAIt ENGINEERS HOLD MOST
SUCCESSFUL MEETING HFRF
UNI Ut The MOST REPRESENTATIVE BODIES OF MEN THAT fvfR
ASSEMBLED IN THIS CITY, VISIT AND MARVEL AT OUR
WONDERFUL MINES. ELEGANT BANQUET StRvtt

| The applications were unanimously
accepted and laid over until the next
| monthly meeting of the society for ac-
| tion.
| The following officers were elected
| for the coming year:
B. IL. Dunshee, Butte, president.
E. c. Kinney Bozeman, first vice
president.
A. T. Wheeler, Great Falls, second
vice president.
Clinton H. Moore, secretary and H.
brarian
Samuel Barger. treasuere. le-elected.
The next meeting will likely be held
| In Butte.
The afternoon meeting was called to
order at : o'clock at which time the
retiring president, u. w. King. de-
| livered his annual address. The ad-
dress was q lengthy one and covered
a wide scope The general work of en-
gineering and it's multitudnous meth
| DDS of application in Montana was
discussed to some detail and the pa
per was listened to with the utmost
interest and satisfaction to all pres
ent. Upon concluding. President King
| was warmly congratulated for the
general excellence of his paper
King. Prof. Bowman of the state
School or Mines delivered an address
on the steam turbine and illustrated
his paper with Il number OF sketches.
So consise was the speaker in explain
ing his subject that one with no tech
| nical training whatever could readily
understand the mechanism and opera
ton of the turbine.
4. nf ha
gineers in charge of the Madison riv-
er dam which Is being put in near
I1elent, next read "a comprehensive
paper describing some OF the intricate
work connected with that vast project.
This paper was especially interesting
inasmuch as n large number of the la
| ity present as well as the engineers
| know something OF the big dam which
| Is being constructed up there and
which will generate power which will
| be used in a number OF the principal
cities of the state.
E. c. Kinney read paper which
contained an entertaining account of
| a water supply plant which he once
installed in Gothenburg, Kansas A.
M. Plumb. consulting engineer for the
GGold Reef Mining company, next
gave a good talk on the method Of
treating the black ore found in the
Gold Reef Mine in the Gilt Edge dist
rict. His remarks were given the clos
| est attention by the visiting engineers.
| FRANC +. Goss, who recently installed
| the Havre municipal water system
was requested to give an account of
| the work which contains some unusual
| features. He did so in a most satis-
| factory manner, telling how the wat
l %,
from number of wells which were
| driven within a certain area and con-
Quoted to the city through the usual
pipes.
Otto Wasmansborff Of Lewistown
spoke concerning the Citizens Elec-
I trio company plant, a few miles from
this city. This being the last talk of
! the day, resolutions thanking the Odd
Fellows for the use of the hall, the
Barnes King, Kendall and Gold Reef
mining companies, the Montana,
Northern Pacific and Great Northern
railroads. the citizens OF Lewistown
and the Democrat, Kendall Miner and
Argus for favors extended, were unan-
imously passed and ordered spread on
the minutes Of the meeting.
The banquet held in Fraternity hall
was a fitting elimination of the series
of entertainments provided for the
members of the society by the local
reception committee. The menu was
elaborate and comprised many good
things with mysterious and unheard
of names. An unique center piece was
the old fashioned hoist around which
was placed pieces of ore, miners
pick and shovel and pan.
Three great mining companies were
represented at the head of the table,
f.. w. King, president of the Barnes
King, Henry M. Rae, general manager
of the Gold Reef and W. r. Neill gen.
eral manager of the Kendall Mining
company
The toast responses were especially
brilliant and at times evoked much
merriment. The address of welcome
was made by Judge e. K. Cheadle, in
which it was shown that the profess
sion of civil engineering is an ancient
one and allusion was made to Nebu-
chadnezzer, who caused a tunnel to be
dug under the city to tap pool of liv-
ing water.
Other speakers and the subjects to
which they responded were:
sOur Hosts" Eugene Carroll of
Butte; our President" Albert Pfaus;
THE Mining Engineer" C. w. Good
ale, Butte; why l Felt Sore" j. B.
Ritch; What Fergus County Has
Done in a Mining Way" Frank Smith;
Products of the Soil" David Hilger;
Advance of Electricity" Prof G. w.
Craven, Butte; "Why Young Men
Should Get Married." George Wiede-
man; "Why / Failed to Come
Through" Henry NJ. Rae; Geology"
H. B. Winchel; .The Press" Harry
Yeager.