The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-25
STUDENTS STUDY
MINING IN CAMPS
Graduates in Course Are on
Trip to Various Parts
of the State.
is PRACTICAL EDUCATION
FIRST HAND KNOWLEDGE WILL
BE GAINED.

The graduates from the course in
mining engineering at the university
are spending their last days at college
in the mining camps of the state tax
ing the first mining trip ever attempt
ed by class at the Utah school This
initial trip includes only the camps of
the state, but it is only starter for
the trips that will be taken by classes
in future years.
The faculty will then make 'compuI-
sorry trip of this kind, which is of so
great Importance to the young engi-
neers who are about to go out into the
world, and il will include a three weeks
tour of all the mining camps in the
west, including the states of Utah, Col
orado Arizona, Nevada, Montana and
the Dakotas
Great credit is reflected on the 'OS
seniors for promoting the first trip of
this kind, and while il is not as ex-
tensive as those that will be taken
in the future, it answers its purpose
and Will be exceedingly instructive. The
class will visit Bingham, Sunnyside and
Park City, and with these three camps
in the itinerary they will come i'm con-
tact with almost every factor in the
mining industry that they will meet in
| their experience in years to come, and
ii affords them almost as much infor-
nation as if they travelled through all
the camps OF the west. The class does
not visit the great smelling and con-
lcentrating works at Garfield. as numer-
Gus trips TO these plants have already
been made. as required in the regular
course of study. Last year the class
spent six weeks a Eureka on the junior
summer surveying trip. so the students
are well informed about the properties
of that camp.
Visit Bingham Camp.
The seniors left last Thursday for
Bingham. They are accompanied by c.
A. DIVERSION. professor in mining and
mill design, and r. H. Bradford, pro-
lessor in metallurgy. In Bingham they
looked over the surface workings of
Utah Copper and the Boston COnsolidat-
ed, where this form of mining is car
ried on more extensively than at al
most any other place in the world.
They also event through the under
ground workings of the Utah Copper,
Highland Boy and the Yampa. also the
Utah Copper mill and the Yampa smell
ter At all of these mines they were
received by the officials and engineers
in charge. and every courtesy was
shown them. They We're taken through
the mines by experienced miners and
men who had spent the greater part
of their lives underground, and every
working and detail YVES explained To
them.
To Study Coal Mines.
They left for Sunnyside today and
there they will visit the workings of
the Utah Fuel company. Here they
will become acquainted with the coal
mining industry From Sunnyside they
will go to Park City. and there the
seniors will visit the Ontario. the DAILY
West. the DAILY Judge the Silver King. |
and also number of the mills. These
mines are among the largest and most
noted i'm the west and they show clear
~ many wonderful feats in mining en-
gineering.
This trip is not the only practical
experience that the seniors have had
this year. All of them are required to
present a thesis before graduation This !
must deal with some original work, /
and the students must develop their |
subjects entirely themselves. Some |
have designed mills, others have in |
vented concentrating devices, and one
party presented q thesis ON the geol- |
Ogy of the NeWhouse district in south |
ern Utah. The theses so far presented |
at the university have been extremely |
creditable. and the ones of this year /
are among the best that have been |
handed in. The theses are practical, |
and in the case of one of last years |
graduates he designed a mill which was /
erected afterward i'm Idaho, and it has |
proven one of the most efficient mills |
in the state. The thesis represents d |
great work, and some are commenced |
as early as the sophomore year. Many /
of the seniors are still working on their |
theses, and thus employ their evenings |
on the mining trip.
Glass Includes Many.
Those who are making this initial trip |
this year are:
George Nj. Allen, Howard V Aston. /
Ernest S. Bowman, r. NJ. Brighton, r. |
c. Bryant. H. A Gardner, H Havenor. /
Vernon b. Herbst. ]. c. Hunter, Jo- /
seph Jensen. David c. Lyons. Henry c. /
MeyerhOffer, Harry f. Moore. A. S.
Parmley, Oscar A. Peterson, j. P. Rus
sell, Leo A. Snow, John r. Stewart.
Scott r. Stewart, W. F.. Sutton, r. c. J
fowler, T. Ross Wilson, jr., and Ralph |
WOOlley.