The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-01
Mining STUDENTS
HOME FROM TRIP
Long Jaunt of University Boys
Is Both Pleasant and
Instructive.
EVERY COURTESY SHOWN
THEM AT POINTS VISITED
May BE Made Part of University
Curriculum in the
Future.

Arriving over the Salt Lake Route
al 6:30 o clock Monday morning from
Los Angeles, the senior mining students
at the University of Utah. who have
been touring the neighborng states on
an inspection trip of the mining. smelt.
ing and milling operations in the dis
tricts visited, returned to Salt Lake,
They are Just in time for the com
mcnrcmcnt exercises of their class,
which are to continue throughout the
week.
The party included eighteen young
engineers with Prof X. H. Bradford.
Of the metallurcicaI department, and
Prof. G.. A. Overstrom, of tho depart
ment Of mining and orc dressing. at the
institution, in charge The men left
Salt Lake i'm private kitchen tourist
car Just four weeks ago, going direct
TO Denver. Here. the smelling plants
of the American Smelling and Refining
company and the Argo company were
inspected and the methods employed
in the United States mint studied. The
next morning the men visited The State
School Of Mines at Golden. where they
saw n number Of interesting features
i'll the work being done there
The next stop was al Colorado
Springs, whore two DAYS were spent
studying operations in the chlorination
aud cyanide mills. The Golden Cycle
mill, with a capacity Of more than 500
tons treated by straight cyanide meth
DDS, Impressed the students very favor
ably.
Cripple Creek Visited,
A e1J 81, -, IL,
took in he mines and mills Of the Grip
pie Creek and Victor districts, where
mining methods and the sorting and
washing Of the gold and silver ores
was the feature Of the work.
At Pueblo the monster plant Of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company. where
the entire process of the conversion of
iron ore into steel rails and many other
forms of steel occupied the attention
of the BOYS for an entire day.
At Trinidad Colo. the coal mines
and coal washers were inspected and
the process of making coke in beehive
ovens studied. From Trinidad the party
went TO I'll Paso, Texas, where a large
lead smcltcr is run chcaply with Mex"
lean hand labor.
After leaving FL Paso the great cop.
per camps of Arizona and Old Mexico
were taken in. Globe, Clifton, Morenci
d0u BlSpcp, ana Inc SnclttrS Nv B)oug-
las, proved valuable sources of infor-
nation. while the trips 10 Cananca and
Nacoxari in Mexico offered opportunity
FOR the comparison of the mining and
smelling methods in the two districts.
In City of Angels.
From Mexico the men went straight
TO Los Angeles. where they spent a
couple Of DAYS seeing the sights before
returning TO Salt Lake.
The professors as we'll as the stu
dents, are enthusiastic over their Jour
ncy and declare that il was well worth
the money put into IT, The large va
riety Of methods studied, they say, has
given remarkable opportunity for com
parison of costs and of efficiency of
the various processes. which can be OBJ
tanned in no other way.
The management Of all Of the prop
critics visited extended the greatest
courtesy to the students and went TO
particular pains TO see that they wcre
escorted about the plants by competent
engineers. The professors recommend
that the trip. or ono similar 10 1T, be
made par; of the regular curriculum
in the engineering department here
after