The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-03
GREAT TOUR FOR
MINING STUDENTS
Will Start Tuesday on Trip That
Will Cover Nearly Four
Thousand Miles.
OBJECT IS TO LEARN
ALL ABOUT MINING
1t Will Not Be a Round of
Pleasure, as the Boys VIII
Have to Work.

Tuesday morning at I:l0 O'Clock Tie
mining and mechanical engineering stu
dents at tho UnIvcrsty OF Utah who arc
able TO receive their degrees next montl,
leave for their tour II inspection through
Colorado. New Mexico. Arizona and New
ada.
Tho trip viii cover more than three
thousand miles. besides several hundred
miles OF side trips, which will bring the
total up 10 nearly four thousand miles.
From Salt Lake the students go directly
10 Denver, where the American Smelling
and Refining company's plant in that
city. and number Of other important
works will be visited A. side trip will
bc taken to Golden. where the School Of
Mines Will be visited and a baseball
Gamo probably VIII be played with the
Golden seniors. The next stop Will be
at Colorado Springs and Colorado City
where are located tho large cyanide plants
which draw their orc from Aspen Canyon
city and surrounding camps. The mines
and reduction plants at Cripple Creek
and smeltcrs in the ncishborhood then
viii be visited.
AZ Pueblo tho principal feature win be
the inspection of the Iron blast furnace
coal mines Of Trinidad Will be carefully
studied since they are the ouly coal fields
which viii be passed through ON the trip,
Will See Bull Fight.
Besidcs the copper smeltcr at FL Paso.
Tca %I bn mf s Sy 'hs ans to TSs
off and going across the Mexican line.
After "A couple of days in FL Paso the itln-
erary takes them across the southern
part Of New McNico into Arizona. where
a week will he devoted 20 the detailed
study of the copper mines. concentrators
and smeltcrs of Clifton, Globe, Douglas
once more and the reduction works at
Cananea given thorough inspection.
Los Angeles will be the next stop. two
days being allowed Tor sight seeing in
4 tlNy ,.ff ..t,...a
turn To Salt Lake over the San Pedro a
side trip probably will be taken 10 Gold
field and either Eureka or Mcrcur will
be visited. II is expected To reach Salt
Lake about the first Of June in order
that tho students may he here To partici-
pate In the exercises or commencement
week
That the trip will not he long vaca-
ton is certain Professor C. A. Over
strom, in charge OF the work I'm mining
and milling. and DR.. n. II. Bradford. pro-
men and VIII see that they do not have
any time To waste. Reports will he writ
ton on all OF the plants visited. each man
being responsible for his own reports. In
addition. Professor OVcTstrom Will COM
Dlcte his lecture course in Mine Meth
DDS" on the trip and will give cxamina-
uons about twice week on the material
which tho men arc supposed TO gather as
they go along.
Use of Special Car.
y EpHNIdl ial VIII pC lSe1 ana II VIII
be attached to any regular train that will
suit tho convenience or the students The
car Is something new for this part OF
he country, having been brought here
from Chicago for the use of the party
There are six sleeping sections and a
complete kitchen and dining room outfit
Three men. including a porter, q cook
and a walter. will he taken along with
the car, supplies will be purchased as
needed at the railroad supply points r.
f. Gardner. one of the students being
in charge OF this important feature. In
The capacity of Comiss8ry.
This is tine first time that any such
elaborate trip has becn taken by a class
rom tho university. but hereafter IL Will
be part OF the regular curriculum and
viii be compulsory in the two COURSES
named The trip compares more than fa-
forably with those taken by the mining
students In other western colleges and
s really great addition To the mining
'ourse at Tie local institution
The men who will take the trip in adj
lition 10 the professors in charge are
R. l.. Gardner. F. w. Honahan. Ed L..
tones. Levi Muir i. W. Sharman. 4 b
Parsons T. w. Snow. II, u. Moyle, George
3ywater. Joseph Barlow. MILFORD Cannon.
Harrison Woodbury., Il. l.. Dobbs one of
ast years students, Bill Browning. q
graduate of TWO years ago. Paul Boise
who attended the university in 1906 and
sterling Talmagc. The cost to the bows
viii be in the ncichborhood of 5000 cacl
,ut they figure that they will more than
get their moneys worth