Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1913-08-23
THE STATE SCHOOL OF MINES.

Mr.. Welton j. Crook, of California,
has been elected Professor of Metallurgy
at the State School of Mines at Rapid
City and will begin his work when the
School opens, September 18th. Mr..
Crook is a graduate of Leland Stanford
University and has had metalurgical
experience in Australia and in Califor-
mia. He has for some time been with
the Pacific Coast Steel company, serving
them in an important position at their
plant in South San Francisco. Mr..
Crook has been closely associated with
Professor Howell Clevenger, of Stanford
University, who is one of the most sue
cessful metallurgists of the west. Mr..
Clevenger, it will be remembered, won
his spurs while student at the SchoC
of Mines in working over large dump
pile at the old chlorination plant near
the school buildings and extracting the
gold therefrom at handsome profit.
Since his graduation he has been active
ly engaged in the mining regions of the
west as consulting metallurgist and as a
teacher at Leland Stanford University.
Mr.. Crook enters upon his work at the
school with the purpose of making it a
strong department not only for giving
instruction to students but also for in
vestigating the ores of the Black Hills
and with view of aiding, as far as pos
sible, in their development. He and
his wife will reach Rapid City within a
few days.
Miss Bertha Morris, of Rapid City,
has been elected registrar and secretary
to the president and will enter upon her
duties September LIST. Miss Lulu Quist
who has for more than five years served
the institution in this capacity retires
with the hearty appreciation and best
wishes of all who have been in any way
connected with the School of Mines dur.
ing her time of service or who have
otherwise had the pleasure of her &C.
quaintance.
Several of the instructors have been
away from Rapid City during the sum
mer but will shortly begin to return for
the years work. Professor Mark Ehle
of the department of Mining is. in Cali
fornia, Professor c. G. Van Nuys of the
department of Physics is with the West.
inghouse Electrical company in Pitts
burg, Professor II. L. McLaury of the
department of Mathematics is at his old
home in New York, Mr.. G. Trygstad,
instructor in modern languages and
history, is at his old home in eastern
South Dakota, and Mr.. H. W. Talbot
instructor in Preparatory Science is in
camp near Hill City. Professor Nj. F
Coolbaugh of the department of Chem
istry has been doing considerable worl
in the laboratory during the summer
and has just returned from a short visi
in Chicago. Professor ]. H. Steele O
the department of Engineering has beer
at home. Professor Victor Ziegler o
the department of Mineralogy and Fetro
graphy is spending considerable par
of his summer studying the minerals
rocks and ore deposits of the Blacl
Hills. He is at present working in tht
vicinity of Keystone, Hill City and Gus
ter. President O'Harra has been at thu
school most of the time but is now max
ing visits to various parts of the Hills
He was last week in the Belle Fourchs
valley. ~,
At the present time considerable
amount of work is being done in the way
of repairing the buildings, putting ir
many ofthe rooms and Railways, ant
painting the outside woodwork of the
main building. Frequent requests are
coming in for school literature and tn,
outlook for the school for the comini
year 10 excellent