The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-11-25
MINING ENGINEERS HOLD INTERESTING
SESSION. MINES AND MILLS VISITED
TECHNICAL PAPERS READ VALUEsEssoN CLOSED
WITH LARGELY ATTENDED RANouET-MAY JOIN BRIT.
IsH COLUMBIA IN NEXT MEETING.

OF the American Institute of Mininf
Engineers, which closed a two DAYS
session in this city last Saturday eve
ming, was one of the most successful
meetings, viewed from every stand
point, that has been held since the Col
umbia section was organized. The
attendance was exceptionally large
and represented not only mining en-
gineers, but every branch of mining
activity. Most of the engineers arriv-
ed at noon Friday, and upon learning
that the Alameda Success trial was
on in the district court involving that
always interesting question of extra
lateral rights, and that Oscar Hershey
the we'll known geologlst, was on the
stand, 1t was decided to postpone the
afternoon session until evening to al
low the visitors an opportunity to at
tend the trial,o A large number avail
ed themselves of the opportunity and
not only found the court proceedings
highly interesting, but also the maps,
models and other exhibits that play
an important part in the case.
Evening Session.
The engineers met in the public lib
rary building in the evening, and In
the absence of Chairman f. A. Ross
and Vice Chairman Rush ]. White the
meeting was presided over by Stanly
A. Easton. The technical program as
previously announced was carried out
as follows:
Progress in Ore Dressing" by d.
w. Buckby, superintendent Of the
Stewart mill.
Mine Accounting" by ]. E. Chap
man, chief accountant of the Federal
Mining and Smelling company.
Zinc Smelling and Smelling Rates."
by w. E. Henry, northwestern repre-
sentative of the Empire Zinc company.
These papers received the closest
attention and were followed by con-
siderable discussion.
Visit Nine Mile Mines.
Saturday was given over to visiting
the mines of Nine Mile, and particu-
larly the Interstate Callahan. The
visitors numbered about 10. They
went direct to the Interstate Callahan
and were taken through all the work.
ings of the big zinc producer after
which the company served a lunch in
ing house, which took the form Of a
banquet. James F. Mccarthy, mana
ger of the Hecla Mining company,
presided and several toasts were hap
PLY responded to- The afternoon was
largely given over to inspection of the
mills of the Interstate Callahan, Tam
arack & Custer and Success, the visit
ors returning to Wallace in the even
ing greatly enthused with what they
had seen in that comparatively new
section of the Coeur d'Alene district.
Banquet Closes the Session.
At $50 Saturday evening a banquet
was given in honor of the visiting en-
gineers by the local members of the
institute, to which a large number of
guests were invited, the total number
seated being about 90 The banquet
gregational church in the basement Of
the church building and the service is
deserving of high commentator.
Just prior to the banquet business
session was held, which included a re-
port covering the past year by the
secretary and treasurer, L. X. Arm
strong. This was followed by the
election of the following
officers Stanly A. Easton Of Kellogg,
chairman; vice chairman, Frederic
Heffer of Spokane; secretary and
treasurer, L. X. Armstrong, of Spo-
kane.
Up to this time Rush j. White, the
vice chairman, had presided.
the election he was succeed
ed by Mr.. Easton, the new chairman,
who presided throughout the banquet.
The formal program Of the session
was concluded with a paper on the
Teaching Process as Applied to Lead
md Zinc Ores" by Professor d. c.
Livingston, of the University of Idaho.
His remarks were illustrated by charts
showing the results of many expert
nents conducted at the university,
Ind showed much success in the de-
yelopment of this method of treating
Occur d'Alene ores
Toasts.
AS toastmaster Chairman Easton
hen called upon a number for brief
addresses. The first was E. Jacobs, of
member of the British COL
lmbia Institute Of Mining Engineers.
lie extended cordial greetings from
he Canadian organization and pro-
'osed that the organization he repre-
ented and the Columbia section hold
joint meeting, probably at Rossland,
. suggestion that was favorably re-
eived
GIenville p. Collins, of Seattle, chair
nan of the Puget Sound section, gave