Mohave County miner., 1916-08-19
MINING ENGINEERS ID
 HOLD SESSIONS IN
 ARIZONA NEXT MONTH

NE" AO4NNg mug 4Is -ANCSO6A4N- ing the importance of the state of Ari- zona to the country's mining interests the American Institute of Mining En- gineers will meet for the first time in it's history of 45 years in that state next month. Sessions of the meeting will extend over the entire week of September IS, and will be held in the principal mining centers of the state, the members travelling between the various points by special train and automobile. Principles of mining and metallurgy of the greatest interest interest will be presented at the tech nical sessions.
 Some indications of the importance of this meeting to mining engineers in various sections of the country is shown by the fact that special train las been arranged for to carry eastern members from New York City on Sep tember IA. Other members and their guests will join the party at various points en route and at Fl Paso, Tex, the western section of the converting members, starting from Los Angeles, Cal, will meet the train and continue to Arizona.
 The principal towns in which the in- stitute sessions or visits of inspection will be held are Santa Rita and Hur- ley, N. M., and Douglas, Bisbee, Globe and Phoenix, Ariz. The inspections will include the Roosevelt dam and the mines and works of practically all the leading metal-producing companies of the state. At Douglas, in the techni- cal sessions, the institute will discuss the special subject of Smelling" At Bisbee papers will be read on Mining and Geology" and at Globe the first day will be given over to Mining and Smelling" and "Leaching." During second day at Globe time has been set aside for what is regarded as an inn portant discussion of Concentration and Flotation."
 The company plants that will be wis tied are as follows: At Hurley, the mines and works of the Chino Copper company; at Bisbee and Douglas, the mines and works of the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining company, Calu- met and Arizona Copper company, and Shattuck Copper company; at the Globe district, mines and works of h. spiration Consolidated Copper com pany, Miami Copper company, Old Do- minion Copper Mining and Smelling company, together with the new works of the International Smelling com pany.
 The institute now comprises more than $500 members, and next months meeting is designed to develop sub jects of interest to all of these. In announcing the Arizona meeting an official of the institute says: "A few years ago Arizona stood third in the copper producing districts of the Unit ed States. Since that time, with the of porphyry mines, the output has gone up with great rapid ity until it not only is the leading dis trict, but it's output at the present time is at the rate of nearly double the Montana output, which now stands second in the list"
 An elaborate entertainment pro- gram is being planned by the Arizona | comprising Gerald F. G. i Sherman, chair; Arthur Notman, sec Norman Carmichael, W. G. 1 Mcbride, John c. Greenway, W. L. | Clark, B. Britton Gottsberger and For est Rutherford. The committee on is composed of Walter Douglas, chairman; Cleveland E. Dodge, secretary; Arthur S. Dwight, John c. Greenway and Julius Krutt- schnitt, Jr.