Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-01-07
MINING men OF
IDAHO TO HOLD
annual MEETING
Convention Of Association to
Have Many Interesting
Features, Including Dem
onstrations in First Aid.

Mining men from all parts OF Idaho
will gather in Boise on Jan. 16 and
Il. when the Idaho Mining association
will hold its fourth annual meeting.
The executive committee of the asso
citation has arranged a program that
will appeal not only to mining men,
but to the public generally. The bus
mess meeting of the association VIII
be held at the Commercial club at 10
o'clock the morning of the 18th At
this meeting State Mine Inspector Bell
will deliver an address on Metal Min
\ ing Developments of Southern Idaho
During the Past Year"--a subject that
will command the attention of the min
ing public owing to the remarkable
values that have been disclosed by de-
velopment work during the past yeac
in this section of the state-and Met
allurgist o. G. Ralston. of the United
States bureau of mines. will read
paper on "Flotation During 1916"
| IN 1915 the art of concentrating ore
/ by fotaton methods underwent
marked development and 1t Is estimat-
ed that the monthly tonnage of ore
4 treated in the United States during the
year was about 100000 tons and. as
practically all of the ores in Idaho are
susce ptible of treatment by this pro-
cess. the subject should be interesting
and educational.
+. G. Brown, who is we'll known to
Idaho mining men as an authority on
cyanidation, will deliver an address on
The Cyanidaton of Ores" Professor
E. X. Soper. of the University of Idaho.
, will speak on the subject, The Value
and Scope of state Mining Bureaus
and Geological Surveys" and at
, o'clock the night of the 10th the dol
lar banquet. which was such marked
success at the last annual meeting
will be given at the Owyhee hotel.
/, FIRST AID FEATURE.
f Unusual features which have never
before been presented in Boise will be
, exhibited ut the Owyhee hotel the aft
i, ernoon and evening of the 18th. In the
, afternoon. at 3: 80 o'clock, the members
of the legislature. mining men and the
public are invited to witness a demon
0 stration OF first aid relief by the first
t aid crew, OF the Hecla Mining COM
G pany of Wallace, In which four first
aid problems are worked out, to-wit:
THE one-man event in which first
I aid is given to man who Is caught
g by q premature blast and Is overcome
y by powder smoke and has a cut or
tho front of his jaw and on the middle
of his chest. Treat"
This two-man event presents the
problem of giving first aid in the cast
D. where a falling rock strikes a miner
g causing a cut on top of the head. q
compound fracture of right side Of jaw
and dislocation of left shoulder
Treat and assist to walk
= THE three man event gives first ait
= where a man Is caught by an ore car
. is dragged some distance. receive,
: liberation on left thigh four inchei
80 long, cut full of mud and dirt; a com
pound fracture OF left wrist with ar
p terial bleeding. and a cut on calf o
= men carry
!. THE full team event is somewha
spectacular and introduces the frs
!, aid relief given where rock and tim
h Der fall on a man. when found he ha
a broken back and a cut on face JUS
below right eye. Treat and carry OF
a improvised stretcher"
8 G. H. Foreman, Richard Chirm, Wal
d ter Milliron, Bert Wheeler. Matt Oster
IA holm and William Foster are the mem
2. bers of the Hecla first aid crew tina
n will give the first aid demonstration
,e Three of the leading physicians o
le Boise will be invited to see that tn
le wori. Is well done.
l., TO SHOW MOVING PICTURES.
vi At o'clock In the evening at TIL