The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-11-25
May Come to Occur
dAlene District
Every Year
AFTERNOONAT SHELTER
Papers Unusual Excellence
Praise Hospitality of Kel-
logg and Bunker Hill

"HE MEETING of mining and
metallurgical engineers at Kel-
logg last Friday has been pro-
nounced the most largely at
tended and altogether the most sue
cessful in the history of the Columbia
section of the American Institute of
Mining and Metaliurgical Engineers.
While the active membership of the
organization is limited 10 the techni-
cal mining professions, provision is
! made for the admission to associate
membership of non technical men,
usually those connected with mining
operations. There is nothing clannish
o. exclusive about the engineers, as
evidenced by the large number of in
vtations extended to those outside
the mining circle to attend the meet
ing and enjoy all the privileges of
membership. The result was that
there was a record attendance at the
Kellogg meeting, both in members of
the organization and in invited guests.
A delegation of 25 came from Spo-
kane, while every section of the Occur
D
side points were also represented, in
GLIDING Moscow and Pullman.
Occur d'Alene Meeting Every Year.
The Columbia section of the Amer
lean Institute of Mining and Metal
lurgical Engineers includes Idaho,
Washington eastern Oregon and part
OF British Columbia. Meetings are
held quarterly, and the custom has
been long established of meeting at
different points in the large territory
to accommodate the membership and
to create popular interest in the work
of the engineers The Occur d'Alene
district being the most important
within the jurisdiction of the Column
bia section, the extensive mining and
metallurgical operations presenting
such an interesting and accessible
field for observation, and the unusual
interest and enthusiasm displayed in
the large attendance at the Kellogg
meeting, it was proposed by L. K.
Armstrong, of Spokane, secretary of
the Columbia section, that hereafter
the fall meeting of the association be
held every year at Kellogg or Wallace
and that the meeting be- extended over
a period of at least three days. His
idea is that since the papers read be-
fore the meetings generally deal with
processes and operations found in the
mines. mills or smelter of this dis
trict, by prolonging the meeting over
several days a day could be devoted
to observing processes or operations
to be covered by the papers sub
mitted in the evening of the same day.
This plan. Mr.. Armstrong points out,
would create a deeper interest in the
papers and develop a more active and
general discussion of the subjects.
Aside from this advantage, the dis
trict presents so many features of in
terest to the engineer that a stay of
three days or more would prove of
great interest to him professionally,
and incidentally be of benefit to the
district itself The engineer is an es-
iential factor in the investment of
,apital in mining enterprises, and the
Occur d'Aiene district would be for
innate if the suggestion of Mr.. Arm
strong was adopted.
Inspect the Smelter.
The arrival of the Spokane delega-
ion at Kellogg Friday afternoon
marked the beginning of the meeting
If Columbia section. Following
luncheon the engineers and invited
yuests, acting upon the invitation of
stanly A. Easton, manager of the
Bunker Hill & Sullivan company, pro-
,eeded to the smelter and devoted
most of the afternoon to the inspec-
ion of that great modern plant. They
we're met and conducted through the
-arious departments of the big plant
" Frank NJ. Smith. smelter director;
VI. H. Sullivan, manager. and A. F..
assistant manager, receiving
.lso courteous and friendly attention
rom subordinate employees. They saw
very process from the time the ore
rrives at the smelter until the metal
merged in the form of refined lead
nd silver ready for shipment. 1t was
most interesting experience, the on
y regret being that more time could
lot be taken to observe the many in
eresting processes more in detail
But as it was the afternoon slipped
y before any one realized it, with the
esult that many had to abandon a
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