The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-11-25
Thursday November 25, 1920.
AN INVITING FIELD FOR THE
MINING ENGINEER.

The meeting of technical men rep
resenting the various professions o
the mining industry at Kellogg las
week was highly interesting to tn
general public of this district as wei
as to those who participated in it,
proceedings. The preponderance o
young men who discussed the intri-
cate problems of mining and metal
lurgy was one of the significant feat
ures of the meeting. Problems in
volving the expenditure of vast sums
in carrying out great development
projects. the economies of mining op-
erations. the never-e ending problem OF
closer recovery of mineral values, the
avoidance of waste. the discovery of
processes for the treatment of re-
factory ores and countless other
problems upon the solution of which
depend the expansion and advance
ment of the mining industry are
largely in the hands of young men,
the product of the splendid mining
schools of the country. The success
that is being achieved by these young
specialists in the mining professions
should be an inspiration to the boys
in the high schools of this district to
take up some branch of engineering
in connection with mining. They are
living in the midst of one of the
greatest mining sections in the west
where they have an opportunity to
gain an insight into the various
branches of the industry and where
the operators as a rule are disposed
to give them substantial encourage
ment and assistance in the way of
employment There is no field that
offers better opportunities for ambi-
tious young men, both in the way of
successful achievement in scientific
work and in pecuniary reward.
In this connection it is interesting
to quote from one of the most emin-
ent mining engineers in the United
States, one who. by the way. is at the
head of a great development enter
prise in this district Colonel Seeley
w. Mudd The Mining and Scientific
Press of November 10 contains an ex-
tended interview with Colonel Mudd, /
in which he gives much interesting
regarding his mining sue I
eesses in this and foreign lands. In
closing the interview he Mas asked
o compare the condition of the min
ng industry as he knew it when he
started thirty-hve years ago with it's
status today, and to this question
colonel Mudd replied:
when 1 started a trained engi-
neer was subject to the sneers
and contempt of many of the
practical men, That is rapidly
disappearing: the engineer is
coming into his own. The spec
tacular development of the past
few years in some of the enorm-
Gus porphyry coppers has given
us a larger perspective; il is not
unusual now to look for a prop
erty having life of ten or TWEEN
~ years instead of as many
months. It is certainly much
more satisfactory to have to do
with an industry that is stabiliz-
ed rather than one on which YOU
can not count from year to year
1.-THE standard of mining affairs
has been raised very greatly.
Collision and dishonesty between
the sellers of machinery and sup
plies and those in control of min
ing operations was frequent then.
whereas now it is practically un-
known. The standard with regard
10 the selling of stock TO the pub
lie has also been raised consider
ably, but it needs further inn RI
1 ne opportunities oHeitu 10 Il
mining engineer are better His
opportunity to obtain an excel
mt training with many of the WI
arger corporations and better es- n.
engineers is larger and Ida
letter than it was S5 years ago. 40,
'he chances for stable and sat
sfactory employment are much Se'
more numerous The openings fiji
or making money. while of a diff ems
erent type are ] think, greater Tb
han they We're. Salaries are not
My higher, but higher in proper
ion TO the cost of living; oppor- sta
unities for saving are greater faS