The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-10-14
PARTY OF MORE THAN A SCORE
INSPECT MT. PLEASANT AND
GORDONSBURG.
ENTERTAINED AT A BARBECUE
Expected That Results of Examina-
tons Made Will Be Given to the
Public at An Early Date in Official
Publications.
(From Mondays Daily Herald.

the association of state biologists who
made an inspection on Saturday OF
the phosphate fields of the Mt. Pleas
ant section ana of Lewis county. The
biologists came down from Nashville
on q special train and were met at Mt
Pleasant by big delegation of phos
plate heads, including Judge John
w. Fry, of Columbia and Col. JOS
Chapman and taken over the several
fields or mines in that section. They
We're then carried to Gordonsburg in
Lewis county where they We're hand
i somely enteftained, at an old fashion,
ed Southern barbecue by the phos
plate officials of that section.
The biologists exploited the fields
thoroughly. They examined both va.
1ieties for which this section Is ia
nous, the blue and the brown rock.
Various outcroppings were infinitely
examined and the Information derived
i from the inspection will later be given
to the public in the various official
publications that will be made.
The following companies participate
ed in the reception OF the biologists:
Charleston, S. G. Mining and Mfg.
CO., Mt. Pleasant; Mt. Pleasant Fertil-
i2er Co, Mt Pleasant; Federal Chem
ical Co.. Columbia. Petlitied Bone
Mining Co., Mt Pleasant; Internation-
al Agricultural Corporation, Column
bia; Ruhm, Phosphate Mining Co, Mt
/ Pleasant; Hoover & Mason, Mt. Pleas
ant; Armour Fertilizer Works, Column
bia; Peerless Chemical Co., Columbia;
/ Consolidated Phosphate Co., Column
bia; Rockdale Iron Works, Rockdale,
| manufacturers Of ferro-phosphorous
Rufus Jackson, Mt Pleasant; Tennes-
! see Fertilizer Co, Nashville; Keith
Simmons, mill supplies, Nashville;
City of Mt. Pleasant, r. NJ. Bullock,
mayor. |. l.. Chadwel, engineer.
/ The following were present and par
ticipated Saturday in the tour Of in
spection
T. W. DeWolf, state geologist, Ur-
bana, Ill.
Mr. Gilman, Mt. Pleasant, Va. Car
olina Chem. Co.
Mr.. Wallace, Virginia Carolina
Chemical Co, Richmond, Va.
Miss Mabee, Mt. Pleasant.
DR.. A. r. Crook, director H. State
Museum, Springfield, I'll.
Jas. A. English, Mt Pleasant
]. ". Sample, state chemist, Nash
| vile,
Dr.. /. c. White, West Virginia.
j. w. Fry, Columbia. Consolidated
Phosphate Co.
| w. N. Logan, state geologist, Indi-
ana.
s. w. McCalle, state geologist,
Georgia.
w. R. Crane, U. S. bureau mines,
Birmingham, Ala.
E. 0. Ulirich, u. S. geological sur
yey.
Mr.. Lacey, Mt. Pleasant
Mr. Shannon, state geoogist, Okla
homa.
Mrs Shannon and children.
E. w. Faucette, Mt Pleasant,
Charleston Mining Co.
o. L. Dortch, Columbia, Int. Ayr,
Corr.
David White, chief geologist, U. S.
geological survey.
Mack Oakley, Mt. Pleasant.
j. r. Jenkins, Mt Pleasant.
John Ruhm, Jr., Mt. Pleasant, Ruhm
Phosphate Mining Co.
W. o. Hotchkiss, state geologist,
Wisconsin.
w. W. Powers, Mt. Pleasant.
". r. Smith, state geological sur
vey, Nashville.
w. S. Mabee, Mt. Pleasant, Hoover
& Mason.
B. Z. Morse, assistant geologist,
Mississippi.
E. F. Lowe, state geologist, Missis-
sippf.
DR.. W. F. Prouty, assistant state ge-
ologist, North Carolina.
JOS. A. Chapman, Columbia, Armour
Fertilizer Works.
DIR, C. Y. Clarke. Mt. Pleasant.
Mr. Hill, Mt. Pleasant.
Wilbur Nelson, Nashville, state sc
ologist.
James A. Barr. Mt. Pleasant.
Hinton G.. Kittrell, Mt Pleasant.
r. p. Blackmer. Mt Pleasant.
|. L. Caldwell. Mt Pleasant
p. II. Haskell, Mt Pleasant, Charles
ton Mining Co.
P. H. Haskell, Jr.
John Walton, Rockdale, Rockdale
Iron Works.
John n. Pigg.
ALI Claggett, Wales.
r. S. Bassler Washington. d. c., o.
S. national museum.