The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-03-28
JUNEAU NOW HEADQUARTERS
 BUREAU MINES
Official Transfer from An chorage Has Been Made
 Announces Stewart


 the official headquarters of the U. & Bureau of Mines, the trans fer being made from Anchorage it was announced this morning by B. D. Stewart. Federal Mine In spector Mr Stewart returned to Juneau on the steamer Yukon af ter an extended absence in the east, having gone 10 Washington for conference with Bureau Chiefs.
 While in Washington. MT. Stew art conferred with officials. con corning plans of the U. s. Bureau of Mines and Geological Survey in Alaska, one of the results be- ing the transfer of the Mines headquarters in the territory. This has been done chiefly for the req son that the Federal Public Build ing is to be constructed at Ju neau to accommodate all federal office headquarters. While MT. Stewart has maintained his of fees in Juneau, the official head quarters have been in Anchorage.
 In Conferences
 MT. Stewart. on his first arrival at Washington went into confer ences. on the part of all the men of various parts of the United States having supervision over coal. oil. phosphate, etc, leasing 1ar teen men were present.
 Following the week given over to the conferences all of these en- gineers went to New York City to attend the annual meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers that was in session six or seven days.
 The meeting held the largest attendance in the history of the Institute, MT. Stewart said. There were 1,500 mining engineers pres ent. At the dinner dance, the crowning social event of the meet :, ing, held at the Waldorf-Astoria, arrangements had been made for 600 guests and twice that many l were present. It was at this 1 dinner Secretary of Commerce Hoover spoke. During the meet ings of the engineers an elab- crate progam was given, technical | papers on wide variety of sub iects pertaining 10 mining activi- | ties being read.
 George Otis Smith director If the Geological Survey vas elected president of the Institute, 70 serve for tho next year.
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 Mir. Stewart was tho only min | ing engineer from Alaska present. | He found there, as we'll as in oth. | CT parts of the states, he said, a | great deal of interest in the pro- gram of mining in Alaska There was particular comment on the l fine showing being made by the | Alaska Juneau Gold Mining com pany at Juneau.
 At the close of the meeting MT. l Stewart returned to Washington | and for two weeks was engaged | in conferences relative to the ] Bureau work in the territory. As a matter of policy the control of operations of the Bureau in Alas ka will be more localized than i heretofore. he said. He also conferred with Secre- | tary of the Interior Work on mat ] ters affecting The Alaska Rail- | road, in his office as member of | the Policy Board of The Railroad |
 Thornburg Does Well
 MT Stewart said he received | glowing reports of the work ac- complished by Russell G. Thorn burg in his new position, i'll | charge of the new and most mod ern mine rescue car. in Pennsyl- | vania. Thornburg has held this l position several months, since l leaving Alaska where he was in charge of mines rescue work.
 Thornburg was sent north with i his car to Ontario and conducted i recovery operations at the Hollin- 1 ger Mine, at Timmons. which re- gently met disaster several min | CTS being killed. Thornburg re- covered the bodies and prepared the mine so that operations might be resumed He has recently i taken charge of rescue and re- covery work in two or three mine disasters in Pennsylvania
 Leaving Washington for the West. MT. Stewart spent one day each in Pittsburgh. Chicago, San Francisco and Portland. In San Francisco he met Richard Lewis, owner of the Juneau Water Com pany, and was entertained by the latter during his short visit in the city MT. Lewis indicated he