Mining and Geology Edition.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
University of Kansas Branch of A. I. M. E.
STUDENTS KEEP IN TOUCH WITH MINING PROBLEMS
Eight Years Ago Student Society Affiliated With National Society
IDEA STARTED AT K. U.
Since Then Societies Have Been Organized In All Large Schools
By SHERWIN F. KELLY
The department of mining engineer of the University of Kansas has the distinction of originating the Affiliated Student Societies of the American Institute of Mining Engineers.
Eight years ago when Professor Young, now associate editor of "Coal Age," was head of the department here, he saw the need of a student society directly connected with the national society of Mining Engineers. Such societies existed in the other departments at the School of such an arrangement were obvious, so he conferred with Professor Haworth on the subject, and it was decided to attempt the founding of such an organization
At that time there were no affiliated societies of the A. I. M. E. Professor Young wrote to the Office of the Institute in New York, submitting his approval or disapproval. The officers of Institute recognized the mutual benefits coming from such an arrangement, and approved it. Immediately the first Affiliated Student Society was organized here, and subsequently these subsidiary branches were created with great rapidity in other mining schools, until now every such school of any size has its student branch.
The activities of the branches are many and varied, and the Institute thinks them worthy of a place in their "Transactions," a spacious being devoted to the students and the work of the work of their organization.
Here at the University of Kansas the "Mining Journal," as it is called, meets four times a month, two of these meetings being in conjunction with the Geology Club on the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month, at 4:30 in Haworth Hall. The other two meetings are usually held at Professor Terrill's home on the first and third Thursdays at 7 c'clock.
At these meetings papers are read by members of the organization, or outside men when the opportunity presents itself to get good talent, follow an open discussion and then present it in demonstration in getting up the "Miner's Day" last year, at which there were several well-known engineers here who addressed the miners. The mine rescue car was brought here also, and another team received the "Mine Rescue and First Aid," receiving diplomas on completion of the work.
The advantages of keeping in touch with the practicing mining engineers of the country through these societies by means of the exchange news in the Transactions. The importance of being the keeping alive of interest on the part of the men in the field for the men still undergoing their preparation for the profession.
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT IN
MINERS' SURVEYING TOOLS
The great increase in geological surveying in the location of oil prospects has wrought a great change in the instruments, principally the alidade.
The old type of surveying alidade, such as was used in topographical surveying, was entirely too cumbersome for this work, and several of the instrument makers have developed new types of alidades. The most noticeable change has been in the size of the instrument. The older styles were often eight to ten inches high, but the newer instruments are not over four inches high and have a prismatic eyepiece which saves the neck of the observer.
The weight of the newer instruments also is a great deal less than that of the old.
YO HO SKINNAY! LETS GO OUT GEOLOGY HIKIN'
Profs and Students Diagnose Rock Formations All Around Lawrence
The sound, "Yo ho, skinnay, ask yr'ma cantia c'm over," and the sight of two eleoquent fingers held up by a small boy invite to experience no more enjoyable than geology field trips taken each semester by geology classes in the University of Kansas. The trips serve a triple purpose. They teach, add variety to the work and put more enjoyment into study.
Three professors teach geology and each takes his class on a hike once in a semester. Prof. J. E. Todd shows his class different rock formations near Lawrence. Professors Moore and Haynes take their classes to Leicpton to study the topography in that district.
The different and the similar formations near Lawrence, Lecompon, and the country around are compared. The same phenomena have happened in the carboniferous rocks in the carboniferous periods in the Lecompon district that have taken place in the Lawrence district. The members of the classes find how easy it is to grow oil in a common Kansas term these days, they all grow interested.
These classes study drifts, shales, limestones, the effect of erosion on the country, kames, eskers, folds, felspar, and glaciation. Not content with these, they investigate underground water supplies. They study the effect of frost and general weather conditions eve non man-made geology, on such walks as concrete sidewalks, brick, and stucco.
Leland Fiske, 16, is holding the position of geologist in charge of a division of the Empire Gas and Wet Company. He visited the school once this year, showing an actual gain of five pounds to his already husky frame.
Of course, all the students run around more than is necessary. They climb more hills than is required, but they take many noises from the earth. And the earth is the best place to go to learn about the earth.
Hugh R. (Shorty) Brown, e15, is acting as engineer for the Chinook Coal Company of Commerce, Alberta, Canada.
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ASSAYING TELLURIUM
GOLD ORES
Use a charge of one assay ton of ore, one assay ton of sodium bicarbonate, ten grams of fused borax, six to seven assays tons of litharge and cover suit. Fuse in a 20 gram crucible.
The loss in copelling is considerable and increases with rise of temperature. It is written with rich silver,old gold with all silvers of gold.
If the cuplation is made at "litharg feather" temperature the loss due to volatilization is less y negligible.—R. L. Grider.
Oscar (Ding) Dingman, 14, the "old firebrand," is at Butte. The School of Engineering has never seen such life since the days when Ding kept the pep stirred up. Stiff collars were unknown on those days in face or right of the fight. Dick could always 'em. No doubt he is still "showing 'em."
CRYSTAL MASS WEIGHS FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS
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Shouldn't an expert look after the investment of your money?
Is Only One Feature of Most Complete Collection of Kansas Rocks
FOUND IN HAWORTH HALL
Collection Grows Every Day—Contains Specimens From All Parts of World
The largest collection of Kansas ores and minerals in the country is to be found in display cases in the large mineralogy museum of Haworth Hall. Practically every variety of mineral to be displayed is shown in various forms, and the vigilant efforts of the members of the department are making the collection more complete every day. The collection of Kansas ores and minerals is augur'd for the future, the world, showing all forms of geologic formations and mining products.
measures three feet wide at the bottom, two feet wide at the top, four feet high, and one foot thick—made up entirely of a mass of calcite crystals. There also are a number of smaller ones. In these are found the larger rocks in a rock quarry. Calcite occurs; yellow, lavender, brown white, black, and a colorless form.
There is an exceptionally fine exhibit of the mineral calcite, or calcium carbonate, a byproduct of the formation of Kauas. One mass of the crystals weighs about five hundred pounds. It
About one-sixth of the space in the museum is devoted to the exhibit of the sulphides of lead, zinc, and iron which are found also in the southeastern part of the state. There are a large number of specimens of galena, or lead sulphide, most of which is in the southern part of Mine Ridge. Below the galena, there are specimens of zinc, iron, and copper sulphides, all of which are mined at Galena, Baxter Springs, and in Joplin Missouri.
There are exhibits of halite or rock salt from the central part of Kansas, near Hutchinson and Lyons, whose salt bents furnish a large part of the
United States salt supply. The ex- exhibit shows the cubical shape in which the salt is found. There are two colors shown; one is colorless and the other is reddish, due to the presence of iron oxide in the salt.
From the western part of the state there are exhibits of gypsum, which is used in the manufacture of plaster. There is a great abundance in Summer county.
Another exhibit of interest to most persons is the one of the elements. In this exhibit are glass models of the world-famous diamonds; and samples of gold, silver, copper, and steel are shown as they occur in rocks in nature.
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