UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MINERS GET GOOD PAY
But Profession Demands Lots of "Pep" and Sturdi-ness
"Say, professor," and a young freshman, timid as they all are, slipped into the office of the mining engineering faculty. "I've heard these miners ing of salting down the gold mines, and the gay life of a mining engineer and I want to know what there is in it?"
"Well," replied the professor, "if you want to follow a profession that has all the fascinations that a redhead can have, work with it. And work that a sturdy man can easily handle, all the salary that an ordinary man can wish, but with the variety, the work and the salary mixed up between them. Let's talk about the mining engineer."
"In the first place, mining engineering is on the boom right now. Mines all over the country are working at full blast and jobs are plentiful. In former years, it has often happened that engineers who work with jobs, but right now any one with even a superficial knowledge of mining engineering or the allied subjects can get a position and work up. With the gas and oil fields opportunities and training available, the profession is correspondingly on the high road to prosperity.
"When the mining engineer gets through with his course at a university he has a wide latitude of operation awaiting him. He can either go to the mine, or be geology, drafting, surveying, etc., because he has had the ground work of all these subjects in his mining engineering courses. By extra work on these subjects you can make them or with a small knowledge of all of these, he can become a consulting engineer, one of the most profitable lines for an engineer."
"That's all right for the variety end of it, but where does the salary come in?" the freshman felt compelled to interrupt.
"I should say," said the professor, "that taking everything into consideration, and the fact that the pay always depends on the caliber of the man, that an average salary for the beginning mining engineer is $100,000 and especially is that true of the miner today when things are on the boom."
Then the professor began reeling off fancy salaries of men in his acquaintance who had been out of school and who were the poor freshman's head dizzy. Some of the men who have been out of school for ten or fifteen years are making from $10,000 to $50,000 a year and in their business are making much more than that.
The freshman was far away from the office. His mind was working to its finest capacity trying to realize just how much money $15,000 really was. He had forgotten the professor who had been sent back to earth by a remark of the professor that sounded something like "work."
START IS LOWLY
"Some of the best men in the business who have been graduated from this school have written in advising the young miner to start in sweeping out the mill on the graveyard shift, meaning from twentieth to twenty-ninth. One man especially who thus advised now has an income of $30,000 a year. He got his start by doing the actual hard work that the ordinary mining labor has to do; he did it for 25 years." "But that same labor, which pays $3 to $5 per day, gives the miner a chance to escape that period of starvation that many of the men starting into other professions must of necessity give him a good livelihood, it gives him a ground work that will prove invaluable to him in later years, when he gets an administrative position. For that reason, the student is relegated to practical training the vacation between his junior and senior year."
"Well," said the freshman, "that sounds pretty good to me, especially when I'm eating."
"Yes, but you want to remember the four years of hard work in the University, the hard actual labor of the mines when you get through, and the hard labor of the nurses and their sponsibility. They are all found in addition to the good salaries."
ESTIMATES COST OF DRILLING IN BUTLER COUNTY
The drilling of a well to the deep sand of Butler County costs from $8,000 to $10,000. In some of the deep tests, there are 50 feet of 15½ inch casing used. Next comes 700 feet of 12½ inch casing, followed by 1400 feet of 8-inch casing; then 200 feet of 8 inches. The hole is then cased to the top of the sand, which is about 2400 feet, with 6% inch casing.
The cost of the shallow wells is about $1200.00. A joint of 10 inch casing is first used, then 530 feet of casing is laid by 6% inch to the top of the sand.
The cost of the drilling is $1.00 per foot for the shallow wells, and $1.50 per foot for the deep sands.
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NEED MORE HUMAN POWER
K. U. Professor Says Man Must Come Up to Plane of Machine
The fact that character is rated higher than knowledge of the fundamentals of engineering in employing an engineer for a responsible position position will be a distinct surprise to many people, including prospective engineers themselves, by the return of questionnaires concerning the qualities looked for in employing men for responsible positions.
The questionnaires were sent out by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The replies are printed on the back of each head. In order of their importance as determined by the frequency of occurrence in the replies, they are: 1, character, including integrity; 2, judgment, including common sense and a scientific attitude; 3, efficiency, including accuracy and industry; 4, understanding of men; 5, knowledge of business; 6, technique of practice and business.
"We have perfected the mechanisms of machinery, now we must gain the greatest efficiency from it. Efficiency is the watchword of the age," said Prof. Arthur C. Terrill, professor of mining and ore-dressing at KU, and that we are doing with machinery that we work for in men. The mere ability of a machine to run means nothing, its worth consists in its efficiency of working. Just so a man's worth does not consist merely in the fact that he can work. Any one can learn to handle a transit without going to school, many of the things we do require of the worker oratory. What we are trying to work for is to make men of character and judgment and efficiency out of our students.
"It is interesting to note that the things least emphasized in employing a man are the things that we are teaching. We are not teaching here but we have been learning through but we are trying to develop them through the atmosphere and environment of the University. I know of few other localities so favorable for the study of this subject, as the locality we have here" continued Professor Terrill.
"Knowledge and understanding of men is becoming a greater and greater requisite of an engineer. Progressive employers are looking for foremen and superintendents who know how to deal with men. And out of this industrial Service Movement in colleges and universities. It is an attempt to put engineering students in closer touch with such problems as they will meet later in active work. The ability of a foreman to get the greatest amount of knowledge in order to assess his essay characteristic of his make-up, and this will all depend upon his own character, judgment and understanding of men."
Our Heinie is a funny sight
wilies withien, cheese and buns to bight.
He wologna dogs abroad
Hill Rockers
With smiles and cap and appetight.
The largest gas well in Butler County, Kansas, is near Augusta. It has a volume of 40,000,000 cu. feet, and had rock pressure of 650 lbs., but this has decreased to 350 lbs. Up to January 1st, 1916, there have been 107 gas wells drilled in this pool, with an average rock pressure of 650 cu. feet. This shows a good average for each well. The main gas sand is struck at about 1500 feet.
A wise old owl lived in an oak
The more he heard, the less he spoke.
The less he said, the more he heard;
Why aren't we all more like that bird?
Law will be taught during the sum-
mation of 1916 at the University of Wash-
ington.
there was a young chemistry bluff Who was mixing some compounded
stuff
He dropped the vial
And after a while
They picked up his front teeth and
cuff.
Chancellor Snow Told Old-timers All About the Rocks on Mount Oread
FIRST CLASS IN 1876 DRILLED ON BIG SCALE IN KANSAS LAST YEAR
history to be read and remembera should be brief, therefore, this will be exceedingly brief. So far as I know the late Chancellor of Germany attempted to teach geology in the University of Kansas. I remember that as far back as 1876 he had a class in geology throughout a period of ten weeks. He used a little-book prepared for me in Dalton in Delaware to would meet once a day for an hour during which time Doctor Snow would ask questions from the text, and would make many explanatory comments. I happened to be in one room in our study in Delaware not quite as early as the date just mentioned. In fact it was the manner by which he explained the various phases of geology, and the mode of presentation in our text. The way we taught of geology was a charm which could not well be forgotten.
ERASMUS HAWORTH
Doctor Snow continued as the only teacher of geology in the University of Kansas until about 1890, or 1891. Doctor S. W. Williston, now of Chicago University, was elected to a position in the University, whereupon Dr. Snowtown received an honorary degree of geology. The present writer came to the University faculty in the autumn of 1892, and at once was given charge of a part of the instruction of geology in the University. For quite a number of years he taught the various branches of physical geology and Professor Williston those of historic and prehistoric geology with much success thus until Professor Williston went to the University of Chicago whereupon the entire responsibility of the department of geology was shifted to the one teacher left behind.
Since the above date there has been added to the geology faculty, Prof. J. E. Todd and Prof. W. H. Twenhofel Professor Todd came before Professor Twenhofel did, and at once began the study of the geology and elementary geology. When Professor Twenhofel came he opened up the department of invertebrate paleontology, being the first individual ever employed as a teacher in the University of Kansas who made invertebrate paleontology a department has grown to its present magnitude under the guidance of the teachers above named. It is now in a flourishing condition, having many undergraduate students and a goodly share of graduate students. The department of geology is booming on account of the high price of oil and the great activity in the field. During the last few years oil producers have gotten it into their heads that geologists can help them, and so every productive student. This has lead to an unusually large number of boys leaving earlier than they should have done on account of the alluring temptation of the producers in the way of high salaries offered. At the present time every single productive student has given positions and has gone, and almost every member of our senior class who is at all competent as a geologist has engagements made to begin on next Commencement Day. Of course, this great demand will not continue in its present form for ten years it has been impossible to furnish as many geologists as the great industry demands.
It is a pleasure to be able to say that the geologists who have left the University of Kansas practically without exception have met with most of them, and that they are more essential to name them, but a number of the leading young geologists in America and in other parts of the world were boys who got their training practically their entire training in geology at the University or Kansas.
Wrestling bouts staged before and between halves of the basketball games is an innovation being tried out at Purdue.
THE ENGINEER.
The wealth of the mountains he used at will, and he robbed them of many v mine.
Two cities were born and grew side by side, held apart by a stream's great force.
He tummed their muggy *barrier* thrue for a coast-to-coast thru line. He made their trails into safe highways, with cuts and bridges and dams. He did so at great cost, using the same trucks and trucks.
He harnessed Nigara's raging fall and dolo it out for hire;
He carried that power the length of our land in one little copper wire;
He diverted a stream from its native course onto wastes of sun-parched sand—
Out of a thirsty wilderness he made a fertile land.
O East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet 'Till the earth and sky stand presently at God's great judgment seat, But there is neither East nor West, border nor boundary, nor limit To the things that an engineer can do, when he is "up again it."
He united the two by a driveway, which spanned the river's course. Then with water, as well as with land, he showed his marvelous skill with the ropes.
The engineer has with his wonderful work subdued land and water and sky, And he'll never stop, we may be sure aloft he has to die; For with spans and trams of well forged steel, and devices he knows are right We can count on his building an exit great, up to the gates of light.
O East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet 'Till the earth and sky stand presently at God's great judgment seat, But there is neither East nor West. nor border nor boundary, nor limit To the thiggs that an engineer can do, when he is "up again it."
The Pahasapa Quarterly.
Such a talented "Miner" as our spindleggd' d Fiske
Ought to store up his wit on a phonograph diske
Can he run the half mile?
You bet! I should smile!
But he best shows his nerve is the pun he will risk.
During 1915, 1088 wells were drilled. Of these 612 were oil wells which produced 16,258 barrels; 135 were dry holes, and 341 were gassers. The largest oil producing county was Chautauqua, with 2,515 barrels closely followed by Montgomery with 2,444 barrels. Of the total work done in 1915, 287 wells were drilled in December. Of these 26 were dry holes and 40 were gas wells, and 221 were oil wells, producing 4,260 barrels.
We have a wise miner named Kelly
Whose appetite starts in his ——
He lets lots of Ones
Him, her, he, we, he says "muse"
When he swears, he says "guns."
And at mealtime he loads up his
Odd Kind of Gas Is Found
In the Augusta field a peculiar kind
of natural gas is found. The gas is composed chiefly of nitrogen mixed with small quantities of oxygen. It does not burn like other gas, and is inhaled without producing the effects of other gas. This deposit is found in wells about 500 feet above the regular gas.
We have a blonde junior named Andy
Whose knowledge of books takes the
candy.
He is sure of a one
Before he's half done
And for holding his tongue he's a
dandy.
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