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PROF SENDS GREETINGS
And Former Student Writes About Big Mines in Utah
Prof. C. M. Young, for eight years associate professor of矿学 here, resigned two years ago to become editor of the Colliery Engineer. When this magazine was consolidated with Coal Age last fall, he became its assistant editor, handling the anthracite field with Scratton, Pa, as headquarters.
the students and former students of the department of mining engineering
From there he sends greetings and follows:
I am pleased to hear as frequently as I do of the successes of the former students and I hope that they will be interested in them and always shall be.
I am glad to have this opportunity to extend my greetings and express my best wishes. One cannot be connected with a work for eight years, as I was with that time, the partnership of the engineering company having a lasting interest in its welfare, its growth and its development. I am sure that it will grow because the industrial development of the country in the future will need the trained methods of thought of the engineer as much as the speed of movement in the past, and the training of the mining engineer is good training.
Very sincerely,
C. M. Young.
Glen L. Allen, '15, is now working with the staff of the U. S. Bureau of Mines at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. It will be remembered that Glen Allen when a student at UT worked on a career work applying the flotation process to the ores of the Joplin District.
The following is an excerpt from a manuscript from him by Prof. Ergil, Arthur C. Terray.
The Tintic mining district of Utah contains 2,000,000 tons of low-grade copper-lead-silver-gold ore, worth about six dollars a ton to the averages. This ore is also valuable; this ore cannot be treated profitably by existing metallurgical methods.
The Bullion Coalition mine at Stocton, Utah has a dump containing 175,000 tons of accumulated waste from the mining operations of the past. The metals in this waste are nickel, cobalt and mercury ore but so far, this ore has defied economic separation and concentration.
The American Flag mine in Park City, Utah has a large tonnage of ore worth twenty dollars a ton. Much capital has been invested in enterprises looking toward the recovery of this wealth but so far all attempts have failed to produce commercial results.
A man from the department of mining of the University of Kansas has been employed by the state of Utah and allied metallurgical problems.
Yours very truly,
Yours very truly,
Glen L. Allen.
GEOLOGY HAS CHARMS
Profession Doesn't Lead Man Over Flowery Beds of Ease, Though
BEGINNERS MUST GO EASY
"Everlastingly Pegging Away"
Only Successful Method
W. H. TWENHOFEL
There is no royal road to success in geology, and a student of the subject does not rest on "flowery beds of ease," although the field of his studies takes him where grow the wild flowers, the green grass and the trees; but it also takes him over hills and across the glacier with its yawning crevasses, through the driving snow, across water-soaked swamplands, up precipitous mountains through the currents of mountain torrents.
The geologist, to be accounted such, must spend from five to seven years in preparation and ever afterward he must keep abreast of the field of investigation. He must be something of a chemist, must know considerable of physics, must be a fair botanist and zoologist and must be able to handle mathematics of tngles. He must speak and especially write his native language with a native English. He should also be able to read two or more foreign languages among which should be French and German.
As a profession, there is none more pleasant and interesting than that of a geologist, provided that the person contemplating the possibility can appreciate nature walk along the banks of a flooded stream and realize that the waters waters are carrying away the hills; to stand on the brink of a Niagara and watch the tons of water dash to the ground below and see the earth disappear; to observe a volcano belch forth rivers of molten rock or gigantic clouds of volcanic dust and to realize that thus the land is made again; to hear and bear the soothsong of the mountains to catch the sinister note of land destruction; to be awed by the savage roar of volcanic outburst, to hear the half concealed benevolent tone of continental restoration; to see in the destruction of a San Francisco or an earthquake continued existence of a continent and to know that the wide, fertile valley of the lower Mississippi with its peaceful farms is perhaps the last scene before its submergence by the waves of the sea; these are some of the things in the life of a geologist.
No person of faint heart should enter geology with a view of making that his life work. He should be strong of limb and body, vienn of brain and eye and greatest inductance and clearest thinking of which he is capable. The profession is not one for the indolent and the sooner that this is realized by those of such characteristics the better it will be both for the scientist, and if they do not leave the science it will so save them.
One year a geologist may be called upon to explore the wilds of an Alaska or a Labrador, where he must carry his tent and provisions over ice cold rivers and through dense forests and where he will always be at attention. He retires of my visits to black flies in the sunlight and an infinite number of mosquitoes where the shadows fall. The next year his work may lead him to the barren windswept deserts of the drainless basins between the ranges of our western Cordillera, or across the burning of a crop runoff. He may search the lands of a reptile infested Amazonian swampland, or climb the slopes of a snow-capped Alps. If he meet the tests, he will be awarded a full measure of success. If he fail, he will be be cast aside as a broken reed. Hardships will have to be endured and a geological survey of eat enough green persimmos to make his stomach fit his food.
Let no person, however, approach geology merely as a means of making money. The purpose should be a different one. He should enter into geology because he likes the work and the life in the open, and the dollar should be incidental. The greatest difficulty the writer has had in
training students for the profession has been to convince them that to become geologists they must be geologists and not mere wage earners. The question they raise is almost invariably the commercial one. "How much can I make?" "How much can I learn." The attitude of the host is entirely incorrect, the question of the few entirely correct. It exemplifies the proverb, "Many are called, but few are chosen." A geologist as a matter of course should earn enough so that the problem would hold little or nothing as possible, but for those who see only the commercial end of the profession successes will be comparatively few, either scientifically or financially; while for those who enter into geology because they feel that by such action they are doing their life's work, success is guaranteed. Wards will be both scientific and golden.
The beginner in geology should not be in too great a hurry to reach the top. A letter from a recent graduate contains the following sentences; "Everlastingly pegging away is the price of success according to my notion. The danger with a young man is too quick a rise rather than too slow a one." In my judgement, good advice is important to those who are willful and it requires that talents fit these requirements, there is no life more pleasant, more profitable or more useful, and I must also add, one that develops greater appreciation for the wonders the Ruler of all things has made.
TRAINS FIRST AIDERS
Miners Given Thorough Course in Rescue and Resuscitation Work
H. E. FAIRCHILD, '17.
During the first semester of this year seventeen men from the department of mining engineering were trained in first aid and mine rescue work. The work of training was done by the United States Bureau of Mines and was under the direct supervision of his assistant, Mr. Davies who are in charge of Car No. 4 which is stationed at Pittsburg, Kansas.
The students were instructed in the care and handling of rescue apparatus. They were required to test all the principal parts of the apparatus before putting it on each time and making sure that no leakages or making repairs, etc. Part of the work consisted in carrying heavy loads through difficult places such as carrying a man on a stretcher up a steep flight of stairs, over piles of ore and boxes, over rocks and hours each day for six days was spent in this work. Two of these three hours each day the student was required to spend in a tent filled with smoke and formaldehyde fumes. Each man was required to take the same amount of fire if this fume filled tent, digging with a pick and shovel, and lifting a weight.
The breathing apparatus which straps on the back weighed about thirty-eight pounds. As the air is being used, it causes moisture and the carbondioxide with potassium hydroxide and the oxygen used up is replaced from a small supply tank. These machines when fully charged will last a man about two hours.
DIVIDE MINERS' COURSES
In addition to the care and handling of the apparatus illustrated lectures were given by Dr. J.J. Rutledge, the head of this district of the United States Bureau of Mines. Several reels of motion picture film were used showing rescue parties in actual operation. He also took a second and the work in which he made districts. The mine conditions and the work being done in south-east Kansas were portrayed by Mr. John Pellegrino, state mine inspector.
ILLUSTRATED WITH MOVIES
The first aid work was also given in three hour periods each day. In this course the student received instructions in determining what was the matter with the patient and the patient was be placed under the care of a doctor. Instruction and practice were given in bandaging cuts and wounds and in controlling excessive bleeding. The man who had been fractured bones, sprains, strains, and bruises was illustrated and practiced given in bandaging for all of these. Instruction was also given in taking care of an injured patient for assistance and drowning.
This was the first time in the history of the school that the students have had a chance to take the work in this manner. Each man is to receive two certificates and he is qualified for first aid and mine rescue work. Five years ago the Mine Rescue car made a short stop here and a few demonstrations were made but no attempt was made to conduct them. The Bureau has trained about 25,000 men in this work during the past few years since it was organized.
Cages should not be dropped into the sump when men are being lowered or hoisted. The practice is unhealthy and tends to break down esprit de corps. Serious injury do the hoisting engineer has been known to result from neglect to observe this precaution—Exchange.
Geology and Mining Engineering Are Different Depart-
RICHARD L. GRIDER
The department of mining engineering was separated from the department of geology last year. It is now an independent department under the University of California schools civil, mechanical, electrical, and architectural engineering.
The object of the course in mining engineering is to prepare men to enter actively into the duties of mining operations, developing and operating them; designing and constructing mine plants; and determining methods and processes of preparing coal and minerals from ore. Students will learn that the student that he may be fitted to undertake and successfully carry to its completion the more responsible work of mining and not confine themselves to other positions of trust and responsibility.
The courses in the School of Mines include work in practically all the departments of the University, the aim being to give the student as broad and general a training as possible. The first two years are designed for students, such as geology, chemistry, mathematics, drawing, English, language and mineralogy.
Practical instruction is made an important feature as well as the practical training in the laboratories in which it is being used with materials, and working tests of machines and processes of ore treatment thus preparing him, as far as it is possible, in the University, for work he will be called upon to do as an engineer.
HAVE FOUR-YEAR COURSE
The courses in this department for the regular four-year period are divided into:
(1) Coal Mining and (2) Metal Mining
They are similar during the freshman, sophomore and junior years as a general engineering foundation is essential to both. With the senior year students must specialize upon the geology of coal,矿煤 mining, methods, ventilation, coal gases, construction, etc., while those following the metalliferous courses take up the study of ores, ore deposits, minerals, rocks, etc. Students desiring more technical work than is given in the regular four-year curriculum are advised to take the new five-year mining engineer course; these courses are divided as before, into:
(1) Coal mining and
(2) Metalliferous Mining.
They are similar during the fresh- season, junior years but specialize in the amphibian.
The old curriculum has been reconstructed with the result that a few old courses have been strengthened and a few new ones added. Chemistry 2 has been increased from a four credit to a five credit course, thereby, giving the student the benefit of obtaining two hours more practical work in the chemical laboratory; civil engineering 1 (surveying) in the second semester of the sophomore year; a two credit to a three credit course, in order to include all of the office and field work, which is so essential to students of mining engineering; and Geology 55 (Economic Geology I) has been increased from a two credit to a five credit course, because the value of metallic substances are of greater commercial value than the metallic substances.
Since a knowledge of steam and electricity is so essential to the mining engineer, Mechanical Engineering 4 (steam engine) and Mechanical Engineering 60 (elements of electrical engineering) have been added to the curriculum. These two subjects are taught in the departments of mechanical and electrical engineering where steam power is used of the things can be demonstrated by the study of actual machines, etc.
The old mining courses have been subdivided and arranged according to sequence of subjects into one, two and three credit courses. As a result, the title of each and every course indicates clearly what may be expected in the course and for students is easy to grasp and classify the different mining subjects with greater accuracy and to receive more efficient instruction.
COURSES ARE PRACTICAL, TOO
All courses have been designed to permit theoretical instruction followed by the practical application. To illustrate: (1) under the subject of hydraulics, students in the draulics is first studied and then followed by the study of the applications of the theory to all kinds of problems bearing upon the subject, such as hydraulic motors, pumps, pump valves, hydraulic pumps, machinery, dredging, drainage, etc., and (2) under the subject of Mine Plant and Mill Design the study of the theory, general principles and applications, which are followed by the practical application in the solution of problems relating to mine building, mills, ore bins, tresstes, head-frames, etc. As the success of the young men in these courses has his ability and tact in applying his knowledge attained at college to the practical problems in the field, the student is required to solve problems, which will
be completed without trouble, be-
fore entering upon his proficiency.
The courses offered in the mining department are: mine methods, mine surveying, excavation and explosives, mining law, ore dressing, metal mining, mining hydraulic drilling, mine administration, mine examination and reports, coal mining, mining engineering, mining economy, mineral and public land surveying. And the mining engineering curriculum includes earth science, language, drawing, geology, chemistry, physics, surveying, mineralogy, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, mechanics, strength of materials and industrial administration, the University. More advanced courses in ore dressing, design and mining engineering are open to senior and graduate students.
Reflections of an Economic Geologist*
*What care I need if ground-water's birth date falls in the spring? Or whether in the Earth's round cup they stand deep down, or way high
What good is done immortal souls,
That all the rocks are full of holes,
Some holes as fine as table-salt
And others, Big Ones! on a fault?
I cannot count myself bewitched
Because the copper ore's enriched;
Nor does my bosom need pride
To lead me from lead sulphide,
Do nor I do swirl with delight
At caimain from sphalerine
The views of Lindgren, Kemp, and
A wake no sympathetic note,
Give me green grass, or quiet nook,
Or arcway, or a creek to look at,
I will bolt from the view to
the tellous ore-deposit crew."
SHUBERT
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