MEANS MUCH TO STATE HAWORTH TELLS OF THE BOYS OF OTHER YEARS
Head of Department Says Mining is on High Plane in Kansas
COAL MOST IMPORTANT
Stripping in Southeastern Part is Greatest in World
A. C. TERRILL.
Several hundred million dollars worth of new wealth have been produced by the Kansas mines, wells and quarries. In the coal mining alone, approximately $10 billion upon the raw materials and fuels produced from beneath the surface, a manufacturing industry has grown up which has had a remarkable influence upon increase of population and economic state. State and wrought a transformation.
In 1910 the value of the manufactured products of the state totaled $25,000,000, as compared with $300,-,000,000 for agricultural products that same year. Yet this state is known as a agricultural state. You have thought of Kansas as a mining state, yet it can lay claim to such a title. Perhaps it would not be fair to use a war year as a basis of comparison. Shall we choose the year 1913 and study mineral production tables. The states in which you have located our country are all eastern states. The first one west of the Mississippi is California with a production of $100,000,000, nearly one half of which is petroleum. New York without coal, Pennsylvania without coal, salt, gypsum, clays, oil, gas, abrasives, building stone, limestone, mineral waters, and other natural resources which also bless Kansas, holds the fifteenth place as a mining state. Canada does so, twenty-five states, twentieth Kansas, twenty-sexh, and New Mexico the twenty-seventh.
SUPPLIES BIG DEMAND
With increased manufacturing and more people will come increased demand for salt, clay, gypsum, limestone and other fundamentals to industry. The fuel supply of the state will continue to act as a great magnet drawing factories and people. A $280,000 output of $429,000 in New York without coal, compared with a $28,000,000 output in Kansas including coal, tells the story of greater utilization of natural resources. True the markets resulting from nearness to great centers of population is the most important factor, but plaster board made from New York gypsum is shipped to Australia, where it is used to go to California after being passed through a carefully worked out process which brings it up to great purity.
The coal stripping area cutting across the south east corner of Kansas and extending over into Missouri, is probably the greatest in the world. The coal mine lies away at the overlying earth and exposing the coal ready for the taking
The plan which America has recently proposed for training the young men of this country in military affairs while they are in college, he said. It would have a part of the regular work of the Universities of Japan.
While Kansas has recently lost its place as the leading zinc smelting state of the union it still stands near Oklahoma and is a great producer of this metal.
Millions of dollars worth of zinc are mined. It has been pretty well proven however that an average of 10 pounds of zinc per ton of the ore is saved by the mills, and a further loss in the smelting results in only about one half the zinc removed from the mines ever reaching the market. More efficient methods have been developed to save and save large sums of money in the Missouri-Oklahoma-Kansas field.
There is something inspiring about the finding of nature's treasurers and making them available for man's use. The activities of a busy world are so closely linked up with the products of nature that their management der our government has created the Bureau of Mines to assist the miner and his co-laborers, the mill man and metallurgist. The wonder is that the government has been so very successful in adopting this basic industry as well as its brother agriculture. How could even agriculture exist in anything like adequate form without tools, and whences would come the tools if there no miner working there on a great agricultural department for many years, but mining has been forced to shift for itself. With a new conception of mining more regard for conservation and efficiency, and an interest in the welfare of the workforce, there is a greater place where technically trained men, evolving more efficient methods, will catch the spirit of the social worker and help transform mining methods and the mining comunity as well. The great gulf between what needs not exist, will not exist when they understand each other better and each works for the other's good.
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WORK IS INSPIRING
Bureau of Science, Division of Mining and Geology.
I only wish I could go on and mention all the others, because equally good things could be said to all the others. W. Ridgway, in raising some of the olus oranges
which are on our Lawrence market at fifty cents per dozen. They do any, however, that Herbert still has his own firearm. The firearm of any of us come within gunshot of his orange ranch he meets us half way and, instead of throwing cold lead at her we invites us to help ourselves to get our gun growing so abundantly in his orchard.
Seventh seems to be driving a considerable part of his time to the rarer elements. The last time I heard from him he wrote me a short letter accompanied by a nice specimen of vanadium ore. Here is hoping that I may have many more reports from him.
ERASMUS HAWORTH
Allan Dodge, I was told the other day, has an income of more than double my salary. An interesting story is connected with this. Someone who worked as a professor priorites as soon as they can, and one of Allan's good friends told me that one of the reasons why Dodge went into business was in order that he might become a proprietor and follow my advice to build a business that his income may increase, and ultimately some of these good boys who have graduated from the School of Mining of our University will be endowing the same mining school and in such a way that they will be institution of America. Possibly, some of the class of 1908 may start the matter along.
1909
R. L. Woodbury, C. M. Ball, W. C. Perry. Here is a small class so far as number went, but by no means small so far as quality and accomplishment are concerned. They have done remarkably well.
Mr. Perry, for example, after superintending various coal mining plants, now is a proprietor for himself, and in a letter received from him recently he stated that he is getting along well. All of us know that the "coal men" are a habit of doing the well, well if they admit it, so possibly after all Perry, although out but so few years, will catch up with the others. Here is hoping that he and all the others may continue to do well.
J. H. Joute, C. L. McWhorter, S.
L. Kaffer, Victor E. Lednicky, Well,
I don't know what to say of these
Arnott R. Stevenson, B. J. Patchejiff, Lloyd L. Stanley, S. G. Dolman, Frank Love, Jr., R. F. Aspinall. The one of his boy game that I think of the most frequently is little Patchejiff, who was able to play while here had considerable difficulty in getting papers fixed up properly to prevent his arrest and return to his mother country on account of his not having the regular three years military duty. Since his return to Bulgaria he has been involved in a war and, hence my constantly having him in mind. A letter from him a few years ago stated that his brother was captain down near Constantinople trying to break into the sacred city, and that he was fighting against the artillery at the same time trying for the same accomplishment. Now, if living, possibly this brother and brother-in-law are trying to defend the city which they tried so hard to capture only a few years earlier, the constant battle with Constantinople thus became the present European war began, but I do know that wherever he is to his heart is loyal to America and to his friends at the University of Kansas, and I know further that we shall always remember him with pleasure and hope that success may be his wherever he may
1911
1910
The other boys of this class are all good and are doing well. Frank Love, at one time, was superintending a coal mine in British Columbia.
cannot was working on the U. S.
Geological Survey for a new york
nation, and thus unsuccessful
boys. Each one, if possible, is a favorite of mine, and each one has gotten a mighty good start for boys of their age. Jonte got married and brought his little wife down to town in a minibit and I have no doubt but that others would have done likewise if Jonte hadn't gotten there first.
Ledhicky is following in the footsteps of Wallace Pratt. After spending a year or more in the gold fields of Central America he came back to the United States and took a
CLEARLY MEMORISED, and sent to the Philippines that he is doing well and is climbing towards the top as fast as did Mr. Pratt.
Here we have a list of Carroll E. Teeter, Geo. M., Martin B. K. Thomson, Daniel H. Cadmus and Oliver L. Andrews, as good boys as ever were graduated from this University. Teeter has had various experiences and is now in the west. He is a graduate high grade engineer at McLaster. Cadmus has succeeded remarkably well and is high up as superintendent of the coal mines of the Great Central Coal & Coke Company. Androws has a very profitable position who occasionally comes through Lawrence and always has a good hearty handshake for all the boys here.
1912
1913
We are now so close to the end of our chapter that it will not do very well to take time to name each one in rotation. Here we have Hainbach and Coats, that pair of politicians who always carried everything that they wanted in their policy politics. Amos D. Johnson, Wallace E. Pratts (Second degree), Warren D. Smith, Clay Roberts, R. N. Hoffman and Philo Hallack. They were a great crowd and they have gone out into the world and already are having trouble himself and are bringing nothing but praise to their Alma Mater.
1915
If possible, the best wine has been saved for the last, but comparisons are not always in order and, therefore, they will not be made here now. The only one that was made by Rohren, Leuces B. Smith, Clark Carpenter, Hugh Brown, Glenn L. Allen and one or two others who took their Master's degree this year. They just went out from us a few months ago and already seemed to trust and trust with good compensation, and are well started. It looks as though the earlier class men, who have been noticed more in length in these notes, will have to work harder to get younger fellows will surpass them. Here is a God bless you, boys.
President Cole is a jolly old sole
With jolly long legs built right for a
strobe
As basketball "cap"
He covers the map
For he reaches right up to the gole.
Brags Loudly of Her Gee-ology Says the Department Head
KANSAS NOT BACRWARD
ERASMUS HAWORTH
ple, when speaking of the broad level plains, that no geology is available or visible. Of course, plains have geolithic surfaces; the valleys have geology the same as hills. Kansas is neither mountainous nor, level. We have hills high enough, until, in some places, the local citizens have more space to plains broad enough and nearly enough level so that in some places one can not see their limitation. We have river valleys so long and wide that they are small compared with what our river valleys may produce. All of this, as a matter of fact, is one part of geology, although perhaps not the part that is most common in the pub-
Outside of the above features it may be said that Kansas is by no means free of mineral materials which make her one of the great mining states of America. She has a great abundance of lead ores and zinc ores in the southeast part of the state. In fact, the eighty acres owned by the South Side Mining and Smelting Company produced lead ores and zinc ores than any other area equal in size anywhere within the entire Joblin district.
KANSAS HAS COAL TO BURN
Kansas has coal in sufficient abundance to supply the world for food. The states have She oil and gas in great abundance, in fact, we do not know how abundant they are, but recent developments in various parts of the state lead us to think that the oil field and gas fields in Kansas may almost, if not entirely, equal those of any other state in the Union.
Kansas also has salt, yes, enough to salt the world for millions of years and then so much would be left that we could hardly comprehend it. No one knows how much salt we do have in Kansas, but we do know that it underlies many counties and has a thickness of from one hundred to two thousand rock salt, yes, the solid rock salt. Five hundred feet thick, underlying a dozen counties, and Kansas counties are not noted for their narrowness of extent.
Then we have gypium in perhaps as great ablumisae as the largest. Half the people of
material which has the highest grade wall plaster is made. Every building erected in Kansas and in the United States for the last twenty years, provided the builder had money to buy it, has its walls plastered with gypsum plaster made from gypsum mined in Kansas or adjacent states. Also we have clay, clay enough to make all the pottery and terra cotta the work of artists, but not all of you have any doubt on this subject step into the geology building and notice carefully the exhibit located in the front corridor. We have clays in Kansas which make as good white enameled brick as may be obtained in America. The Tiffany enameled brick is $80.00 per thousand, and Kansas has clays that would make brick equally as valuable.
Our annual output of clay products at the present time is something like two million dollars, and all that is necessary in order to make this amount exceed three, or four, or five million dollars is to have sufficient demand for the high grade ware which we can produce.
Well, has Kansas any geology? She certainly has, and her geology is changing every day, easy to learn, easily to understand,icularly, easy to help the bank account.
Kansas has broad, beautiful plains. There is nothing wearisome in endless plains because our plains terminate in a vast valley where the trees and walnut trees. By the way, did you know that one of the biggest walnut trees grown in America grew in Kansas, and that Kansas geology is directly responsible for it? It is also why we grow walnuts abound here and there all over the eastern third of the state. It requires one of our beautiful little nooks or cranberries so abundant to be a suitable home for a walnut grove, and you can see how much walnuts out toward the heavens for their breath of life, where the squirrels romp undisturbed because our game laws have given them a new lease on life, and where the birds of all descriptions flock from the hot sunshine and hot wind and, likewise in the winter from the cold winter's blast. Yes, Kansas has geology, and lots of it, and it is a most charming geology also, a theism which means a good taste in the mouth and pleasure in being with it. Here is hoping that all of you may come to Kansas and study the geology of Kansas, for no place in the world...
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