Show PROMINENT IN THE development fabert robert forrester For rr retter ester geologist hu hits been of great value to etab when the 11 it of hinojs men aall have avo beet been completed high up on fie to scroll will be found ft a place reserved ar the man who opened mine mines that now supply nine tenths of the coal ci output alo figured largely tn in the build fig vt f railroads and whose work tn in geo logical survey haa has done much muth for tb th material nat erial of the west eventually thia thil name will be written writt ea ft it forrester geologist no complete history of the state or of the vest can be written without wholesome holesome reference to the worth and work vork of mr forrester hie opera tinaa I 1 avo ave extended from canada to mexico and from nevada to nebraska and in ins bus life he haa has worked for public and private corporations for railroad rail roade und mining companies hm has time line and knowledge to ro research search into the bowels of the earth and has his noved in tho the vanguard of progress niong along highways that aro nov tl tia inee lines if f great common camera carriers his ilia contributions to scientific research have attracted notice all over the world and have left their imprint in the steady advancement of the new west sir mr forrester For reater ii bi now geo loyet for or I 1 he utah fuel company the be largest t coal producer in the west which supplies 90 00 per cent of the catl 1 that goes lito into I 1 the stoves and furnaces furn acea of utah he ile is also consulting engineer for tho the D R G and for thy the rio grando grande western railways the position positions be he now holds have been won by yeara years of service and the distinctive rank to which he has risen is the reward of hard bard work and ho application of miffed energy to a vocation into which hy he ha has thrown the whole since sincerely retty of his hi soul ha ila was born in scotia scotland Scot laid id and studied engineering geology and at the university of ediab edinburgh arch A ams in the eighties he was graduated and after two years study of mining in great britian ha he came across the pond and plunged into the new west where be budded upon the theoretical a praet cal cat knowledge of mining and civil engi engine 4 alering and made a speciality of the ini mineral and coal bearing mountains that are supplying the markets of the world in about 1888 lie forrester entered the im of the pleasant valley coal company which in later ye yc yes s was absorbed by the present utah fuel company he ile made himself almost in 1 dispensable to that company by open ing the great coal mince mines at winter vinter quarters Qu artera clear creek castle gate and sunnyside Sunny side in fact he opened 11 of the mines being operated today by the utah fuel company ho ife opened the mine of the sterling coal company in S sanpete alpe to county in 1895 the mines of the diamondville Dia coal coke company in uintah county wyoming were also opened by him and he also went into la plata county colorado where he opened up the perrin peak mine tor for tho the calumet fuel company the somerset mines in nGun gunnison nison county colorado were also opened by him mr forrester has made extensive geological and topographical survey surveys giving givin roperta to private corporations corpor allone or seraf ng the public with equal sincere ity of purpose and of he examined miners nuner l lands and properties lea for great mining companies and tramped the range of the in the pursuit of work that will live long af after ter he has hits passed away his railway includes work on the southern pacific the old utah central which is now the oregon short I 1 line ine for the rio grande western and the denver ario rio grande he lie report on railway work as well as s apoi mining research looked upon as authora tive and tho the time lias las yet to come com when he was found at fault mr forrester ie is consulting engineer for carbon coun y end and he designed seven road bridges for the people three of them have already been built and four more will be built in the coming spring A feature of these I 1 ridges is the fact that they have and concrete floors they crosbi the price mer river and have an average length of 76 75 f feet beet what will stand out prominently aa as one of the chief works of mr forrester i is lie effective operation of hie his theories the orita regarding the prevention of accidents j in cus mines his ills plans have been generally adopted in all of the utah i fuel mines tend his ideas I 1 have been copied I 1 by mines of other companies ilia put into actual operation have eli mated all danger of accident or explosion he ilo devised a system of Gih onite mang for the gilson Asp asphaltum holtum company which wv pr P r au a in n the duchesne Da chesne country installed nw machinery michi avd made design designs which have been a a certain preventive of of the co ibus tible dual dust in these minea mines there will ill ba be no more explosion explosions as long as a hia his method methods are am enuse in use mr For forrester retter wu at one time from 1892 to 1895 18 united Insi inspector inn neto r of coal minea mines for or utah and he made a record in that capacity yet that was ma not the only time that he served uncle sam for when the amerlean war broke out he joined the 2nd regiment meni of rough ridera riders and thru u I 1 the war envin cing a 4 patriotism that quite equaled the oak th he ho had thrown into his wok work while he be may rogy draw a comfortable income from the corporations corpora tiona for which he work works in an advisory capacity mr forrette tw talker kem keon delight in hia his seitei to te state and to the v eat lie te to in a series of lecture lectures to the seniors at the university of utah and during the year he presented hia wonderful pak collection wehe university eity museum of which be la Is the honorary curator i he ile has also taken an active interest int creat in any work that makes for the general uplift t and is i regarded as one of the leading contributor to ac ilas treaties hare have been published all over the continent and he enjoys the reputation of being belog leaden leading geological authority mr For reeter affiliation with societies of scientist tift research are many he ile belonga to a score 0 societies for honorary position in some of them among boino of the organizations to C which he belong belongs are the geological society of edinburgh scotland the mining and AM metallurgical society of amerce arnea the american institute geographical of mining engineer engineers the national geographical society the american association for the advancement of science wence the colorado scientific society and many othera others lie in Is now comfortably located in a large suite of in the newhouse ee building and although ho he has espeut nearly a qi quarter of a century in rou croughin ghIn hn it over ever the Rock iee through canade snow or through the heat of old carmint ear nini tit the end of it a i far better posit ton lon that when he be cano j to the broka scotland he ii just justi as eager e at or to jump ints rol aa as he ever was round trip rate rates to california W 00 goo alx months month three daily dally train if interested write at once to K C kerr D P A salt lake city for any information about resorts and hotel ask for booklet |