Show THE ENGINEERS I The Experts Taking in the Town of Butte The mining engineers who recently visited this city are being wined dined and feted in Butte The Miner of the 13th speaks of the guests as follows The impression made upon the members mem-bers of the Institute by their treatment so far along the route is very favorable to the places visited The courtesies shown them in Salt Lake were highly appreciated and referred to in terms of praise The meetings held in Salt Lake were three Secretary Raymond was earnest in correcting the mistake made in calling these business meetings He says the business meetings have nothing noth-ing to do with these which are simply regular meetings to read papersdiscuss them attend to election of members etc The present is the FOURTH UTAH AND MONTANA MEETING of the Institute though only the third at which any papers were read Several Sev-eral gentlemen were interviewed regarding re-garding their impressions of the town and the mines they had visited Secretary Sec-retary Raymond was of the opinion that this is a very wideawake active camp He was very agreeably disappointed by the country up from Salt Like He noticed particularly the wellwatered valleys aiong the route In regard to Butte itself he said it had the earmarks of a successful camp It was settling down into a lowgrade proposition pro-position Mr Raymond expressed the opinion that no camp could hope for permanent prosperity that could not master the problem of how successfully to treat lowgrade ore To say that the ore runs 120 ounces doesnt prove the existence of a body of permanent richness rich-ness When people say twenty or thiity ounces then he was ready to accept ac-cept the fact of the camps permanent prosperity being much nearer attainment attain-ment He expressed himself as very favorably impressed with the completeness complete-ness of the manner in which the Parrot mine timbered and the manner in which it is managed by Superintendent Tibbey as being fully up to the requirements require-ments of the quality of rock in which the levels run He said the model of the Parrot made by that gentleman is as good a piece of work of its kind as could be made and MUCH MORE COMPLETE than glass models generally are He is familiar with these matters in every detail being frequently an expert witness wit-ness in mining suits in which the ingenuity in-genuity is taxed in reproducing the mine in dispute in every conceivable rrianner E G Spilsburyof New York admitted that this was one of the most lively camps he had been in He is well acquainted in Montana camps having been in Boulder and Helena in 1871 As to the mines he had visited he thought them both grand mines as good as could be found anywhere The mining engineering of both was of avery a-very high character and reflects great credit on the management He himself him-self works the largest gold mine in the south with an output of 250 tons a day The monthly income is from 5000 to 7000 The area of his holding hold-ing is 2000 acres The ore body is between thirty and forty feet wide and is low grade Mr C E Foote of St Louis said he had found the trip so far very pleasant He was surprised at the sizj and substantial appearance of Butte having always heard of the place as simply a PROSPEROUS MINING CAMP He had never been in any camp anywhere any-where to compare with it except Lead ville He was impressed with the solidity of the timbering of the mines particularly the Parrot Par-rot B E Fernow of Washington I chief of one of the bureaus in the Interior I In-terior Department said he was highly pleased with the Parrot and had noticed no-ticed the excellent ventilation and purity of atmosphere it enjoyed The principal policy I am after said he is to have a more economical system of timbering in general use He is an ardent advocate of tree culture and speaks energetically of the necessity of radical measures for the stoppage of waste The Ontario mine which the party had visited in Utah had impressed im-pressed him more favorably than any here because that mine doesn t seem to need any girths He accounted for this however by admilting that it was a harder rock The gentlemen adjourned ad-journed after the Caplice Hall meeting to the Silver Bow Club where FURTHER HOSPITALITIES were extended to the visitors and the scenes of the day discussed Messrs Leggatt Dolman Irvin and others of the Board of Trade committees were untiring in their attentions to the visitors particularly General Leggatt who attended personally to every detail in the arrangements The members of the institute were presented pre-sented with souvenirs consisting of ribbon badges with the inscription Butte Board of Trade American Institute In-stitute Mining Engineers The clasp which fastened it was unique and was prepared by Messrs Leyson Tnrck It is about two inches long and half an inch deep The ends are tipped wit gold plates a fourth of an inch wide and the center is occttniad by a silver and a copper plate set in obliquely the whole highly urnished and bearing the words in old English text Butte Board of Trade Each visitor will carry one away as a memento of their visit to one of the greatest silver and copper producing camps in the world TODAYS PROGRAMME involves dividing the party into two one of whom will visit the Alice Moul ton an l Lexington and the other the Anaconda i but the permission to visit the latter has not yet been accorded and it is doubtful if this programme can be carried out A visit to the Parrot and Clarks Colusa smelters will be paid by the entire party in the afternoon and in the evening the Caplice Hall meeting will reassemble |