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Show Practice Mine1 Proposed at U SALT LAKE CITY, JAN. 30 Mining Min-ing students of the University of Utah may soon be going to school in. the customary garb of the hard-rock: miner with a 'hard-boiled' bat and all, if the proposed plans of Professor R. S. Lewis of the Mining Department Depart-ment and Dr. T. C. Adams of the Civil P'ngineering Department of th University of Utah, materialize. The proposed plan calls for the sinking of two shafts about several hundred feet apart and about fifty feet deep, and then connecting then with a drift tunnel. After this much of the work is done the students in actual practice will then be able to dig various other tunnels and drift or sink other shafts, said Professor" Lewis. Students in both the Mining school and the school of Civil Engineering" of the University would profit from such a "practice mine",, because lb Would offer to both actual practice, and experience in timbering,, drifting" and other problems that must bo faced in a mine, where as the engineer engin-eer would be able to get practice in mine surveying both above ani below ground. If the present plan work out. the "practice mine" will be dug by WPA. workers, to be furnished and further worked out by the students themselves. them-selves. "In the long run it will be much chcajier to operate, both to the students stu-dents and the University than field trips", said Professor Lewis," and it will give the student aomethinR concrete to develop and practice their theories on the campus". I i |