Show engineers and nen ae ip harry S joseph of salt recent irad transacted mining business in chiea chicago 9 0 J J H mckenzie of sari san francisco re bently made a short business trip trin to tn 0 salt sali joi lake jis J H winwood of salt lake 0 has been bee doing professional work in tintic district district i 12 0 of f late j W A wilson of salt lake is VS making g a collection of utah minerals for colun cogul bla bia university L A jeffs and E W johnson of salt V lake engineers have established an office im in the atlas block A H scott of rochester nevada has d opened an assay office at willard near ear lovelock same state herman ballinger general manager of the braden copper company of newyork new york operating in chile was a recent salt lake a visitor L A jeffs of salt lake president of 9 the united states phosphate company was vas b in detroit michigan last week in company L interests t W H hendrickson of frisco utah general manager for the horn silver mn mining company transacted business in salt lake a few days ago albert hagen has been engaged as superintendent perin by the days fork mining company operating in the alta cottonwood district near salt lake city james neary of tooele thoele utah superintendent of tile copper plant of the international smelting smelling Sm elting company is in miami ar an zona assisting in the blowing in of the companas comp anys new plant at that place walter fitch of eureka utah general manager of tile the chief consolidated mining company recently made mine examinations in the forest hill region california he was accompanied by his son howard fitch and his son in law fred johnson JohnS the west engineering agency of salt sal lake has recently been incorporated for the purpose of dealing in engineering supplies and operating an employment bureau the capitalization is placed at 1000 in ill 1 shares the officers are R L R riggs aggs t pres P ident dent L A armstrong vice president RL second vice president mrs oneill secretary and irwin treasurer geologist 0 of mr C E lesher associate geology tile the ian land d classification class fi cation board of the united uni assigned aisig states geological survey has been talce take charge clia by the director of the survey to of of the work of compiling the statistics alual coal production published in the worx v this volume mineral resources edward E arl has heretofore been directly w under the fro frob W parker whose resignation geological Geologic a I 1 survey is effective july 1 mr lesher is a graduate of the colorado school of mines and after liis his graduation was enraged engaged in ill mining in british columbia until 1910 when lie he came to the united states geological survey since then as a field I 1 geologist lie he has had experience in the coal fields of montana colorado wyoming north dakota washington and oregon As a member of the land classia classification cation board of the survey ills his largest contribution has been in ill perfecting the scheme for the valuation of the public coal lands in which it has been necessary to utilize a largo large amount of statistical data of various types mr ir lesher will continue his services as a member of the land glassill classification cation board although the reorganization of that work will relieve him of the greater part of his duties in connection with coal land valuation the utah section of the american institute of mining engineers will hold a meeting at eureka on july the salt lake contingent will travel to eureka in a special train and tile eureka members of the institute are preparing a pro gramme that will prove to be very interesting and the guests are to be entertained in great style it is expected the attendance will be from to T W ireland manager of the century mine at golden box elder county utah was in salt lake during the week consult ing with company officials mr ireland came through from golden in one day a distance of miles in his buick bring fr ing his wife and little daughter with him he states that work is progressing satis facto rily in getting the century in shape for renewed production howard F chappelle of new york conr suiting engineer for armour company ini teresta te rests recently visited the companas comp anys alunite deposits near marysvale Marys vale utah accompanied compa nied by chas H mcdowell of chi cago potash expert for the armours in 1 referring to this enterprise mr chappelle is quoted as saying we have inspected s the properties at marysvale Marys vale and as we want F only the potash it is possible that the alum t ilium in the alunite will be sold to an alum mum ilium manufacturing company the american potash company which has been organized with a capital of will develop the claims and we expect to get to work rk as soon as the plans are completed of course there is a supply of potash in this country to last another year but no one can call tell how long the war in europe will last st and the potash deposits of utah will be developed ve loped As to the detail plans I 1 cannot t say bay until after a report is made in the east le the general plan is to the alunite deposits at once we have purchased the acres of land necessary for the reduction plant and have power practically on the e grounds in addition I 1 am given to understand that the ties are being made or are about to be made for the tramway |