Show engineers and fillmen 1 ira R browning of salt lake state road engineer for utah was in wendover and the deep creek section early in the month on professional business A H scott well known assayer of lovelock nevada has returned to that place from reno where lie he has been convalescing vales cing from a recent sickness R E phelan mining engineer of prominence has been appointed general manager I 1 for the western utah C copper opper company with properties in the deep creek district of utah earl frank geologist of the ohio copper company operating in the bingham Bing liam district utah was a recent visitor at the pacific and other properties in the american call fork district this state J J langford field engineer with the salt lake office of the government geological survey has returned from a two months field survey trip to the sevier valley region in southern utah walter K construction engineer 4 of salt lake has t taken aken the contract for the building of a three and a half mile electric railroad line from conger spur to the fortuna mine at Bing bingham liam utah the utah state board of examiners has confirmed the appointment of ralph W watson well known mining engineer of salt lake as state metal mine inspector the appointment became effective october newton dunyon prominent mining engineer of salt lake who is now operating in the ferber deep creek district on tile the utah butali nevada line was a recent visitor at the park city properties of the bamberger interests G W wood consulting engineer for the dayton placer recovery corporation was in salt lake early in the month for the purpose of a conference with G T hansen general manager of the company the property is at dayton nevada F E steffy builder of the steffy custom mill at chloride arizona who has been at his home in salt lake for several weeks recovering from a breakdown caused by overwork has returned to the arizona camp he is entirely recovered salt lake members of the utah society of engineers held an automobile outing t to parleys canyon on the ath dinst for tile the purpose of inspecting the new multiple arell arch dam just completed there by the water department part ment of this city W K kelsey jr was in charge of the trip C S herzig prominent mining engineer and geologist of salt lake recently visited tile the ferber district in eastern nevada for the ferber copper examining the pur purpose oj mr herzig who companas Comp anys property is lead head of tile the C S herzig company of examined the co recently this city also lumbus rexall mine at alta utah in the interest of eastern capital joseph E pogue of chicago t illino illinois I 1 1 ig attention of mine operators state go logist calls in that section to the fact that iron pyrite is rich in sulphur for which there is now a great demand for the manufacture of explosives and suggests that they turn this supposedly valueless product into a profit As lie he says tile the fools gold can call he be turned into real gold and the suggestion would seem to be applicable to all mining districts where tile the pyrite is regarded as so much waste following a recommendation of david T day of washington consulting chemist of oc the united states bureau of mines a full pardon has been granted A G crane an inmate of the nevada state penitentiary in order that he may continue his researches into the extraction of oil from the shale beds of that state mr day went to carson city last june to investigate the results of cranes experiments and was so favorably impressed that he had a previously granted parole extended into a full pardon one of the considerations which led to this action of the board of pardons wa was that crane while under parole or sentence could not enter into contracts for the advancement van cement of his process nor could lie he locate land |