Show trade notes the state road commission of utah has purchased two erie steam shovels from the makers the ball engine company of erie pennsylvania after an exhaustive demonstration C E robertson and A L headberg of salt lake heads of the machinery firm of headberg robertson have secured the local agency for the houston waste fibre fabre mills of houston texas makers of all grades of white and cotton waste and wool waste G A schneider formerly with the san francisco sales organization of the western electric company of new york city has been appointed manager of the companas comp anys branch at buffalo new york succeeding J W tabb who has been transferred to the new york city headquarters J G grossman is now representative at casa grande arizona for the byron jackson iron works of los angeles makers of the well known byron jackson pumps for mining and other industries mr grossman will handle the machinery of the charter gas engine company also salt lake offices of the byron jackson iron works are in the american building Duro loid donahae sales manager of the los angeles foundry company has rei turned to los angeles from a visit to arizona mining campst camasi Duro loid lold and grinders are now being used in the milling and reduction plants of the miami copper company the chino copper company and the arizona copper company besides by smaller companies in arizona and new mexico the san francisco firm of charles C moore company has secured naval contracts to the amount of about from the government the awards cover the construction st of two naval oil stations one at pearl harbor hawaii and the other near Br emerton washington the work is to be completed within days charles C moore of the firm has been in washington in connection with the bids for the work recent sales of drill sharpeners sharp eners by the numa rock drill sharpener company of salt lake city include a machine to the columbus rexall mining company alta utah one to the bullion coalition mining Com company bany stockton utah arid and one to the builders iron steel company with offices at south fourth west street salt lake the last named company manufactures custom bits for all kinds of rock drilling and machine work the M D mining company with holdings in the important eldorado canyon section of southern nevada has just purchased an okell five inch core drill made by the okell well machinery company of los angeles and expects to have the machine on the companas comp anys ground within a few days W A mccarty president of the M D company will have charge of the prospecting operations U of salt lake is general manager for the company walter fitch jr inc the big mine conr con tr acting firm of eureka utah is now employing a force of about thirty men at the property of the walker mining company near portola california practically all of the development work there is being done by the fitch company and good results are reported john mathewson superintendent of the work early this month took several more miners from eureka to the walker property with the intention of speeding up even further in the work the salt lake office of the sullivan machinery company has been moved from the kearns building to 1605 6 walker bank building the change being necessitated because of increased business and the urgent need of larger quarters B B brewster is local manager for the company on january 2nd and to ath the annual conference of company representatives from all over the world will be held in chicago and it may be of interest to the many friends of matt brodie who formerly represented the company in salt lake but who is now stationed at petrograd Petro grad russia to learn that he will be present at the conference the layne bowler corporation of los angeles the worlds largest water developers have sold a layno layne bowler sinking pump to the jerome del monte copper company jerome arizona it is to be used in the further sinking of one of the companas comp anys shafts where considerable new development work is planned the pump will be watched with considerable interest by mining engineers and operators as it is of a new type of construction and is said to be a radical improvement over any of the older types of sinking pumps E S armstrong is general manager for the del monte alonte company and D D homer M i mine superintendent the industrial engineering Z company 33 34 35 atlas block salt lake city which has succeeded in building up a large business in its line has steadily been adding to its force until now it has from twelve to fourteen engineers and draftsmen on its staff in addition to which it has added two rooms to its quarters the company is attending to all the engineering work and is supervising all construction for the minerals products company at marysvale Marys vale utah whose plant was recently destroyed by fire this company is also designing special equipment for the production of potash in california and has in contemplation the designing of several mining and industrial plants the salt lake route has purchased sed 1000 new steel coal cars with collapsible floors for dumping at a cost of 2000 each this expenditure is part of a general plan to expedite transportation of fuel and to relieve the coal shortage in various localities along the companas comp anys line A modern concrete coal terminal costing and electrically operated has been installed at provo utah to be used jointly by the salt lake route and the new utah coal route it includes storehouse roundhouse shop water tanks chutes trestle etc an engine coaling station costing and with a capacity of tons has been established at caliente nevada on the main line of the salt lake route to california recent sales of inter coolers by the maccamy air cooler condenser company of salt lake city include one to the smelter of the united states smelting smelling Sm elting refining mining company at midvale utah jone one to the ophir hill mining 0 company ophir utah and one to the utah apex mining company bingham utah the company is at present building a second machine for the last named property H E maccamy of this city manager for the company and inventor of the maccamy isi is now overseeing the construction of a surface condenser he plans an early trip to california to test it out with the view of installing it upon the naval vessels of this government the maccamy machines are successful in the purpose for which they are made and their adoption by the naval authorities will bring another utah industry before the world |