Show engineers and fillmen W A wilson was in denver the first of the month attending the meeting of the american institute of mining Enig J B ambler of salt lake of the engineering firm of ambler riter has returned from colorado where he attended the meeting of the A M I 1 E george brock formerly with the florence potash company at marysvale Marys vale utah is now located at hiawatha same state where he is following his profession as engineer oscar H hershey consulting engineer of kellogg idaho accompanied by andrew C cawson of berkeley california was a recent visitor at the tom reed mine oatman arizona G L sheldon mining engineer of ely nevada was a recent visitor at the joe garrison silver property out from virginia city montana he holds the property under lease and bond R M crocker of salt lake well known in mining engineering circles has taken the examination for enlistment in the engineers officers corps and will soon be located at the officers training camp at camp humphrey virginia dr G W sargent has been named head of a new metallurgical board at washington D C which will have for its object the coordinating of all metallurgical activities of the ordnance department and the war industries board H E clement of salt lake has been appointed general manager for the american mining exploration company operating the imlay and rye patch mines in humboldt county nevada mr clement will make his headquarters at imlay A G burritt mining engineer and geologist of salt lake returned early in the month from a professional visit to the prospective oil fields of sanpete county utah he left almost immediately for the new dixie oil fields in the southern part of the state prof thomas M marshall professor of american history at the university of colorado at boulder is collecting data on the history of mining in that state to be published in book form he recently visited central city for the purpose of examining old records on file in the county clerks office there prof eliot blackwelder geologist for the university of illinois at urbana was in salt lake early in the month in the interest of a large corporation which is accumulating data on the oil shale business and its possibilities ties he has investigated the of western colorado and eastern utah and came to salt lake to look into the distillation processes col D C jackling managing directo the utah copper company and of head had jackling group of porphyries ries spent s of oftie tle days in salt lake early in 1 this month visited the workings of the utah C co bingham and the big odder it mills at gl arfield and magna utah while here col jacy jacklin head of the explosive ive manufacturing depagt dol B ment of the united states 1 governa nt on ne of the 1 a year jobs at the luncheon given by the lawns kiis club in salt lake on the evening of tte the ath H T plumbs plumb consulting engineer on tie staff of the general electric company gays gy an interesting address on oil the subject of electricity in war 0 R talmage of the western electric company presided at meeting and E H eardley ot of the eardley brothers company presented each lemki with an attractive souvenir L A jeffs of salt lake although reject ri I 1 twice in his ende endeavor avor to enter the sedrict of uncle sam is wholly patriotic m W anxious to assist the government in sofij SOBS manner and has made the suggestion that thi the engineers of utah who cannot ferfon military duty because of physical or who have been exempted for other chusa form an association or organization fort for tl purpose of performing work along engineer ing lines for mining and industrial col COB panics in order that men in the employer emp loye such companies might be released for ser sen ice in the war there are quite a nuite of prominent engineers in the state who TS 19 not be reached by the draft and these mi out a question of doubt would gladly ole offe their services to keep the boys at 6 front if by so doing they could enabled man who is fit to make his presence presena in france |