Show washington it is announced that the spokane copper company has cut its vein on the level of its property near loon lake the ore is said to carry good values in copper though the extent of the strike is not known at this time crosscutting Crosse utting of the ore is under way the showing on the surface is from thirty to forty feet wide to meet the student army training corps regulation requiring the shortening condensing and compression of technical technical ai training given at the washington state college at pullman the school of mines has reduced its formerly offered four year course to an eight term course of three months to the term for the training of practical miners and student soldiers whose services may be required later in the mining regiments of the army dean L 0 howard states that the mining courses have been so arranged as to enable the student soldiers and other completing the work to return after the war and with approximately a year of further study receive their degrees of graduation conrad of spokane president of the united copper mining company with holdings in chewelah Chew elah has been made chairman of the washington board of advisers to assist the director of the united states bureau of mines in protecting the production of mines by securing deferred classifications ficat ions of miners and furloughs furroughs for miners who have been drafted the appointment followed the recent conference of officials of the bureau of the american institute of mining engineers and of the american mining congress other members of the committee are W K R rust tacoma george turner spokane george S ralley railey republic and W J C wakefield spokane frederick burbidge of wallace is chairman of the idaho board and john gillie of eutte is chairman of the montana board |