Show engineers and fillmen ahiman I H 1 H adams of newhouse utah superintendent in for the utah leasing company was in salt lake recently attending to company business bert N daskin mining engineer well known in several sections of the west committed suicide by drowning at twin bridges Dion montana tana late in october H V wallace has established an office at central building los angeles where he will engage in the practice of his profession as consulting engineer cecil fitch of eureka utah superintendent for the chief consolidated mining company has recovered from an attack of the flu and is out and around again henry crumb consulting 0 engineer is serving as a member of the priorities committee of the war industries board and is spending considerable of his time in washington edwin chase prominent geologist of denver recently accompanied president fred W price of the rico argentine mining company on a visit of inspection to the com banys holdings at rico colorado rush T sill of los angeles of the airn of sill sill consulting mining and metallurgical lurg ical engineers has received a commission as captain of engineers and has reported at fort douglas utah for training C A allen alien of salt lake state inspector of mines of utah has returned from a visit to san francisco william E harrison has been appointed deputy inspector of metal mines to work under mr allens aliens direction anthony jenkin has been added to the engineering staff of the utah consolidated mining company at bingham utah resigning his position as mining engineer with the seneca mining company of calumet michigan announcement is made that J benton J leggatt prominent mining engineer of salt lake has been appointed engineer and mine 0 superintendent for the montana bingham 31 consolidated mining company operating at e bingham utah earl V daveler formerly of salt lake but of late years assistant manager for the alaska gastineau mining company has resigned dt his position and is now mill superintendent 0 in for the butte superior mining 3 E company at butte montana W M reed chief engineer of the in than service at washington D C was a recent visitor in salt lake en route to the 0 mintah uintah basin section of eastern utah he was as accompanied by john R S reeves of the e indian service legal staff GE I 1 bateman of san francisco field 0 M engineer for the senn concentrator company was as in salt lake on the en route to deming out of murphy idaho where he will install four senn concentrators for the doming deming mines company A G burritt of 0 salt lake prominent in engineering circles 0 of the west who has been laid up with a severe attack of influenza reported at his office again last week looking rather tired but still in the ring he is recovering his strength rapidly C E watson and george randolph prominent mining engineers and well known in pacific coast states were drowned in the recent sinking of the steamer sophia they were returning to their camp in alaska after purchasing mining machinery in vancouver pierre depeyster ricketts mineralogical and mining engineer e for thirty four years professor of analytical chemi chemistry siry and assaying at columbia university and the author of several works on metallurgical subjects died at his home in new york city on the dinst he was seventy one years old I 1 B winsor is now mana manager t er for the blue bird silver mining company operating at mammoth Kam moth copper creek district arizona mr winsor examined properties in the deep creek district utah a year ago and has a number of friends and acquaintances quain in salt lake city the body bode of C A peet of salt lake who was drowned in the shaft ot of nie le aey ey west vest mine near bunkerville Bun kerville nevada some three weeks ago has been recovered and brought home for burial mention ol 01 his death was mentioned in the last issue of the mining review but as yet no details regarding the tragedy have been made public C C gordon a chemist and metallurgist of international renown has been in salt lake for a number of days stopping off here on his way to mexico where lie he has professional business to attend to mr gordon has seen a great deal of service in south america and other foreign countries and is a specialist in his line ile he has many friends and acquaintances in salt lake the report of the organization proceedings of the american zinc institute has been received by the mining review included in the business transacted being the nomination of directors and officers on the list for directors for the term expiring in 1920 we find the name of fred A hale jr of goodsprings Good springs nevada general manager of the Y yellow ellow pine mining company 1 I D mccray chief chemist for the dayton placer recovery corporation operating a cyanide plant at dayton nevada died at dayton on september of influenza monia mr mccray was twenty three years of berkeley california of age and a resident being one of he was considered as in the country he the best cyanide experts was formerly chemist for the mont mining company of tonopah To nevada V C heikes statistician in the salt lake office of the united states geological survey is preparing a 1000 page volume entitled utah ore deposits which is to be issued soon by the government B F butler and G P F loughlin are collaborating with mr heikes in the work each county is to be treated separately the book will be the second of its kind published by the survey though the government plans to issue a similar volume for every state in the union R K stockwell formerly in charge of the salt lake office of the robins conveying belt company but who a few months ago was appointed general sales manager for the company with headquarters in new york writes the mining review that he expects to make salt lake a visit in the near future mr stockwell or stock as he is popularly known all over this western country has many friends here who will be glad to see him again G E phillips who has been the salt lake representative of the gottfrid Gott frie d company of san francisco for the past year has been recalled to the home office of the company for special work mr phillips expects to return to salt lake in march next and during his absence he will be greatly missed by his many friends and acquaintances here the stimpson equipment company will continue to represent the meese gottfried company in salt lake J C of salt lake a representative of the mines efficiency company of duluth and new york has opened an office at kearns hearns building where he will conduct a general engineering business including mine examinations mine management and surveying the mines efficiency company is a well established concern that stands high in engineering and business circles for two years mr has been in the west in the interest of his people and with his growing business found it necessary to establish an office so that he could operate to better advantage walter fitch jr of eureka utah head of the well known mine contracting firm of walter F fitch jr inc has returned home from an extended business trip to eastern points the primary purpose of his visit was to look into the merits of a big development contract which has been offered him in the coal fields of pennsylvania but he returned undecided as to whether to accept it or not owing to the serious shortage of men all over the country however should the war end within the next few months he plans to undertake the contract and to put it through with his customary speed and aad vigor |