Show engineers and Mill hillmen ment col T L of keystone nevada where he is developing valuable mining property was in salt lake last week J benton leggat of salt lake prominent in mining engineering circles has returned from a business trip to butte montana A G burritt prominent geologist and mining engineer of salt lake has returned from an extended stay in the oil fields of lincoln and carbon counties wyoming R K stockwell of salt lake western representative for the robins conveying belt company has returned from an extended visit in the northwest stopping off at butte during his trip harold J read who recently organized a corps of eighty united states marine miners from utah idaho and montana has just been given a commission as second lieutenant united states marine reserve A G burritt geologist of salt lake last week visited mining ground near brigham city utah he is now making professional examinations near proctor nevada and is expected home by the end of the month george W wilson mining engineer of salt lake recently accompanied manager charles read of the diamond and excelsior properties on a visit of examination of those groups located at eureka nevada A K tiernan of salt lake who is heavily interested in mining in dugway district tooele thoele county utah went out to his bis camp last week J H cooke his associate has been spending the most of his time at the mines this spring and summer C T and J C dick prominent mining engineers of salt lake have taken a lease on the federal ely mine at ely nevada and are now shipping about four cars of 40 per cent manganese ore monthly to chicago this ore brings 40 per ton less 17 per ton freight charges I 1 E B jennings a member of the engineering corps of the utah apex mining company at bingham utah has gone to berkeley california to take up training in the army aviation school preparatory to service in ill F france rance mr jennings has been with the utah apex force for a period of three years G montague butler E M of the colorado school of mines has been appointed director of the arizona state bureau of mines to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of C P willis he plans to lay greater emphasis upon geological investigations and will soon begin to collect the data required for preparation of a reconnaissance geological map of arizona J 0 elton a graduate of the idaho school of mines and for several years connected with mining operations in the coeur dalene district of that state has been appointed assistant superintendent of the boston montana plant of the anacon anaconda aa copper mining company of butte his appointment fills the vacancy made mad e by the recent resignation of milo W krejci william wraith of salt lake general manager for the international smelting smelling Sm elting refining company has returned from an extended visit to south america he and other men connected with the anaconda copper mining company which controls the international made an inspection of the extensive holdings of the andes copper company in chile this is another subsidiary of anaconda copper J H galloupe of denver colorado the inventor and patentee of the galloupe process for fractional extraction of oils from and hydrocarbons was in salt lake on the on his way home from dillon montana where he arranged for four installations stal lations of distilling apparatus for the dillon oil company mr galloupe states that lie he has made two installations at debeque colorado one being for the mt logan company and the other for the mt blaine oil company walter fitch jr head of the mine con tr acting firm of walter fitch jr inc of eureka utah recently returned from a two weeks visit in nevada and california he stated that progress on his new job at the prince consolidated at pioche nevada is rapid and that it will probably be finished on schedule time his big development program at the property of the walker mining company near portola california is being pushed rapidly also with the management entirely satisfied with results major general william M black chief of the army engineers has announced that the engineer officers training camp which is to open about august will be located at camp humphreys virginia where some 17 engineer replacement troops now are in training two thousand candidates for commissions as captains and first lieutenants are expected to enroll candidates for lieuten ances should be between thirty two and thirty six years old and those for captaincies captain cies between thirty six and forty two A traveling board headed by major E H williams has been named to visit several of the larger cities and examine candidates |