Show engineers lew humphries consulting engineer for the mason valley copper company at yerington nevada returned a few days since from that property and reports the mine to be looking splendidly L B wilder formerly of vernal utah has accepted a position as assayer and chemist with the states mining company operating in lincoln district beaver county utah near minersville Miners ville L A jeffs and morse duffield have returned from ani inspection of the mountain lake extension just above alta utah and both are strong in their belief that it will develop into a great producer A recent issue of the butte evening news pays a handsome compliment to capt ben tibby the mining engineer who is so well known in salt lake and who is now consulting engineer for the mascot copper company operating near DOS ca bezos cochise county arizona the news says the honest integrity of the famous old naturalist his geniality and his exceptional record both as a mining engineer and as a superintendent have won for him a reputation that few men of his class enjoy a reputation that butte will always hold in high esteem for it was men like tibby who blazed the way for buttes present wealth and greatness mining engineers come and go but those who laid the basis of buttes wonderful wonder tul rul record can be counted on two hands and upon me judgment the integrity of this handful of men millions have been invested and hundreds of millions have been produced among them all captain tibby stands preeminent and no one is better entitled to the warm welcome which always awaits him |