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Show Details of the Weeks That Utah Students Spent in Surveying. CULINARY DEPARTMENT PAID IN RESOLUTIONS While the Days Were Spent at Work, the Nights Had Their Pleasures. Tho last of tho twenty-six junior students of the University who havo been doing practical surveying work at Eureka during the last month arrived ar-rived in Salt Lake "Wednesday morning, much wiser, of course, and more tanned than when thej' left school on May 24 to take up this work. The outdoor lifo and the daily climb over the rugged mountains have tended to develop the boys along new linos, and none looked tho worso for the strenuous life of the last five weeks. This surveying work is a regular part of tho courses in civil and mining engineering en-gineering given at the University, and every student who receives a diploma in either of these branches must do this work. Besides tho surveying work, the mining students are also required to do two weeks of field geology and mining min-ing work under Dr. J. B. Talmago and Prof. G-. A. Overstrom. This work comes at the first part of the trip and it is followed by the surveying work, which this year has been in charge of A. G. Andrews, chief of tho mineral division of the United States Survo3or-General's Survo3or-General's office. The work done by the students this year iB said to be the most thorough ever done in this course. The mon who have been in charge are thoroughly practical and therefore were fully qualified to give the students the best part of the work iu the shortest time. The students who made the trip were Georgo Allen, H. A. Gardner, J. P. Russell, Rus-sell, Charles Leger, D. G. Lyon, Reuben Brighton, E L. Jones, C. W. Higgins, C. ft. Woolf, P. "W. Deming, J. Jensen, E. S. Bowman, V. B. Horbst, O. A. Peterson, J. S. Bennion, M. F. Schick, II. C. Meyerhoffer, Leo A. Snow, H. v. Alston. I-L E. Havenor, R. J. Bryant, w. j:,. sutton, M. 0. Jjowney. 1. it. wii-son, wii-son, R. R. "Woolloy and Reuben Simpson. Before leaving Salt Lake the boy3 held a meeting and chose F. "W. Deming Dem-ing as chief engineer and W. E. Sutton, commissary. The following were elected elect-ed captains: Georgo Allen, D. C. Lvon, E. L. Jones. J. Jensen, J. S. Bennion, Leo Snow, R. J. Bryant and T. R. Wilson. Wil-son. Tho boys then divided in parties of three and four, and each party remained re-mained intact throughout the trip. Camp at Eureka. Fifteen of the boys who are doing the mining work left Salt Lake on May 2-L Arriving at Eureka, they pitched camp about two miles from town in a grove of maple trees at the foot of the dump of the Yankee mine. Fresh water was secured from a spring near by. The tents were placed in the grove so that all were arranged symmetrically sym-metrically up and down "Main " street. The cook tent, the dining tent, with the cook's tent, were pitched near tho spring. Hyrum Manwaring and his wife looked after the eulinao part of the trip, and so well did they treat, the boj'3 that, when camp was broken Monday, a. set of resolutions was drawn up thanking them for their efforts. The camp received its name from the grove, and all mail was addressed to "Camp Maples." The ofnee tent was pitched at the lower end of Main street, while the tent of Mr. Andrews, who was known as the "Colonel" or the 'old man," according to hearing distance, was placed at the head of that thoroughfare. thorough-fare. Next to Mr. Andrews's tent camo the "G. A. R. Correspondence college," where "Lizzie" Allen roceived letters from mamma, "Cuddy" or "Puddy" Russell, from Daisy, and Allen Gardner got the blue variety from 305 South Thirteenth East. Opposite the college was the "Zoo," where "Skyn" Lyon. "Slim" Brighton, Bright-on, tho giraffe j and "Braggo" Leger. the monk, held forth. Below the "Zoo" was "McWhirter Bros." bakory, where "Aleck" Jones, "Weelum' Doming. "Tiny" Higgins and "Macru-ran" "Macru-ran" "(which means straight) Woolf handled the chips till the wee small hours of the night beckoned them to bed. Across the way was tho green table, whore "Pot" .foe, U. S. 0. R. S. Jensen, D. D., snug "Papa Loves son" Bowman and "Tko"' or "Snipo" HerbsL figured up the earnings after a strenuous evening of "Hearts," "63" or ",21." Peterson Fed Birdseed. Farther down the street was tho "Clipper," whore "Professor Anton" Peterson fed birdseed to " Josio Kelly" Bennion, "Gold Dust" Schick aud all others who wished to spend an evening singing the melodious songs of homo ana elsewhere. Drs. "Henio" Mcyerhoffcr, "Dippy" Snow and "Chisel Teeth" Alston "did a rushing business across tho way caring for tho victims who were "dragged around the "snorting" post one of the most respected institutions of the camp. "The Tap" at lower Main street was the home of Commissary "Lulu"' Sutton, Sut-ton, where he attended to the wants of "Jumbo" Bryant and "Shylock" Uavenor, who, however, was. known to tho ladies of Eureka as "Dottie," the dear one. "Railroud" Woolley, alias "Dago Joe," Miko Downey, "Happy" Wilson and "Silent" Simpson held forth opposite oppo-site the "Tap," and daily they would parade Main street waiting for tho "last cnll" for meals. At the sound of last call they would always lead the lino of hungry fellows who beat the trail for tho' cook tent. "Last call" always caused a cessation of business, and, no matter how slow, none was over lalo at the sound of "last call." Also Canned Goods. Canned goods were among the chief articles of food at tho camp, but fresh meat was delivered every other dav by the Mayor of Eureka. Benns and p'iggy had n strong hold in the cook's henrt, and Commissary Sutton paid out the coin in liberal quantities for theso standard articles ot camp food. Breakfast Break-fast foods always appeared in largo quantities, and all who camo late for meals managed to got at lonst one dish of the crisp food with Home ' ' tinned ' ' cow. Pie was served occasionally, but after a few trials this was discontinued, as "Tiny" Higgins always cried for more. Eico pudding found its way to the table about once a week. Hash appeared but once at breakfast, and at noon that day nobody appeared for lunch. "Bull-neck" appeared on the table daily, but occasionally a tender piece of veal became misplaced nnd appearod there also. Irish was selected as tho court language. lan-guage. Saturday evenings most of the boys went to tho dance at Elks' hall in Eureka, Eu-reka, where they made u big hit with the belles of the town and incidentally gathered a few . "lemons" while ascending as-cending the social ladder. Before they had loft camp one fair one had been unanimously accorded the title of "Grand Lemon." Tho day before tho boys left Eureka they g;ive a grand ball at Elks5 hall. It was a success, according to the standards of "Camp Maples. " . "Skyii" Lyon made a big hit with the 'bishop's daughter" as a result of his regular attendance at Sunday-school, Sunday-school, and it is understood that 'Skyn" will roturu next week to work in one of the mines. "Skyn" was not tho only one, however, who went visit- ing in Eureka. "Dottie" was there, so wore "Iko" and Bounion and a . score of others. The days were spent in hard work out on the mountains, where each party surveyed throe claims, plotted the sumo and wrote the official notes which arc offorcd at tho Surveyor-General's office when a patent on a claim is desired. Ono of the pieces of underground work consisted in plumming a shaft and H carrying tho line out on the surface H again. Special work was secured by i some doing jobs for a number of tho H pcodIo around Eureka, |