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Show " Tijjenior Mining Engineers Due Home From Interesting Trip fad? sonior mining enc'tneers of ilic ajraity will return this afternoon "Hmheir trip into Montana and ijt, which has covered a period of ,'lpeeks, in time for the baccalau-aVr28Crvico baccalau-aVr28Crvico at tho First ConcrcRation-rtlSp" ConcrcRation-rtlSp" tonight, the opening event fljaimcncciiient wek. alljjfllo in Montana tho seniors had a 'naf instructive and interesting trip. " Jr8t stop was at Anaconda whore 0 to fewtiors visited the "Washoe smelter, ' tUt hirgesj. i11 the world. They ."Jlfcquircd to make a flow sheet of 'rtjfeat. Anaconda mill. From Ana-t?0'tn0 Ana-t?0'tn0 cluss wcnt 0 Blltte whero a jan 0B?5f two and a half days was made Sffc great copper camp. Visits were VHTWtto three of the most important p inWi0 the districts where especial at--fc -was paid to the methods of ;3e. employed in the district. Tho i "iMhad tho experience of being tO Wd in a cage to tho 2500-foot level ,li nrip 3Iigh Ore mine, ono of the 'u g5ilt in Butte. On this level I ho IS. TdMb so hot that the miners aro e InSr wor without clothing 1 vaiBftKnapection was made of the Butte Jjfcion works, formerly owned by Senator TV. A. Clark. At the slimes testing plant in this place, it was found that the Ovorstrom concentrator was tho most satisfactory dovico fmind. This table was invented by Professor G. S. Ovorstrom, former professor in mining at the university. Tho soniors wcro conducted through the Montana School of Mines located at Butte. They were royally entertained by the students of the school and several functions wcro given in their honor. The Utah students were pleased to find that tho equipment of their own school is su-. perior in all respects to that of tho Butto school. From Butte thc itinerary took the students over thc Great Northern whero they enjoyed some magnificent scenery to Grea't Falls. Here they visited tho Boston & Montana smelter which is tho third largest id tho world. In connection with this plant 'is a copper cop-per refinery, which was tho first one that tho seniors have had tho opportunity oppor-tunity of seeing. Thc feature of the Great Falls trip was the visit to tho Great Falls Water Power & Township company's plant on tho Missouri river. This has six lnrgo alternating generators, gene-rators, with a voltage of 6000 and 306 amperes, and n speed of 225 revolutions revolu-tions a minute Tho entire plant produces pro-duces 3S.400 horsepower. Tho next side trip was to Ilelona wIicto tho class was taken through thc East Helena smelter, owned by tho American Smolting & Eefining company. com-pany. The seniors spent a half day at Missoula whero an inspection was mado of the University of Montana. From Missoula the class left Montana lor the Coeur d 'Alone district in Idaho. "Whilo in tho fJoeur d 'Alene district somo interesting trips were made. The class visited tho nunc and mill of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan properties, owned by thc Federal Lead company, and located nfc Wardner, Tdaho. The seniors went through tho Last Chance mill and mine, situated at this samo camp. At Burke, Idaho, a lour was made to tho mines and mills of the Ilnela and Hercules properties. Tho class then returned to Butte whero it was banqueted by some of tho big mine oporators of this fit. Tho next day a trip was made to Alder, Montana, to seo the gold dredge in operation. Thc party then returned to Butto and left there last night for homo. Tho trip is ono of tho longest and most instructive ovct taken by a mining min-ing class. Almost every form of mining, min-ing, concentrating 'and smelting was soon somewhere on tho journey. Tho members of the party aro required to Jilo a detailed report of the trip, including includ-ing maps and drawings, before graduation. gradu-ation. Tho class travels in a special car in which the members sleep and eat, a chef accompanying tho party tho entire en-tire journey. The men are in charge of three members of thc faculty, R. H. Bradford, professor of metallurgy; E. If. TScckblrand, professor of mechanical engineering; and Theodore P. Holt, in structor in mining. The members of the party aro: Joseph M. Tracy, Eric IT. Anderson, Kobort D. Dalton, Clifford Clif-ford S. Wilson, Lester li. Dobbs, Mc-Candless Mc-Candless O. Moffot. Melvin Mansfield, Milo O. Packard, Lester B. Blackner, Fred B. Haynos, Edward L. Ralston, Bert W. Dyer, Henry W. Sherman. Rob ert J. Goodwin, Grauvillo C. Gansl, Glenn A. Koop, .lames E. Alley, llarr1 .L Alley, Fred A. Hule, Jr. |