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Show SCHOOL OF MINES ll BROADENING SCOPE m Bureau of Metallurgical Research Is jlj Bo Established at State II University. fjj, Dorsoy A. Lyon of the federal bu- jJ reau of "mines will arrive in Salt Lako :1 next Friday to establish a government ! metallurgical research bureau in conncc-tion conncc-tion with the school of mines at tbo University of Utah. . vK Announcement of tho assignment oi 'Mi Mr. Lyon to this work iu Utah was re- ceivcd" last night in a wire received. by j'll Professor . Joseph F. Merrill, dean of tha Mm Utah school of mines, from Joseph A. Mm Holmes, director of tho federal bureau ;lpi of minos. fl? Professor Lyon is at present at po ;9m head of the government metallurgical "MM work at Pittsburg. Before entering tha aMm service of the government he was pro ,.tt fossor of metallurgy at tho school of Mm mines at Leland Stanford university. .1ft A year ago an effort was made to in-duco in-duco him to become a member of tha faculty of tho Utah school of mines. but he declined to leavo tho service or ; ft the government. His assignment to ; Utah, however, places him in a position Jpr of aiding greatly tho faculty of tha, , J school of mines and tho faculty ot too : if school and the heads of the mining m- . dustry in Utah will be mora than A pleased at the asHignmont. ) Jf The establishment of a foderal bu- ; (i reau of metallurgical research in Utnn is a recognition of the importance of the mining industry of Utah to the na m tion and tho bureau will doubtless , prove a stimulus to the industry. Hero- ; toforc the govornment bureau of mlcis ,c fli has had no resident representative Of- ' casionally tho experts of tho bureau or W mines have visited the local school an" : m at'sistod in tho research work, but bo .: permanent bureau has been established. |