Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-02-22 | Page 12 | Mining Engineers Talk Preparedness

Hi ENGINEERS TALK PHMEDNESS Discuss With Naval Consulting Con-sulting Board Questions of Increasing Life of Guns. NEW YORK, Feb. 21. The American mining engineer put on his war bonnet today and discussed preparedness with the naval consulting board. The immediate immedi-ate subject in connection with the American Amer-ican Institute of Mining Engineers was the erosion, or hardening of the surface, of guns. In an effort to increase the life and efficiency of guns the naval consulting board met with the institute members. Many of the country's leading scientists were in attendance and a committee, headed by Dr. Hudson Maxim, led the discussion. Dr. Henry Fay of the Massachusetts Massa-chusetts Institute of Technology presented present-ed the results of experiments showing the damage done by erosion. The interest of the mining engineers in the country's military preparedness will be further demonstrated tomorrow, when the convention moves by special train to West Point for an inspection of the Military academy equipment. A report of the institute committee on safetv and sanitation, presented today, showed that mining companies in every section of the country are taking every possible precaution for the avoidance of accident and the safety-first education of the employee. This movement, it was noted, has in recent years assumed tremendous tre-mendous proportions with favorable results re-sults both to the employee and the mine operator. The convention formally studied the facts attendant upon the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania mine fire at Butte. Mont., which cost the lives of twenty-one men. The first public exhibition of technicolor techni-color standard films in natural color was given before the institute members tonight. to-night. This was but one of the many social features provided for the members mem-bers and their wives during the week's sessions. The next meeting of thp American Institute In-stitute of Mining Engineers will be held In St. Louis next September.