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Show HE ENGINEERS WILL KSEllf Meeting in September at Chicago Attracts Nation- wide Attention. ! CHICAGO, Sept. 8. Mine owners and i mining engineers from every section of I the country will present opinions to gov-: gov-: ernment representatives on the taxation ! of mines at the meeting of the American : Institute of Mining and Metallurgical engineers which will be in session here during the week of September 2't. Mine taxation at present ranks with the subjects of most pressing importance import-ance to the mining world. At their meeting meet-ing the mining engineers and government govern-ment officials will discuss methods of determining mine valuations with a view to establishing tax laws for the mines which will take into account the wast- ing assets of the mining Industry. The meeting is being held at the request re-quest of the commissioner of internal revenue who will be represented by Dr. L. C. Graton of the valuation section of the bureau. In addition to this matter, the mining engineers will hold important discussions on coal supply and on pyrometry in which several new methods for the measurement of high temperatures will be presented for the first time. This meeting of the American Institute Insti-tute which is Its 120th will include trips : of inspection to the Gary Steel Plant, the La Salle district, the coal fields of Franklin and Macoupin counties, the industrial in-dustrial activities of North Chicago and Milwaukee, the refineries of East Chicago Chi-cago and Whiting and nearly every kLnd of metallurgical and manufacturing industry in-dustry in Chicago. The officers of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical engineers are as follows: Horace -V. Wine-hell, president; Albert R. Ledoux, first vice president; George D. Barron, treasurer; Bradley Stoughton, secretary. |