Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-02-28 | Page 4 | Utah Gets Mines Station

Utah Ufah Gets Mines Station AJ WITH ITH PRESIDENTIAL approval of legislation V Y providing for a bureau or of mines station tation at Salt Lake City a chief western industry industry industry indus indus- try became jubilant Saturday This happy culmination culmination cul cul- of a lon long and ceaseless effort to obtain the technical facilities now to be made available available available avail avail- able opens up new possibilities of highest interest interest interest inter inter- est to the mining industry and allied enterprises In turn the benefits will be shared with agriculture agriculture agriculture ture general business carriers labor and the populace as a whole Direct benefits will accrue primarily to all aU engaged in any phase of mining in this region- region prospector mine operator metallurgical plant It t will remove barriers to progress heretofore insurmountable because of the lack of means for highly technical examinations of ores and experimental work to point the way for the most efficient recovery of their values as well as to seek methods for profitable operation of properties indicated as uneconomic producers in inthe inthe inthe the course of ordinary tests for ore content and suitability for processing The station will place at the disposal of one of the west's gr greatest test industries the most ad advanced advanced advanced ad- ad technical resources so far developed Microscopic examination of ores res has been pioneered pio pio- pioneered at the present inadequate bureau of mines mineS' station at it the University of Utah At the new station it will be sought to carry this work much farther with the installation of superior equip equip- ment In all respects it opens up the possibility of significant expansion of western industries industries' engaged in the production of new wealth from the bounteous store of natural resources in a flung far region The new station here is the baby of the Utah chapter of the American Mining congress It lias Bas taken more than ten years of dogged effort bythe bythe by bythe the chapter with unremitting cooperation of the chamber of commerce and its mining committee t to win final success success' State officials the University University University sity of Utah bureau of mines technicians and numerous individuals have lent potent aid In Washington Congressmen Robinson and Murdock and Senator Elbert D. D Thomas have worked re relentlessly relentlessly relentlessly re- re to assure success for the project To all of these un unstinted stinted credit is due for a meaningful achievement Present appraisal of the value of the station may be far exceeded as the years pass The new st station tion is to occupy ground adJacent adjacent adjacent ad ad- jacent to the campus of the University of Utah and the Fort Douglas military reservation The Theland Theland Theland land had been ceded to the university but will be relinquished to the federal government for the stations station's site Interior department officials are expected to come here from Washington shortly to undertake preliminary work looking to the erection of the station without undue delay No estimate is possible until plans are prepared asto asto as asto to the probable date of completion of the project