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Show Mining Course Is Well Received The miners' and prospectors' school for Milford, third school of i its kind in the state, got under-j under-j way Monday evening and is being greeted with great enthusiam by many local people, not only adults but also several youngsters who have evidenced keen interest in the work. The course, which is to continue through next week, is being conducted con-ducted by H. G. Walter, native Utahn, who has received his schooling at the Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural college and the University Univer-sity of Missouri. Starting Monday with accepted scientific theories of the formation of the earth, he has proceeded on with explanations of the various elements composing the earth and the origin of mineral deposits. He is just now entering on some laboratory work by means of which he is able to give a practical demonstration of the theories advanced ad-vanced in class work, augmenting this with the organization of field trips in order to give his students practical demonstrations of what he has told his hearers as to the finding and distinguishing of various vari-ous formations. One of these trips is being taken Saturday morning, when it is proposed to visit an interesting section in the vicinity vici-nity of the Kitty Cliff mine, west of town, operated by Charles Baxter, Bax-ter, where nature has done a wonderful won-derful job of exposing to view some of her most severe convolutions. convolu-tions. The classes are held at the high school and begin promptly at 7 o'clock. There is no charge and all are eligible to attend as many or as few classes as they care to. Though a person starting attendance now will be a bit at a loss because of what has been missed, miss-ed, no time spent in attendance at these classes will be wasted, as there is much to be learned and each evening unfolds something new. |