Pleasant Grove Review | 1936-02-14 | Page 6 | U. of U. Mining Class to Dig Mine

U.ofU. Mining Class to Dig Mine SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 29 Mining students of the University of Utah may soon be going to school in the customary garb of the hard-rock hard-rock miner with a 'hard-boiled' hat and all, if the proposed plans of Professor Pro-fessor R. S. Lewis of the Mining department de-partment and Dr. T. C. Adams of the Civil Engineering department of the university of Utah, materialize. The proposed plan calls for the sinking of two shafts about several hundred feet apart and about fifty feet deep, and then connecting them with a drift tunnel. After this much of the work is done the students in actual practice will then be able to dig various other tunnels and drifts or sink other shafts, said Professor Lewis. Students in both the mining school and the school of civil engineering en-gineering of the university would profit from such a 'practice mine," because it would offer to both actual ac-tual practice and experience in their respective fields. The mining students stu-dents would gain experience in timbering, tim-bering, drifting and other problems that must be faced in a mine, where as the engineer would be able to get practice in mine surveying both above and below ground. If the present plans work out, the "practice mine" will be dug by P W A workers, to be finished and further fur-ther worked out by the students themselves. "In the long run it will be much cheaper to operate, both to the students stu-dents and the university than field trips," said Professor Lewis, "and it will give the student something concrete con-crete to develop and practice their theories on the campus."