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Show Midsummer Meeting Ey W. P. EPPERSON, Kaysville Keflex. The rnid.summer meeting of the Utah State i're.-is association was held at Tooele, June 18, VJ and 20 and proved to he one of the most instructive instruc-tive and pleasurable meetings ever held by the association. Most of the party made the journey jour-ney to the place of meeting hy auto, ami so perfect are Utah road.s that the trip proved a real pleasure. The writer of these lines and his party arrived about half and hour .He Saturday mornim,', the delay being caused by complying with the orders on a sign board nailed on a pole planted in the middle of the highway high-way about half way between Salt Lake (,'ity and Tooele. The sign read: O () I TOOEf.K CITY LIMITS I Sp.ed 1") .Miles per Hour 6 0 We regretted being late, but re-jxicid re-jxicid that there was one place in Ltah which was in line with the California Cali-fornia boosters who claim all the territory ter-ritory between their own and neighboring neigh-boring cities. When we explained as to the cause of our delay the mayor of Tooele said that he would see to it that a cipher would be added for our especial benefit when we again came that way. On our arrival we found the caravan cara-van parked in front of the Transcript-liulletin Transcript-liulletin office and the full countenance counten-ance of Alex Dunn, editor thereof, beamed an unalloyed welcome. Soon after our arrival the procession was formed and a start was made for the mills and smelters of the International Smelting company. The trip to the smeller, .some six vles, was made at a rate of speed which justified the removal of the speed limit sign board. Arriving at the .smelter office the cars were parked and the party was welcomed by Superintendent 13. L. Saikett and his fellow officials. The the party was divided into groups of six, which were personally conducted over the vast plant. We will not attempt at-tempt to describe the mills and smelters smelt-ers which are fully described in the article on the first page of this supplement. sup-plement. Suffice it to say that the machinery and methods employed in this great plant, or a series of plants, are modern and up-to-date. The writer has a general knowledge of .smelting and milling of precious and semi-precious ores, but was not prepared for the great changes in treatment and handling of ores or the new methods of saving values which formerly went into the slag dump. After inspecting the plant and gain ing a hum idea ot the great expense and labor of securing valuable metals from great ore masses, the party wore summoned to a feast in the company com-pany dining room. Superintendent Sackett presided at the table and proved himself the most agreeable of hosts. We will not attempt to enumerate the food listed on the menu, but will s.-iy that if any of the good sub-ttantials sub-ttantials and seasonable foods were lacking we failed to mentally note the absence. The food was cooked in a most splendid manner and the service was all that could be desired by the most discriminating. After a further inspection, during which time the copper smelter was visited, the party returned to town where Ihe business meeting of the association as-sociation was held in the Strand theatre. thea-tre. During this meeting the ladies ot the party were being entertained with a picture at the Kitz theatre. After the business meeting, which was almost wholly devoted to receiving receiv-ing and accepting the resignation of Secretary Porte, who is scheduled to soon depart with his wife for a trip around the world, and the temporary appointment of James H. YVallis as temporary secretary, and hearing the report of President Will R. Holmes on his trip to the International Press ""ruling, wnicn was Held m Honda last winter, the business meeting was adjourned to be a-ain convened at the Saltair paviIionthe lollowing evening. The Banquet. The final event of the day was the banquet in the amusement hall. Here again was another feast large and varied in its variety of food and per-iectly per-iectly served by Tooele's bobbed hair chilton hosed and daintily shod daughters. Here was spent the evening even-ing ot a perfect day with music which thrilled, inspired and soothed, music which proved that the small towns of ta.h Posses young people of musical genius who sooner or later will be called out into the world. Following Follow-ing is the program rendered at this banquet : Musical prelude Columbian Eon-Ton Eon-Ton Orchestra. ''America" Assemblage. Introduction of Toastmaster Matthew Mat-thew Spiers. Remarks Harrv G. Baker Welcome to the Editors Peter M riw ha,Vman c?unt- commission- : cis ot Tooele county. 1 TOV N ,4 ; Response to Welcome Will R, Holmes, president Utah State Press ' association. Choral Selection Tooele Male ; Chorus, thirty-two male voices led by Joseph Stevens. Address Hon. George H. Dera, governor of Utah. Choral Selection Tooele Male Chorus Thumb Nail Editorials John E. Jones, Western Newspaper Union; Karl S. Karlton, Beaver County News. "Auld Lang Syne" Assemblage led by Mr. Redding. In the Big Orchard. Nine o'clock Sunday morning again found the editorial party at the rendezvous ren-dezvous in front of the office of the Transcript-Bulletin. Refreshed from sleep and breakfast in the homes of the citizens of Tooele had prepared them for another strenuous day of entertainment, full of information and education. After a run of six miles up the valley over a road which gradually grad-ually became almost a dugwav, the caravan headed down a steep' road toward a large orchard on the floor of the valley. This orchard proved to be the famous Bauer apple orchard an orchard of about one hundred sixty acres, and said to be the largest in Utah. This orchard is located near the portal of the great Honerine mine, one ot the oldest metaliferous mines m Utah. It is claimed that the mine was discovered by the soldiers of Price's army, and was first owned by General Connor and his associates. associ-ates. For years the mine was worked through shafts and much valuable mineral extracted, but finally water, which could not be controlled at that time, caused suspension of operations. After many years owners of many adjoining ad-joining claims got together and ran the tunnel, through which the mine is now drained and worked. In draining the mine a great body of water was encountered and to save this water to the company a water filing was made and a considerable body of land w;as purchased and water was assigned as-signed to the land for irrigation. In this way, and in this way only, could the water become the property of the mining company. To hold it it was necessary to make beneficial use of it, and to do this the orchard was established. es-tablished. The party was shown over the orchard of Charles L. Crockwell manager of the Bullion Coalition company com-pany and manager of the orchard and farm lands of the company. It is said that this is the only commercial orchard in the world belonging to a mining company. Mill and Mine. From the orchard the party was guided to the mill cf the Combined Metals Reduction company, wehere the officers of the company received the party. The story of this company and its mill will be found on page 2 of this supplement. At the mill those who desired to enter .and make the trip into the great Honerine mine, now as we understand it, under lease to the Combined Metals Reduction company, were provided with suitable clothing, caps and carbide lamps, loaded into horse-drawn mine cars and started into the mine. The party "s i" charge of Mine Superintendent W. A. Young, and there were forty in the party, half of whom were ladies. For two miles and a half the partv penetrated the mountain and the way was made pleasant by the novelty of the scene, pointed jokes, remarks and singing. As the party passed into the bowels of the great mountain, their cars drawn by patient, plodding horses, the tunnels and stopes echoed with the songs of the happy, care-free party, and it must be recorded that there were many good voices in that party, and amoung the songs sung were those ivhieh hctra h,,n -f.. with the people for generations At last the party arrived at the farthermost farther-most end of the workings in virir ground, 1200 feet below the surface and at the collar of a shaft which reached 600 feet further into the earth. Back in a stope stood a hoisting hoist-ing engine and an air compressor, and the hoist was bringing up great buckets buck-ets of rich lead and silver ore from the shaft. For the past three months this rich ore has been coming out of the shaft and as soon as the present deposit is exhausted, another just like it and as rich is ready for mining Alter, viewing and handling this rich ore the return journey was commenced com-menced and finally, after an absence of three hours the party journeyed back into the brilliant, blindin"- sunlight. sun-light. Another Dinner. It was a dirty, disheveled party that sat down to another of those great repasts, which was a marked feature of this meeting. Abundant and delicious were the viands placed before the famished party. Oh Boy how they did stow it away. Even the daintiest flapper in the party made a consumption record. E. P. Evans din- j ing room steward for the company, was in charge of the gastronomic contest, con-test, and saw to it that the most ravenous rav-enous member of the party was filled to capacity. From the mine and mill inspection of the Combined Metals Reduction company, the party was headed back to Tooele, where after a short stop for gathering up baggage and personal person-al belongings, the journey to Saltair was taken up. At Saltair. At Saltair, the New Saltair, another and final banquet, provided by the joint Relief Societies of Tooele, was spread in the new picnic bowery of the pavilion. All declared they were not hungry, nor had they any right to be, but when seated at table and confronted con-fronted with home fried chicken and all the other good things which go with that delectable delicacy, hunger came and there were not many scraps left for the sea gulls. And thus ended another perfect day, the last of the meeting, and the scribes got into their cars, too full for utterance and went their several ways, and we hope finally arrived sate and sound at their widely scattered scat-tered homes. We Learned Something. I ' ine looele meeting opened another chapter of the greatness of Utah smelting and mining industry to most 1 Vlle eflltors- They know as never before the hazards of the industry, 'both physically and financially They ! teel that the mines are pavin suf ficient tax; they feel that the United States should pay a fair price for the metal m its 100-cent silver dollar, in! stead of making a profit out of the miner and the mill owner. Yes the editors learned much during this 'visit to Tooele, much of which you will read about m this supplement, and Much that,y? wi ot read about Much can be learned that cannot be conveyed m words, cannot be described; de-scribed; it is that something which makes all men kin. "icn |