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Show Utah Minerals Will Promote West's Industry The school of mineral industries indus-tries was created by the board of regents last spring by dividing divid-ing the University's school of mines and engineering. A. Le-Roy Le-Roy Taylor will continue as dean of the school of engineering. Utah's vast mineral resources should make Utah the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania of the west In the opinion of Dr. Carl J. Christen-sen, Christen-sen, dean of the newly formed school of mineral industries at the University of Utah. "The surface of Utah's mineral min-eral resources hardly has been scratched," said Dr. Christensen when he arrived this week to begin his new duties. He was formerly in charge of metallurgical metallur-gical research on the technical staff of the Bell Telephone laboratories labo-ratories in Murray Hill, N. J. A native of Provo, Dr. Christensen Chris-tensen was graduated from Brig-ham Brig-ham Young university in 1923 and served on the Brigham Young university faculty for three 3'ears. He received his M.S. degree at the University of Wisconsin and his Ph.D. degree de-gree at the University of California. Cali-fornia. Under Dr. Christensen, the new mineral industries school will teach such subjects as geology, metallurgy, mining, ore dressing, geography, mineralogy, miner-alogy, and other basic earth sciences. sci-ences. Dr. Christevisen predicted that production and processing of industrial in-dustrial minerals such as salts, clays, and potash would eventually eventu-ally become the state's greatest industry, exceeding the present mining industry of coal, iron and non-ferrous metals. He also expressed ex-pressed optimism over the state's oil producing possibilities of the Uintah basin. |