VOLUME 8
BUTTE, MONTANA, DECEMBER 6, 1929
DATE GARDNER FINDS MINES' TRAINING USEFUL Graduate of 1911 Is Owner of Large Date Gardens "My engineers' training has been of a great help to me in my present underiaking," states Mr. Shields, Mines graduate of 1911, well known date gamer and owner of Shields' Date Gardens, Coachella Valley, Indio, Calif. "In our garden of 119 kinds of dates, each as different from the other as 119 people that you have known or seen, we have the Shields' Black Beauty, a large black date tha-t brings 5 cents apiece for .en date. We only sell one date a year to each person who must come to the garden to claim it. When one bold Visitor, a woman, tried to get an extra date by stealing it, it became necessary to use bodily force to make her surrender the same," said Mr. Shields. Great care must be taken in the process of reproduction. The _male palm does not bear fruit, but produces blossoms that furnish the pollen used to fertilize the female blooms. These blossoms are cut off the morning they open up, dried, and the pollen shaken out and collected on cotton billets like powder puffs. Nature made no adequate provision tor transferring the pollen from the
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TECHNICAL LECTURE IS GIVEN IN. AN ACONDA
I Swimming
Speakers are Dr. F. A. Thompson, ~. Frank Cole and Mr. Bayard S. Morrow
One of the series of technical lectures usually held at the School of Mines was held on November 26 at the Montana Hotel in Anaconda in conjunction with a dinner and meeting of the Montana chapter of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. The speakers were: Dr. 'Francis A. Thomson, president of the School of Mines; Frank Cole, superintendent of the phosphate plant of the Anaconda Company; and Bayard S. Morrow, superintendent of the concentrating plant of the Anaconda Company. Dr. Thomson spoke on "The Mineral Industry and the Public Domain," the contents of which will be published in the next issue of the Acropolitan. Frank
Cole spoke on "The Present
Status of the Phosphate Industry in the A. M. GAUDIN Who, July 1, became Research Professor Western United States." He stated that of Ore Dressing present figures show that the use of phosphate fertilizer in the western states AlthouEh a comparatively young man, is on a steady increase. The bulk of Professor Gaudin has already won na- the phosphate put on the market as tion-wide recognition as a leader in the phosphoric acid and phosphates of calfield of .investigating the fundamentals cium and ammonium is supplied by male blossom to the female bloom. of the flotation concentration process. Florida and Tennessee; with the western The collected pollen must be dusted He received his preliminary education states, Utah, Montana and Wyoming by hand on the female bloom the firwt at the Lycees of Versailles and of Tou- supplying a minor amount from some 12 three or four days after it has opened. Ion. and received his Baccalaureate de- operating underground mines. The chter The female palm will have from 8 to grees from the Universities of Paris and by-product, calcium sulphate, is wasted, 20 blossoms and will produce from 100 Aix. SubseQuently he was a graduate Mr. Cole stated, as there is practically to 350 pounds of fruit, depending on student at Columbia College, New York, no demand for this product in the Wes'. the palm and the care it has received. and received his Engineer's degree from Vanadium, another by-product, is presThe dates on a cluster do not ripen .ColUmbia School of Mines. Professor ent in such small amounts that it can at the same time so they must be picked Gaudin for two years lectured in Ore not be produced on a commercial scale. one at a time. They cannot be cut like Dressing at Columbia University, and Bayard S. Morrow discussed "Recent bananas in a bunch. was also associated with Taggart and Developments in Concentrator Practices" Yerxa, consulting engineers of New in which he compared the old gravity JUNIORS BBGIN Haven, Conn., as research engineer in method concentration with the more connection with the flotation, litiga- modern methods by selective flotation. ANNUAL tion involving the Miami Copper ComStaff for Student Year Book Is Named pany and the Butte and Superior Company against the Minerals separation The Junior Class has made an early companies. . Previous to his coming to start in gathering material for the An- the School of Mines last summer, Pronual. It is our endeavor to publish, a fessor Gaudin was a member of the facbook that will be a credit to the school ulty of the University of Utah as Asand one which will differ considerably sociate Professor of Metallurgy Research, from the foregoing issues. We are in which capacity he served for three working under the assumption that years. many persons derive from the book their only impression of the School of lected to submit contributions in order Mines and they will certainly look that the written matertal may be repthrough it with more care and interest resentative of the entire student boqy than would be devoted to even the and faculty. The persons on the staff School catalog. (Continued on Page 3.) There have been many persons se-
"Finer grinding and flotation made it possible," he said, "to, separate sphalertte and galena, and the copper sulphides from pyrite. The problem presenting itself is not the separation of the sulphide from the gangue, but rather the separation of the sulphides from one another, which is partly made possible through a finer grinding of the are.
There is a limit, however, to the
degree of fineness that an ore may be ground," stated Mr. Morrow, "the coarse should be ground finer and the fine coarser, so that covery may be made."
Marathon
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Mrs. Roach is Chosen As Sponsor - Ten Students Entered In Meet An U-mile swimming marathon is being held in the School of Mines pool during this squarter, The contest is sponsored by Mrs. Roach,路 physical instructor of the co-eds. Those entered in the big swim are Anne Anderson, Gwen Culbertson, Tecla Davis, Freda Ehrlick, Bobbie Gale, Arthur Milek, Lillian Ragsdale, Rosy Ryan, Katherine SUllivan, Ed' Trueworth,.. Swimmers are limited to sWlimming not more than twice each week. Durlng each swim the contestant must make at least a quarter of a mile. Any style is permitted but the crawl, the side, the back and the breast strokes are preferred. Time does not count. Those in the lead are Gwen Culbertson, Freda Ehrlick and Lillian Ragsdale. At the end of the marathon the students will have gone the length of the pool-one-quarter mile-968 times.
FOOTBALL IS , REVIEWED Jtesume of This Season's Games And Line-Up Maqe The 1929 football season ,got off to a ' slow start because of the lack of a definite schedule. This schedule was completed shortly and at the end of the first week 31 men were in Uniform, 22 remained out for the entire season. Only three men-Rodlin, Ryan and V. Johnson-were lettermen of the previous year. Around these veterans McAuliffe molded a team' that will be a hard combination to beat next season as the entire squad is ,composed of freshmen and sophomores. With almost no experience as a team, the Miners played the Gulch Athletic club at Clark park, October 5, and lost a hard game, 12-0. The following week the boys moved in a hard game to Ricks college at Rexburg, Idaho. The Orediggers were outweighted and were defeated by the veteran Ricks team, 18-2. The following week the boys moved in on U. of Idaho, southern branch, at Pocatello. The Miners played their usual hard game but were beaten by the powerful Branch team, 31-0. Cal Young gave the natives a treat with his weird
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