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Show SfN*l!VTTHE ANNUAL SENIOR ENGINEERING TRIP.-The require-ment, long since grown into a pleasing and acceptable custom, of taking the graduating classes of mining and mechanical engineers out on a trip of inspection of engineering plants and metallurgical processes into the adjacent states, last year, proved to be a trip of unusual interest and instruction. Because of the smallness of the classes, both the senior and junior classes of last year were taken as one party, eliminating a trip in 1913.Leaving Salt Lake City on the San Pedro train No. 2, on Saturday, May 1 8th, the party of over twenty, including three Professors, found themselves on Sunday in Las Vegas, Nevada. A few hours' wait for the Las Vegas and Goldfield train going to Goldfield, enabled the party to visit the large shops of the San Pedro Railroad. The ride from Las Vegas to Goldfield was uneventful and uninspiring, except to the observer of nature, who could not help being overawed at the great expanse of desert and mountains, whose rock, on account of the parching climate, is covered summer and winter only with desert varnish. Arriving in Goldfield Sunday evening, the party was met by a committee of prominent business men, who escorted them to the Commercial Club rooms; from there to other points of interest about the town, and finally to box seats in the minstrel show.Early in the morning, after breakfast in the "private dining car," the party was divided up into a number of squads and taken through the great mines and mill of the Gold-field Consolidated Mining Co. In the stopes of these mines the students were shown the actual places where high grade mining was carried on by the* early leasers, where millions were made in months, and also listened to reminiscences of how high grading was carried on, which finally resulted in theGold Dredge at Fulson, California |
