Summer Mining School Trip

The Department of Mining and Metallurgy has adopted the following plan for Mining 12 for the coming summer:

Part 1. Beginning June 16 the class, under the direction of Mr. H. C. Boynton will spend about ten days in making and platting an underground survey.

Part 2. After the completion of the surveying an excursion, under the guidance of Mr. C. H. White will be made through the mining districts of the South. The management of the Southern Railway has agreed to furnish free transportation for a party of seventeen over its lines from Washington and return, and it is expected that reduced rates will be obtained at hotels, making the total cost of the trip about $75 apiece. A limited number of places will be open to second-year students of mining, who have had the summer work at Squam Lake. Applications for these places should be made to Professor H. L. Smyth, who will give any further information about the trip. The schedule of the trip is as follows:

June 29.--Meet in the evening in Baltimore.

June 30 and July 1.--Visit steel works, copper refinery and coke ovens, paying special attention to by-products. Take train for Atlanta at 9.15 P. M., July 1.

July 2.--Arrive at Gainesville Georgia at 3.30 P. M. Drive 20 miles to Dahlonega. Study gold mining, milling and dredging.

July 4.--Return to Gainesville, take train at 2.41 P. M. Arrive at Atlanta, 3.30 P. M. Visit fertilizer works and sulphuric acid works.

July 5.--Arrive at Birmingham. Visit iron and coal mines, blast furnaces and steel works.

July 10.--Visit Atlanta.

July 11.--Visit Ducktown, Tennessee, study copper mining and smelting. On July 14 and 15 visit Knoxville, Tennessee and Johnson City, North Carolina. Study iron mining and magnetic separation.

July 17.--To Embreeville, Tennessee. Study iron mining and smelting.

July 20.--To Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Study coal mining.

July 22.--To Bristol, Virginia, and return to Washington via. Morristown, Tennessee, and Asheville, North Carolina.

Part 3. Each man must spend a certain amount of time in individual work in a mining district to be selected by himself with the approval of the Chairman of the Department. For those who have gone on the excursion the time required will be two weeks; for others, five weeks.