Missouri University of Science and Technology - Rollamo Yearbook (Rolla, MO)

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MISSISSIPPI VALLEY EXPERIMENT STATION United States Bureau of Mines H. M. LAWRENCE MelaIlnrgi.rt and Acling .Sizperinlendent The laboratories ofthe Mississippi Valley Experiment Station ofthe U. S. Bureau of Mines are maintained on the campus. The activities of this station are of a general character, covering the lead and zinc fields of the Mississippi Valley and dealing with problems of a mining, ore dressing, or metallurgical nature which arise in the lead and zinc industries, the solution of which problems would tend to increase etl-iciency, encourage economic development and prevent waste in the territory served by this station. THE STATE MINING EXPERIMENT STATION MARTIN H. THORNBERRY B.S., Met.E. Associate Professor of Melallzuggical Research in Charge gf Smfion It is the object of the station to conduct such original researches or to verify such experiments as relate to the properties and uses of mineral productsg to investigate the engineering problems connected with the mineral industry, the economic methods of mining and the preparation of mineral products, the methods of preventing waste of the mineral resources and the methods of preventing accidents in mines, mills, and smeltersg to assist in improving the conditions surrounding the labor in mines, mills, and smeltersg and such other researches or experiments as bear directly upon the application of mining and metallurgical engineering to the mineral industry of the State of Missouri. The new building which occupies a space of about 110x125 feet between Parker Hall and .Tackling Gymnasium is the Mississippi Valley Experiment Station of the United States Bureau of Mines. The plan ot' the building is H shaped, making it essentially in two parts connected by a passageway. The front wing is occupied by the otiices and fine research laboratories ofthe Bureau of Mines on the ground Hoot, by the Mining Department of The School ofMines on the top floor, and the ofhces and laboratories ofthe Sta te Experiment Station in the semi-basement. Most ofthe rear wing is occupied by a laboratory 28x80 feet on the ground Hoot and extending the full height of the rear wing. The equipment is complete with heavy machinery and apparatus for large scale experimental work. It includes a ten-ton Milwaukee floor operated traveling crane. ln the north end ofthe rear wing are the electrolytic and the electro- thermic laboratories. In the semi-basement is the rock drill testing laboratory. At the south end is the Crusher room, and in the basement below that is the cement testing laboratory of the C.E. depart- ment. MISSOURI BUREAU OF GEOLOL2' AND MINES STATE GEOLOGIST H. A. BUEHLER The Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines-or The Missouri Geological Survey, as it is more commonly known-has its headquarters at Rolla, and occupies the Rolla Building on the School campus. The Geological Survey has at the present time a library of approximately five thousand volumes and pamphlets on geological and allied subjects, and a museum of seven thousand specimens of clay, coal, barlte, lead and zinc ore, iron ore, and other mme and quarry products of Missouri. The Geological Survey is organized principally to aid in the development of the mineral resources of Missouri. lnformation concerning these resources is gathered through observations in the field by members of the staff, Geologic and topographic maps are prepared of different parts of the State and the various formations are accurately described in accompanying reports. The relation of geology to the ore deposits is also worked out and detailed reports published concerning such investigations. The Bureau, in coioperation with the United States Geological Survey, also maintains a water resource branch for the investigation of water powers and Hood prevention. Page Twenty-nine

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BOARD OF CURATORS Wirh dates of original appointments. TERM EXPIRES JANUARY 1, 1927 FRANK M. MCDAVID, 1921 .. .,,,4,,,,,,.,,,,.,,,,,,,,,,A.,,,,,,,,,, ,A, ,,.,,,-, . S'P7'iH'g,56!d E. LANSING RAY, 1921 .,.....,A.. CHARLES F. WARD, 1925 ....,..,. TERM EXPIRES JANUARY 1, 1929 J. P. HINTON, 1923 ,,w1,Vv,.1,,,,,,,,.,,,.-,,,.,,,,,,,,,.,,4.v,,,4,,,,,,,,,,,, .. MEIKCER ARNOLD, 1925 ..,.....,..... MILTON TOOTLE, Jr., 1917 ,,.....,. TERM EXPIRES JANUARY 1, 1931 H. BLANTON, 1919.. ,,...1,v1.....,1,,,1.....,.,..,w....,.,,...Yw...... .. JAMES E. GOODRICH, 1919 .1,,1 FRANK H. FARRIS, 1925 ....,... JAMES E. GOODRICH. ....... . O. M. BARNE'1'r ,,,,.. R. B. PRICE.. OFFICERS OF THE BOARD THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE For the Schml of Mines and Metallurgy MERCER ARNOLD, Chairman ....... J. P. HINTON. ....,... . FRANK H. FARRIS ILDWARD KAI-ILBAUM, Secretary... .. J. CAMPBELL, Treasurer ........... Peg: Twenty-:ight Lani: ....P!!ll'l5bll71Q .....Hd777Zibd! .....,...f70plin ......Sl. 70517111 ..-..............Pll7'i.f K anms Cify ,.,.,.,,..,.R0I!a .....PreJidenl .....,,.Sec1'vlfz1y . ..,.,. Trca.fm'c'1' ....j'op!i1z ....I'llZ717Zib!l! .,...,..,R0l!a ....,...R0lZa .. , Rolla

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T HE CIVIL ENGINEER By LYDIA M. D. O'NEIL Safe and sound and sheltered close, in luxury and ease, You count in hours the journey twixt the east and western seas: But when you win the erater's rim, or gaze across the pier, I wonder if you ever think ofthe civil engineer? Before the streams were spanned with steel, before the hills were riven, Before that day of triumph when the golden Spike was driven- Ay, long before the Indian watched the laying of a rail, The civil engineers wcnt forth to blaze the western trail. They floundered through the desert sands, they sought the canon's gloom, That you might know the peaceful strands where winter roses bloom. They climbed the crags where eagles nest, and gave their brain and brawn That you might see the ocean flush beneath a western dawn. And day by day they strode ahead, with transit, chain, and rod, By high ambition onward led where never man had trod. No danger could their footsteps stay, nor death their spirits quail- Those valiant civil engineers who blazed the western trail. Page Thirty They fought their tights with loneliness and cold and thirst and heat, And streams and storms, and left their foes behind them in defeat: They dreamed of whistles ringing down the highway ol' the years- The crowning of the labors ot' the civil engineers. The panther snarled a challenge, and the Indian twanged his bowg And wolves' wild eyes surrounded them when camp fires dwindled lowg But still they fought and dreamed and planned, while days waxed bright or pale, And onward still, with level and rod, they blazed the westward trail. And now above the pantherls snarl, above the lone wolt s wail, VVe hear the sound of rails that ring beneath the whirling mailg And where their Campfires dwindled low, we see the headlight's gleam, And where the Indian twanged his bow, all day the whistles scream. VVe hear the tumult of the towns where once the bison grazedg And shining highways mark the path the dreary labors blazed: The work they wrought endures for aye, and onward through the years Goes echoing the fame of them--the civil engineers!