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Design Of A Concrete-Steel Highway Bridge For Dry Fork Crossing, Salem Road, Phelps County, Mo., Edward V. Damotte

Bachelors Theses

No abstract provided.

Construction And Maintenance Of Kansas City Boulevard Pavements, Ralph Robert Benedict

Professional Degree Theses

"In the first years of the history of the Park and Boulevard System of this city, road surfaces for boulevards received careful consideration for people were not satisfied with a good earth road well maintained. As the years have passed and the great changes have come in the methods of transportation, the evolution of pavements has had to keep pace with these changes"--page 1.

The Flotation Of A West Joplin, Mo. Slime, John Stone Hoffman, James Joseph Dowd

Bachelors Theses

"Owing to the high price of zinc and the success attending flotation in other districts, intense interest was aroused in the flotation of slimes of the South-West Missouri District. These slimes are the accumulation of the finer particles of the ore during the milling process and their metallic content is generally higher than that of the original ore. They have been disposed of, in the past, by sluicing them to the tailings ponds because no economical method of saving the zinc had been discovered. The object of our experiments was to economically extract from these slimes, by flotation, a product …

Leaching Experiments On An Arizona Copper Ore, Gunnard Edmund Johnson

Bachelors Theses

"The object of this thesis was to obtain a general knowledge of the problems to be solved in leaching a typical carbonate copper ore or oxidized capping of the New Cornelia Copper Co.'s ore. The experimental work previously performed far exceeds any that might be attempted in the short time allotted to this work, and the few results obtained indicate that the ore is particularly favorable for leaching"--Scope of Thesis, page 1.

The Effect Of Temperature Upon The Crystal Size And Physical Properties Of Iron And Steel, Earl Joesting Mcnely

Bachelors Theses

"This investigation was deemed of sufficient merit to require the work of two terms. It naturally is divided into two parts, i.e., the effect that temperature has upon the crystal size; and the effect that temperature has upon the physical properties of iron and steel"--page 3.

An Investigation In Concrete, Don H. Morgan

Bachelors Theses

"It is the purpose of this investigation to determine the effect of blending a portland cement with a fine silica sand. A blended cement such as this has been used successfully and economically in several important works. The United States Reclamation Service and the Los Angeles Aqueduct commission have made use of such a blended cement in several important structures. This dilution, so to say, of the cement results is a decrease in cost without a loss of strength. In this investigation it has been assured that the cement retained on a #200 sieve is inert and may be replaced …

Method And Cost Of Rock Excavation, Inlet Swamp Drainage District, Lee County, Illinois, Arch W. Naylor

Professional Degree Theses

"The Inlet Swamp Drainage District, comprising 32000 acres of rich muck land, lies in Lee County Illinois, between the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, the Illinois Central Railway and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. The District is fifteen miles long and from one to five miles wide. The watershed has approximately five times the area of the swamp, and in early days, as much as one-half the thirty two thousand acres was under water for practically the entire year. It was not unusual in the Spring, for the swamp to be under from two to five feet of water. …

Land Drainage In Central Iowa, Ernst Lorenze Chamberlain

Professional Degree Theses

"The problems encountered in land drainage are comparatively simple when seen from an engineering point of view. Most problems do not require a fine scientific or mathematical analysis but are rather questions to be decided by good judgment or practical common sense. The most difficult problems encountered are financial, legal and political, therefore, in this paper considerable attention is paid to the Iowa drainage law, facts learned from practical drainage men and to the organization and operation of the different financing systems for drainage"--page 1.

An Investigation Of Blended Cements, Byron Lee Ashdown

Bachelors Theses

"It is generally accepted to be a fact that the coarser particles of a cement are practically inert, and that it is only the finest particles that possess the cementing qualities. Exactly what percentage of the whole is active, or possesses the cementing properties, is not known. Since but few experiments pertaining to such have been performed there is consequently little data to be found"--Introduction, page 3.

Flotation Applied To Silicate Sludge, Yaro Klepel, Greene Erskine

Bachelors Theses

"Within the past few years great success has been made of the flotation of sulfids, and to a certain extent of carbonates.

Since sulfids are easily recovered by flotation it seems practicable that silicates could be made to float by first sulfidizing them, and then subjecting them to ordinary flotation treatment.

This problem involves the treatment of a silicate sludge obtained from the Joplin district, the sludge will easily pass through a 250 mesh screen. At the present time this sludge is being sent to the tailings pond.

The experimental work of this thesis was done along the line of …

Pneumatic Ore Concentration, Robert Winters Johnson, Walter William Weissbach

Bachelors Theses

"The concentration of lead and zinc ores by means of air is practically an unexplored field, although the subject is by no means a new one. Considerable research work has been done and several methods, processes and machines have been developed, but little or nothing has been accomplished towards making air separation a success. the lack of success has been due mainly to two reasons:- (1) That very little has been known about the internal conduct of air currents, and (2) that nearly all methods and machines so far worked out have presupposed the fact that the ore to be …

Mining Methods Of The Calumet And Arizona Mining Company, Warren District, Cochise County, Arizona, James Lawrence Head

Bachelors Theses

No abstract provided.

Report On The Lucky Bill Mine, Bayard, Grant County, New Mexico, Walter Gammeter

Bachelors Theses

"The Lucky Bill Mine is located, with reference to the Mining Districts of the State of New Mexico, in what is known as the Central Mining District. The Central Mining District includes the Sant sic Rita and Hanover regions in the north and eastern portions and camps within a radius of about six miles about the town of Central in other directions. The mining districts bounding the Central District are on the north the Georgetown District, on the west and south the Silver City District and on the east the Hillsborough District"--Location of the Mine, Page 1.

A Study For Comparative Costs Of Flat, Short Span, Concrete Steel Highway Bridges, Thomas Purcell Mccague

Bachelors Theses

"The importance of steel in the construction of long span highway bridges is well understood, but it's cost and the constant heavy maintenance charges, or it's rapid deterioration, if not properly maintained, have caused builders of bridges to seek some other material, which is low is first cost and which will not require constant painting. Se we consider concrete and concrete steel"--page 2.

Oils And Flotation, Clarence Eugene Peterson, Charles Yancey Clayton

Bachelors Theses

"We know that the sulphides, or minerals with a metallic lustre, can be floated either with or without oil and that the carbonates, silicates, etc., cannot be floated so readily. Why do certain oils have the power of selecting certain minerals? Why do certain oils produce froth? Why do certain oils give a watery froth? Why do some give an ephemeral froth and others a tough one? Of the thousands of oils known, only a few classes have found successful application in this new process...This leads us to the question, what property or combination of properties make oils valuable as …

Treatment Of A Complex Ore, Earl Burdette Weiberg, Hugo Edward Koch

Bachelors Theses

"Many complex ores are found in the West, which contain zinc in large quantities together with lead, copper, gold, and silver in sufficient amounts to yield a good profit could they be separated from the zinc economically, If such an ore were sent to the smelter to be treated in a blast furnace for the recovery of lead, copper, gold, and silver the smelter would penalize the shipper for all zinc over ten percent. On the other hand if the ore were sent to a zinc smelter for direct treatment there would be a penalty for excess lead present, and …

Notes On The Development Of The Flotation Process For Concentrating Copper And Iron Sulphide Ore, Holman Thompson Marshall

Bachelors Theses

"The first flotation machines was installed at the Magna Mill of the Utah Copper Co. in August and September, 1914. The outbreak of the war in Europe having made necessary the shutting down of the Arthur Mill of the same company, the flotation plant was installed at Magna for the purpose of carrying on experiments which had been in process at Arthur. Enough experimentation had been done with the small laboratory machine at Arthur, and results obtained were favorable enough to warrant the installation of a full size Janney machine"--page 1.

Problems In Flotation, William Henry Mccartney

Bachelors Theses

"Little has been done to classify oils on the basis of their action as flotation agents, either for their frothing or their selective qualities...This investigation was undertaken chiefly to aid in effecting such a classification"--page 3.

The Thermal Conductivity Of Refractories, Boyd Dudley Jr.

Professional Degree Theses

"The usefulness of correct data in regard to the thermal conductivity of refractories and other materials used in the construction of metallurgical and industrial furnaces is quite generally recognized. Numerous investigations of this property of refractories have been conducted, and in many cases the published data of different investigators are somewhat conflicting. This is particularly true of figures pertaining to materials intended for use at high temperatures, and it is with such materials that the metallurgist is mot interested. The difficulties in the way of precise determinations of thermal conductivities at elevated temperatures are numerous, and it is not particularly …

The Seneca-Superior Mine And Mill, Maurice Merton Albertson

Professional Degree Theses

"The Seneca Superior Mine lies under Cart Lake which is located about a mile south of the city of Cobalt. It was discovered by crosscutting during the year 1912 and although it is one of the smaller properties of the Cobalt district it has been, and continues to be, a large producer"--Description of the Seneca Superior Mine, page 1.

The Development Of A Process For The Treatment Of A Complex Ore, Charles Adrian Burdick

Professional Degree Theses

"The writer has carried out tests to determine the most feasible method of treating a complex ore from Tecolote, Sonoro [sic], Mexico. The ore contains gold, silver, copper and zinc"-- Introductory, page 1.

Study Of The Monthly Extraction Record And Curve Of A Modern Mexican Cyanide Plant, George William Harris

Professional Degree Theses

"This data is taken from the records of the mill and cyanide plant belonging to Compania de Minas La Blanca y Anexas, S.A., Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico; of which the writer has been in charge during the four years it has been in operation. The plant may be termed a "silver plant" as the silver values predominate, the ratio being about 200 grams of silver to 1 gram of gold"--Introduction, page 1.

An Investigation In Treating A Gold Ore From Custer, South Dakota, Theodore Saunders Dunn

Professional Degree Theses

"The following investigation was undertaken to determine the adaptibility [sic] to amalgamation and cyanidation of a certain ore from the property of Mr. Charles Bush near Custer, South Dakota. A preliminary sample of the ore was obtained and laboratory tests made upon it. A ton lot of the ore was then put through the ore dressing laboratory at the South Dakota School of Mines. Upon examination the large sample was found to differ in value and to some extent in character from the preliminary sample, but the scheme of treatment worked out for the first sample was found to work …

The Design Of A Reinforced Concrete Arch Highway Bridge, Clinton Dewitt Smith

Bachelors Theses

"The Subject of this theses is the Design of a Reinforced Concrete Arch Highway Bridge. In making the Design the crossing of South River Street, Austin Minn., was taken as the hypothetical location of the bridge and the design made with reference to the requirements of this location. These requirements are no more than those for an ordinary rural highway bridge. While in the city of Austin it is not in the route of travel to and from the depots and is hence not subjected to the loads due to heavy freighting. There is however a heavy rural traffic, this …

Engineering And Geological Work At Cananea, Mexico, Edward Dale Lynton

Professional Degree Theses

"The purpose of this thesis is to relate in as clear and concise a manner as possible the way "things are done" in practice as observed by myself during my two years' experience as sampler and assistant geologist to the Cananea Consolidated copper Co. of Cananea, Sonora, Mexico. My work took me to all the mines, and in this way I was able to accurately observe the sampling, system of mining, geology, etc. of this famous and important camp"--page 1.

The Method Of Mining And Milling At The Rosiclare Lead And Fluor Spar Mines, Arthur Harrison Cronk

Professional Degree Theses

"The American fluor spar mines of economic importance are located in the Southern part of Illinois and Western Kentucky. The largest mines are in Hardin County, Illinois, Those in Kentucky are in Crittenden, Livingstone and Caldwell Counties. At the present time the Illinois mines are the largest producers. The two principal mining companies in operation are: The Rosiclare Lead & Fluor Spar Mines and the Fairview Fluorspar & Lead Mines. These mines are located about a half mile from Rosiclare which is on the Ohio River"--Location, page 1.

A Study Of The Stoping Efficiency And Ore Transportation Of The Arizona Copper Company At Morenci, Arizona, Robert Stanley Burg

Bachelors Theses

"The purpose of this paper is to give a description of the most important mining operations of the Arizona Copper Company at Morenci, Arizona, during the years 1911, 1912 and 1913. This work was planned in the engineering department by the mine superintendent, Mr. John Kiddie, while the author was employed in his office as chief mine surveyor from November 1911 to September 1913. As in other mining districts of the southwest, the rich contact and pocket, copper deposits in the Clifton-Morenci district have been nearly exhausted, necessitating the development and extraction of the low-grade porphyry deposits"--Introduction, Page 1.

Comparative Tests Of Piston-Drill Bits, Lister Merriken Cummings

Bachelors Theses

"The purpose of this investigation is to compare the relative cutting speeds and efficiency of some of the different types of rock drill bits used in the piston machine, including the regular cross bit, the low center cross bit, a so-called "flat" cross bit, the "Z" bit of the southeast Missouri type, and the Joplin "Bull" bit"--page 2.

An Efficiency Test Of A Laboratory Fan, Daniel Webster Blaylock, Edward Albrecht Schroer, Elton Arthur Miller

Bachelors Theses

"The principal object of these tests is to determine the efficiency of the fan when working against the different sized orifices at various speeds and pressures. Before this could be accomplished, the coefficients of discharge of the 18 in., 24 in., and 30 in. orifices had to be determined"--Object of Tests, page 4.

Structural Material Requirements In Municipal Building Codes, August Wilhelm Gleason

Bachelors Theses

"An examination of the various Building Codes and ordinances of American cities shows some little variation in requirements and specifications for structural Each writer or engineer, to whom has been assigned the task of preparing the several codes, has had individual theory or rule which he embodies in the work while holding in the main to the generally accepted provisions. It is for the purpose of comparing the variations in the different codes with the hope of deducing what might be considered as standard practice, that this investigation has been started"--page 4.