Word: assayer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...assay laboratory to be known as the "Simpkins Assay Laboratory" has been fitted up in a large room in the new addition on the east side of the building. It is equipped with nine double muffle soft coal furnaces and all apparatus necessary for assaying. It will accommodate a class of fifty men, while the former assay laboratory would not accommodate more than a quarter of that number...
...Department. The building will be a brick shell with a flat roof and will have a smoke-stack 50 feet high. It will be 79 feet long and 40 feet wide. The southern half will be fitted u with appliances for fire-work and will also have the new assay furnaces. In the northern half there will be a Reverberatory roasting furnace, a cupola furnace and a Bruckner revolving roaster, besides some gas furnaces and melting furnaces for illustrating the metallurgy of steel...
...progressed very satisfactorily. On the floor of the old baseball cage concrete bases have been put in position for the stamp mill and Huntington mill. Another room of the same area as the old cage will be built on the east end of the building and fitted up with assay furnaces and other mining apparatus. All repairs on the building will be completed by October...
...Carey Building, a room thirty by eighty feet, which will have to be dug out to a depth of four feet for the purpose. Another building, about thirty by eighty feet, will be built adjoining the present one on the east side. It will contain the metallurgical and assay rooms. These three rooms will be a memorial to the late Hon. John Simpkins '85, and will probably be known as the "John Simpkins Laboratories." Work will begin in the old cage immediately, but the addition will not be commenced until spring. Plans for the latter are now being drawn...