Volume 17
Title Page
Preface
Contents
Officers
List of the Meetings
Publications
Rules

PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS

MEETING DATE
Birmingham Meeting May, 1888
Buffalo Meeting October, 1888
New York (Annual) Meeting February, 1889

PAPERS:

BIRMINGHAM MEETING May, 1888

TITLE AUTHOR
The Losses in Roasting Gold-Ores and the Volatility of Gold. Samuel B. Christy
The Cost of a Ton of Pig-Iron in the Sequachee Valley William M. Bowron
The Efficiency of a Steam-Boiler using the Waste Gas of a Blast-Furnace as Fuel D.S. Jacobus
Henderson Steel Alfred F. Brainerd
A Water-Manometer and Anemometer J.M. Silliman
Note on Arsenic Determination R.C. Canby
Calculations of the Available Heat and the Required Dimensions of Chimneys, Combustion-Chambers, and Gas-Burners in the Use of Blast-Furnace Gases for Firing Boilers Frank C. Roberts
Phosphate Slag William B. Phillips
The Grading of Birmingham Pig-Iron Kenneth Robertson
The Feasibility of using Cheaper Fuels in the Blast-Furnace Jacob T. Wainwright
Determination of Phosphorus in Iron and Steel Porter W. Shimer
Mining in Soft Ore-Bodies at Low Moor W.S. Hungerford
The Petite Anse Salt-Mine Richard A. Pomeroy
Large Furnaces on Alabama Material Fred W. Gordon
Note on the Iron-Ores, Fuels and Improved Blast-Furnace Practice of the Birmingham District Alfred F. Brainerd
Notes on the Geology and on some of the Mines of Aspen Mountain, Pitkin County, Colorado Carl Henrich
The Development and Statistics of the Alabama Coal-Fields for 1887 Charles A. Ashburner

BUFFALO MEETING October, 1888

TITLE AUTHOR
Note on a Specimen of Gilsonite from Uintah County, Utah R.W. Raymond
The Glenmore Iron Estate, Greenbrier County, West Virginia William N. Page
Anthracite and Coke, Separate and Mixed, in the Warwick Blast-Furnace Edgar S. Cook
The Flue-Dust of the Furnaces at Low Moor, Virginia Ellison C. Means
Note on Cast-Steel Water-Jackets Richard H. Terhune
A Differential Regenerative Hot-Blast Stove and its Application to an Open- Hearth Blast-Furnace Jacob T. Wainwright
Steel Rails and Specifications for their Manufacture Robert W. Hunt
Note on the Cultivation of Mushrooms in Abandoned Mines at Akron, New York William Y. Warren
Cement-Rock and Gypsum Deposits in Buffalo Julius Pohlman
Ferro-Silicon and the Economy of its Use W.J. Keep and Edward Orton Jr.
Hot-Spring Formations in Red Mountain District, Colorado A Reply to the Criticisms of Mr. Ernmons Theodore B. Comstock
The Mining Industry in its Relation to Forestry B.E. Fernow
Notes on the Roasting of the Hudson River Carbonates Ingersoll Olmsted
The Effect of Velocity and Tension of Gases on the Reduction of Ores in the Blast-Furnace Theo W. Robinson
The Minerals of Ontario and their Development William Hamilton Merritt
Water-Gas as a Steam-Boiler Fuel D.S. Jacobus
The Equalization of Load on Winding-Engines by the Employment of Spiral Drums E.M. Rogers
The Chlorination of Low-Grade Auriferous Sulphides William B. Phillips
The Life-History of Niagara Julius Pohlman
The Impurities of Water A.E. Hunt and G.P. Clapp
Asphalt and its Uses F.V. Greene
The Northwestern Colorado Coal-Region G.C. Hewett
A Present Need in the Engineering Profession William B. Potter
Tuyere Slagging-Valve Edward S. Cook
The Geology of Buffalo as Related to Natural-Gas Explorations along the Niagara River Charles Albert Ashburner
Notes on the Electrolytic Assay of Copper William Glenn
Notes on the Rosario Mine at San Juancito, Honduras, C. A. Thomas H. Leggett
Soaping Geysers R.W. Raymond
Pig-Iron of Unusual Strength Fred P. Dewey
The Present Status of Electric Transmission of Power Richard P. Rothwell
The New Dressing-Works of the St. Joseph Lead Company at Bonne Terre, Missouri H.S. Munroe
A Note upon a Modification of the Reducing Process Used by the Carbon Iron Company Alfred E. Hunt

NEW YORK ANNUAL MEETING February, 1889

TITLE AUTHOR
A Rapid Method for the Reduction of Ferric Sulplate in Volumetric Analysis. (See Discussion, p. 757.) Clemens Jones
Biographical Notice of Erich C. Schaufuss J.H. Bowden
Rail-Sections Frederic A. Delano
Hollow Iron Pig Patterns. B.F. Fackenthal Jr.
Note on the Koepe System of Winding from Shafts John H. Harden
Coal-Transfer of the Mt. Carbon Company, Limited W.N. Page
Note upon some Results of the Storage of Water in Arizona William P. Blake
The Copper-Deposits of Copper Basin, Arizona, and their Origin William P. Blake
Some Thoughts Relating to the American institute of Mining Engineers and Its Mission William B. Potter
Nails from Tin-Scrap Oberlin Smith
Gold-Milling in the Black Hills H.O. Hofman
The Determination of Silicon in Ferro-Silicons ; Its Occurrence in Aluminum as Graphitoidal Silicon; and a study of Its Reactions with Alkaline Carbonates Henry J. Williams
Soaping Geysers Arnold Hague
Automatic Dumping-Cradles for Mine Cars H.S. Munroe
Ore-Deposits of the Black Hills of Dakota Franklin R. Carpenter
The Wenström Magnetic Separator Robert Anderson Cook
Notes on the Bernice Anthracite Coal-Basin, Sullivan County, Pa Clarence R. Claghorn
The Distribution of Phosphorus in the Ludington Mine, Iron Mountain, Michigan; A Study in Isochemic Lines David H. Browne
Note on the Influence of Colombite on the Tin-Assay. (See Discussion, p. 785) Franklin R. Carpenter and W.P. Headden
Note on the Nickel-Ore of Russell Springs, Logan County, Kansas Fred P. Dewey
The English versus the Continental System of Jigging-Is Close Sizing Advantageous? H.S. Munroe
A New System for Operating Regenerative Hot-Blast Stoves Jacob T. Wainwright
Silicon in Cast-Iron (Analytical Determinations by H. S. FLEMING and EDWARD ORTON, JR.) W.J. Keep
Prominent Sources of Iron-Ore Supply John Birkinbine
The Concentration of Iron-Ore John Birkinbine and Thomas A. Edison
A Review of the Iron-Mining Industry of New York for the past Decade John C. Smock
A Rapid Method for the Determination of Phosphorus in Certain Ores T. Reed Woodbridge
Supplementary Note on Blast-Furnace Lines Edward Walsh Jr.
A Rapid Method for the Reduction of Ferric Sulphate in Volumetric Analysis. (Discussion of Paper on p. 411)  
The Reopening of the Tilly Foster Iron-Mine F.H. McDowell
Proposed Rail-Sections Robert W. Hunt
Note on the Influence of Columbite on the Tin-Assay. (Discussion of Paper on p. 633) W.P. Blake
End-Lines and Side-Lines in the U. S. Mining Law R.W. Raymond
Note on the Use of Crude Petroleum as Fuel for Raising Steam at the South Chicago Works E.C. Potter
Coal versus Oil in the Puddling-Furnace, and in Raising Steam G.H. Billings
Oil as a Metallurgical Fuel E.C. Felton

UTAH and MONTANA MEETING

TITLE AUTHOR
The Occurrence and Treatment of the Argentiferous Manganese Ores of Tombstone District, Arizona Charles W. Goodale

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