At the time in 1922 apparently Lehigh University was a pioneering institution in planning and carrying out such a student inspection trip. There were seven vehicles: six cars and one truck which traveled 3100 miles through northern and midwestern United States and Ontario, Canada with an additional 500 miles made by train when passable roads ran out in central Ontario. The convoy left Lehigh University on July 7, 1922 and quickly traveled northward through New York to Niagara Falls to Toronto to North Bay, Ontario, there boarding a train for a trip to Cobalt, Canada to see the native silver mines. Returning to North Bay the group resumed vehicular traveled westward to Sault Ste. Marie on to southern Lake Superior to see Wisconsin’s iron ore district, on to Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and back to Pennsylvania for a final iron ore site inspection at Cornwall Ore Banks. The convoy returned to Lehigh August 10. A total of 39 men made the trip: 36 students and three professors. During the month long trip the group camped out, had relatively little problem with the vehicles and according to Lehigh’s Brown and White, September 26, 1922 a good time was had by all. Several Lehigh alumni assisted the group by hosting them at the various mines and companies. Professor Howard Eckfeldt “Skipper” led the party, Associate Professor Ralph Lincoln Bartlett “Bart” was manager of the tour and map maker, also in the party was Assistant Professor Augustus Henry Fretz and the “Official Photographer” was Paul Frederick Benz, LU ChE’22. Benz originally entered Lehigh in 1911 left and then returned eight years later to be part of the Class of 1922. He died in 1930. The participants in the group represented chemical engineering, civil engineering, geology, mechanical engineering, mining engineering and metallurgy disciplines.

Personal names Arter, Adelbert Allison LU EM’24 Bartlett, Ralph Lincoln Assoc. Professor “Bart” Benz, Paul Frederick LU ChE’22 Bieg, Henry Conrad LU EM’23 Bond, Louis Boutel LU ME’24 Brigham, Alexander Fay LU’94 Burgess, Charles Owen, LU Met’23 Chen, Tsung Fa LU EM’22 Conley, Thomas George LU EM’24 Crawford, James Coalter LU EM’22 Creighton, Arthur Morgan LU Met’23 Duncan, Murray Morris LU ‘80 Eckfeldt, Howard Professor LU’96 “Skipper” Eckfeldt, James Trouselle LU Bus’25 Elliott, Stuart Rhett LU ’97 Farrell, Austin LU’79 Focht, Doster LU EM’24 Frank, Paul Melville LU EM’21 Fretz, Augustus Henry Ass’t Professor “Fretz” Gallagher, Robert T. Professor Grace, Carroll Brewster LU ME’24 Graff, Wilbur Wilson LU’01 Hacker, Robert Frost LU EM’23 Handwerk, Erwin Caspar LU EM’23 Harrier, Robert Austin LU ‘27 Hauck, Adam Edward LU EM’25 Jackson, George Reifsnyder LU’99 Jacobs, Mahlon Kemmerer LU EM’22 Johnston, Byron Albert Chapman LU EM’23 Lebovitz, Samuel Llewellyn LU EM’23 Light, Joel Longnecker LU EM’23 Mack, James Decker LU ‘38 Martin, Stanley LU’16 Metzner, Russell Henry LU ME’24 Mitchell, Charles Bayard 2d LU EM’24 Pfahler, Robert Gair LU EM’23 Piersol, John Marshall LU EM’24 Rhoades, Ronald Sags LU EM’23 Rogers, John Clifford LU ‘11/12 Scheetz, Edwin Fred LU EM’24 Schrauff, Henry John LUC EM’23 Schwarzbach, Alvin Claus LU EM’23 Shearer, Walter Louis LU EM’22 Summers, Milo Whitney LU EM’22 Swartz, Ralph Christian LU ME’24 Tavenner, William Henry LU EM’22 Thompson, William Gardiner LU EM’23 Warriner, Rual Dexter LU EM’24 Whitney, Leslie Clefton LU Met’22 Wooldridge, William Potter LU EM’24