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Engineering and Mining Journal-Press 9- 23 1922

MEN YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

A. H. Lawrie is visiting mining districts in the West.

W. W. Mein will establish an office in San Francisco.

A. H. Collbran sailed for London on Sept. 14. He is expected to return in October.

Harold Jeans is expected in San Francisco about Sept. 20, on his way to Japan.

F. Lynwood Garrison, of Philadelphia, is engaged in examining mines at Eureka, Nev.

Frank Reeves, of the U. S. Geological Survey, has completed his field work in Montana.

William Watters, superintendent of the Tonopah Divide Mining Co., is in San Francisco.

R. G. Hall is at Winthrop, Calif., making experiments in connection with the Hall process.

John Dynan, mine superintendent of the Tonopah Extension, has returned to Tonopah from Seattle.

Michael Sullivan, of Spokane, has made several inspections in the Bayonne district, near Sandon, B. C.

Colonel Alfred H. Brooks has returned to Washington after having spent the summer in Alaska.

D. Budelman, mine superintendent of the West End and Halifax companies, has returned to Tonopah from California.

Harry H. Armstead and D. G. McLachlan have made examinations of several properties in the Lardeau district, B. C.

George W. Starr, manager of the Empire mine, at Grass Valley, Calif., is taking a holiday in England, and is now in London.

Philip S. Smith has completed geologic surveys along a part of the Alaska Railroad and sailed from Seward for Seattle Sept. 4.

H. G. Ferguson, S. H. Cathcart and J. T. Singewald have completed their season’s fieldwork in Nevada for the U. S. Geological Survey.

R. B. Moore, chief mineral technologist of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, is making a tour of the Bureau’s experiment stations in the West.

H. Waern has returned to Copper Cliff, Ont., as chief chemist at the International Nickel Co.’s smelter. He has been in Norway for several years.

R. P. Doucet, who has been for some years in general sales manager of the Asbestos Corporation of Canada, Ltd., has recently been appointed general manager.

C. B. Longwell, who has been doing work for the U. S. Geological Survey during the summer months, has returned to his University work at New Haven.

H. L. Harland, of the Robinson Gold Mining Co., at Johannesburg, S. A., is in San Francisco. He has returned from a visit to Alaska-Juneau, at Juneau, Alaska.

David White, chief geologist of the U. S. Geological Survey, has returned from a trip to Europe, where he represented ilie government at the International Geological Congress.

The field party directed by R. K. Lynt, has completed topographic and geologic surveys of a portion of the Cold Bay oil fields, southwestern Alaska, and sailed from Kodiak for Seattle on Sept. 18.

L. S. Cates, general manager of the Utah Copper Co., was a late visitor to Ray, where he formerly was in charge of the interests of the Ray Consolidated Copper Co. He stopped in Jerome for a meeting of the Hull Copper Co.

R. W. Stone, Assistant State Geologist of Pennsylvania, has recently returned to Harrisburg from a 2,400-mile automobile trip through Pennsylvania. Mr. Stone spent five weeks visiting quarries of non-metallic structural materials.

R. J. Spry has severed his connection with the Mine & Smelter Supply Co., at Salt Lake City, to take over the superintendency of the new 100-ton mill being constructed by the A. H. Jones Co., of Salt Lake, for the Betty O’Neal Mines, near Battle Mountain, Nev.

A. G. MacKenzie, secretary of the Utah Chapter of the American Mining Congress, is a delegate to the conference of the National Tax Association, which meets in Minneapolis. Mr. MacKenzie has made a special study of taxation as it affects the mining industry of the West.

Freeman F. Burr has been appointed head of the department of geology at St. Lawrence University, at Canton,
N. Y. During the summer months Mr. Burr will be open to engagement as a consulting and field geologist His address at that time will be Sunrise Farm, Wayne, Me.

Senator Key Pittman, author of the Pittman Act, will meet in Salt Lake City, Sept. 12, with Senator W. H. King, of Utah, and a number of silver producers of the West to discuss the problem of a method of stabilizing the price of silver when the Pittman Act shall cease to be operative.

F. A. Woodward, general manager of the Iron Cap Copper Co., at Globe, Ariz., again is a candidate for the Arizona State Senate from Gila County. Lewis Douglas, head of the welfare department of the United Verde Extension Mining Co., and son of the corporation’s president, has been nominated from Jerome to represent Yavapai County in the State House of Representatives.

A survey of all the clays of Florida has been conducted during the last two months by Prof. Olin G. Bell, of Cornell University, New York, M. K. Cooke, Assistant State Geologist of Florida, Dr. F. H. H. Calhoun, geologist of Clemson College S.C., and Strauss L. Lloyd, mining engineer of Inverness, Fla. In the execution of this survey, samples of all clays are being taken and shipped to a central point at Gainesville, Fla., where they are assembled and shipped by freight to the laboratory of Cornell University, and there tested for any and all purposes for which a clay can be used. Inasmuch as there are millions of tons of clay in the State of Florida, it is expected that this survey will result in opening up several ceramic industries in this part of the country.

Harry H. Hill has been designated to succeed F. B. Tough as supervisor of oil and gas leases of the Bureau ‘of Mines. Mr. Hill has been serving the Bureau as superintendent of the Bartlesville experiment station since Jan. 1, 1’921. He will be succeeded in that place by Theodore E. Swigart. Mr. Hill entered the service of the Bureau of Mines in July, 1913, as a junior chemist He rose through the grades of assistant chemist, assistant chemical engineer, and chemical engineer, until his appointment as superintendent of the petroleum experiment station. He is a graduate of both the University of Wyoming and the University of Washington. Prior to joining the staff of the Bureau of Mines, he was a chemist in the service of the Canadian Mineral Rubber Co. Mr. Swigart comes from Oakland, Calif. He has been with the Bureau since March, 1919. His first position was that of assistant technologist in oil and gas production. Later he was promoted to the grade of petroleum technologist, and on July 1 of this year he was advanced to the grade of petroleum engineer. He is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and of Leland Stanford University. In addition, he holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the reserve officers’ school at Annapolis.

Mining and metallurgical engineers visiting New York City last week included: Thomas S. Roberts, of Morrisonville, N. Y.; W. W. Weigel, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., A. H. Collbran, of Seoul, Korea; Dorsey A. Lyon, of Washington, D. C.; Frank W. Davis of Minneapolis, Minn.; R. S. Oberly, of Washington, D. C.; H. H. Lauer, of Allentown, Pa.; John Davenport, of Boston, Mass.; H. Ries, of Ithaca, N. Y.; F. L. Wolf, of Mansfield, Ohio; and R. S. Everit, of Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico.

OBITUARY

Ralph Williams, a mining contractor of the Oatman section, was killed recently by the overturning of an auto on the Gold Roads highway, while on his way toward Kingman, Ariz.

W. H. McVay. a Slocan, B. C., operator, and at one time owner of the Ruth mine, at Sandon, died at Los Angeles on Aug. 19.

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Engineering and Mining Journal-Press Vol. 114, No. 13 September 23, 1922 Page 532

Gardner F. Williams
An Appreciation, by T. A. Rickard

GARDNER WILLIAMS died in San Francisco on August 22. It was known to his friends for more than a year that his days were numbered but the news of the end came as a shock nevertheless. Death will have its sting as long as man is mortal. Gardner Williams, moreover, was a man who enjoyed life and made the most of it, through all his 80 years.

He was born at Saginaw, Michigan, in 1842. His father, Alpheus Williams, was engaged in the lumber business and built the first saw-mill at Saginaw; he was of the pioneer type, like the grandfather, who was one of the first settlers of Detroit, going thither from Boston in 1815. Alpheus Williams name to California in 1851 and seven years later he returned to Michigan to fetch the family. Gardner was then a boy of 15.

He had received a fairly good schooling at Pontiac, Michigan, and was preparing to go to the University at Ann Arbor when he was transplanted to the Pacific Coast. Soon after arrival here, in October 1858, he entered the College School at Oakland. This was the precursor of the College of California, which became the University of California. He was graduated from the state university in 1865, and for many years he had the honor of being its oldest living graduate. In 1910 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of California.

Ten days after graduation he went to Freiberg, in Saxony, where he was a student at the famous Mining Academy for three years. On his return, in 1869, he examined the salt deposits of Carmen Island, in the Gulf of California, and in 1870 he was appointed an assayer at the Mint in San Francisco. This appointment he resigned after a year to go to Pioche, Nevada, where he was engaged as assayer and mill superintendent for the Meadow Valley Company. He remained there for 3 1/2 years. In 1871 many of the miners of Pioche went to South Africa, enticed by the stories of diamond discoveries at Kimberley. Little did he think then how prominently he was to become identified with the diamond industry of South Africa.

From Pioche he went to Silver Reef, in Utah. That was in 1875. When the mine ‘petered out’ he returned to California, before going to White Pine, Nevada, where again he had charge of a silver mine. In 1880 he became a mining expert for a New York exploration company and traveled widely in the West and Southwest.

Among other experiences it is necessary to mention his connection with the hydraulic mines at Dutch Flat and his later management of the Spring Valley, which was the biggest hydraulic mine in California. Through this work he became acquainted professionally with E. G. De Crano, whom he had known previously as a fellow student at Freiberg. In 1884 De Crano, the partner of Hamilton Smith, who was consulting engineer to the Exploration Company of London, in which the Rothschilds were largely interested, was asked to recommend an engineer familiar with gold mining, both vein-mining and hydraulicking.

De Crano recommended Gardner Williams, whereupon he received a telegram to come to London, in April 1884. He was sent to take charge of a gold mine at Pilgrim’s Rest in the Transvaal. The venture proved to be only a prospect, so he returned to California in 1885.

Again he received a call from Smith & De Crano, this time to join them as a member of the staff of the Exploration Company. Again he went to South Africa. In 1887 on a voyage from Cape Town to London, he made the acquaintance of Cecil Rhodes, who later asked him to take charge of the De Beers diamond mines at Kimberley. He obtained a release from the Exploration Company and on May 1, 1887, he became manager for the De Beers Mining Company, which was the predecessor of the De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. He held this highly responsible and most important position for 18 years, until he resigned in favor of his son, Alpheus, in 1905.

During his management of the old De Beers mine it became the nucleus of a big consolidation made by Cecil Rhodes—a consolidation so comprehensive that it controlled the diamond market of the world. At one time 90 per cent of the South African diamond output came from the De Beers group of mines. During his management the primitive and dangerous system of open-pit mining was abandoned in favor of shaft-sinking and systematic underground exploitation of the big chimney-like deposit of blue ground in which the diamonds are found.

The Kimberley mine is now 3,520 ft. deep, although the stopes do not extend below 2,500 ft. Here I may state that the diamantiferous deposit is a volcanic vent of crater-like shape that in its vertical extension traverses a nearly horizontal series of sedimentary rocks (shale, conglomerate, and quartzite) overlying a quartz-porphyry. The huge ‘pipes’ or ‘chimneys’ are occupied by the diamantiferous ‘blue ground’, which is a breccia, of various constituents, including fragments of the enclosing rocks; it has been described by Stelzner as “a porphyritic volcanic peridotite of basaltic structure”.

These notes I obtained from the book on ‘The Diamond Mines of South Africa’ prepared and compiled by Gardner Williams, with the literary assistance of Eliot Lord, author of one of the Comstock monographs. This work, published in 1902, in two handsome volumes, will remain an enduring monument to the manager of the Beers and to the generosity of his directors, who contributed £10,000 of the company’s funds to the publishing of it. Thanks also to the generosity of its author, the hook has been widely distributed among colleges and libraries. It is a most interesting history of a great mining enterprise.

In 1905 Gardner Williams resigned his manager-ship and returned to the United States. He bought a mansion at Washington and lived there until 1914, when his failing health caused him to come to San Francisco to visit his youngest daughter, Mrs. Eyre Pinckard. While here he renewed acquaintance with many of the friends of his youth.

In looking back over the career of this distinguished American engineer, I note that his choice of a profession was due to an early familiarity with mining. His father and uncles owned and operated mines and ditches in Yuba, Butte, Nevada, and Sierra counties, in California. While he was a boy his parents lived at Butte, in Sierra County, so that he was near mines, to which he went often. His father put the first water into Oroville in 1854.

His opportunity to go to South Africa, where he became famous, as we have seen, was due, in the first place, to his friendship with Ilk Crano, whom he met at Freiberg, but it was due also to his experience in gold mining in California, especially in hydraulicking. The mine in the Transvaal to which he was sent was supposed to be somewhat similar to the Spring Valley. It proved to be otherwise, but I have no doubt that the handling of large blocks of alluvial ground in California prepared him for the task of opening up the diamond deposits in South Africa.

When he looked at the huge open-cut at Kimberley in 1888 he must have thought at once that the drift-mining method, by which a gold-bearing alluvial channel is opened up through underground workings, would suit the conditions. An old friend of Gardner Williams tells me that when he returned from South Africa on his second trip he talked freely, in the smoking-room, about the foolishness of mining for diamonds in the way they were doing at Kimberley, and, when asked for an alternative method, he suggested the sinking of vertical shafts and the extending of levels, as parts of the caving system. He asserted confidently that it would save lots of money; it was the way in which the ‘deep leads’ were worked in California.

On his arrival in London, just before sailing for New York, he received a letter from a fellow passenger that had heard his talk. This man happened to be a director of one of the big mining companies; he asked him to come to the city and meet the board of directors, so that he might explain his idea of how the Kimberley mine should be worked. As a result of the meeting, he was engaged as general manager.

There are some elements of probability in this story. Gardner Williams was ever a sociable and talkative man. He would be likely to talk freely on such a subject to a congenial companion on board ship. Whether the “director” was Cecil Rhodes himself or an associate of the empire-builder, I do not know. The facts I give- concerning his first meeting with Rhodes and the circumstances leading to his going to South Africa I obtained from Gardner Williams himself four years ago.

In 1872 he married Miss Fanny Martin Locke of Oakland; he lost his wife tragically when she was drowned in the shipwreck of the ‘Spokane’ on June 29, 1911. He leaves a son Alpheus, who is now manager at Kimberley, and three daughters, one of whom, Frances, is the wife of William W. Mein.

Gardner Williams had a character that endeared him to his associates and employees. He was rugged and straightforward in his dealings. In his prime he was strong-willed and insistent, tenacious of purpose, and energetic in overcoming obstacles. These characteristics were developed by his experience as an executive in big mining operations. He was kindly and sagacious. Those who worked with him say that he was loyal and honest, as well as able and aggressive.

If ever an injustice resulted from one of his decisions the ‘Old Boss’, as he was called affectionately, would feel it keenly and would hasten to make amends. He was no respecter of red tape; he maintained a close personal contact with the details of his business and with the personnel of his staff. He backed his subordinates cordially and was as ready to give them the credit they deserved, as he was to accept his share of the responsibility for a mistake they might make.

He had the happy gift of making men feel that he had an interest in their personal affairs as well as in their technical work. This trait is exemplified by his habit of offering a lift to any member of his staff that he might encounter when he happened to be driving near the mines, and then chatting with him about his work.

His friend Henry C. Perkins has always insisted that Gardner Williams managed the De Beers in the interest of the shareholders; he did not speculate in the shares, nor did he take advantage of his knowledge of the diamond market; he conducted operations for the benefit of the shareholders and for the welfare of the community at Kimberley. In this policy he had the support of Cecil Rhodes; between them they prevented any purely selfish motive becoming so dominant as to cause the diamond syndicate to become grasping and greedy in its virtual control of a monopoly.

Although a graduate of two colleges, he was not of the academic type, being inclined to action rather than theory. In his private life he loved a bit of fun and gave free vent to his good nature; he was an affectionate father and a sympathetic friend. Gardner Williams was a successful engineer and a famous administrator, a companionable gentleman and a broad-minded citizen; his memory will live in the hearts of his friends and in the record of his achievements.

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Personal Notes

GEOFFREY D’EGVILLE, mining editor of Canada, a London publication, is making a tour of the Canadian mining districts.

DOUGLAS F. HAMELIN, mining engineer, has been engaged as resident engineer of Flintoba Mines, Ltd., in northern Manitoba.

M. B. GLAZIER, engineer of Ribago Copper, is making an examination of properties in the Sudbury district of northern Ontario.

A. J. ORENSTEIN, of the Corner House staff, sailed from Johannesburg recently to attend the International Labor Conference at Geneva, Switzerland.

W. I. HEDDENS has been elected to the board of Lucky Tiger Mining, which owns properties in S½ora, Mexico, to succeed CHARLES M. Bush, resigned.

STEPHEN S. TUTHILL, the secretary of the American Zinc Institute, Inc., has been elected president of the Trade Association Executives of New York City.

A. H. HUDRELL, associate editor of Engineering and Mining Journal, left New York on June 4 on a trip through the mining districts of Ontario and Quebec.

J. G. SHEPARD has accepted a position with Anaconda Copper at Butte, Mont. Mr. Shepard Was Metal Mine Inspector for Alaska of the U. S. Geological Survey.

D. D. MUIR, Jr., manager of U. S. Smelting, Refining & Mining, returned by airplane to his Salt Lake City headquarters on May 31 from a business trip to San Francisco.

C. P. WHITE, of the Economics Branch of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, was recently in San Francisco and left to visit the Northwest states en route to Washington, D. C.

S. M. SOUPCOFF, mining engineer of American Smelting & Refining, left Salt Lake City May 29 on an inspection trip to mining properties in Nevada, California, and the Northwest.

J. W. HENDERSON, formerly of Ouray, CO., and later of Oatman, Ariz., is now in charge of exploration work for United Eastern Mining at that company’s South Fork property, Forest, Calif.

R. T. WALKER, geologist of U. S. Smelting, Refining & Mining, returned recently to the Salt Lake City offices of the company, after making an examination of the Cerro Gordo Estelle properties, near Keeler, Calif.

J. F. WRIGHT, of the Canadian Geological Survey, will make an examination of the Sherritt-Gordon mine and other properties in the Cold Lake district of Manitoba, and map an area of several hundred square miles.
J. O. ELTON, manager of the International Smelting Company, and Tom LYON, head geologist of the company, returned to Salt Lake City June 1, l952, following an inspection trip to the Walker mine, in Plumas County, Calif.

H. F. GREGORY, of the U. S. Geological Survey, left Washington last week to continue his investigations in southeastern Utah. He will go first to Fort Defiance, Ariz., to join J. 13. RIIE5IDE, JR., and A. A. BAKER for a short trip.

Dr. GEORGE OTIS SMITH and Dr. H. FOSTER BAIN, president and secretary respectively, of the A.J.M.E., were entertained by the San Francisco section of the Institute at a luncheon on May 28, 1928, at the Engineers’ Club of San Francisco.

E. J. BUMSTED has been appointed general manager of Alvarez Mining, which is operating the Humbolt mine, at Ixtlan. Nayarit, Mexico. Southwestern Engineering is installing a modern flotation mill for the company.

G. TOWNSEND HARLEY has severed his connection with the operating staff of the Memphis Corporation, and for the next three or four months will be engaged ill mining and geological work with headquarters at Las Cruces, N. M.

ALFREO TELLAM, of General Engineering, sailed from New York on May 24 for Jumasha, Peru, where be will supervise the construction and operation of a flotation plant that the company will erect there for the Vanadium Corporation of America.

R. C. BAUERMEISTER, consulting engineer of Salt Lake City, has returned to his headquarters there, following a recent visit to the St. Lawrence property situated near Ely, Nev. Development operations at the St. Lawrence are under the direction of Mr. Bauermeister.

S. MIYOSHI, mining engineer ill charge of all tunnel work for the Imperial Japanese Railways, has been visiting Arizona mining districts. Mr. Miyoshi says that Japan plans to build 22000 miles of new railroad during the next twenty years. The work will include about 600 miles of tunnels.

HARLEY A. SILL has been made consulting engineer and general manager for the San Nicolas Mining Company at Vincente Guerrero, Durango, Mexico. The company is preparing to reopen its 300-ton mill and treat 250,000 tons of old tailings on the dumps. It will also reopen its three mines, the Vacas, San Marcos, and Quebradilla.

G. L. OLDRIGHT, Supervising metallurgist of the non-ferrous metallurgical branch of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, returned recently to his Salt Lake City headquarters at the Intermountain Station. Mr. Oldright left Salt Lake last February, and has spent the intervening period in Washington, D. C., and at the Southwest Experiment Station at Tucson, Ariz.

JAMES L. BRUCE, resident director of the Cyprus Mines Corporation, is returning to the United States with his family for a vacation of several months. Mr. Bruce expects to reach New York about July 10, and from there he will proceed to Denver. His address there will be care of V. G. Hills, 2678 Hudson St., Denver, Cob. Mr. Bruce will return to Cyprus in October or November.

OBITUARY

DR. JOHN HORNE, well-known geologist, died at Edinburgh; Scotland, on May 30. Dr. Home entered the Geological Survey of Scotland in 1867, and in 1911 ‘was made its assistant director. He was 80 years old.

FRED S. HILL, a brother of the late John A. Hill, head of the publishing company that bore his name, died on May 30 in Denver. For a number of years, Mr. Hill had been representing the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company interests in the Denver territory, following an extended period as Western Manager of Engineering and Mining Journal. He was born on Aug. 4, 1864.

WILLARD F. SNYDER, who had been active in Utah mining since 1889, died at Salt Lake City on May 29. Mr. Snyder had been in poor health for several months. He was responsible for the organization of Western Exploration, which owns properties in Shasta County, Calif.; Combined Metals, a Nevada company which joined with St. Louis Smelting & Refining in organizing Combined Metals Reduction; Bristol Silver, a silver-lead property near Pioche, Nev.; and Raymond Ely Extension, another Pioche mine. Mr. Snyder was also the president of Eureka Lily, one of the Tintic district subsidiaries of Chief Consolidated; Silver Reef Consolidated, a Washington County, Utah property; National Development; and Park Premier.

Engineering and Mining Journal .125, No.23 June 9 1928

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PERSONAL NOTES EMJ 8 4 1928

S. E. STEIN IS MAKING A SHORT TRIP THROUGH THE GOLD DISTRICTS OF NORTHERN ONTARIO AND QUEBEC.

J. A. F. DUROCHER-STONE, WHO RECENTLY PURCHASED A LARGE GROUP OF MINES IN THE CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT OF COLORADO, IS VISITING THE DISTRICT.

FRANK M. SMITH, SMELTER DIRECTOR OF BUNKER HILL & SULLIVAN MINING & CONCENTRATING COMPANY, WITH HEADQUARTERS AT SPOKANE, WASH., IS IN NEW YORK.

W. W. SCHWARTZ HAS RECENTLY ACCEPTED A POSITION WITH PICKANDS, MATHER & COMPANY AT HIBBING, MICH. MR. SCHWARTZ IS A GRADUATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO.

HAROLD C. RICKABY, WHO HAS BEEN ENGAGED IN RESEARCH WORK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, HAS BEEN APPOINTED ASSISTANT GEOLOGIST OF THE ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF MINES.

R. D. GEORGE, STATE GEOLOGIST OF COLORADO, WILL MAKE A TRIP THROUGH VARIOUS COLORADO MINING DISTRICTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF TESTING A NEW INSTRUMENT FOR ELECTRICAL PROSPECTING.

W. H. CORBOULD, OF THE MOUNT ISA COMPANY, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, LATELY VISITED THE EDIE CREEK GOLD FIELDS IN NEW GUINEA, AND, ON HIS RETURN TO AUSTRALIA, LEFT FOR LONDON.

DR. WILLARD ROUSE JILLSON, STATE GEOLOGIST OF KENTUCKY, WAS REAPPOINTED DIRECTOR OF THE KENTUCKY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ON JULY 11, 1928, FOR A TERM OF FOUR YEARS BY GOVERNOR F. D. SAMPSON.

DR. FRANCIS THOMSON, THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE MONTANA STATE SCHOOL OF MINES, WAS GIVEN A RECEPTION RECENTLY BY THE MONTANA SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS AND THE MONTANA SECTION OF THE A.I.M.E.

L. O. GOODMAN WAS RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF ARDSLEY BUTTE MINES AND R. E. SAWYER WAS RE-ELECTED MANAGER AND DIRECTOR AT THE RECENT MEETING OF THE COMPANY, HELD IN BUTTE.

H. B. EVANS, SUPERINTENDENT OF THE CIA. MINERA NAZAREÑO Y CATASILLAS AT SALAVERNA, STATE OF ZACATECAS, MEXICO, IS VISITING THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES DURING HIS VACATION.

SIR THOMAS TAIT, WHO IS INTERESTED IN THE SALT INDUSTRY, RECENTLY VISITED THE DEPOSITS AT MALAGASH, IN PICTOU COUNTY, N. S., WHERE HIS INVESTIGATIONS ARE REGARDED AS POSSIBLE INDICATIONS OF DEVELOPMENTS ON A LARGE SCALE.

C. H. WHITTUM, OF RAWLINS, WYO., WAS IN WALLACE, IDAHO, RECENTLY, INSPECTING THE MILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOR DICKENS CONSOLIDATED, OF WHICH HE IS PRESIDENT. IT IS EXPECTED THAT THE NEW PLANT WILL BE IN OPERATION ON OCT. 1.

LEWIS A. LEVENSALER, WHO REPRESENTS THE AMERICAN SMELTING & REFINING COMPANY AT SEATTLE, HAS BEEN IN NEW YORK CONFERRING WITH OFFICIALS OF THE COMPANY IN THE GENERAL OFFICES.

DR. ROBERT J. ANDERSON, VICE-PRESIDENT IN CHARGE OF PRODUCTION OF THE FAIRMONT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, FAIRMONT, W. VA., MANUFACTURERS OF ROLLED ALUMINUM PRODUCTS, SAILED FROM NEW YORK ON AUG. 1 FOR AN EXTENDED BUSINESS TRIP ABROAD.

F. L. RANSOME, PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY AT THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PASADENA, CALIF., RECENTLY COMPLETED A BRIEF EXAMINATION OF THE SIMON SILVER-LEAD MINE, NEAR MINA, NEV. HE LEFT IMMEDIATELY THEREAFTER FOR SONORA AND CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO.

JAMES A. SMITH, S. T. PAUL, AND JOHN STIMAC, OF THE TRAMWAY MINE OF ANACONDA COPPER, WERE RECENTLY AWARDED SILVER MEDALS BY THE COMPANY FOR REMOVING A MAN FROM THE TROLLEY WIRE ON THE 1,700 LEVEL AND SAVING HIS LIFE BY MEANS OF ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION. JOHN L. BOARDMAN, HEAD OF THE SAFETY BUREAU OF THE COMPANY, MADE THE AWARDS.

DR. N. B. LEWIS, A GRADUATE OF THE MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA, WHO HAS BEEN STUDYING AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY FOR TWO YEARS, ARRIVED IN MELBOURNE FROM LONDON LATELY. DR. LEWIS WILL TAKE PART IN THE GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF BROUGHTON EDGE, WHICH WILL EXPERIMENT WITH GEOPHYSICAL METHODS IN AUSTRALIA.

DN. ANDREW C. LAWSON, FOR 38 YEARS INSTRUCTOR IN GEOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RETIRED ON JULY 25 FROM ACTIVE WORK. HE WILL ASSUME THE TITLE OF EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. ALTHOUGH BORN IN SCOTLAND, DR. LAWSON RECEIVED HIS TRAINING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, AT TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA. HE HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY AT BERKELEY SINCE 1890.

CARL DAVIS, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR OF ANGLO-AMERICAN CORPORATION OF SOUTH AFRICA, HAS JUST COMPLETED AN EXTENSIVE TRIP THROUGH THE MINING DISTRICTS OF SOUTH AFRICA. HE INSPECTED, AMONG OTHERS, THE BWANA M’KUBWA, N’KANA, N’CHANGA, ROAN ANTELOPE, AND OTHER COPPER PROPERTIES IN NORTHERN RHODESIA IN WHICH HIS COMPANY IS INTERESTED. HE ALSO VISITED THE NEW ELECTROLYTIC ZINC PLANT WHICH HAS JUST GONE INTO OPERATION AT RHODESIA BROKEN HILL. AFTER LEAVING BROKEN HILL, MR. DAVIS PROCEEDED TO JOHANNESBURG, AND, AFTER INSPECTING DEVELOPMENTS ON THE RAND, DEPARTED FOR THE DIAMOND FIELDS NEAR LUDERITZBUCHT, OWNED BY CONSOLIDATED DIAMOND MINES. HE ALSO VISITED THE NEW DIAMOND FIELDS AT NATNAQUALATID IN WHICH THE ANGLO-AMERICAN CORPORATION HAS ACQUIRED AN IIITEREST.

J W THOMPSON, FLOTATION ENGINEER OF GENERAL ENGINEERING, RETURNED TO THE SALT LAKE CITY OFFICES OF THE COMPANY ON JULY 26 FROM SIX MONTHS’ STAY IN ARIZONA. HE WILL LEAVE SOON TO UNDERTAKE WORK AT THE PLANT OF THE CENTURY ZINC COMPANY, SITUATED IN THE OKLAHOMA SECTION OF THE TRI-STATE DISTRICT.

OBITUARY
WILLIAM EVANS GUY, RETIRED MINING AND CIVIL ENGINEER, DIED AT COOPERSTOWN, N. V., ON JULY 24. HE WAS 84 YEARS OLD.

DAVID T. ADAMS, ONE OF THE PIONEERS ON THE MESABI RANGE, DIED IN CHICAGO ON JULY 22. HE WAS 66 YEARS OLD. MR. ADAMS, AMONG A NUMBER OF OTHER DISCOVERIES, FOUND THE MINE ON THE MESABI WHICH NOW BEARS HIS NAME.

JOHN J. QUILL, WHO HAD OPERATED PLANTS AT VARIOUS MINES IN WESTERN NEVADA, DIED ON JULY 22 AT RENO, FOLLOWING AN EXTENDED ILLNESS. HE WAS 66 YEARS OLD. MR. QUILL IS SURVIVED BY A DAUGHTER, THREE SISTERS, AND A BROTHER.

GORDON G. HARGRAFT, MINING ENGINEER, OF TORONTO, DIED IN NEW YORK ON JULY 23. MR. HARGRAFT WAS A MEMBER OF HARGRAFT BROTHERS, A MINING ENGINEERING FIRM IN TORONTO. HE SERVED AS A LIEUTENANT IN THE CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES DURING THE WORLD WAR.

JOHN PHILIP FLYNN, OF BRONXVILLE, N.Y., A PROMINENT MINING MAN, DIED IN TORONTO ON JULY 27, AT THE AGE OF 74. HE WAS HORN IN ELBURN, IL., AND DURING THE EARLIER PART OF HIS CAREER WAS ENGAGED IN MINING AND RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. HE WENT TO NORTHERN ONTARIO IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE COBALT BOOM, AND WAS ONE OF THE PIONEERS IN THE PORCUPINE FIELD, WHERE HE BECAME INTERESTED IN MANY ENTERPRISES, INCLUDING THE VIPOND AND MCINTYRE-PORCUPINE MINES. LATER HE DEVOTED HIS ATTENTION TO THE SUDBURY MINING AREA, WHERE HE HAD CONSIDERABLE HOLDINGS. HE IS SURVIVED BY THREE SONS AND TWO DAUGHTERS.

AUGUST 4, 1928— ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL

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PERSONAL NOTES EMJ 10-20-1928

CHARLES MCCREA, ONTARIO MINISTER OF MINES, HAS RETURNED TO TORONTO FROM A SHORT VISIT TO ENGLAND.

R. H. HUMPHREY, MINING ENGINEER, OF SAN FRANCISCO, HAS RETURNED FROM A TRIP TO ALASKA ON PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS.

G. F. LOUGHLIN, OF THE U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, WILL SOON VISIT THE CRIPPLE CREEK AND BONANZA DISTRICTS OF COLORADO. HE WILL THEN RETURN TO WASHINGTON.

FRANCIS R. PYNE, SUPERINTENDENT, RARITAN COPPER WORKS, PERTH AMBOY, N. J., IS IN THE SALT LAKE DISTRICT, WHERE HE IS VISITING LOCAL METALLURGICAL PLANTS.

A. H. BURROUGHS, JR., GENERAL MANAGER, TALACHE MINES INCORPORATED, TALACHE, IDAHO, WAS IN SALT LAKE CITY LAST WEEK PURCHASING EQUIPMENT FOR THE COMPANY’S OPERATIONS.

E. E. CAMPBELL, OF TORONTO, CONSULTING ENGINEER OF OSD COLONY MINES, WAS RECENTLY IN KINGMAN, ARIZ., INSPECTING THE PROPERTIES OF THE COMPANY, WHICH IS A CANADIAN CONCERN.

ROSS B. RATHBUN, COTTRELL PLANT ENGINEER AT THE EL PASO, TEX., SMELTER OF AMERICAN SMELTING & REFINING, IS IN THE SALT LAKE DISTRICT INSPECTING THE COMPANY’S PLANTS THERE.

F. SHAW IS PRESIDENT OF A NEW COMPANY ORGANIZED IN CALIFORNIA TO OPERATE CLAIMS IN THE MINARETS DISTRICT OF MADERA COUNTY. THE COMPANY WILL BE KNOWN AS AGNEW MEADOWS MINING.

F. F. COLCORD, VICE-PRESIDENT OF U. S. S. LEAD REFINERY, HAS RETURNED TO NEW YORK AFTER A VISIT TO THE EAST CHICAGO PLANT OF THE COMPANY, WHICH IS A SUBSIDIARY OF U. S. SMELTING REFINING & MINING.

FREDERICK G. CLAPP, HAVING LEFT PERSIA, HAS ESTABLISHED HIS FAMILY IN PARIS FOR THE WINTER. HE CAN BE ADDRESSED AT NO. 68 QUAI D’AUTENIL, PARIS XVI, OR AT 50 CHURCH ST., NEW YORK CITY.

D. C. LONGTIN, DIAMOND DRILLING EXPERT, OF SAN FRANCISCO, IS IN THE SALT LAKE DISTRICT, WHERE HE IS VISITING THE BINGHAM, TINTIC, AND PARK CITY PROPERTIES OF THE INTERNATIONAL SMELTING COMPANY.

SAMUEL C. LASKY HAS RESIGNED AS GEOLOGIST OF RENNECOTT COPPER CORPORATION AT KENNECOTT, ALASKA, TO UNDERTAKE GRADUATE WORK IN GEOLOGY AT YALE UNIVERSITY. HE MAY BE REACHED AT 382 WHITNEY AVENUE, NEW HAVEN, CONN.

PROF. CHARLES P. BERKEY, PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, AND A MEMBER OF THE BOULDER DAM COMMISSION, WILL BE THE PRINCIPAL SPEAKER AT THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES ON OCT. 26, WHICH HAS BEEN DESIGNATED AS ENGINEERS’ DAY.

DUNCAN MACVICHIE, CONSULTING MINING ENGINEER, SALT LAKE CITY, HAS RETURNED TO HIS HEADQUARTERS THERE FROM AN INSPECTION TRIP OF THREE WEEKS TO THE BIG MISSOURI PROPERTY, SITUATED IN THE SALMON RIVER MINING DISTRICT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.

F. T. CORKILL, MINING ENGINEER AND DIRECTOR OF BRETT TRETHEWEY MINES, HAS BEEN APPOINTED AN ADVISORY EXECUTIVE TO THE BOARD OF NORTHERN CANADA MINING CORPORATION, LTD., RECENTLY FORMED TO TAKE OVER THE INTERESTS OF BEAVER CONSOLIDATED.

WILLIAM WRAITH, VICE-PRESIDENT OF ANDES COPPER, A SUBSIDIARY OF ANACONDA COPPER, RECENTLY SAILED WITH MRS. WRAITH ON THE GRACE LINER “SANTA TERESA,”FOR PORTE RILLON, CHILE, ON A INSPECTION TOUR OF THE COMPANY’S PROPERTIES.

E. E. BARKER, ENGINEER OF MINES, UTAH COPPER COMPANY, WITH HEADQUARTERS AT SALT LAKE CITY, HAS RESUMED HIS DUTIES THERE AFTER AN ABSENCE OF SEVEN MONTHS, DURING WHICH TIME HE ACTED IN THE CAPACITY OF CONSULTING ENGINEER TO THE JOHNS-MANVILLE CORPORATION, OF NEW YORK CITY.

DR. J. A. BANCROFT, DAWSON PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY AT MCGILL UNIVERSITY, MONTREAL, SINCE 1913, HAS RESIGNED. LAST YEAR HE OBTAINED LEAVE OF ABSENCE FROM THE UNIVERSITY TO CARRY ON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WORK IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN DIAMOND MINES. HE IS NOW ESTABLISHED AT BROKEN HILL, NORTHERN RHODESIA.

H. C. RICKADY HAS BEEN APPOINTED GEOLOGIST IN THE ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF MINES. MR. RICKABY IS A GRADUATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, WHERE HE WAS ALSO ENGAGED AS ASSISTANT IN RESEARCH WORK. HE HAS HELD A TEMPORARY POSITION ON THE STAFF OF THE DEPARTMENT FOR MORE THAN A YEAR.

J. S. ANDERSON, SUPERINTENDENT OF UNITED GOLD MINES OF CRIPPLE CREEK, CO., HAS RESIGNED, AND WILL GO TO AMARILLO, TEX., WHERE HE WILL ENTER THE OIL INDUSTRY, ASSOCIATED WITH J. M. HEMDY, ALSO OF CRIPPLE CREEK. W. A. KVXN, PUBLISHER OF THE CRIPPLE CREEK TIMES-RECORD, WILL BE IN CHARGE OF LEASING AT UNITED GOLD.

JOSEPH P. HODGSON HAS BEEN MANAGER OF THE COPPER QUEEN BRANCH, PHELPS DODGE CORPORATION, SINCE JUNE, 1927. THE STATEMENT IN THE OCT. 6 ISSUE THAT HE WAS THE SUCCESSOR OF D. D. IRWIN WAS AN ERROR, MR. IRWIN’S POSITION HAVING BEEN THAT OF GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT OF THE COPPER QUEEN BRANCH UNTIL HE LEFT FOR AFRICA.

B. F. BURCHARD, OF THE U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, HAS LEFT WASHINGTON TO UNDERTAKE FIELD WORK ON THE IRON ORES OF ALABAMA, IN CO-OPERATION WITH THE STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. HIS ADDRESS WILL BE UNIVERSITY, ALA. HE INTENDS TO STOP AT ATLANTA, GA., TO REPRESENT THE A.I.M.E. AT THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN POWER CONFERENCE.

JOHN BEATTY AND MR. COX, MILL SUPERINTENDENT, BLACK HILLS TIN COMPANY, WERE RECENT VISITORS AT THE INTER-MOUNTAIN STATION OF THE U. S. BUREAU OF MINES, SALT LAKE CITY, WHERE THEY DISCUSSED WITH MEMBERS OF THE STAFF A PROGRAM FOR CONCENTRATING THE ORES MINED AT THE COMPANY’S PROPERTY, WHICH IS SITUATED NEAR TINTON, S. D.

DR. ROBERT B. ANDERSON, VICE-PRESIDENT OF FAIRMONT MANUFACTURING, FAIRMONT, W. VA., ARRIVED IN NEW YORK ON OCT. 5, ON THE “BERENGARIA,” AFTER AN EXTENDED TRIP THROUGH EUROPE. HE VISITED A NUMBER OF THE PRINCIPAL ALUMINUM PLANTS ABROAD AND MADE A STUDY OF THE FOREIGN ALUMINUM SITUATION. HE WAS ACCONIPANIED BY MRS. ANDERSON.

OBITUARY
SUMNER B. JELLISON, OF CRIPPLE CREEK, CO., DIED AT WALSENBURG, CO., ON OCT. 10. HE WAS 67 YEARS OLD.

HENRY ENGELS, MINING MAN OF SAN FRANCISCO, DIED ON OCT. 8, 1928, AT THE AGE OF 74. HE WAS PROMINENT IN EARLY CALIFORNIA MINING AND DEVOTED HIS ATTENTION TO PROSPECTING FOR COPPER ORE IN PLUMAS COUNTY, WHERE HE DISCOVERED THE DEPOSITS WHICH AFTERWARD BECAME THE ENGELS COPPER MINE. A COMPANY WAS FORMED IN 1901, AND BY 1914 STEADY PRODUCTION BEGAN. MR. ENGELS WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE COMPANY, BUT RETIRED FROM ACTIVE BUSINESS ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO, RETAINING, HOWEVER, A DIRECTORSHIP IN THE COMPANY UNTIL HIS DEATH.

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for MARCH 30, 1929 MINING JOURNAL

With Prominent People You Know
The activities and movements of men well known and prominent
in the mining industry of the western states.

S. W. O’Brien is president of the Metaline Contact Mines Company, Metaline, Washington.

George Campbell Mahoney of Berkeley, California, has filed application for associate membership in the A. I. M. E.

F. W. Bradley, president of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, returned to San Francisco, California, on March 18.

W. R. Upton, mining man of Boston, visited Douglas and the Paradise district of Arizona, where he has interests, during the middle of March.

John Reginald McLean, mining engineer of Arizona, and son of Milton H. McLean, was killed in an automobile accident near Santa Maria, California, on March 11.

Lewis E. Ashbaugh, consulting engineer, Tabor Building, Denver, Colorado, has made an inspection of the Ruby mining property in the Gunnison district in Colorado.

Col. A. P. Hare of Kewanee, Illinois, has been in Nogales, Arizona, recently looking over matters pertaining to the reopening of the Giant Mines near that place.

L. O. Howard, formerly dean of the Washington State School of Mines at Pullman, Washington, is teaching metallurgy at the University of Idaho School of Mines at Moscow.

Glenn Anderson of Butte, Montana, returned from New York City, where he has been successful in financing the reopening of the Porphyry Dyke gold mine, near Rimini, Montana.

Dr. George A. Bridge, formerly chief surgeon of the Copper Queen hospital of the Phelps Dodge Corporation at Bisbee, Arizona, has resigned that position and has moved to Phoenix, Arizona.

N. W. Rice, vice-president of western operations for the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company at Salt Lake City, spent some time at Salt Lake City, Utah, on company business.

James Thompson, formerly mill foreman for the Plymouth Consolidated Mining Company, has been engaged to take charge of the Gaston mill of the Rescue Eula Mining Company at Washington, California.

Major Julian Boyd, consulting mining engineer, Central Building, Los Angeles, California, is visiting Death Valley for the Pacific Coast Borax Company, and is expected back in Los Angeles, March 80.

Bon McDougal, who recently took over an interest in the Pilgrim mine at Chloride, Arizona, has left that place for Calexico, California, where he will join the Mexican Federal Army as an aeroplane pilot.

Cliff Carpenter, president of the Arizona Magma Mining Company, with properties at Chloride, Arizona has returned to Phoenix, Arizona, from a five weeks’ business trip to New York and other eastern cities.

Herman Falk, prospector of the Humboldt district of Arizona, was found dead in his cabin near Humboldt on March 14. Mr. Falk was about 72 years of age, and had been a resident of that district for over 80 years.

George Gutting, mining man of Rochester, New York, has gone to Chicago, where he is to meet business associates with a view to the development of properties on which he has secured options in the Harshaw district of Arizona.

Gordon R. Campbell of Calumet, Michigan, president of the Calumet and Arizona Mining Company, has been visiting the company’s properties at Lordsburg, New Mexico, and Warren, Arizona, accompanied by Mrs. Campbell.

Clarence Logan, district engineer for the California State Division of Mines, is making a survey of the mineral resources and operations in Sierra County, California. His report will be published in the next quarterly report of the division.

B. Reed, Sr., 66, passed away at his home in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 18. Mr. Reed was interested in mining projects of Arizona, Colorado and California. He was born in Logansport, Indiana, having come west with his parents in early life.

A. M. Bilsky of Montreal and New York, president of the Canadian Airways Limited, and a mining man of wide experience, recently visited Kingman, Arizona, in connection with the Alpha Mines, Inc., and the Black Dyke Gold Mining Company of that vicinity.

T. L. Carnahan, mining engineer, formerly of El Paso, Texas, was kidnapped by Mexican bandits on March 18 at the La Noria mine, near San Benito, Zacatecas, Mexico, and held for ransom. Mr. Carnahan has been interested in properties of the Mexico Mines, Inc.

W. K. Flora, assistant secretary of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, died at his home in New York City recently, following an illness of pneumonia. Mr. Flora had been connected with the corporation for over 20 years, and was a former resident of Bisbee and Prescott, Arizona.

Charles A. Mitke, mining engineer of Phoenix, Arizona, has returned from several months work in Australia and, after a few weeks in the United States, is leaving for London for about a three months stay. He may be reached care of Mt. Isa Mines, Ltd., Adelaide House, King William Street, London, England.

Walter V. Sterling, mining engineer, passed away in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, on February 21, following an attack of pneumonia. Mr. Sterling has been connected with the American Smelting and Refining Company for the past 10 years, and was American consul in the City of Chihuahua, Mexico, for many years.
Arthur V. Corry has resigned as resident manager of the Livingston Mines Corporation at Mackay, Idaho, after three years service in that position, and may now be reached at Box 28, Butte, Montana. He has resumed the development of a group of mining claims adjoining the property of the North Butte Mining Company.

George W. Morgan of Salt Lake City, Utah, mining man, passed away following an operation. Mr. Morgan was vice-president of the New Quincy Mining Company, and was well known by the mining men of the state. He was the oldest member from a standpoint of membership in Lodge 85, B. P. O. E., a Shriner, and a member of a number of other organizations.

Charles L. Doer of Denver, Colorado, who has been with the United States Geological Survey since July 1, 1925, died on February 22 of apoplexy following a severe attack of influenza. During his career Mr. Duer had been mineral examiner in the General Land Office, district mining supervisor of the bureau of mines for Colorado, New Mexico and southeastern Wyoming.

Prof. S. P. Warren, assistant professor of metallurgy at the Colorado School of Mines at Golden, left New York on March 8, for London, where he has been called for consultation by the Britain Metals Corporation, Ltd., of London. After concluding his business there, he will go to Spain, where last year he designed and constructed a large milling plant for a Spanish corporation. He expects to be gone about two months.

Fred Scarlet, Jr., vice-president of the Newmont Mining Company, was a recent visitor in Bisbee and Jerome, Arizona, in the interest of his company. During his stay in these parts, Mr. Searles spent some time with James Douglas, president of the United Verde Extension Mining Company of Jerome, the two having made a trip to South Africa together last fall to inspect the Cape Copper Company, in which their companies own equal interests.

Col. George W. Crow, former pioneer mining man of Arizona, has just returned to his home at Long Beach, California, from a trip to the Altar district of Sonora, Mexico, where it is understood he made a number of mining examinations for California capitalists. Col. Crowe has been engaged in similar work for some time in Arizona, Nevada, and various parts of Mexico, and at one time operated several mines in the border country.

Floyd Thompson, 28-year-old mining engineer of Santa Cruz County, Arizona, was found mysteriously assassinated just across the Mexican line in Nogales, Sonora, on March 8. Mr. Thompson was a native of Cleveland, Ohio, and came west some time ago to accept a position as engineer with the Santo Nino mine at Patagonia, Arizona, now being operated by the Southern Copper Mining Company, and controlled by the General Development Company of New York.

Applications for membership in the A. I. ME. have been filed by:
August Gruaert of Butte, Montana, agent for the Jib properties at Basin;
Otis Edmund Keogh of Toole, Utah, concentration engineer at the TooeIe plant of the International Smelting Company;
William James McKeana of Tooele, Utah, concentrator superintendent for the International Smelting Company;
William James Nicholls of Tooele, Utah, assistant copper plant superintendent, International Smelting Company.

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for APRIL 15, 1929 THE MINING JOURNAL

With Prominent People You Know
The activities and movements of men well known and prominent
in the mining industry of the western states.

James W. O’Brien, discoverer of the Gold Belt mine at Ouray, Colorado, passed away in California.

Frank A. Aicher is working the Butte mine on Pennsylvania Mountain in the Alma-Fairplay district in Park County, Colorado.

George E. Collins, mining engineer, 807 Boston Buildings Denver, Colorado, has inspected the Union Carbonate mine in the Rico district.

Professor C. A. Knudson, member of the faculty of the Colorado School of Mines, has resigned to accept a position with the University of Denver.

Tyson S. Dines, a prominent attorney of Denver, Colorado, and one of the two administrators of the Stratton estate, died in that city on March 28.

S. H. Richardson, formerly of Republic Washington, has been placed in charge of the property of the Coeur d’Alene Mines Corporation, south of Osburn, Idaho.

William R. Richmond, mining man of Phoenix, Arizona has been on a trip to the northern part of Arizona, where he inspected various mining properties in that section.

Charles A. Hamilton, for many years identified with the mining industry in Mexico, passed away on March 12 at his home in Taviche, Oaxaca, Mexico. He was 79 years old.

Frank Grimm of Denver, Colorado, recently inspected the old Romero mining property in the vicinity of Las Vegas, New Mexico, in behalf of a party of Colorado mining men.

D. F. Haley of Joplin, Missouri, consulting engineer, has just returned from an examination of the property of the Livingston Mines Corporation in Custer County, Idaho.

Fred Lehman of Los Angeles, California, director of the Buckeye State Mining and Milling Company, has been spending some time at the company’s properties at Tucson, Arizona.

William B. Shotwell, a retired mining man of Cochise county, Arizona, died at Globe, Arizona, on March 28, where he had been a resident for nearly 20 years. He was 78 years of age.

C. Colcock Jones, mining engineer, with headquarters at 1014 Quimby Building, Los Angeles, California, has been in the Lordsburg district of New Mexico on professional business of late.

L. B. Weed, general superintendent for the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company at Pueblo, Colorado, has resigned, effective May 1. Mr. Weed has been with this organization for many years.

O. M. Johnson, Idaho geologist, and G. M. Johnson, recently visited the McCoy district in Nevada, south of Battle Mountain, and made an examination of the Lucky Curve group of claims.

J. D. Blosser of Chloride, Arizona, has been in Los Angeles of late consulting with engineers in regard to development of property of the National Metals Corporation, of which he is superintendent.

Senator A. H. Breed of California has tendered his resignation as president of the Basin Cataract Mining Company and Charles Anderson, who is widely known in mining circles, has been elected to his place.

C. W. Henderson of the United States bureau of mines at Denver, Colorado, addressed the Colorado Engineering Council at the Adams Hotel on March 19. His subject was, “The Colorado Scientific Society.”

F. J. Tuck, assistant mill superintendent, and W. H. Steinke, general mill foreman of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, Hayden, Arizona, made a recent trip to Burley, New Mexico, on company business.

Archibald Mathes, 50, passed away at Florence, Arizona, the latter part of March, after an illness of several months duration. Mr. Mathes had been employed by the Magma Copper Company at Superior, Arizona, for a number of years.

CoI. D. C. Jackling is making an inspection of the plants of the Utah Copper Company in the vicinity of Salt Lake City, Utah, and from there will go to New York to attend the annual meetings of the Utah and Kennecott Copper Companies.

Gustavus Sessinghaus, 541 Equitable Building, Denver, consulting engineer for the Golconda San Juan Mines, Inc., has examined the company’s property in the Ouray district in Colorado, and it is expected that new equipment will be installed and considerable development done this season.

O. A. McCraney, for the past 18 months superintendent for the Argonaut Mining Company, has resigned and will take charge of operations for the Mt. Shasta Silica Company at Weed, California. W. E. Scott foreman for the last two years, will take up his duty as superintendent of the Argonaut.

Leslie L. Savage, well-known mining man, was a visitor in Tucson, Arizona, the latter part of March, where he studied the manganese situation of that district. Mr. Savage is a partner of the Inglis M. Uppercu interests of New York, who are interested in mining properties of Pima County.

S. L. Hamilton of Carrville, California, mine operator, is in southern California, where he is looking into the future possibilities on non-metallics. He has taken samples from several quartz croppings found in San Bernardino County and if the assays justify, he will return to develop some of these showings.

S. C. Graves, vice-president of the Richfield Oil Company of Los Angeles, is making a trip through the southwest, having as his final objective attendance at the public utilities convention to be held at Tucson, Arizona. His organization is stated to furnish by far the greater part of the fuel oil used by the public utility companies.

Louis T. Haggin, president of the Cerro de Pasco Copper Corporation, died in New York on March 18. Mr. Haggin was the son of the late James B. Haggin, one of the wealthiest mining men and landholders in the west, who was engaged in mining operations with Lloyd Tevis and the late Senator George Hearst, father of William Randolph Hearst.

Glenville A. Collins of Los Angeles, consulting mining engineer and president of the Collins Western Corporation, has returned to that place from Arizona, where he made examinations of mining properties in behalf of the North American Mining & Smelting Corporation, which is reported to be taking over a number of mines under a merger plan.

Frank L. Hess, chief engineer of the rare metals and non-metals division of the United States bureau of mines, sailed from San Francisco on the President Cleveland on March 15, on a professional trip which will take him to Shanghai, Canton, the Malay Peninsula, Burma, India, and probably some of the European countries. He expects to return to Washington by the end of the year.

Daniel H. McGraw, mining engineer who passed away recently in Los Angeles, was well-known in mining circles in Nevada, California and Arizona. He was overseas through the Great War as lieutenant of engineers. At the time of his death he was general manager of the Tornado Gold Mining Company. He is survived by his wife, Sarah Fennell McGraw, and two daughters.

George Jay, purchasing agent for the Calumet and Arizona Mining Company at Warren, Arizona, and C. C. Lassiter of Douglas, Arizona, traffic manager for the Phelps Dodge Corporation, have left Arizona for New York where they will attend a preliminary meeting of traffic managers of several copper companies relative to hearings ordered by the Interstate Commerce Commission on railroad rates on non-ferrous metals.

S. Fred Johnson has returned to Eureka, Utah, as general superintendent of mines for the Chief Consolidated Mining Company. Mr. Johnson held this position during the mines’ greatest productivity and resigned in 1924 to engage in private consultation and contract jobs. Two of his most difficult pieces of work were the concreting of the Morning shaft at MulIan, Idaho, and the concreting and deepening of the North Star shaft at Grass Valley, California.

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JUNE 30, 1929 THE MINING JOURNAL

WITH PROMINENT MEN YOU KNOW

C. W. Newton, general manager for the Callahan Zinc-Lead Company at Interstate, Idaho, has returned from New York City.

W. R. Avery, manager of the Criterion Mine, at Alma, Colorado, has opened considerable milling ore.

George W. Weber, former master mechanic in the Mary McKinney mine at Cripple Creek, died at his Denver home, June 6.

Spencer Penrose of Colorado Springs, has returned from an extended trip through Europe, accompanied by Mrs. Penrose.

R. H. Channing. consulting engineer, 725 Standard Oil Building, San Francisco, interested in several Colorado mines, visited Denver late in May.

Alois Herbst, mine operator of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, and Montana, passed away at Kingman, Arizona, on June 18. He was 61 years of age.

Frank M. Estee, general manager of the Concheno Mining Company, Concheno, Chihuahua, Mexico, has been on a business trip to New York of late.

C. M. McFarlan, superintendent of the Blue Cloud Copper Company, with operations near Parker, Arizona, recently made a business trip to the coast.

P. C. Benedict, field geologist for the United Verde Copper Company of Jerome, Arizona, lately investigated mining properties near Casa Grande, Arizona.

A. L. Blackburn, formerly metallurgist with the Sonora Development Company at Congress, Arizona, is now with the Zonia Copper Company at Kirkland, Arizona.

J. E. Culligan of Yuma, Arizona, has been in Los Angeles, selecting a deep well pump for installation at the Arizona Mining Corporation, of which he is manager.

Leslie Stewart Breckon of Bingham Canyon, Utah, underground foreman for the Utah Copper Company, has made application for membership in the A. I. M. E.

C. A. JosIin, mining engineer, 2708 West Ninth Street, Los Angeles, California, has returned from mine exploration in Nicaragua. His trip covered four months.

Tom Dougherty died at his home in Bisbee, Arizona, on June 7. He had been a watchman for the Copper Queen Branch of the Phelps Dodge Corporation for the past several years.

Burdett A. Winn has been appointed superintendent of the flotation plant at the San Eligio unit of the Mazapil Copper Company, in the vicinity of Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico.

Hugh Burns Lynch, mining engineer at the Sunrise iron mine of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, Sunrise, Wyoming, has applied for a junior membership in the A. I. M. E.

William Henry Harrison, consulting engineer of Washington, D. C. has removed his offices from the National Press Building to the Denrike Building at Vermont and K. Streets, N. W.

J. Benjamin Parker, president of the Metallurgical Engineering Company and inventor of the Parker flotation machines of Salt Lake City, is on a business trip through the state of Nevada.

Harry Hodges, 28, engineer at the New Cornelia Copper Company at Ajo, Arizona, for the past nine years, died at the New Cornelia hospital on June 16, following an operation for appendicitis.

A. L. Hearst, formerly in charge of the property of the Ethel Quicksilver Mining Company at Bodie, California, has resigned to take over the Primrose property, near Sierra City, in that state.

Louis Boldue, president and general manager of the Wisconsin Mining Company, died at Wallace, Idaho, recently. He had been engaged in mining in the Coeur d’Alene district since 1883.

B. B. Irving of Roseburg, Oregon, surveyor, has returned from the mining claims held by Zane Grey on the Roaue River in Oregon. Improvements are being made preparatory to securing patent.

Albert S. Harvey, of Saginaw, Michigan, vice-president and general manager of the United States Graphite Company, was a recent visitor in Nogales, Arizona, en-route to his company’s mines in Sonora, Mexico.

M. A. Hogan of Patagonia, Arizona, has resigned his position as mine foreman of the Trench Mining Company to become general manager of the Arizona Southern Mining Company, with operations also at that place.

D. D. Muir, Jr., manager for the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company, left Salt Lake City, Utah, for Boston, where he will be in conference with officials at the home office of that corporation.

A. W. Foster has been appointed as general chairman of the ore exhibit committee for the Spokane convention of the Northwest Mining Association and the American Mining Congress, September 30 to October 5.

Dr. E. S. Walford, who has headquarters at 11630 John B. Street, Detroit, Michigan, was in Lordsburg1 New Mexico, early in June, where he visited properties of the Wolverine Mining Company, of which he is president.

C. F. Thompson, representative of the Mine and Smelter Supply Company of El Paso, Texas, was a recent visitor at the Sheldon Superior property of the Chase Mines, Inc., at Prescott, Arizona, relative to mill machinery.

Benjamin R. Kopey has resigned as president of the Hope Milling and Leasing Company at Aspen, Colorado, to devote his entire time as general manager of the Taylor Park Milling and Powder Company, in the same district.

P. T. Jackson of Boston and T. M. Bains of Golden, Colorado, treasurer and consulting engineer, respectively, for the Whitlock Mines Corporation, spent some time at the company’s property, near Mariposa, California.

Lenox H. Rand, president of the Mines Information Bureau, Inc., will continue the publication of The Mines’ Handbook, under the editorship of Edward B. Sturgis, 17 John Street, New York. Volume XVIII will be ready in 1930.

Leo Victor Naudin, of Salaverna, Zacatecas Mexico, flotation shift boss at the San Eligio unit of the Mazapil Copper Company, Ltd., has applied for junior membership in the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.

George Young, 927 East Sixth Street, Tucson, Arizona, secretary-treasurer of the Altar and Cananea Mining Company, with properties in the Altar, Sonora, mining district of Mexico, has returned from a mine inspection tour in that country.

C. D. Overton has returned to his headquarters at 203 Grand Avenue, Nogales, Arizona, from a trip to the coast, where he made arrangements for the use of apparatus for a radio survey of the Calizona Mines, Inc. in Santa Crux County, Arizona.

Victor C. Heikes, statistician of the United States Bureau of Mines, San Francisco, California, announced that for statistical data compilation, the State of Nevada will come under the jurisdiction of California, instead of Utah, as formerly.

Louis Marleau, mining engineer, spent several days in the mountains northwest of Oceanside, California, examining properties owned by B. J. Harris and C. H. Moore, both residents of that town. The claims cover the Riverside-San Diego county boundaries.

H. L. Williams of Seattle, Washington, owner of the Antigua Cortex mine, accompanied by C. S. Stuart, superintendent, and A. M. Edwards, attorney, were recent visitors in Nogales, Arizona, en-route to this mine, located in the vicinity of Carbo, Sonora, Mexico.

R. W. Wood, president, and E. B. Campbell, general manager, of the Old Colony Mines, Ltd., recently visited the company’s mines at Kingman, Arizona, and other properties in which they are interested in Mohave county, Arizona. The officials maintain headquarters in Toronto, Canada.

George H. Garrey, consulting engineer and geologist, has returned to his headquarters at 501 Bullitt Building, Philadelphia, following the completion of surface and underground geological maps for the MacNeill mine of the Tonopah-Belmont Development Company at Palo Verde, Arizona.

R. R. Nunn, consulting mining engineer, with headquarters at 620 Martin Building, El Paso, Texas, is designing a 600-ton manganese concentrator for the By-Grade Manganese Production and Sales Corporation at Woodstock, Virginia. He expects to have the plant in operation within the next few months.

Albert Bellanger, general manager of the French mining company, Compagnie Du Boleo, with headquarters at 58 Rue de Frovence, Paris, France, arrived in Nogales, Arizona, the latter part of June, en route from San Francisco to the company’s holdings at Puerto de Santa Rosalia, B. C., Mexico.

A. E. Place, mining engineer of 1020 Haas Place, Los Angeles, has returned from mine examinations in Arizona and New Mexico for the Lindsey E. Morton interests of Birmingham, Alabama. Mr. Place also lately investigated placer diggings in northern California, in behalf of Los Angeles interests.

Alvin White, of Tucson, Arizona, treasurer of the Paymaster Mining Company, with properties at Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico, and Hugh Talley and Elam Olsen of Safford, Arizona, inspected the Napoleon mine in Pima County, Arizona, and properties in the Altar district of Sonora, Mexico, early in June.

George Kingdon, general manager of the United Verde Extension Mining Company and Val DeCamp, general superintendent of the United Verde Copper Company, both of Jerome, Arizona, have provided a fishing camp at Mormon Lake, Arizona, for residents of the Pioneers’ Home at Prescott, Arizona.

Ewald Kipp, a pioneer member of the engineering profession of the southwest and Mexico, died at his home in El Paso, Texas, on June 5. Mr. Kipp, who was ‘74 years of age, had retired from active practice of his profession 12 years ago, after 25 years of service with the American Smelting and Refining Company.

Charles Mentzel, president of the Belcher Extension Mines Company, with headquarters at One Exchange Place, Jersey City, New Jersey, is now at Superior, Arizona, where he will commence development of property of the Fortuna Consolidated Mining Company, which the Belcher company has taken over under a 10-year lease.

Joe Darnell, for several years employed at the Vindicator mine at Cripple Creek, Colorado, has been appointed as superintendent of the Vindicator-Golden Cycle properties of the United Gold Mines Company. This position had been held by A. H. Beebe, who is now superintendent for the Cresson Consolidated.

Francis N. Stacy, of Washington, D. C., is in Miami, Arizona, on a magazine and news mission, studying the copper industry of that section as well as the general mining industry of Arizona. Mr. Stacy was formerly special agent of the U. S. Census in charge of the smelting and refining industries in the Census of Manufactures for 1920.

Norman Kurtz, formerly manager of the Providencia mine, and superintendent of the Cia. Minera El Tajo de Dolores, S. A., both at Guanajuato, Gto., Mexico, is now assistant manager of the Lane-Rincon Mines, Inc., with operations at Mina Rincon, via Toluca, Mexico. Blarney Stevens, manager of Lane-Rincon, has of late been in Guerrero, where he examined properties for New York interests.

Edrnund S. Leaver, superintendent of the United States bureau of mines experiment station at Reno, Nevada, is making a trip through the southwest in the interests of bureau work. He is interviewing men who are conversant with the mining industry and its problems with a view to making recommendations to the organization of the problems needing the attention of the bureau of mines, and ascertaining what work can be most effectively accomplished.

C. I. Glassbrook of the commercial engineering firm of Gates & Glassbrook, Dooly Building, Salt Lake City, will shortly arrive at Globe, Arizona, in connection with the erection of the 500-ton plant to be built by the Slag Paving Brick and Products Company, near the slag dump of the Old Dominion Company. The Gates & Glassbrook Company has been awarded the contract for this construction, and Mr. Glassbrook will remain at Globe until the completion of the plant.

Messrs. John T. Martin and Edward E. Martin of the Mar-John Mines Company, having its offices at 881 Bush Street, San Francisco, and operating cobalt and gold mines at Sheepranch, Calaveras County, California, have recently purchased one of the Kreutzer Tri-Motor air coaches for observation, geological and mapping purposes in their mining work, and especially so for the quick transportation which usually takes eight hours from San Francisco to their mines. They can cover the distance in one hour in the plane.

A. S. Harshberger, president of the department of mines at the Chamber of Commerce, Tucson, Arizona, and A. H. Condron, secretary of the Chamber, inspected mining properties in the Ruby district of Arizona the middle of June. They report fair activity in that region, although inaccessibility of the district and lack of capital has prevented complete development.

Mr. Harshberger is president of the Buckeye State Mining and Milling Company, as well as owner of the Arizona Comstock group of claims, in the Santa Rita mountains, near Tucson.

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THE INING JOURNAL for SEPTEMBER 30, 1929

With Prominent People You Know

The activities and movements of men well known and prominent in the mining industry of the western stats.

Guy C. Riddell, 1 East 42nd Street, New York City, has completed his work in Venezuela and Mexico, and is now in Arizona.

Ben R. Bins, mining engineer, has been making mine examinations in Arizona, New Mexico and in southeastern Nevada.

R. M. Atwarter, Jr., of Ladenburg, Thalmann, & Company, New York bankers recently inspected mining properties in Montana.

Capt. John A. Hassell, 812 Chester Williams Building, Los Angeles, recently examined mining properties on the Mother Lode in California.

H. T. Hamilton, engineer with the New York Trust Company, has returned to New York City, following a trip to Arizona mining districts.

Otto DeSpain, who is engaged in the mining industry in South Africa, has been visiting friends and relatives in Arizona. He will soon return to Africa.

X. B. Starnes, has been transferred from the geological department of the Morenci Branch to the Copper Queen Branch, Phelps Dodge Corporation, Bisbee, Arizona.

John Hickey and E. A. Fritzberg of Phillipsburg, Montana, attended the American Manganese Producers’ Association convention at Washington, D. C., September 9 and 10.

R. B. Oliver, mining engineer, has returned to Oakland, California, from a two-year mining exploration trip in the Ivory Coast of French West Africa and adjacent territory.

John Whalen, now of Los Angeles, has been in the Globe District of Arizona, looking after his interests in mining property at Gibson. Mr. Whalen formerly resided in Globe.

Senator T. L. Oddie, of Nevada, who has been appointed by the president, as delegate to the Pan American Highway Conference in Rio de Janeiro, has returned to New York City.

Fred C. Emery, mine operator of Nogales, Arizona, has returned from an extended motor trip to the Pacific Coast, and will soon visit his mining properties in Sonora, Mexico.

George A. Kervin, formerly manager of the Mason Valley Mines Company at Thompson, Nevada, will leave shortly for Africa, where he will assume the management of a large copper company.

A. R. Lawrence, for the past five years with Inspiration Consolidated, and previously with Phelps Dodge in Arizona, is now superintendent at the Howey mine, Red Lake, Ontario.

S. S. Otic, 809 Cass Street, Chicago, Illinois, is now in London, England, negotiating for the financing of the property of the Colorado Copper Company, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Albert Flaws, formerly connected with the engineering department of the United Verde Copper Company, and now of Elizabeth, New Jersey, is visiting friends in the Verde district, and Jerome, Arizona.

F. H. Brownell of New York City, first vice-president and chairman of the finance committee of the American Smelting and Refining Company, was in Salt Lake City, Utah, on company business.

W. G. Anderson of Stockton, California, on returning from a business trip into Idaho and Montana, has been called to make an examination of the Ruth Pierce gold mines in Mariposa County, California.

George R. Tingle, formerly mill superintendent for La Fortuna Mining Company at Rosario, Chihuahua, Mexico, is now in charge of mill operations for the Elkoro Mines Company, operating at Jarbidge, Nevada.

W. B. Macaulay of San Francisco, engineer for the Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields, has been looking over one of the gold dredges located at Hammonton, California, and which is soon to be dismantled.

Clyde A. Heller, president of the Tonopah Belmont Development Company and also of the Gold Hill Development Company, who has been making his home in Southern California, is moving back to Philadelphia.

Walter E. Melville, designing engineer for the Western Steel Car and Foundry Company of Chicago, died at the home of his brother-in-law, M. M. Montgomery, 748 South High Street, Denver, Colorado, on August 28.

Gerald Smith has been appointed chief chemist for the Clifton smelter, Phelps Dodge Corporation, Clifton, Arizona, filling the position made vacant by the promotion of E. G. Lewis to assistant smelter superintendent.

Roy Millard, formerly superintendent of the famous Cliff mine, and also the Granite mine in Alaska, has assumed charge of operations of the Jack White mine of the Maricopa Mining Company, near Phoenix, Arizona.

Fred Emerson Thackwell of Salt Lake City, Utah, has asked for a junior membership in the A. I. M. E. Mr. Thackwell is a research fellowship student, department of mining and metallurgical research at the University of Utah.

C. Fred Merriam of Wallace, Idaho, mining engineer, is making a survey, both on the surface and underground, for the McPhillips Syndicate, of Seattle, operating the Blue Wing and Zanetti mines in the Nine Mile district in Idaho.

Frederick MacCoy, who recently resigned as general manager of Neg. Minera de San Rafael y Anexas, is making his home at Berkeley, California. Mr. MacCoy was in charge of affairs for the San Rafael during the last 10 years.

Ben Gill, secretary to a “string” of mining companies, has established an office in the Nevada State Life Building, Reno, Nevada, for the Jumbo Extension, the Grandma and the White Hills Mining Company, all formerly of Goldfield.

Scott P. Stewart of Provo, Utah, civil and mining engineer, has been appointed as director of the Utah State Securities Commission, Mr. Stewart takes the position held by H. C. Hicks, who has resigned after giving more than eight years’ service.

C. H. Smith of Ogden, Utah, president and general manager of the Lackawanna Mining Company, is at the company’s property, near Silverton, Colorado, where he is assisting Superintendent A. E. Nordlaad in the installation of six additional cells in the mill.

G. P. Goodier, of the Manganese and Fluorspar Producers Corporation of Denver, Colorado, represented the entire Rocky Mountain region, including New Mexico, at the meeting of the American Manganese Producers meeting in Washington, D. C.

T. M. Baja., Jr., has resigned his position as consulting engineer for the Memphis Corporation, and is no longer connected with that organization. Mr. Rains is now associate professor of geology at the Oregon State College, Corvallis, Oregon.

H. L. Seares, consulting mining engineer, 511 Story Building, Los Angeles, has been inspecting mining properties near Prescott, Arizona. He has only recently returned from a five-weeks’ stay in Old Mexico where he is in charge of certain mining developments.

W. B. Daly, general manager of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, and John H. Cole, president of the Domestic Manganese and Development Company, attended the American Manganese Producer’s conference in Washington, D. C., September 9 and 10.

Kiril Spiroff of Anaconda, Montana, chemist with the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, and William H. Strang of Casper, Wyoming, supervising driller and deputy supervisor with the United States Geological Survey, has applied for membership in the A. I. M. E.

Charles Mentzel, president and consulting engineer of the Belcher Extension Consolidated Mines Company, is in Superior, Arizona, in active charge of the diamond drilling which the company is conducting on the property of the Fortuna Consolidated Mining Company.

M. I. Signer, graduate of the Missouri School of Mines and former engineer, for the Illinois state highway department, has been appointed as assistant professor of mining at the Colorado School of Mines at Golden, filling the vacancy caused by the resignation of T. M. Rains, Jr.

S. R. Zimmerley, metallurgist, who has been studying grinding and crushing methods at the Intermountain branch of the United States Bureau of Mines, has resigned to take a position at the electrolytic plant of the Sullivan Mining Cornpany at Kellogg, Idaho. Mr. Zimmerley has been with the Bureau of Mines five years.

Henry G. McMillan, well-known in mining and business circles in Salt Lake City, Utah, passed away at the age of 81 years. He was a director in the Walker Brothers’ bank; for several years an associate with the late J. E. Bamberger, in ore buying; and had been active in the St. Mark’s Hospital and the Westminster College since their founding.

S. Power Warren, metallurgical engineer, has returned from England and Spain, where he has been engaged in his profession during the last six months. He expects to return to the school of mines at Golden, Colorado, to resume his duties as associate professor of metallurgy, from which he was granted a leave of absence early in the year.

Frank M. Smith, director of the Bunker Hill smelter, is chairman of the convention committee for the mining convention to be held in Spokane, September 30 to October 5, and is active in formulating a program, which will make the meeting one of the most interesting ever held in the West. Mr. Smith is also president of the Northwest Mining Association and chairman of the western division of the American Mining Congress.

Thomas McCurnin, construction superintendent for the Kansas City Structural Steel Company, Kansas City, Missouri, will be in charge of the construction of the new smokestack and boiler plant of Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company’s new power house at Inspiration, Arizona. Mr. McCurnin was in charge of construction at the new Grand Canyon bridge, and is well known through all western mining camps.

Grover Duff, formerly with the International Smelting Company, has been appointed mine foreman at the North Lily mine at Eureka, Utah, to replace A. S. Vondershek, who has accepted a position as foreman of various properties controlled by the North Lily-Knight Company. The latter is a new corporation, organized at the time that the Tintic holdings of the Knight Investment Company were transferred to the International Smelting Company.

Perry W. Olliver has been appointed as manager of the San Francisco office of Sullivan Machinery Company, filling the position made vacant by the death of Ray P. McGrath on August 25. Mr. McGrath had been manager of the San Francisco office for the last 15 years, and had been associated with the company since 1906. Mr. Olliver has been associated with Sullivan company since 1914, and has for the last eight years been connected with the El Paso, Texas, office of the company.

A. L. Boyd, general manager of the Mount Morgan Mining Company of Cleveland, Australia, has been visiting Arizona mining districts as a part of his survey as a member of the Royal Commission, appointed by the Australian government, to make a study of the cause of the continued depression in the mining industry in Australia. Mr. Boyd has been in the United States since June, his assignment having brought him to this country to study mining methods, labor problems and taxation questions. He will sail for Brisbane the latter part of this month.

Homer R. Wood of Prescott, Arizona, was elected president of the Yavapai Cooperative Prospectors’ Association at the organization meeting recently held. This association is the outgrowth of a plan conceived at the Mining Revival, held in Prescott, during August, and is designed as a co-operative body to work out many of the problems that are continually confronting the prospectors and small miners of that county. The directors of the organization are as follows: R. E. Logan, Wagoner; C. E. Champie, Hot Springs, and Win. Alcorn, S. F. Sims, and A. C. Gilmore, all of Prescott.

Harold Boedtker, chief chemist of the Mexican Department, American Smelting and Refining Company, has returned to his headquarters in El Paso, Texas, following a trip to Mexico City, where he attended the convention of the Centro Nacional de Ingenieros.
At the closing session of the convention Mr. Boedtker was presented with a beautiful wristwatch, by the American delegates and guests of the convention, in appreciation of his untiring efforts on their behalf.
Mr. Boedtker was chairman of the convention committee, El Paso Chapter, American Association of Engineers, and personally handled all details as to transportation, passports, etc., in connection with the trip.

Professor Katsura, of the Imperial University, Tokyo, Japan, visited the Inter-mountain station of the Bureau of Mines. He is touring the United States in order to study the developments of mining and metallurgy and expressed great interest in the work, which is being done at the station and in the laboratories and experimental equipment.
Professor Charles E. Locke of the mining and ore dressing department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was another distinguished guest at the station recently. Professor Locke spent some time going through the plant and familiarizing himself with the work being done there.

Louis M. Richard, ceramic geologist, formerly geologist for the Laclede Christy Clay Products Company of St. Louis, Missouri, and recently chief of the research division on raw materials for Gladding McBean and Company of the Pacific Coast, has been engaged in a survey of the clay resources near Gallup, New Mexico, for A. A. Vancleave of the Mitchell Clay Products Company of St. Louis, Missouri.

A number of social functions were held in the Clifton-Morenci district recently in honor of W. M. Saben and I. J. Sincox. Mr. Saben, who has been assistant manager of the Morenci Branch, Phelps Dodge Corporation, for some time, was transferred to the Copper Queen Branch at Bisbee. The official staff of the company, including all department heads, tendered Mr. Saben a farewell dinner, at which time he was presented with a beautiful watch.
A like gift was made to Mr. Simcox, formerly smelter superintendent, and now transferred to Morenci, where he is general superintendent of the Morenci Branch. Both changes became effective September 10.

CUP PRESENTED TO THE OLDEST LIVING ACTIVE PROSPECTOR
The Arizona Industrial Congress, through its president, P. G. Spilsbury, presents Ed McGinley, age 101, as a candidate for the oldest living active prospector in the mining world. Mr. McGinley was born in Pennsylvania, March 18, 1828. The mining operators of Arizona recently presented Mr. McGinley with a beautiful copper cup, and $101 in cash, one dollar for each of his years on earth.

This cup was given at a mining meeting held in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona, under the auspices of the mining committee of the Yavapai County Chamber of Commerce, the Arizona Industrial Congress, the Arizona Chapter, American Mining Congress, and the Arizona Section, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. The cup, according to President Spilsbury, who presented the same, was given to Mr. McGinley in commemoration of his years of work and useful effort.

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THE MINING JOURNAL for OCTOBER 15, 1929

With Prominent People You Know
The activities and movements of men, well known, and prominent in the mining industry of the western states.

Herman Bellinger, vice-president of the Chile Copper Company, recently visited at Butte, Montana.

Ed McLaughlin, pioneer prospector of Arizona, died at his home in Tucson on September 24. He was 79 years of age.

L. R. Burrow, of Murphys, California, is supervising drilling there for the Keystone Divide Mining Company.

F. E. Keeler has purchased the interest of G. R. Boggs in the Gold Ace Mine at Carrara, Nevada.

G. S. Burtis, Chicago capitalist, has taken an option on the Sutton mill, near Ouray, Colorado, and plans to operate it as a custom plant.

C. E. Collins, tunnel contractor, was killed by the fall of a slab from the roof of a tunnel in the Aladdin Mine, near Chico, California.

George H. Garrey, 501 Bullitt Building, Philadelphia, geologist, has been making an inspection of some mines in the Creede District, in Colorado.

P. A. Tharaldson, 59-year old pioneer of Arizona, and receiver of the Stargo Mines, Inc., at Morenci, Arizona, passed away the latter part of September.

R. L. Thatcher is making a survey of mining property near Bald Mountain, in northern Wyoming, purchased about a year ago from C. M. Elgin.

H. D. Lyons has been appointed assistant chief clerk of the New Cornelia Mines of the Calumet and Arizona Mining Company, at Ajo, Arizona.

George A. Kervin has been succeeded by F. W. Nobs as general manager of the Empire-Star Consolidated Mines Corporation, Grass Valley, California.

Frank Corwin of New York, general manager of the Nichols Copper Company, was a recent visitor in El Paso, Texas, where that company has a new copper refinery under construction.

Harry F. Guggenheim, noted mining magnate and aeronautical leader, has been nominated United States ambassador to Cuba, to succeed Col. Noble Brandon Judah of Chicago, who is retiring.

O. A. McCraney, formerly superintendent at the Argonaut Mine at Jackson, California, is general superintendent of the Murchie Mine, of the American Foundation Company, at Nevada City, California.

Noble H. Getchell, general manager for the Betty O’Neal Mines at Betty O’Neal, Nevada, has been looking over mining prospects in the vicinity of Index, Washington.

Robert W. La Montagne, formerly chief engineer of the Cia. de Real del Monte y Pachuca, at Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, is now engaged in private practice in New York City..

R. J. Orynski, previously associated with the Mexican Candelaria Company, S. A., at San Dimas, Durango, Mexico, in the capacity of chief metallurgist, has returned to San Francisco.

L. C. Trent, mining and metallurgical engineer, has changed his business and residence from Sacramento to Auburn, California. He is president of the L. C. Trent Engineering Company.

H. P. Christy, graduate of the Colorado School of Mines, Class of 1922, has been appointed as chief engineer of the water department of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.

Duncan MacVichie, consulting engineer, 610 Clift Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, has returned from an examination of the Big Missouri Mine, Portland Canal, British Columbia.

Harry S. Thayer of Colorado Springs, Colorado, president of Crater Mines Company, Inc., is in New York City, interested in the financial well being of that organization.

Harnier C. Sandifer, mining engineer of Mexico City, died on September 16 at the age of 73 years. Mr. Sandifer was of British descent, and had been in Mexico for the last 40 years.

Fred I. Phelps of Oakland, California, mining engineer, has completed an examination and report on a part of the Garland Ranch, near Murphys, for the Keystone Divide Mining Company.

Harrison Ashley Schmitt of Hanover, New Mexico, chief geologist of the Empire Zinc Company, is a candidate for membership in the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.

Alex McGregor, pioneer mining man of New Mexico, and owner of the McGregor Mine at Georgetown, passed away at Silver City, the latter part of September. He was 93 years of age.

C. H. Munro, engineer, Hobart Building, San Francisco, California, has finished sampling the Donald Placers at Manhattan, Nevada, for the Cole-Kirchen Syndicate. If his report is favorable a dredge will be installed at the deposits.

Robert E. Tally, president of the American Mining Congress, and Manager of the United Verde Copper Company at Jerome, Arizona, delivered the feature address at the mining convention held in Spokane, Washington, the first of October.

Charles D. Wilkinson of Tonopah, Nevada, mining engineer, has examined the Buckskin National Mine in Humboldt County. He reports considerable ore in sight of both high-grade and milling values.

G. M. Wasteneys, general manager of the Cia. Inversiones del Oro, S. A., at Sombrerete, Zacatecas, Mexico, and the El Oro Mining and Railway Company, at El Oro, Mexico, has returned to that country from London.

Hugh Rose, managing director of a number of mining companies in Mexico, including the Mexican Corporation, S. A., Fresnillo, Zacatecas, and the Santa Gertrudis Company, Ltd., Pachuca, Hidalgo, is en route to Australia.

J. K. Brooke of Portland, mining engineer, has inspected the Vesuvius Group of mining claims in the Bohemia District in Oregon. Mr. Brooke was formerly connected with the American Smelting and Refining operations in Mexico.

Charles Mosco, pioneer resident of Bisbee, Arizona, and pensioned employee of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, Copper Queen Branch, died at Salida, Colorado, September 19. He first entered the services of the Copper Queen in 1900.

A party of New York men, including James G. McLaughlin of Elmira, D. W. Kelly of Hornell, James Smith, and Joseph Donovan of Wellsville, visited the property of the Royal Development Company at Red Mountain, near Leavenworth, Washington.

A. E. Hoover, mining engineer, Star Route, Murray, Idaho, has returned from a survey of the Boulder Placers, some nine miles from Shoup, Idaho. He was accompanied by Merrill Hebblethwaite, of Prichard, Idaho, and Art Nelson of Spokane.

Thomas C. Baker has resigned his position as general manager of The Fresnillo Company, which is the Fresnillo Unit of the Mexican Corporation, S. A., at Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico, and will assume charge of mining properties in New South Wales, Australia.

George P. Hulst, for several years superintendent of the American Smelting and Refining Company’s plant at Omaha, and later superintendent of the International Lead Refinery at East Chicago, has been appointed as superintendent of the American Lead Company’s plant at Indianapolis.

Carl W. Chilson is making a geophysical survey of the property of the Lehi Tintic Mining Company, near Eureka, Utah, in conjunction with G. W. Crane, consulting geologist, 804 Dooly Block, Salt Lake City, and R. M. Crocker, consulting mining engineer, 1118 Newhouse Building, Salt Lake City.

J. D. Blosser, superintendent of the National Metals Corporation, returned to the company’s properties at Chloride, Arizona, recently for a brief stay, and has now left for Oklahoma and New York, where it is understood arrangements are being made for driving of the 4,000-foot Rainbow Tunnel.

H. G. Lower, superintendent of the Wright Creek Mines Company at Kingman, Arizona, and Charles Cummings, former Chicago broker, were instantly killed in an automobile accident on September 24. Mr. Lower had been in charge of Wright Creek operations for about six months.

W. M. Drury, general manager of the Mexican Mining Department, of the American Smelting and Refining Company, who has been at the New York offices of the company, 120 Broadway, for the past six months, has returned to his former headquarters at El Paso, Texas, where he will remain about six