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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.

rehab · GARDNER WILLIAMS E&MJ 9 23 1922

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

rehab · PERSONAL NOTES EMJ 8 4 1928

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.

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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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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.

rehab · prominent men you know TMJ 9 30 1929

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.

rehab · MINING MEN TMJ 10 15 1929

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 weeks.

G. P. Goodier, who attended the meeting of the American Manganese Producers Association in Washington, representing the intermountain territory, has returned to his home in Denver. Mr. Goodier is hopeful that the question of tariff on manganese will be settled to the entire satisfaction of the producers.

The following officers were elected by the Mining Association of California:
Robert L. Hanley of Nevada City was made temporary president;
R. L. Kimmel, manager of the mining department, of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, secretary;
and Clarence Jarvis of Sacramento, treasurer. Sixteen directors were elected to serve various sections of the state.

L. C. Graton and Donald H. McLaughlin of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Guy N. Bjorge of San Francisco, mining geologists, plan to cooperate in their consulting work for various mining companies, including the Old Dominion Company of Globe, Arizona, and the San Luis Mining Company, and the Tigre Mining Company, S. A., in Mexico.

John C. Hoyt, chief of the Surface Water Division of the United States Geological Survey, is on his way to the World Engineering Congress at Tokyo, Japan. While in Salt Lake City, he conferred with A. B. Purton, district engineer for Salt Lake; Ralph R. Woolley, hydraulic engineer for Salt Lake; G. C. Baldwin, district engineer for Idaho Falls, and A. W. Harrington, district engineer for Albany, New York.

HEADS WESTERN DIVISION
Brent M. Rickard, manager of the El Paso smelter of American Smelting and Refining Company, was named as chairman of the Western Division of the American Mining Congress, at the convention held in Spokane, Washington, the first week of October. The 1930 meeting of the Western Division is to be held in El Paso, probably in September or October, the exact date to be selected later.

rehab · MINING MEN TMJ 10 30 1929

THE MINING JOURNAL for OCTOBER 30, 1929

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

W. C. Capron has resigned as mechanical superintendent of the Washoe plant at Anaconda, Montana.

Frank Sersisko, part owner of the Daly West Mine in the West Tintic District in Utah, passed away on October 6.

H. W. Ingalls, formerly of Mullan, Idaho, has charge of the Clipper-Bullion Mine at Shoup, Lemhi County, Idaho.

Daniel Murphy, of Wallace, Idaho, is reopening the property of the United Metals Company in the Coeur d’Alene District.

Robert H. Bedford, of Grass Valley, California, mining engineer, is making mine examinations in Peru and in Chile.

E. L. Tomlinson, president of the Westener Gold Lead Mines at Venezia, Arizona, was lately in Los Angeles on mining business.

W. J. Adan is chief engineer in the construction of a tramway for the Tri ump Development Company at Bellevue, Idaho.

C. H. MacDonald has been elected as vice-president of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, in charge of sales in California.

Archie McGregor, old-time mine operator of New Mexico, passed away at his home near Mimbres, October 13, at the age of 84.

A. D. Marshall, director and secretary to the Eureka Mining and Milling Company, Ltd., died at Wallace, Idaho, on September 28.

W. B. Daly, general manager of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, Butte, Montana, is inspecting the Green-Cananea operations in Mexico.

Lewis K. Kramer, who has been developing mines near Golconda, Nevada, including the Silver Coin property, died suddenly September 29.

M. C. Godbe, McCornick Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, general manager for the Ophir-Mono Mines, Inc., is at company headquarters in Detroit, Michigan.

John M. Harrington has been appointed director of the central mine rescue station at Wallace, Idaho, filling the vacancy caused by the death of K. T. Sparks.

E. A. Behr, assistant sales manager of the American Smelting and Refining Company, sailed on the Berengaria, the middle of October, for a business trip abroad.

John H. Connell has bought a third interest in the Too Handy mining claims, near Brown’s Valley, Yuba County, California, from S. L. Herman of Oakland.

Oscar Hershey, chief geologist for the Bunker Hill and Sullivan company, and N. B. Pettibone, are inspecting mining property on Thunder Mountain, Idaho County, Idaho.

W. G. Hills, chief mine engineer for the Portland Gold Mining Company, has been
granted a year’s leave of absence. R. B. Emens is filling the position during Mr.
Hills’ absence.

W. P. Hammon of San Francisco, J. E. Neighbor, and Newton Cleaveland, of the Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields, visited the company’s properties at Hammonton, California, recently.

H. Green is secretary and manager of the Utah Peruvian Lead Company, 602 Clift Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, filling the vacancy caused by the death of John P. Clays on June 12.

H. R. Lathrop, 111 John Street, New York City, has lately been at the properties and smelter of the Sheldon Mining Company at Walker and Humboldt, Arizona, of which he is president.

H. W. Gould of San Francisco, California, is in New York, where he expects to discuss the quicksilver situation with P. F. Berk of the firm of F. W. Berk and Company, Ltd., London, England.

George W. Roddewig, mining engineer, has opened an office at Salt Lake City, Utah, where he will continue to practice his profession. He was formerly associated with the W. A. Clark interests.

T. H. Jenks, consulting geologist, visited Phoenix on his way from the meeting of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers at San Francisco, and is en route to New Mexico and Colorado.

B. P. Howell has resigned as superintendent of the Nevada Gold Dome Mining Company, Battle Mountain, Nevada, and will be succeeded by William Sharp, formerly of the engineering staff of George Wingfield.

M. Van Siclen, of Washington, D. C., mining engineer and geologist, has examined the property of the Silver Crescent Mining Company, near Wallace, Idaho, and has taken samples of ore from the mine to the eastern stockholders.

F. Pisart, managing director of Societe Generale des Minerais of Belgium, operating at Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico, under the name of Cia. Mexicana de Minerales, S. A., has arrived in New York on the Majestic for a short business trip.

Henry Barker, pioneer mining man of Arizona, passed away recently in Phoenix at the age of 70 years. Mr. Barker and associates were credited with having discovered the old Glory Hole deposit, 12 miles northwest of Salome, Arizona.

Colonel William Boyce Thompson of Yonkers, New York, director of the Newmont Mining Corporation, and a large stockholder in the Magma Copper Company, has arrived in Superior, Arizona, where he will reside during the winter months.

Cornelius F. Kelley, president of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, has been awarded the gold medal, “for distinguished service in the expansion and stabilization of the mining industry,” by the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America.

F. G. Hawley is the author of a new booklet on the analytical laboratory methods used at the International Smelting Company’s plant at Inspiration, Arizona, of which he has been chief chemist since the company first started operation about 15 years ago.

William W. Elmer of Portland, consulting engineer for the Oregon Copper Company, has taken active charge of field operations, with address at Arthur, Oregon, for the coming four months, during which time no new professional engagements will be entered into.

Dr. Robert H. Richards, author of “Ore Dressing,” and J. V. N. Dorr, head of The Dorr Company, recently inspected milling plants at Butte, Montana, on their way to the World Engineering Congress at Tokio, Japan. Both of these men are representing the A. I. M. E.

A. G. Keating, president of the Big Jim Mines, Inc., lately visited the company’s properties near Patagonia, Arizona, where extensive exploration work is under way by diamond drilling. Mr. Keating maintains headquarters at 436 Merchants’ National Bank Building, Los Angeles.

Bryce Sewell, president of the Royston Turquoise Mines Company, Inc., Desert Bank Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, has returned from San Francisco, where he has opened an agency for distributing the low-grade turquoise from a deposit at Royston, Nevada, for decorative tiling.

Lapsley W. Hope, assistant superintendent and purchasing agent of the Morning Glory Mining and Smelting Company, has been placed in charge of all company operations at Patagonia, Arizona, succeeding J. A. Hamilton, as manager. Mill operations are in charge of E. C. Clapp.

James H. Kervin, mining engineer, passed away at San Francisco, California, in September. He practiced his profession at the Ontario Mine at Park City, Utah; at the Granite-Bimetallic property at Philipsburg, Montana; at the Mammoth smelter at Kennett, California, and at other camps.

W. C. Browning, Pacific Mutual Building, Los Angeles, former general manager of the Magma Copper Co., at Superior, Arizona, and F. W. Snow, also of that company, have sailed for Venezuela, where they will be engaged in mine examinations for a couple of months.

The following have applied for membership in the A. I. M. E.:
George S. Goodale of Denver, Colorado;
Edward H. Thaete, Jr., of Victor, Colorado, mining engineer for the Stratton Estate Lease;
and Gustav Ernst Thede of Glendale, California, consulting engineer for the Manhattan Mines Company.

Charles R. Wraith, for several years assistant superintendent of the Washoe plant of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, has accepted a position as manager of the reduction department of the Roan Antelope Mining Company in Africa. He expects to leave for Africa, via London, about October 15.

Richard L. Smith, J. O. Handy, and Robert M. Steffler, of Pittsburgh, and W. L. Affelder of Philadelphia, mining engineer, metallurgist, attorney and banker, respectively, arrived at Reno, Nevada. Accompanied by H. E. Springer and Turnbaugh, they are inspecting brucite deposits in northern Nye County, Nevada.

L. C. Penhoel, of 1221 Hollingsworth Building, Los Angeles, general manager of the Southwestern Exploration Company, with properties at Santa Barbara, Chihuahua, Mexico, and also of the SouthWestern Engineering Corporation, operating the Trench Mine at Patagonia, Arizona, was lately in Joplin, Missouri.

M. B. Dudley and Frederick Koehler were recently in San Francisco, where a conference was held in regard to development of the ore strike at the Pilgrim Mine at Chloride, Arizona. Mr. Dudley who has headquarters at Kingman, Arizona, is president of the Katherine Treasure Vault Mining Company, owners of the Pilgrim.

Raymond S. Conroy, mining engineer of experience in South America, Mexico and the United States, has enrolled in the University of Arizona, at Tucson, for a special course in the college of mines and engineering. Mr. Conroy spent the last three years in Bolivia, and was formerly at Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, as superintendent.

“Death Valley Scotty” has for the present turned his attention to the building of a two and a half million dollar tourist hotel on Telescope Peak in the Panamint Mountains. A road, estimated to cost more than a half a million dollars, is being built from Trona, across the Panamint Valley, through Wild Rose Canyon and up the peak.

Robert S. Lewis, one of the leading coal and metal mine operators in the west, passed away at Salt Lake City, Utah, on September 29. For some time before his death he had charge of the Utah Metal Flux Company and during his life had been identified with the coal mining industry at Kemmerer, Wyoming, and with the Marsh Coal Company.

Van Dyne Howbert, who has been in charge of the El Paso office of the American Metal Company, Ltd., at 810 Mills Building, for the past six years, has been transferred to the company’s New York office at 61 Broadway. Charles E. Stott, previously geologist at the Presidio Mine, Shafter, Texas, now has headquarters at the El Paso office.

J. Fewson Smith, chief engineer for the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company, and C. A. Mayer of the engineering force, have returned to their offices in the Newhouse Building at Salt Lake City, Utah, from Eureka, Nevada. Their trip to Eureka was to examine the surface and underground workings of the Richmond-Eureka mine on Ruby Hill.

Walter Douglas, president of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, Arthur Curtiss James, vice-president, and several directors of the company, arrived in Douglas, Arizona, from New York on October 14, and after an inspection of the company’s smelter at that point, proceeded to the Moctezuma properties at Nacozari, Sonora, Mexico, from whence they will visit the Copper Queen and Morenci branches at Bisbee and Morenci, Arizona.

The firm of Sill and Root, Inc., Rush T. Sill, president; Lloyd L. Root, vice-president, and L. F. Nichols, secretary-treasurer, has established offices at 115 West Seventh street, Los Angeles, California. It will carry on a general mining business, including mine examinations, geological studies, supervision of development and the management of properties. Sill is a prominent mining engineer, being a member of the former firm of Sill and Sill, consulting mining and metallurgical engineers. Root, for many years state mineralogist of California, is well known in mining circles.

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THE MINING JOURNAL for NOVEMBER 30, 1929

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

Frank Kessler, millman for the Argo Tunnel Company at Idaho Springs, Colorado, passed away November 8.

George Huseman is in charge of the Princess-Blue Ribbon mines at Fairfield, Idaho, of the Consolidated Mines Syndicate.

William Henry Lucas, foreman of the Dolomite plant of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, Pueblo, Colorado, died November 10.

A. R. Wheeler has succeeded James Harrington, who has been in charge of the Keystone property in the Park City District in Utah.

H. C. Hirsch, 3621 Montana Street, El Paso, Texas, was recently in Kingman, Arizona, where he purchased the Smith mill at Chloride, Arizona.

W. O. Swart, consulting engineer of Cusi-Mexicana Mining Company, recently visited the company’s holdings at Cusihuiriachic, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Frederick H. Vahrenkamp, consulting mining engineer of San Francisco, and formerly of Grass Valley, California, lately inspected placer prospects in Arizona.

R. S. Handy, general superintendent of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mills at Kellogg, Idaho, visited the workings of the Treadwell-Yukon Company, Ltd., at Tybo, Nevada.

R. P. Ralston of the Colorado-Mexico Mining Company, has purchased a residence at Silverton, Colorado, and in the future, will supervise work for his company in that district.

Lewis Hinds of Los Angeles, mining engineer, and Joseph T. Murphy, have been elected as president and secretary, respectively, of the Arista Mines Company, by the board of directors.

R. L. Poston has been placed in charge of the Two Tails property of the Lead Consolidated Company at Bonners Ferry, Idaho. This company has succeeded the Lead Cliff Mining Company.

C. A. Hastings, secretary-treasurer, and P. O. Jadwin, director, of the Sheldon Mining Company, both of New York City, recently spent a few days at the company’s properties at Walker, Arizona.

Fred H. Hazard of Seattle, Washington, passed away late in October. Since 1928 he had been an engineer in the field division of the U. S. General Land Office, with headquarters in Portland, Oregon.

Carl G. Barth, Jr., formerly mill superintendent at the Octave Mine of the Arizona Eastern Gold Mines Company, Octave, Arizona, now has charge of the will at the Midnight Test Mine, near Prescott, Arizona.

Robert E. Tally, general manager of United Verde Copper Company, Jerome, Arizona, will attend the annual convention of the American Mining Congress, of which he is president, to be held in Washington, D. C., December 4 to 7.

O. F. Brinton of Butte, Montana, and J. L. Templeman, 727 West Park Street, Butte, are vice-president and director, respectively, of the Commonwealth Lead Mining Company, replacing Walter Steadman and B. Y. Sellers, respectively.

Charles A. Mitke, consulting engineer of Phoenix, Arizona, left England November 9, for New York, following a month’s stay in London. Mr. Mitke is returning from Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia, where he inspected mining methods of the Mt. Isa Mines, Ltd.

E. H. Bowly, Jr., Iowa Hill, California, has been making examinations of various channel mining properties in that district, for San Francisco capitalists. Mr. Bowly has had no connection with the Belmont Metals Corporation, Mariposa, California, since February 1, 1929.

Dan R. Williamson of Globe, Arizona, president and general manager of Inspiration Needles Copper Company, has been appointed state historian by Governor John C. Phillips of Arizona, to succeed the late Major George H. Kelly, for the unexpired term ending January 3, 1931.

P. J. McHugh, of the El Monte Mining Company, has returned to Elma, Washington, from DeSabla, California, where he has been superintending the development of the Toadtown Quartz Mine of the El Monte company. He was accompanied by his brother, Neil McHugh, and his son, Neil II.

L. B. Spencer, of the surveying firm of Liddell and Spencer of Tonopah, Nevada, is surveying a route for a power line from Mina, to the property of the Nevada-Massachusetts Company at Silver Dyke. A mill is being erected there and excavations made for an aerial tramway from the tunnel to the mill.

H. Foster Bain, of New York City, formerly director of the United States Bureau of Mines, and at present, secretary of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, was specially entertained by University of Arizona and Tucson engineers upon his arrival in Tucson, Arizona, November 22.

Charles A Lemmon has succeeded Chas. S. Wraith, as assistant general superintendent of the Anaconda Reduction Works of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, Anaconda, Montana. Mr. Wraith has accepted a position as manager of the reduction department of the Roan Antelope Mining Company in Africa.

S. Mitsuda, mining engineer with the Mitsui Mining Company, of Japan, was a recent visitor at the College of Mines and Engineering of the University of Arizona, at Tucson. Mr. Mitsuda is interested in American methods of mining and milling, and will visit a number of plants and mines in the southwest, before his return to Japan in December.

K. C. Link, formerly superintendent at the Park Galena Mine at Keetley, Utah, has accepted a position with the Tintic Lead Company at Frisco, Utah. The vacancy at the Park Galena has bten filled by L. F. Pearce, a graduate of the Michigan School of Mines, and for a number of years superintendent of the New York Honduras Mines Company, in Honduras.

S. K. Turner, president, and Ben Gill, secretary of the White Hills Silver Mines, Inc., were recently in Kingman, Arizona, where an adjustment was made it regard to taxes of the organization. It is understood that a further financing program will be put under way. Mr. Tuner has headquarters at 1227 Rowan Building, Los Angeles, with Mr. Gill established in the Nevada State Life Bldg, Reno, Nevada.

George R. Fulton of Prescott, Arizona, has resigned his position as vice-president and general manager of War Eagle Consolidated Mines, Inc., due to ill health, and will shortly leave for the southern part of the state. Mr. Fulton’s place as vice-president will be filled by W. C. Hill, while Jack Keagon, experienced mining man, until recently connected with properties in Canada, will take over the post of general manager.

O. C. Smith, general manager of the Dell Asbestos Mines at Thetford, Quebec, Canada, and W. Jacobson, sales engineer of the Keasby-Mattison Asbestos Mining Corporation of Ambler, Pennsylvania, were recent vistors at property of the Bear Canyon Asbestos Company at Rice, Arizona. The Keasby-Mattison corporation and Frank J. Lunn of Globe, Arizona, own the controlling interest in the Bear Canyon properties.

Charles H. Munro, mining engineer, 1109 Hobart Building, San Francisco, has applied to the California State Division of Water Rights, for approximately 232.5 cubic feet per second of water from the middle fork of the Yuba River, for the opening of a $1,540,000 hydraulic mining venture on San Juan ridge, in Nevada County. The ground that Munro proposes to develop, is located between Columbia Hill and Badger Hill, near Birchville.

Colonel William Boyce Thompson of Yonkers, New York, chairman of the board of directors of the Newmont Mining Corporation, and a large stockholder in the Magma Copper Company at Superior, Arizona, has contributed $100,000 to’ the endowment fund of the School of Engineering of Columbia University. Colonel Thompson is a graduate of the Columbia School of Mines. It is understood that he will reside at Superior during the winter months.

George O. Young, prominent mining man of Arizona, died at his home in Tucson, November 14, following a stroke of apoplexy. Mr. Young was connected with the New Cornelia Mines at Ajo, upon his arrival in Arizona 17 years ago, and later developed properties in the Copper Creek District, near Mammoth, including the Blue Bird mine, in addition to his duties as secretary-treasurer of the Altar and Cananea Mining Company, with operations in the Altar District of Sonora, Mexico.

Harvey A. Rossell, manager of the Christmas Copper Company, Christmas, Arizona, is a candidate for membership in the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.
Harry Jessing of Miami, Arizona, engineer with Miami Copper Company, has made application for associate membership, and Frederic W. Galbraith, 3rd., mine foreman, Santo Niño Mine, Southern Copper Mining Company, Patagonia, Arizona, is a candidate for junior membership in the organization.

The following persons have been proposed for membership in the A. I. M. E.:
George Chester Brown of San Francisco, California, secretary-treasurer, California Metal and Mineral Producers’ Association;
Harry Louis Burmeistor of Berkeley California;
Alexander Flyter Ross of Jackson, California, assistant superintendent at the Kennedy mine; Charles H. Segerstrom of Sonora, California, president of the Nevada-Massachusetts Company; and Edward Andrew Swedenborg of Midwest, Wyoming, associate chemist, U. S. Geological Survey.

F. A. Wardlaw, Jr., of Salt Lake City, has arrived in Inspiration, Arizona, to assume the duties of general superintendent of Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company, succeeding Clyde E. Weed, who has accepted the position of general manager. with Cananea Consolidated Copper Company at Cananea, Sonora, Mexico. Mr. Wardlaw comes to Inspiration from the International Smelting Company, with which he served as general superintendent of mining operations in Utah and Nevada, for the past two years. Harold W. Aldrich, with Inspiration since 1918 in charge of leaching operations, has been appointed assistant general superintendent.

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TIlE MINING JOURNAL JUNE 30, 1931

With Prominent People You Know
The activities and movements of men well known and prominent in the mining industry of the Western States

Dean Wailer Allbee of Eureka, Montana, has filed an application for a junior membership In the A. I. M. E.

George A. Packard, mining engineer of Boston, Massachusetts, is making examinations of mines near Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico.

A. S. Wallace of Heber, Utah, has replaced W. C, McClelland as mine superintendent of the Park King Mining Company.

L. C. Penhoel, president of Southwestern Engineering Corporation, is making a business trip through the Mother Lode district of California.

Ludwig Vogelstein, chairman of the board of directors of American Metal, 61 Broadway, New York City, returned from Europe late last month.

John J. Jordon has been appointed as superintendent at the Commonwealth mine of the Treadwell-Yukon Company, Ltd., at Steamboat Springs, Nevada.

William S. Koerhner, general manager of Magma Copper at Superior, Arizona, has been called to New York for a conference with company officials.

F. F. Sharpless, 7 East Forty-second Street, New York City, has gone to Idaho, where he will be engaged in mine examination work near Fairfield.

Philip D. Wilson, mining engineer with the American Metal Company, Ltd., left New York last month on a two to three months’ business trip in Europe.

J. Parke Channing, consulting mining engineer, recently returned to his headquarters at 61 Broadway, New York City, by motor from Berkeley, California.

George W. Roddewig, mining engineer and geologist, has changed his address from 602 Nèwhouse Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, to 55 University Street, in that city.

John G. Barry, consulting mining geologist and engineer of El Paso, Texas, delivered the commencement address at the College of Mines, University of Texas, on May 30.

E. N. Abbott, mine superintendent of the Mazapil Copper Company, Ltd., Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico, was a visitor at A. I. M. E. headquarters in New York in May.

T. Skewes Saunders, consulting mining engineer of Mexico City, is making an extensive examination of the Santa Maria de La Paz property at Matehuala, San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

William Gasaway and A. W. Tiytler, Jr., students of engineering at the University of Kansas, have joined the staff of the United Vanadium Corporation at Dripping Springs, Arizona.

George F. Berchey, a Nevada mining man, has been appointed manager of the Boston Mokelumne mine, near Mokelumne
Hill, California, succeeding Bartholomew Sullivan, who passed away June 11.

Robert C. Lane of Lawson, Colorado, president of the Red Elephant Mining Company, has been invited to become a member of the advisory committee of the International Silver Commission.

J. R. McLane, formerly mine superintendent of the Montana Mines Operations at Ruby, Arizona, is now mine superintendent with the Union Copper Company, S. A., at Tepezala, Ags., Mexico.

F. S. Calkint, mining engineer and geologist, with Arizona headquarters at the office of the Arizona Industrial Congress in Phoenix, recently completed a geologic survey and map of the Vulture mining property near Wickenburg.

William Andrew Clark, III, of Butte, Montana, president of the Casco Development Company; and member of a family well-known in mining through generations, has applied for membership in the A. I. M. E.

Arthur Chippendale, chemist and con-suiting geologist, Bruselas 10, Mexico City, was recently on a business trip in the United States. Mr. Chippendale has been doing consulting work in Mexico since 1922.

Victor A. Light, assistant general manager, and Charles R. Waters, mine superintendent, of the Tom Reed Gold Mines Company at Oatman, Arizona, have been in Pasadena, California, consulting with directors of the Tom Reed organization.

B. J. Metlan of Armstead, Montana, has been elected as president of the Beaver-head Mining Association at a recent meeting held in Dillon. The other officers chosen are: Pearl I. Smish, vice-president; Roy B. Herndon, secretary, and S. C. Paller, treasurer.

Gerald F. Sherman, for many years con-suiting mining engineer with the Phelps Dodge Corporation in Arizona, is now located at Ashland, Pennsylvania. Mr. Sherman was recently in New York City and has gone to California for a short time before returning to Ashland.

J. C. Weir, New York broker, has been visiting various mines in the Tonopah, Goldfield, Gilbert, Manhattan and Round Mountain districts. In the early days, he operated a brokerage office in Goldfield. His visit to Nevada is said to have been in the interest of a New York syndicate.

S. C. Kreyns, formerly assistant smelter superintendent of the American Smelting & Refining plant at Hayden, Arizona, has joined the staff of Braden Copper in Chile. He will be succeeded at Hayden by B. A. Berryman, who has been transferred from the A. S. & R. smelter at Tacoma, Washington.

A. K. Lobeck, professor of geology at Columbia University, is making an aerial physiographic survey across the continent between New York and San Francisco. This is the first survey of this nature to be made and his reports will be published in booklet form by the United States geological survey.

Harold Harris has been engaged as assayer at the Enterprise mine, at Aspen, Colorado, operated by the Taylor Park Milling and Power Company. Richard Hundel has been engaged as assistant mill manager for the company. Both men have gone to work from the Colorado School of Mines at Golden.

Harry W. Woodward of Lynn, Massachusetts, one of the directors of the Ajax Mining Company, operating in Burke Canyon, near Burke, Idaho, is expected to arrive in the Coeur d’Alenes soon. It is hoped that he can arrange for a resumption of operations of the property, which has lately shut down.

J. P. Caulfield, Jr, formerly with the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company at Ruth, Nevada, and with the United Comstock Mines Company at Gold Hill, Nevada, as mine superintendent, is now deputy state mine inspector in that state. He is located at Boulder Dam and his headquarters are Las Vegas, Nevada.

Charles 0. Axsell, engineer, 8824 Indiana Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, has compiled a map of the Platoro, Jasper, Stunner and Summitville districts in Conejos and Rio Grande counties in Colorado. Another map, a detail on a larger scale of the Platoro section has been drawn. All show patented properties with contours and other data.

Announcement has been made of the appointment of Frank H. Teats as superintendent of the Red Lion Gold Mining Company, recently organized for the development of property at Oatman, Arizona. Mr. Teats has a record of over 50 years’ mining experience, which has taken him to several foreign countries, besides his work in this country.

Louis T. Abele, metallurgist of Palo Alto, California, and Franklin MacMurphy of Pasadena, graduate student of the California Institute of Technology, are candidates for membership in the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. Thomas A. DeVore, metallurgist with the Sewell Brothers in Los Angeles, has made application for associate membership.

Robert H. Sayre was elected chairman of the Colorado section of the A. I. M. E. at its annual meeting, held at the University Club, Denver, May 6. The other officers elected were: Charles T. Lupton, vice-chairman; Perry N. Moore, secretary-treasurer; and C. .4. Heiland and H. M. Henderson, additional directors. Robert B. Tally, president of the Institute, was guest of honor.

Charles A. Diehl, Phoenix, Arizona, assayer, is making an extended trip through the east with his brother, George Diehl. They are visiting manufacturing plants using non-metallic minerals with a view to finding additional markets for Arizona products. Charles A. Smith is managing the Phoenix assay office, during the absence of the Diehls, assisted by John Booth, metallurgist.

F. H. Hancock has been appointed as general superintendent of both mines and mills of the I. B. Mining Company, operating in the vicinity of Bannack, Montana. He has had considerable experience with the Kennecott and Black Rock properties and has some knowledge of the Bannack ores. His appointment includes two positions, formerly occupied by C. W. Stallings and William H. Gaines.

Paddy Woods, general manager of the Gold King Consolidated Mines Company, controlling a group of mines on the east side of the Wallapai Mountains, in Mohave county, Arizona, has returned to Kingman to take up permanent residence. At present, he has a small force of men at work at the Gold King, completing assessment work, putting in a water system, and getting the camp in shape in general.

William B. Daly, general manager of mines for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, has returned to his headquarters in Butte, Montana. During the past five months, Mr. Daly, accompanied by Reno H. Sales, chief geologist, and F. Arthur Linforth, assistant chief geologist, have been traveling in England, France and Africa. Before returning to Butte, Mr. Sales is inspecting mines in Poland, and Mr. Linforth in Canada.

0. N. Friendly and J. W. Stoner have been chosen as treasurer and secretary, respectively, of the Park Utah Consolidated Mines Company, at a recent meeting of the directors. They have succeeded D. C. Murphy and W. A. Dunn. Both Mr. Friendly and Mr. Stoner have been with the company a number of years. Mr. Friendly has been chief engineer, a position which he retains, and Mr. Stoner, geologist and mine superintendent.

H. D. Cooley, Jr., assistant manager of the Butte and Superior Mining Company at Butte, Montana, has accepted a position with the Jaekling, Hayden, Stone ventures, which will take him to their New York offices. Mr. Cooley had been cashier for Butte and Superior for five years until May 1, 1980, when he was promoted as assistant manager, under General Manager E. V. Daveler, who was placed in charge of the New York offices of the Utah Copper and the Nevada Consolidated Copper Companies.

Frederick Burbidge of Spokane, Washington, formerly general manager of the Federal Mining and Smelting Company, and prominent in Coeur d’Alene mining activities, visited the Idaho properties a few days ago. Mr. Burbidge, James F. McCarthy, Stanly Easton and C. Z. Seelig. are planning their annual fishing excursion on the north fork of the Coeur d’Alene River. Since his retirement from the Federal organization, he has maintained a consulting mining engineering office at 805 Old National Bank Building, Spokane.

Ben H. Jackson has rented a building on Main Street, Three Forks, Montana, formerly occupied by the American National Bank, and is having it remodeled to accommodate the various organizations with which he is connected. He is president for the Grub Stake Mining Company, the Vigilante Mining Association, and publishes the Rocky Mountain Miner. Shelton Hampton, secretary-treasurer of the Miner, will l)e in charge of its offices at Three Forks and the paper will be distributed from that point. In his new quarters, Mr. Jackson will be more centrally located.

Friends of Henry L. Walleck, formerly assistant superintendent of the White Horse mine at Kingman, Arizona, before its shutdown several months ago, will be pleased to know that he has recently been admitted to the California bar. Mr. Walleck studied law at the University of Michigan five years, and was graduated from the law school of the University of California. He was formerly associated with his father, C. R. Walleck of Van Nuys, California, in the development of several Mohave county, Arizona, mining properties. It is understood that he will shortly open an office in Los Angeles for the practice of his profession.

A. C. Fieldner, chief engineer, experiment stations division, United States bureau of mines, Washington, D. C., was awarded the Lamme Meritorious Achievement Medal by the Ohio State University on June 8. This gold medal, awarded annually to a graduate of one of the departments of the university for meritorious achievement in engineering or the technical arts, was established by the will of the late Benjamin G. Lamme of the engineering department of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company. Mr. Fieldner is a member of the first class in chemical engineering graduated from the Ohio State University, and is one of the first two recipients of the Lamme Medal.

Mining men of the southwest who have recently made application for membership in the A. I. M. E. are: B. R. Hatcher of Tucson, Arizona, manager of the southwest mining department of A. S. & H.; F. H. Persons of Clarkdale, Arizona, assistant smelter superintendent with United Verde; 3. F. Cowley, planning engineer with United Verde at Jerome, Arizona; John H. Oates, master mechanic at Douglas, Arizona; Victor H. Gottscha!k, senior physicist at the southwest station of the bureau of mines at Tucson, Arizona; and Frederick L. Kaouse, special student at the New Mexico School of Mines at Socorro. Federico Barona de Ia 0, in charge of laboratories of the Technical School of Construction at Mexico City, is a candidate for junior membership in the institute.

GUY C. RIDDELL HOLDS POSITION OF RESPONSIBILITY IN RUSSIA
Another prominent American mining engineer has been called to assume far- reaching responsibilities in the rationalization of the Russian industries. Guy C. Riddell of 551 Fifth Avenue, New York City, has been chosen as general consultant on mining and metallurgy by the Central Control Commission- NKRKI- the powerful government department by which all Russian industry is held to account, in the execution of the Piatiletka (Five-Year Plan). This body bears somewhat the same relation to industry as does GPU to society. Next to the latter it the most feared body in Russia today. With more or less mandatory powers, it diagnoses the status of the plan throughout the length and breadth of the land at construction and production centers, recommending suitable measures for maintaining the pace. As technical advisor in the field of mining, ore concentration, and metallurgy (non-ferrous metals) Mr. Riddell left in February with interpreter and party for an extended tour of the copper, zinc, lead, aluminum and rare metal operations of the Urals, Siberia, Turkestan, Kazakstan, and the Caucasus regions.
Mr. Riddell started early in life as a globe trotter. Graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1904, he entered the service of the American Smelting & Refining Company, at East Helena, Montana, where he acted as chemist, construction engineer and assistant superintendent, occupying position of superintendent of the plant from 1910 to 1916, during which time, and under his direction, double roasting of lead-zinc sulphides, a notable advance in smelting practice, was discovered and introduced.
In 1916 exigencies of production in World War called him to Australia for Broken Hills Associated where he directed reorganization, rebuilding and operation of the Port Pine lead smelter, the largest plant of its kind in the world.
From 1918 to 20 he acted as metallurgical advisor to U. S. Tariff Board and Chief of Metals Staff. Following this work he acted as consulting engineer director and New York manager of Wah Chang Trading Corporation, importers, exporters and industrial engineers of New York and Shanghai, China, an organization which developed and. controlled the antimony markets of the world for many years.
In 1924 Mr. Riddell became chief of the metals division of the department of commerce, acting as personal advisor to Herbert Hoover on many phases of oil shale and conservation problems of UniteA States and foreign countries.
Since then Mr. Riddell has been in consultation practice, making extensive surveys and recommendations in the United States, England, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, Russia and the Far East. His published articles on these countries and their mineral resources have been widely read. He is a director in oil, coal and mining companies and has engaged in a wide range of research work and is an authority on economic phases of mining and metallurgy. His southwestern affiliations include Foster Mines, at Shadow Mountains, a large gold-copper development in California.
He is chairman of important committees in many technical societies and a member of the Bankers Club of America. His technical writings for the tariff commission and his contributions to the literature of mining and metallurgy are too well known to be commented upon. Significant among his works is his contribution of two chapters to Liddell’s Handbook of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy.
His wife, Isabel Anderson Kiddell, and daughter, Virginia, are living in Switzerland during Mr. Riddell’s travels in Russia, and his son, Robert, is enrolled at the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis.

OBITUARY

William H. Bergen, who is credited with locating the Nova Scotia Boy and the Warrior Mark mines near Leadville in 1879, died at his home, 745 LaFayette Street, Denver, Colorado, June 4.

I. Allen Keyte., head of the department of geology at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, died suddenly, May 29. He was a native of Macon, Missouri, and received his degree from the state university there.

Clifford Guy Smith, familiarly known as Cyanide Smith to his many friends in mining camps of Mexico and Nicaragua, recently passed away at his home in Fullerton, California. He was 58 years of age.

Frank S. Gluya., for many years identified with mining in California and Old Mexico, died on the train June 6 en route to his home in Los Angeles. Death came to Mr. Gluyas from pernicious anemia at the age of 71.

James Devine, 40 years old, was found dead in his small mine near Oatman, Arizona, June 12. His death was attributed to heart failure. Mr. Devine had lived in the Oatman district for many years, and was formerly owner of the Thaicourt mine.

James Henry Devereux, 75, passed away in Northampton, Massachusetts, June 14. He was a leader in the development of the Aspen camp in Colorado and a pioneer in the upbuilding of the city of Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

William Wohler, employee of the Calumet & Arizona mines at Bisbee, and resident of Cochise county, Arizona, for more than 25 years, died the middle of this month, after an illness of 10 days. Mr. Wohler went to Bisbee from Tombstone in 1918. He was 67 years old at the time of his death.

Joseph C. Radmelich, well-known employe of the International Smelting Company, died at his home near Miami, Arizona, June 6. Mr. Radmelich was born in Austria and was 64 years old. Became to this country 40 years ago, and went to Butte, Montana, where he made his home until he settled at Miami 15 years ago.

William C. Menking, well-known mining man in Nevada camps, ended his life. Despondency over ill health and probably recent financial conditions are given as the cause. He was born in Westphalia, Germany, and came to this country with his parents when he was a year old. With his wife he had lived in Silver Peak, Nevada, for the most part of the last 20 years.

Albert E. Canfield, a native of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, passed away at his home, 1401 Fourteenth East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, following a few months’ illness. For the past 20 years he had been manager and director of the Yankee Consolidated Mining Company at Eureka, Utah, and was personal representative of John E. DuBois of DuBois, Pennsylvania.

William A. Box, president of the William A. Box Iron Works Company, Denver, Colorado, passed away June 5, after a major operation. Mr. Box was 58 years age. He was a native of England and came to the United States at the age of 17, starting his career in Denver with the Dillon Iron Works. Later he bought the business and changed its name. He was the inventor of the electric siren as used on fire and police wagons, an electric hoist and an electric auto lift.

H. Francis Murphy, mining man of Mohave county, Arizona, died in the Mohave county general hospital in Kingman, Stifle 1, from injuries received in an accident at Oatman, Arizona, which also fatally injured W. A. McCloskey. Mr. Murphy’s death was attributed to internal injuries received in the accident, and came as a distinct shock to his friends who had believed his recovery possible from first reports. He was born in Wisconsin October 14, 1873, and had been identified with Oatman mining for many years.

J. S. Withers, identified with Mohave county, Arizona, mining over a period of more than 40 years, passed away in Los Angeles, June 7. In addition to his mining interests near Kignman, Arizona, Mr. Withers served several terms as a member of the Mohave county board of supervisors. He first arrived in Kingman in the early ‘90’s, and was associated with the Tom Reed mine during its earlier production period. Mr. Withers had also been interested in a number of other Mohave county mining ventures, among which was

E. A. FRITZBERG PASSES ON
Ernest Arthur Fritzberg of Philipsburg, Montana, passed away at the early age of 45. His untimely death is mourned by a host of friends and by his associates in the Trout Mining Company, of whch he was general manager.
Mr. Fritzberg received, his education in the public schools of Biwabik, Mirnesota, and later from the school of mines of the University of Minnesota, from which he was graduated.
He became foreman of the Granite Mountain mine of the North Butte Mining Company at Butte, Montana, and is credited with engineering the concreting of the Granite Mountain shaft in 1916. In 1919 he came to Philipsburg as assistant superintendent of the Philipsburg Mining Company. In 1924 he became superintendent, and later general manager of the Trout Mining Company, which position he held at the time of his death May 20.

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THE MINING JOURNAL AUGUST 15, 1931

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

D. S. Evans of Los Angeles has joined the Pacific Minerals, Inc., at Brookings, Oregon, in an executive capacity.

W. W. Lynch and W. F. Ferris have severed their connection with the United Verde Copper Company in New York.

John Janney, president and general manager of the Pioche Mines Company in Nevada, has spent some time in New York City.

S. M. Waterman, 137 Claremont, San Francisco, California, is examining the Gold Bug mine and the Gold Center properties near Oatman, Arizona.

Lee Brown has accepted a position as superintendent of the Ellis Gold Mining Company on Rhyolite Mountain in the Cripple Creek district in Colorado.

W. B. Parr of Chloride, Arizona, president of the Mohave Gold Company, is in Salt Lake City on business connected with the new company which he is launching.

James I. Moore, Jr., formerly general superintendent for the Chelan Copper Mining Company at Lucerne, Washington, is now at Mabana, Island county, Washington.

R. S. Rubincam has been appointed to the vacancy created recently in the William A. Box Iron Works, with the death of Mr. Box, president and general manager.

John D. Nicholson, Jr., formerly mining engineer with the Penoles Mining Company at Avalos, Zacatecas, Mexico, is now located at 508 Dryden Road, Ithaca, New York.

S. R. May, chief auditor of the Magma Copper Company, has returned to Superior, Arizona, from his former home in Kuttawa, Kentucky, where he spent his vacation.

D. W. Schmitt, manager of the Emancipation Mining and Milling Company at Boulder, Colorado, has returned from Chicago, where he was discussing the advisability of expanding operations.

Frank S. Buck, metallurgical engineer of Tujunga, California, is at Beatty, Nevada, making an examination of the National Bank, Senator Stewart and Mayflower mines for eastern capital.

George Roddewig, 55 University Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, mining engineer and geologist, examined mining property in Montana. He was formerly a prominent official with the W. A. Clark interests.

W. B. Bretherton, superintendent of milling for the Whitedelf Mining Company at Clark Fork, Idaho, has tendered his resignation. He has not made any permanent connection with another company.

Charles Albert Richardson Lambly of Metaline Falls, Washington, has made application for a junior membership in the A. I. M. E. He is superintendent for the Pend Oreille Mines and Metals Company.

Ralph C. Nowland, engineer in charge of the exploration department of D. C. Jackling and associates, Hobart Building, San Francisco, lately examined several gold properties near Angels Camp, California.

S. P. Hechtnian, until recently U. S. commissioner at Globe, Arizona, has been appointed superintendent of the mineral exhibits at the Arizona State Fair.

W. N. Moore, cost accounting and purchasing agent of the Tigre Mining Company of El Tigre, Sonora, Mexico, is spending three months at Appleton, Wisconsin. He plans to go to Arizona in October.

C. L. Walther, chairman of the board of directors, accompanied by W. A. Wyman of Pittsburgh and Andrew Styer of Denver, were recent visitors at the properties of the Hoge Development Company, near Nevada City, California.

Dr. Dorsey A. Lyon, director of the Utah engineering experiment station at the University of Utah, has been elected as president of the Utah Society of Engineers. He succeeds Harry C. Goodrich, president for the past year.

H. E. Winser, president and a director of the Idaho Springs Gold Producing Company, and E. A. Keast secretary-treasurer and a director, also, have resigned from the company. They have sold out their interests to the Associated Metal Mines, Inc.

Robert E. Tally, vice-president in charge of mining and metallurgical operations of the United Verde Copper Company, was in Arizona the last of July, when he addressed the Phoenix Rotary Club on the subject of the present world copper situation.

J. E. Murray and Elmer Bracket of Lincoln, Nebraska, have been investigating and surveying a number of mining properties in the Idaho Springs district in Colorado. Mr. Murray is a successful business man and Professor Brackett is an instructor in the Nebraska State Agricultural College.

S. M. Davis, formerly connected with the Mine and Smelter Supply Company of Denver, Colorado, is now a member of the firm of Rockfield, Davis and Company, Guardian Trust Building, Denver. The latter is a manufacturing concern and handles mining, industrial and contractor’s equipment.

John Malinquist of Mullan, Idaho, is superintending the operation of the Lincoln property. He has worked sucessfully in mines in the Coeur d’Alenes for a number of years, his last venture being leasing at the Morning mine. At the present time he is financially interested in the Lincoln Mining Company.

Robert S. McClellan, mining engineer, 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City, s making an examination of the properties of the Nevada Porphyry Gold Mines Company at Round Mountain, Nevada. He is accompanied by two other engineers, and it is understood that the examination will take up about a month.

W. H. Awcks and R. A. More, engineers for the American Smelting and Refining Company, are heading a party which is inspecting mining properties in northern Mexico. The properties inspected included the Avalos, Santo Domingo and Santa Eulalia properties near Chihuahua. They are now in the Rosita region of Coahuila.

William M. Wilson, 815 South Hill Street, Los Angeles, was recently in Mohave county, Arizona, looking over properties upon which he and associates have taken options. It is understood that Mr. Wilson has become interested in the old Flynn mine and other properties in the Weaver district, and in the Jack Pot mine at Chloride.

Granville Moore and G. Cleveland Taylor, mining engineers with headquarters in the H. W. Hellman Building, Los Angeles, have been making an examination of the Kramer Hills mine, in San Bernardino county, California, on which they have an option to purchase. A flotation plant was recently constructed on this property by Los Angeles interests.

Edward Bloom of Spokane, Washington, attended an informal meeting of the American Mining Congress at Washington, D. C. Following, he intends to join the Princeton party of geologists in New York and accompany them on their wide western tour through the Hudson Bay district to Hyder, Alaska; to Vancouver, B. C.; to Seattle, Tacoma and Portland, Oregon.

Due to ill health, T. H. Jenks, consulting mining engineer and geologist of 1237 Lucerne Boulevard, Los Angeles, has suspended all activities at the properties of the Gold Range Mining Company at Bland, New Mexico, of which he is president and general manager. Mr. Jenks suffered a complete breakdown several months ago, but is now steadily on the road to recovery.

Raymond S. Wile, chief engineer of the Condor Gold Mines, Inc., of New York City, is in the west making an extended trip to holdings of that company. He will be met by C. C. Randall and George A. Kirkbride of Los Angeles and will make a trip of inspection to the Rich Hill Gold Mining Company at Octave, Arizona, for the purpose of completing plans for an extensive development program to be carried out in the immediate future.

Leslie A. Rihn, formerly of San Francisco, has taken charge of the Feliciana mine for the Gold Ledge Mining Company, at Midpines, in Mariposa county, California. He will also supervise operations at the company’s other properties in Mariposa county. It is understood that considerable change is to be brought about in connection with development work and the operation of the milling plant at the Feliciana.

R. R. Mather of Wallace, Idaho, formerly associated with the driving of the long crosscut at the property of the Stratton Silver Summit, located in Rosebud Gulch, near Wallace, has been appointed as manager of the Wallace branch of the Gardner-Denver Company, with headquarters in Denver, Colorado. He assumed his duties July 10 and has charge of a field embraced by western Montana, northern Idaho and eastern Washington.

Charles A. Brockington of Grass Valley, California, has resumed the superintendency of the Golden Center mines, near that place, 18 years after he relinquished the management of the property. Although 78 years of age, Mr. Brockington still has the spirit of youth. His mining activities began in the Osborne Hill section of California, and he was instrumental in opening up the “Work Your Own Diggins” property, a rich gold producer in the early days.

Dr. V. H. Gottschalk, a senior physicist of the United States bureau of mines, has arrived in Tucson to take an assignment as metallurgist at the southwest experiment station at the University of Arizona. He will fill the vacancy created by the resignation of J. D. Sullivan, metallurgist, who has left the bureau. Dr. Gottschalk served for 20 years as chemist and physicist at the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy and also spent a number of years in commercial fields. He entered the government service in 1923.

Eldred D. Wilson, geologist with the Arizona bureau of mines, and first recipient of the newly established Jay Backas Woodworth Memorial Fellowship, at Harvard University, is to leave Tucson, Arizona, this month to take up his studies. Before his departure Mr. Wilson will complete a bulletin on “Geology and Ore Deposits of Southern Yuma County” on which he has been working for some time. During this study he discovered a range of mountains of marine tertiary geological formation, 1,000 feet thick and previously unreported.

Dr. Thomas Brighton, professor of metallurgical research at the Utah engineering experiment station, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, has returned from Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he attended the summer school for engineering teachers, which is sponsored by the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, in co-operation with the University of Michigan. A part of the course was an inspection trip to the bureau of mines station and to the industrial plants in Pittsburgh. Dr. Brighton also visited the lead refineries in Chicago, the American Smelting and Refining Company In Omaha, and the Colorado School of Mines at Golden.

DUPUY GOES TO LOS ANGELES TO JOIN ALLIED ENGINEERS STAFF
Leon William Dupuy has left Jerome, Arizona, for Los Angeles, where he will be affiliated with the staff of Allied Engineers, Inc. Mr. Dupuy was formerly chief engineer for the Verde Central Mines, Inc. Allied Engineers is an engineering organization which specializes in mining, examinations, metallurgy, research, marketing, etc.
Dupuy is a native of New Mexico, being born in Albuquerque in 1896. He was graduated with the class of 1921 from the University of Arizona, taking his B. S. degree in mining and metallurgy. Since then he has been associated with a number of the major companies in the southwest and Mexico. Immediately upon graduation he went with the New Cornelia Copper Company at Ajo as pit engineer and draftsman, leaving there in 1923 to become statistician for the Sacramento Hill project of the Copper Queen Branch, Phelps Dodge Corporation. In 1925 he joined the staff of Cananea Consolidated Copper Company as division engineer and later general surface engineer. The year 1927 he spent as boundary and claim surveyor for the Palmilla Unit, Cia. Minera Asarco, S. A., at Parral, Chihuahua, later becoming division engineer for the Santa Barbara Unit of the same company, Santa Barbara, Chihuahua. In 1929 he returned to Arizona to serve as chief engineer for Verde Central.
In this latter capacity all engineering came under his supervision, including safety first, first aid, etc., as well as all designing, surveying, bonus measurements, sanitation, fire protection and general construction.
During all his work Mr. Dupuy has been especially interested in the business details in connection with the operation or construction, and in obtaining accuracy within the requirements of the specified job.

OBITUARY

Frost L. Beaham, formerly chief clerk of the United Verde Copper Company, Jerome, Arizona, and more recently manager of the United Verde Public Utilities Company, died June 16, as the result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident.

Otto Mears, prominent figure in the opening up of the west and southwest, died in Pasadena, California, June 25, at the age of 91. He built many miles of roads and railroads in the southwest, and was at one time active in mining in Cob orado.

W. A. Nord, traveling auditor of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, died at the company’s Stag Canon branch at Dawson, New Mexico, July 24. Mr. Nord had headquarters in Douglas, Arizona. He had been ill for some time, since an operation he underwent in Pueblo, Colorado.

Dr. James Barnett Adair, well-known throughout the Pacific coast in mining activities, passed away at his home in Los Angeles, July 24, after a brief illness. He was 79 years of age. Dr. Adair was at one time publisher of the Northwest Mining Journal, and also was mining editor of the Seattle Times.

William Porstner, consultining mining engineer of San Francisco, died on June 15, as the result of an accident. Mr. Forstner had been retired for some time, but had maintained an interest in quicksilver mining. He was born at The Hague, Netherlands, October 10, 1847, and was a member of the A. I. M. E.

W. D. Blackmer, 55, veteran mining engineer of southern Arizona and the Mexico west coast, died on August 4 at his home in Nogales, Arizona. Death was attributed to heart failure. Blackmer was the former manager of the Palmarito mine in Sinaloa, Mexico. The body was shipped to Worcester, Massachusetts, for burial.

Frank Albert Barrett, district manager for the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company, in Denver, Colorado, died in that city July 21, after a few days’ illness. He was 41 years of age, a native of Leadville and known as an expert in rock drill mining. He was a member of the Cripple Creek Elks and Masonic Arapahoe Lodge of Denver.

W. J. C. Wakefield, one of Spokane’s foremost citizens, and a leading figure in legal and mining circles, passed away in his sleep during the night, July 5. He was one of the founders of the Northwest Mining Association in 1895, the president of the Standard Silver Lead Mining Company, and vice-president of the Alhambra and Hecla mining companies.

Chester Barker, superintendent in the employ of the American Metals Company at Aguijita, Coahuila, Mexico, passed away recently at San Antonio, Texas, while en route to his home at Nevada City, California. Mr. Barker’s early mining activities were in California, and he at one time spent considerable time in South America. He was 47 years of age at the time of his death.

John Kitto, a miner, and 43 years a resident at Butte, Montana, passed away at San Jose, California, from paralysis. He weighed only 148 pounds, yet at San Francisco in 1898, he made a record drilling in Folsom granite that has never been excelled. He was one of a crew of 12 that sank the Parrot shaft in Butte and the first man to break ground at the Tranway shaft of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company.

Alhert S. Kuneke, a resident of Los Angeles, California since 1912, passed away. He has had a wide experience in mining in the western United States and Mexico, and for the last few years confined his work to examinations. From 1882 to 1884 he was secretary of the Solid Silver Mining Company; the following six years were spent in development work at Sonora, Mexico. In 1904 he became connected with Anaconda Copper and spent three years in examinations in various parts of the United States, Mexico and Cuba. In 1907 he became superintendent of the Tyrone Development Company, which was sold to Phelps Dodge in 1912.

R. A. Cook, for many years chief clerk of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company at Ray, Arizona, died in a Phoenix hospital July 23 of pneumonia, following an operation for the removal of his appendix. Besides his association with various Arizona mining companies, Mr. Cook was an ardent community and state booster. He started his career in Arizona as an employee of the Clara Consolidated Mining Company at Swansea, after experience in Utah, Colorado and Nevada. He entered the employ of the American Smelting & Refining Company at Hayden, Arizona, in 1912, and in 1914 he went to Ray as chief clerk for Nevada Consolidated, which position he held up until the time of his death. Mr. Cook was born in Kingman, Kansas, in 1887.

THE SINKING OF CARLSBAD
CAVERN SHAFT COMPLETED
Remarkable progress has been made in the sinking of the elevator shaft at Carlsbad Cavern, according to Thomas Boles, superintendent of the Carlsbad Caverns National Park. The shaft is now open full size from top to bottom, the concreting completed and all of the steel beams are in place. Next on the program the timber headframe will be removed and replaced with a steel frame, an integral part of the elevator building to be built in the fall. All machinery will be in place and the elevator ready for operation by the middle of September.

The shaft work was done under cow tract by Charles Dunning, mining engineer of Phoenix, Arizona. This project involved a number of unusual features, such as the necessity for careful blasting so as to make certain no cavern formation would be damaged. Mr. Dunning and his superintendent, Fred Schemmer, have been commended for the splendid manner in which this difficult task was accomplished.

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THE MINING JOURNAL

Important Mine and Smelter Promotions

—Giving recognition to its younger men, Mine and Smelter Supply Company, at its recent directors’ meeting, elected Farris L. Morton, secretary of the company, and J. M. Baker, assistant secretary.

Morton joined the Mine and Smelter Supply Company in 1920, as a price clerk in the Salt Lake Branch, and soon won a promotion as assistant credit manager. In 1921 he was transferred to the San Francisco Branch, as assistant to the manager. Three years later, he was brought to Denver as secretary to the general manager. The first of this year, he was elected assistant secretary, and at the last meeting of the board, he was elected secretary, in recognition of his splendid performance. Mr. Morton is married, and with his wife and young son, resides at 1365 South Josephine Street.

Baker, who was elected assistant secretary, joined the company in 1927 as accountant in the Marcy Mill department. He is a native of Memphis, and before coming to Denver, Colorado, was connected with the Standard Oil Company of Louisiana.

rehab · MAURICE A OUDIN; GE VP DEATH TMJ 1 15 1930

THE MINING JOURNAL

Death of M. A. Oudin—
Following a short illness from pneumonia, Maurice A. Oudin, 63, vice-president of International General Electric Company, died at his home in Schenectady, on December 4.
Mr. Oudin was graduated from the College of the City of New York, in 1885, with a degree of A. B., and in 1891, from Princeton University with the degree of E. E., and M. S.
For many years he served with the foreign department of General Electric, traveling extensively in Russia, China, and Japan.
When International General Electric was formed in 1919, he was appointed its first vice-president.
In 1911, Mr. Oudin was decorated by the Emperor of Japan, with the Order of the Rising Sun, and in 1928, was decorated by the King of Italy, with the Order of Commander of the Crown of Italy.

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for JANUARY 15, 1930 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.

A. Rische has been made master mechanic for the Colorado-Mexico Mining Company, at Silverton, Colorado.
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C. S. Meroney, general manager of the California Rand Silver, Inc., Randsburg, California, passed away recently.
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William H. Hutchieon, for several years engineer for the Sixteen to One Mine, at Alleghany, California, died recently.
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Samuel C. Lasky, geologist for the New Mexico Bureau of Mines, at Socorro, is spending several months in Washington, D. C.
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L F. Lorenz, who is operating the Twin Quartz property, near Camptonville, California, has gone to Los Angeles for the winter.
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C. L. Covington, Chehalis, Washington, has invented a dredge, which is expected to reduce the cost of placer mining, about 50 per cent.
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L. D. Fry has resigned his position as general manager of Mazapil Copper Company, with operations in Coahuila and Zacatecas, Mexico.
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George W. Trimble, the last of the owners of the Little Johnnie Mine at Leadville, Colorado, passed away in Los Angeles, December 10.
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T. P. Cowan, pioneer mining man of the Tombstone and Gleeson Districts of Arizona, passed away in Phoenix, the latter part of December 1.
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R. Hobbine, vice-president of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, has returned to Butte, Montana, following a long business trip in the East.
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John R. Wolff of Boulder, Colorado, is in Philadelphia, in the interest of financing work at the Livingston Mine, in the Sugar Loaf District in Colorado.
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Peter Fox, president of the Arrowhead Development Company, sailed from San Francisco, California, via the Panama Canal, for his old home in Virginia.
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Harry E. Jones, civil engineer of Phoenix, Arizona, was recently elected 1930 President of the Phoenix chapter of the American Association of Engineers.
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Peter Christensen, auditor for the Minnequa Plant of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, resigned, effective January 1. He had been with the company 32 years.
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P. C. Beckett, general manager of Phelps Dodge Corporation, has returned to Douglas, Arizona, from a six weeks’ business trip to New York, and other eastern points.
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Marmaduke B. Holt of Denver, Colorado, mining engineer, passed away at the age of 60. Death visited him on the golf links, and he died before medical aid could reach him. [Rehab Notes: wonder they don’t outlaw golf courses as detrimental to health, causing innocent bystanders to fall dead while out on the ‘grassy knoll’.]
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J. A. Reid, formerly superintendent of the Copper Queen Mining Company, at Battle Mountain, Nevada, is now with the Consolidated Metals Corporation, at Randsburg, California.
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Richard Kleesattel, engineer of mines for the Idaho-Nevada Consolidated Gold Mines Company at Elk City, Idaho, will soon go to Australia. He expects to be gone about a year.
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Carlisle Patterson Halter, mining engineer, died recently in Chihuahua City, Mexico, at the age of 58 years. He had been engaged in mining in Mexico for nearly two decades.
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M. F. Howe, president of the Running Wolf Development Company at Stanford, Montana, visited the mine, where plans are being laid for the building of an initial mill unit next spring.
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Cleveland E. Dodge, chairman of the board of directors of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, inspected operations of the company, in various parts of Arizona, the latter part of December.
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Henry E. Lang, pioneer resident of Kingman, Arizona, passed away in Los Angeles, December 18, at the age of 53 years. He was interested in mining in Mohave County, for many years.
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Samuel Barker, Jr, manager of the Basin Montana Tunnel Company, is in New York City, where he will attend the annual meeting of the stockholders of the company, to be held January 15, 1930.
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V. P. Pentegoff, chief geologist of the Radiore Company, has resigned his position, in order to accept a similar position with the International Geophysics Company, Ltd., of Los Angeles, California.
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Lloyd C. White, consulting engineer for Mexican Candelaria Company, S. A., recently returned to his headquarters in the Crocker Building, San Francisco, from the company’s properties in Sinaloa, Mexico.
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Winston C. Churchill of Cheyenne, Wyoming, has invented a machine, which he claims will save flour gold. He has named the device a “Magnetic Bowl,” and intends to organize a company early in the year.
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Philip D. Wilson has returned to the New York offices of American Metal Company, 61 Broadway, following two years in Africa, where he was in charge of operations for South African Copper Company, Ltd.
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A. E. Moynahan, consulting engineer, 241 Coronado Building, Denver, Colorado, is at Mt. Montgomery, Nevada, where he is doing some engineering for E. J. Bumstead, of the B. and B. Quicksilver Company.
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H. L. Carr, assistant general manager of the Mexican Mining Department, of American Smelting & Refining Company, with headquarters at 1112 Mills Building, El Paso, Texas, was a recent business visitor in New York.
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E. Colcock Jones, and Walter Gordon Clark, have returned to Los Angeles, California, from Nevada, where, with a group of prominent mining men, they inspected the Golden Ace Mine in the Carrara Mining District, near Beatty. [Rehab notes: Bare Mountains, S of Beatty.]

E. O. Brutch of Greenville, Ohio, is in Thermopolis, Wyoming, in connection with the opening of a sulphur mine, west of that town. He has owned the property for several years, and expects to have the mine in operation soon.
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Colonel H. H. Stout, for a number of years consulting metallurgist for Phelps Dodge Corporation, is to establish his own offices for independent consulting work. However, he will be retained by Phelps Dodge in a consulting capacity, on a basis which will permit him to devote considerable time to outside work.
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Frank S. Wallace, for the past two years engineer at the Grandview Mine, in the
Metaline District in Washington, has been appointed as superintendent in charge by the Dickens Consolidated Mining Company, operating near Kellogg, Idaho.
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A. W. Dickinson of Rock Springs, Wyoming, for many years general superintendent of the Union Pacific Coal Company, has resigned to accept the office of consulting engineer to the American Mining Congress in Washington, D. C.
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Fred A. Davis of Spokane, Washington, formerly manager of the Pacific Mutual Silver-Lead Company, has recently examined the company’s property at Keller. He reports that a considerable amount of high-grade ore can be developed.
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H. Saint Maurice, smelter superintendent of the French Mining Company, Compagnie Du Boleo, is spending several months in Europe, and will return to the company’s properties at Santa Rosalia,
B. C., Mexico, in the early spring.
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Fred B. Church, mining engineer, has returned from the Willow Creek District of Alaska, where he built a mill for the Golden Bear Mining Company of Los Angeles, California. His present address is Lucky Jim Mine, Milligan, California.
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Pomeroy C. Merrill of New York City, engaged last year by Kirby Thomas, in the investigation of the Sinker Tunnel-War Eagle Mines, Inc., in Owyhee County, Idaho, has accepted a position as manager of two iron mines in the Ural Mountains in Russia.
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George Notman, formerly secretary-treasurer of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, passed away in Brooklyn, New York, December 11, at the age of 77 years. Mr. Notman had been with Phelps Dodge 50 years at the time of his retirement, five years ago.
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H. F. Hurley has been promoted to the position of manager of the San Luis Potosi Smelter, of American Smelting & Refining Company at San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and will be replaced as superintendent by J. F. Austin, formerly assistant superintendent.
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D. C. Wanamaker, district representative of the Stratton Cripple Creek Mining and Development Company, resigned, and has gone to California. He was succeeded by Henry K. Thomas, who will make his headquarters at the Stratton Office, in Winfield, Colorado.
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Owen P. McElmeel of St. Paul, Minnesota, has resigned his position as Dean of the St. Thomas Law School, and is moving to Tacoma, Washington, where he will be associated as general counsel with the Consolidated Copper Mining Company, Washington Building, Tacoma.
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R. W. Goddard, Dean of engineering at the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, was instantly killed at Las Cruces, New Mexico, December 31, when 12,000 volts of electricity passed through his body while he was making adjustments at radio station KOB.
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J. J. Jakosky, consulting engineer in charge of the technical division of the Radiore Company, resigned his position, effective January 1, 1930, to accept the position of general manager of the International Geophysics Company, Ltd., with general offices in the Architects Building, Los Angeles, California.
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W. W. Lynch has succeeded H. DeWitt Smith as manager of metal sales of the United Verde Copper Company, 111 Broadway, New York City, effective from January 1. Mr. Lynch was formerly General Mine Superintendent of the company’s mines at Jerome Arizona. Mr. Smith will join the staff of Newmont Mining Corporation.
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Melbourne Bailey, mining engineer, passed away at Grants Pass, Oregon, where he has resided for the last nine years. He is a member of the A. I. M. E., and of the American Society of Civil Engineering. Among his engineering achievements is the 10,000-foot tunnel running through the heart of Mt. Reuben, near Leland.
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N. W. “Nick” Roberts, one of the old-timers in mining, in the Tintic District in Utah, passed away. He came to the District when 14 years of age, and was for several years, superintendent of the Iron King Mine. During the last two years of his life, he was engaged in shipping ore from that property to the Ironton Plant, near Provo.
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S. H. Levison, formerly assistant general manager of the Mexican Smelting Department, of the American Smelting & Refining Company at Mexico City, has been transferred to the zinc department, at the New York offices of the company, 120 Broadway. Mr. Levison will be succeeded by S. W. Maxwell, formerly manager of the company’s San Luis Potosi Smelter.
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G. M. Butler, dean of the College of Mines and Engineering of the University of Arizona, at Tucson, has been appointed chairman of a committee to award the Claussens Gold Medal, of the American Association of Engineers, bestowed annually to the United States citizen who performed the most distinctive service for the welfare of engineers during the preceding year.
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Richard N. Hunt of Salt Lake City, Utah, former geologist for the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company, has returned from Europe, where he spent several months on his honeymoon. On July 6, he married Miss Grace Prior in England, and they have traveled in Europe since that time. Mr. Hunt is now examining the Cia de Inversiones del Oro in Mexico.
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Thomas Gerald Condon, mining engineer, passed away at the age of 66 years. He has been engaged in coal mining and iron smelting in New Mexico and in Colorado, and was identified with the organization of the Portland Gold Mining Company at Cripple Creek, Colorado. Later, he built the Silver City and Northern Railroad, afterwards bought by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe.
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Glenville A. Collins, consulting mining engineer, 517 Hollingsworth Building, Los Angeles, California, has returned from Eureka, Utah, where he made mine examinations in the Tintic Mining District. He left January 1, for Florence, Arizona, where he will inspect the Silver Bell Mine, of the Glenidick Mining Company, of which he is president, and which is being equipped with a 75-ton oil flotation plant.
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Ezra W. Thayer, 179 East Adams Street, Phoenix, Arizona, and David Kile, mining engineer, have lately been engaged in a survey of Tempe Butte, located within the city limits of Tempe, Arizona, from the double standpoint of its mining possibilities, and potentialities as a recreation park. Mr. Thayer is president and manager of the Sunrise Relief Mines, Inc., with operations 22 miles northwest of Phoenix.
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D. B. Gemmill, president of the Prince Consolidated Mining Company, Pioche, Nevada, has returned from a two years absence in Mexico. He is now in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he is associated with a group of men, in making a series of tests in the new pyrometrical laboratory of the University of Utah, in co-operation with the United States Bureau of Mines Station. The objective of these tests is the removal of lead, zinc and manganese from low-grade iron-manganese ore by the volatilization process.
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H. A. Geisendorfer, manager of the Walker Mining Company, has been appointed General Superintendent of Mines of the following mining properties: Utah-Delaware Mines, Utah Metal and Terminal, and as General Superintendent of Mines of the International Company. Mr. Geisendorfer will be in charge of operations the International Smelting Company, to succeed Frank A. Wardlaw, who has accepted the position of General Superintendent of the Inspiration Mining Company, Miami, Arizona.
Mr. Geisendorfer will retain his position with the Walker Company, company holdings, North Lily Mine, East Tintic Coalition Mine, North Lily-Knight Company Mine, Big Hill Mine, Twentieth Century Mine, Empire Mines, Park Premier Mine, Park Nelson Mine, Park Konold Mine, Park Cummings Mine, Park Central Mine, Park Empire Mine, and other mines formerly controlled by the Knight Investment Company.

WELLINGTON PRIZE GOES WEST OF MISSISSIPPI SECOND TIME
Fred C. Carstarphen of Denver, Colorado, has been awarded the Arthur M. Wellington prize by the board of directors of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The winner of the prize is determined by a committee of the society, who makes its recommendations to the board. Presentation will be made in January, 1980.

The Wellington Prize was founded by the Engineering News Record in 1921, and has been awarded six times, this being the second time that the honor has been conferred west of the Mississippi River and the first time that it has been given to a mining engineer.

Mr. Carstarphen’s paper, “Aerial Tramways,” has been selected as the best paper on transportation during the year 1928. It contains diagrams, tables and mathematical formulae, and, as published in volume 92 by the American Society of Civil Engineers, fills 98 pages.

Mr. Carstarphen graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1905, and took a contract to survey public lands in Routt County, Colorado. He was member of the Carstarphen-Hewitt Engineering Corporation in Denver, which was dissolved in 1908, and at which time he entered private practice. From that time until now, when he is engaged in consulting capacity for a number of companies, his career includes positions as general manager of the Vulcan Sulphur Company; manager of the Gilsonite Company of America; chief aerial tramway engineer for the American Steel and Wire Company at Trenton, New Jersey; and vice-president and chief engineer for the Manufacturers Selling Corporation, also in New Jersey.

The two-mile aerial tramway recently installed by the Shenandoah-Dives company was designed by Mr. Carstarphen.

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rehab · MINING MEN BIOS TMJ 1 30 1930

JANUARY 30, 1930

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

W. Mont Ferry, of Salt Lake City, Utah, managing director of the Silver King Coalition Mines Company, is in Washington, D. C.
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W. C. Douglass has been appointed assistant general manager of the Consolidated Coppermines Corporation, at Kimberly, Nevada.
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Barton Alonzo Hopkins, one of the discoverers of the Pennsylvania Mine, near Montezuma, Colorado, died in his Denver home, January 8.
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Lawrence J. Hickey will shortly resume work with Cia. Real del Monte y Pachuca, at Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, following a short vacation.
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Lapsley W. Hope, with the Morning Glory Mining & Smelting Company, at Patagonia, Arizona, for the past year, has returned to Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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George Beers will take charge of diamond drilling in the Ubehebe District, of Inyo County, California, for the Harmill Divide Mining and Smelting Company.
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J. H. Kitto, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, president of the Gold Hill Development Company, has been visiting the mine property, near Round Mountain, Nevada.
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Harry Cotter, head of the Cotter Butte Mines Company, who recently visited the company’s property in Montana, has returned to his headquarters in New York City.
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Henry A. Pomel, veteran miner and pioneer, of Cripple Creek, Colorado, passed away at his home at Phoenix, Arizona, where he has resided during the last two years.
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C. J. Barber, formerly with Mexican Corporation, S. A., at Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico, is now with Cia. de Real del Monte y Pachuca, at Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico.
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E. J. Schrader, Reno mining engineer, has been appointed assistant manager of the Seven Troughs Gold Mines Company, Lovelock, Nevada. He succeeds R. H. Huston.
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W. N. Burke, manager of the Portable Mill Company, Inc., has gone to Tuscarora, Nevada, with a crew of men, to erect and operate, a custom milling plant foR his company.
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J. H. Shockley, of New York City, is directing operations at the property of the Tybo-Dominion Mines, Inc., about six miles north of Tybo, Nevada. His headquarters are at Tonopah.
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Dr. T. C. Witherspoon of the Murray Hospital, Butte, delivered a lecture on “Sanitation and Health in Mining Camps” at the Montana School of Mines, Tuesday evening, January 7.
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Ed Slattery, a resident of Las Vegas, Nevada, and vicinity, died recently at the age of 72. He participated in the Nome, Alaska, and the Goldfield, and Tonopah, Nevada, gold rushes.
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Lawrence Zoebel, son of W. E. Zoebel, of the George Wingfield engineering staff of Nevada, has been appointed to a position with the Base Metals Company of Fields, British Columbia.
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Harry P. Wightman, pioneer business man of Globe, Arizona, interested in asbestos mining for many years, passed away in Santa Monica, California, January 8. He was 59 years of age.
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B. B. Jennings, superintendent of the Universal Exploration Company of New York City, is directing diamond drilling on 18 zinc claims, near Eureka, Nevada. Satisfactory results have been reported.
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Henry K. Thomas, recently appointed as superintendent of the Stratton Estate, at Cripple Creek, Colorado, died suddenly on January 13, while in his office at Winfield, Colorado. Apoplexy caused his death.
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Alfred B. Sabin has been examining mining properties in the San Juan, and Idaho Springs Districts, in Colorado, for the past two months. Mr. Sabin is engineer for the Tigre Mining Company of Sonora, Mexico.
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Fred Searles, Jr., of the Newmont Mining Corporation, was a recent visitor in the Globe-Miami District of Arizona, where he inspected the Pinto Valley, and Porphyry Reserve properties, before leaving for the East.
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Jack W. Still, efficiency engineer with Miami Copper Company at Miami, Arizona, for a number of years, has recently accepted the position of mine superintendent, with Bagdad Copper Corporation at Hillside, Arizona.
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Albert Silver, of Tonopah, Nevada, metallurgist, is working out a process of milling which will be installed in the new plant of the Kernick Divide Mining Company. This plant will be erected in the Sodaville District in Nevada.
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Rush J. White of Wallace, Idaho, consulting mining engineer and geologist, has made a thorough examination of the Sidney Mine in Pine Creek, and which promises to rank with the leading producers in the Coeur d’Alenes.
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David Morgan, outstanding figure among mining men of Arizona, and acitve in United Verde Extension, and Verde Combination operations for many years, passed away January 11. He was about 65 years of age, at the time of his death.
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T. J. Neiman, 78-year-old pioneer prospector of Arizona, died in Phoenix, [in] the middle of January. Mr. Neiman was at one time active in the Duncan and Globe Mining Districts, and located the Neiman Gold Mine, near Hillside, Arizona.
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Clarence Thorn, 639 East Forty-eighth Street North, Portland, Oregon, has charge of the office, and is field manager for the A. C. E. Development Company. This organization proposes to take over meritorious prospects for development.
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Frank E. Johnson, for the past three years employed at the Morning Mine at Mullan, Idaho, by the Federal Mining and Smelting Company, has been appointed to represent the American Smelting and Refining Company in the Coeur d’Alenes.
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John L. Dynan, formerly connected with the Tonopah Extension Mines, Inc., and the Tonopah Mining Company, has been appointed general manager and engineer of the Gold Hill Development Company, which operates near Round Mountain, Nevada.
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Edgar L. Newhouse has resigned as chairman of the American Smelting and Refining Company. During the next few years Mr. Newhouse intends to spend most of his time traveling, and will not be able to give the necessary attention to duties at his office.
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Reno H. Sales, chief geologist for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company at Butte, Montana, sailed from New York, on January 15, to inspect the South American subsidiaries of the company. He expects to return to Butte, the latter part of March.
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William F. Detert, prominent in California mining circles for 60 years, passed away recently, at his home in San Francisco, California. He was president of the Mayflower Gravel Mining Company, and a director of the Kennedy Mining and Milling Company.
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S. C. Lasky, who has been engaged in geological work in Socorro County, New Mexico, for the State organization for the past five months, is now in Washington, D. C., where he is working with Dr. O. F. Loughlin, on the description of mines of the Magdalena District.
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Roy Hill, a member of the engineering staff of H. W. Gould and Company, San Francisco, California, and A. W. Frolli, superintendent of the California Rand Silver Mine, at Randsburg, recently examined a silver property, near Jungo, Nevada, which is owned by George Austin.
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E. F. Fader, engineer in charge, and who has been supervising the construction of a pilot mill in Casper, Wyoming, for the Mountain Development Company, is in Los Angeles. After consulting with his associates there, he expects to return to Casper for further investigations and experimental work.
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E. H. Wells, president of the New Mexico School of Mines, has returned to Socorro, New Mexico, from an extended trip in the East, during which time, he represented the New Mexico Chapter of the American Mining Congress at the annual convention. On his return trip, President Wells spent some time in Oklahoma, where he conferred with members of the staff of the Oklahoma Geological Survey.
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Heber C. Hicks, former State Securities Commissioner, and chairman of the Committee of Stock Exchange Investigations of the National Association of Securities Commissioners, is in San Francisco, where he is taking part in the opening of the new home of the San Francisco Stock Exchange. Some time ago, the exchange obtained the old subtreasury building, and converted it into a new $2,000,000 structure.
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M. E. Fisher, who has been with the American Smelting and Refining Company for the last 84 years, retired on January 1, in conformity with the pension system of the organization. He was first employed at Pueblo, Colorado, and in 1902, was transferred to the Coeur d’Alene District in Idaho, as a special representative to supervise ore shipments, and to act as ore purchasing agent, there. His work will be carried on by Frank E. Johnson.
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Arthur Swanson, for the past year superintendent of the Pend Oreille Mines and Metals Company, at Metalline Falls, Washington, resigned on January 1. Mr. Swanson will be engaged in examination work in western Montana during January.
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Application for membership in the A. I. M. E. have been filed by:
1. Robert David Hone of Bingham Canyon, Utah, metallurgist and assistant superintendent at the Utah Apex Mill, and
2. Harold Gentry Mitchell of Stockton, Utah, superintendent and geologist for the Ophir-Mono Mines, Inc.
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Imer Pett, of Salt Lake City, Utah, has been appointed as managing director of Ross Beason, and Company. This is a new office in the organization, created to relieve Mr. Beason, the president, of some of his executive duties, and to give him more time for the supervision of the company’s offices in Los Angeles, and New York. Mr. Pett gave up his position as Vice-president and general manager of the Bingham Mines Company, when that organization was absorbed by the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company.
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Morris R. Evans, old-time Utah mine operator, passed away at his home in Salt Lake City. Mr. Evans was identified with the Columbus Rexall Mine, which five years ago was sold to A. P. Swoboda of New York City. At that time, he retired from active mining, and the last few years of his life were spent in citrus lands in the Rio Grande Valley, in Texas. He claimed the honor of laying the first cement sidewalks in Salt Lake City, and of building the first brick house on East South Temple Street, now a street lined with handsome homes.
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Raymond Gundry, Superintendent of the Belmont Copper Mining Company, Superior, Arizona, and John Daniel Sullivan, Associate Metallurgical Chemist of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, at Tucson, Arizona, are candidates for membership in the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. Joseph F. Wisinski of Superior, Arizona, master mechanic with Belmont Copper Mining Company, Richard K. Valentine, student at the New Mexico School of Mines at Socorro, and Hart Brown, research engineer of the General Exploration Company, Houston, Texas, have made application for junior membership in the institute.

rehab · UTAH COPPER'S 25TH B DAY AND MEN TMJ 1 30 1930

THE MINING JOURNAL

UTAH COPPER CELEBRATES TWENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY

The twenty~fifth anniversary of the Utah Copper Company was celebrated by a dinner at the Newhouse Hotel, in Salt Lake City, the evening of December 20.

L. S. Cates, vice-president and general manager of the company, presided, and presented 80 employees, who have served the organization during the last 20 years, with the service medal of Col. D. C. Jackling, in recognition of their faithful service.

P. W. Moffatt, assistant to the general manager, was toastmaster for the evening.

Those receiving the medals were:
H. B. Tooker, traffic manager;
C. M. Brown, superintendent of the welfare department;
George Earl, mine engineer;
C. B. Duckworth, master mechanic at Magna;
F. C. Fellmeth, J. H. Thordersen, C. L. Petersen, D. Fitzgerald,
G. McDonald, J. H. Day, W. A. Macauley, S. Myler, F. F. Balliet,
J. A. Frazer, W. Treseder, S. H. Benson, W. J. Rogers,
A. E. Vaughn, I. W. Steiner, S. Looney, W. H. Walker, F. W. Neusmeyer, M. S. Wood, A. W. Anderson, G. W. Mullin, P. Brown, E. Aceto,
S. Takasugi, and W. V. Robbins.

rehab · MINING MEN BIOS TMJ 6 15 1930

for JUNE 15, 1930

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

Frank Gilland, Yuma County prospector, died in a hospital at Yuma, Arizona, May 25. He was 65 years old.
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James Riley, employee at the Old Dominion Mine, for over 30 years, died at his home at Globe, Arizona, May 21.
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Decker Rochester of Boise, Idaho, is making a geophysical survey of the Clover Creek Copper Company’s property at Baker, Oregon.
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Rollin J. Van Houten of San Francisco, California, recently examined the Longstreet Mine, 35 miles east of the camp of that name.
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Charles A. Mitke, consulting mining engineer, Phoenix, Arizona, sailed from San Francisco, May 14, en route to Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia.
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William Sharp recently left Reno, Nevada, for Index, Washington, where he is to superintend development for the Skykomish Copper Company.
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Frederick Laist of New York City, general metallurgical manager for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, is visiting the European plants of the company.
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A. J. Koebel, of Daisy, Washington, is to diamond drill the Coffin Mine, as soon as he has finished his contract with Boyer Mines, at Sandpoint, Idaho.
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George I. Barnett, has been appointed superintendent of the Treadwell-Yukon Company, Ltd. He succeeds Willard E. Hales, who resigned recently.
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G. A. Blinkerstaff, and L. E. Weir, of Oberlin, Kansas, stockholders in the Mattie Mine at Idaho Springs, Colorado, were recent visitors to the property.
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Enrique Beckman, well-known mining man of Santa Barbara, Chihuahua, Mexico, is sinking an incline shaft on the Guadalupe property in that vicinity.
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Lew Davis of Ophir, Utah, mine operator, died at Agua Caliente, Arizona, on May 20. For a number of years he was interested in projects near Helena, Montana.
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James J. Lushbaugh, who operated placers in the Klondike and Fairbanks districts of Alaska, passed away at Dinuba, California, his home for the past several years.
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M. B. Huston is vice-president and consulting engineer of the Vertex Mining Company at Silverton, Colorado, succeeding Charles Mayotte, who has gone to California.
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W. H. Paul, consulting mining engineer, of 3415 Colfax Avenue, B, Denver, Colorado, is planning to install a leaching plant on the Evelyn Gold-Copper Mine at Waldo, New Mexico.
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F. L. Sizer, mining engineer, 1107 Hobart Building, San Francisco, California, is making a detailed examination of the mines on the Mother Lode in the vicinity of Angel’s Camp.
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W. M. Neal, president of the Neal Mining Company, with properties in Yuma County, Arizona, died in San Francisco, May 23. Mr. Neal was formerly located at Yuma, Arizona.
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VICE-PRES. OF ANACONDA COPPER GETS PLACE ON ITS BOARD

Another well-merited promotion was granted by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, in the election of J. B. Hobbins, to its board of directors for a term of three years. His appointment was made at the regular annual stockholders’ meeting held at Anaconda, Montana, on May 21, to succeed the late Nicholas F. Brady, whose term would have expired at that time.

Mr. Hobbins is 47 years old, a native of Wisconsin, and a graduate of the engineering school of the university of that state. He became associated with the Montana Power Company in 1912, and subsequently manager of the Great Falls District. In March, 1922, he was made assistant to the president of Anaconda Copper, with headquarters in Butte, and a year later was made vice-president of the company in charge of all Montana operations. In this capacity he still serves the organization, and through his capability, has gained further recognition in the largest copper company in the world.
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J. C. Crosby, engineer and foreman for American Smelting & Refining Company, has returned to his duties at Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico, after several weeks spent in the northwest.
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E. J. Ristedt, formerly ventilation and safety engineer with Santa Gertrudis Company, Ltd., Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, is now connected with the office of the Chief of Engineers, Washington, D. C.
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Harry McPhaul, mining man of Yuma, Arizona, lately completed assessment work on claims, four miles south of Quartzsite, Arizona. Mr. McPhaul and Harry Duty, also of Yuma, own the properties.
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J. E. Mcintyre, mining engineer, was in Nogales, Arizona, early in June, en route from the Campana Mine, in the Altar Mining District, of Sonora, Mexico. He now has headquarters in Phoenix.
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Hans Johnson of Butte, Montana, and William Altorff of Wallace, Idaho, both mining engineers, were lately in southern Arizona, inspecting mining properties in Cochise and Santa Cruz counties.
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Omer Babcock was killed on May 25 by falling earth on the 1,100-foot level of the Murchie Mine near Nevada City, California. He was 24 years old. J. McCulla of Sacramento, was seriously injured.
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Dr. Warren D. Smith, head of the Department of Geology of the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, recently visited the Black Butte Mine, of the Quicksilver Syndicate, with a group of students.
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R. H. Coles has returned to Humboldt, Arizona, from a trip to Alaska, and points in California. Mr. Coles is interested in placer mining along Big Bug Creek, in Yavapai County, Arizona.
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Sam Ogg, 70-year-old Yuma county prospector, died at Yuma, Arizona, late in May, following a brief illness. He had been employed at property of Silver Mines, inc., north of Dome, Arizona.
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L. K. Armstrong, prominent mining engineer, 720 Peyton Building, Spokane, Washington, has been chosen a member of the Organization Committee, of the Triennial International Geological Congress.
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Earl E. Belding, formerly mine superintendent for the Tonopah Belmont Development Company, is now in charge of operations at Masonic, Mono County, California, for the Santa Mines Company.
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J. Claude Jones is making an examination of the quicksilver deposits, in the Antelope District of Pershing County, Nevada. He is professor of geology and mineralogy at the Mackay School of Mines in Reno.
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Clyde H. Williams, mining man, died recently at his home in Spokane, Washington. He was associated with the Commonwealth Mine in the early days, and later with the Eldorado Syndicate at Northport.
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H. A. Guess, vice-president and managing director of the mining department of American Smelting & Refining Company, is in Europe, looking over properties A. S. & R. has under consideration.
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James F. White, well-known miner of the southwest, who had followed the game for the past 40 years, principally in Arizona, and Mexico, died at Jerome, Arizona, May 29. He was about 65 years of age.
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Alec Lucy, prospector of Hillside, Arizona, is doing preliminary work on his porphyry copper claims, adjoining the Bagdad properties, with the idea in view of soon starting operations on a larger scale.
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George M. Brown, mining engineer, has returned to New York City, after spending five weeks inspecting properties in the Ramsey, Gilbert and Ellendale Districts of Nevada, on behalf of the Charles V. Bob interests.
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Henry Landes, dean of the College of Science, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, is on the organization committee of the Triennial International Geological Congress, which will meet in 1932 at Washington, D. C.
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Reginald A. Black, mining man of prominence, passed away at Tucson, Arizona, the latter part of May, following a heart attack. He was interested in the Vanadium Refining Company, operating properties near Tucson.
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Sidney L. Shonts, Gyde-Taylor Building, Wallace, Idaho, mining engineer, is making a survey of the old Ft. Wayne Property, west of Wallace, which has just been reorganized as the Idaho-Montana Mining and Oil Company.
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Chris Hollens and John Thackery, prospectors from the Cibola District of Yuma County, Arizona, were lately in Phoenix to purchase equipment and supplies, preparatory to sinking a shaft on their mining claims, in the Yuma section.
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Colonel L. A. May of New York City, who was interested, with C. N. Miller, in financing the Genii Mining Company, is now in San Francisco, California. He is to visit the Magalia property in the interest of eastern stockholders.
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Maxwell Wright and Norman Ericson of Reno, Nevada, following their graduation from the Mackay School of Mines, sailed on May 21 for Chile. They have accepted three-year contracts as engineers for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company.
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Louis B. Can, formerly chemist with United Verde Extension Mining Company, Jerome, Arizona, has accepted the position of chief chemist with the National Exploration Company, operating the Midnight Test Mine at Prescott, Arizona.
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L. E. Thompson, president of the Thompson Manufacturing Company, Denver, Colorado, dropped dead in his office, May 24. He had been a member of the Rotary Club, the Denver Athletic Club, the
Lakewood Country Club and a Mason.
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A. A. Brown, superintendent of the Parral Unit of American Smelting & Refining Company, Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico, has been spending some time in Boston. During his absence, R. C. Johnson has been in charge of operations.
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J. T. Pardee will be in charge of a group, for the United States Geological Survey in southwestern Oregon during this summer. This group is to be divided into three parts, and was to begin work about June 1. Grants Pass will be the headquarters.
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W. L. Zeigler of Wallace, Idaho, an authority on the arrangement of mill equipment, has been engaged in consulting capacity, by the Jack Waite Consolidated Mining Company, to outline, and supervise an increase in the capacity of its 150-ton mill.
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Fred F. Yorkstick, geologist and consulting engineer of Presidio, Texas, lately examined the John Barlow mining property in the Quitman Mountains, west of Sierra Blanca, Texas. He will also make an appraisement of the Bonanza Mine in the same vicinity.
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Stuart Logan of Chicago, a member of the brokerage firm of Logan and Bryan, has recently been elected a director of the Consolidated Coppermines Corporation, to succeed Walter B. Congdon of Duluth, who resigned. Howard Smith was reelected president.
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J. H. McGlothlin, formerly with the Federal Mining and Smelting Company, Kellogg, Idaho, is superintending the construction of a mill, for the Liberty Metals Company at Troy, Montana. It is understood that he will remain in charge of milling after the plant is completed.
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R. W. Coad, Pacific Finance Building, Los Angeles, was a recent visitor at the sodium sulphate property of the Arizona Chemical Company, at Camp Verde, Arizona. Mr. Coad was formerly head of this operation, when it was worked under the name of Sodium Products Corporation.
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H. Lee Townsend, 1440 Corona Street, Denver, has been at Lake City, Colorado, for some time, making arrangements to start the 200-ton mill of the Empire Chief Mining Company, and to start the shipment of crude ore to the smelter. Mr. Townsend is general manager of the Empire Chief.
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J. Koster, formerly engaged in laboratory work for the Western Electrical Company, at Chicago, has been placed in charg€ of the new X-ray laboratory, established at the University of Utah, by the Bureau of Mines, and the Department of Mining and Metallurgical Research, at the University.
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H. R. Lathrop of New York City, was in Yavapai County, Arizona, [during] the middle of May, visiting properties of the Sheldon Mining Company, of which he is president. The Sheldon Company owns mines at Walker, Arizona, and was operating the Humboldt Smelter before its recent shutdown.
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H. R. Rieggen of Rathenthein, Austria, is directing construction of the magnaboard plant, at Chewelah, Washington, for the Northwest Magnesite Company. He was employed in the original heraklith plant in Austria. Heraklith is to be duplicated at Chewelah, under the name of magnaboard.
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Walker R. Young, a graduate of the University of Idaho School of Mines, Class of 1908, has been selected as engineer in charge of construction, of the proposed Boulder Dam, on the Colorado River. This is probably the largest engineering feat on the continent, since the construction of the Panama Canal.
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A. E. Carlton has resigned as president of the Golden Cycle Corporation, at Colorado Springs, Colorado, and has been succeeded by L. G. Canton, for several years in charge of the operations of the corporation as vice-president and general manager. A. E. Canton is still a member of the board of directors.
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W. N. Ellis, metallurgist at the Murray Plant, of the American Smelting and Refining Company, has resigned to accept a position as superintendent of the lead plant of Cerro de Pasco at Oroya, Peru. Mr. Ellis had been connected with the American Smelting and Refining plants for the last nine years.
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William F. Korf, one of the best known prospectors of the Smoky Valley section, of southern Nevada, died on May 18, at the age of 62. Mr. Korf spent most of his life locating claims, but was never known to sell one. During the Weepah boom, he was offered $25,000 for his property, but he refused it.
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F. W. Maclennan, general manager of Miami Copper Company, is expected to return to Miami, Arizona, in the second week in June. According to reports from Globe, Arizona, he is scheduled to give an address on the world copper situation, and narrate his trip to Africa, at a meeting of the Globe Chamber of Commerce, June 17.
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S. R. Prentice is developing a promising placer prospect, in the vicinity of Soldier Mountain, near Fairfield, Idaho. Three truckloads of supplies have been taken to the ground, where a crew is at work. Mr. Prentice was the discoverer of the Little Valley Platinum prospects, now being operated by Phil Thom of Bruneau, Idaho.
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Fred L. Cole of Tonopah, Noble Getchell of Betty O’Neal, and R. M. Oliver, of the Mackay School of Mines at Reno, Nevada, recently examined the mineral collection of H. G. Clinton of Manhattan. This action was authorized by the Nevada State Legislature, with a view of purchasing the collection, either for a museum at Carson City, or for the School of Mines.
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J. S. Allen, manager of Arizona Western Mining and Milling Company, has returned to Prescott Arizona, from an extended stay in California. He has thoroughly examined the recent strike made on the company’s property at Cleator, Arizona. and it is expected that future development plans will soon be announced.
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Tom C. Foster has announced his candidacy for re-election to the office of Arizona State Mine Inspector, on the Democratic ticket, in the state primaries, September 9. Through safety measures instituted by Mr. Foster, Arizona mines have been successful in reducing the number of fatal accidents to a remarkably low figure.
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Robert H. Holland, for the past five years, roaster superintendent, at the Garfield Smelter, of the American Smelting and Refining Company in Utah, passed away on May 12. Death came as a stroke, following a heart attack. Mr. Holland will be mourned by a host of friends, both in the mining fraternity and as a citizen.
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H. M. Woods, 75, for many years carpenter foreman, of the Copper Queen Branch of Phelps Dodge Corporation, died at Bisbee, Arizona, June 2, following a brief illness. He had, for the last 10 years, been on the pension list of that company. He was prominently identified with Republican politics in Cochise County.
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Alvin B. Giles, 1470 East Mountain Street, Rossmoyne, Glendale, California, mining man and financier, visited the property of the Basin Montana Tunnel Company at Basin, Montana. He was accompanied by William H. Hax, of New York City, president of the organization, and by Samuel Barker, Jr., of Butte, managing director.
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Charles Maurice Tattum, of the Geological Survey of Nigeria, has been granted a year’s fellowship at the Colorado School of Mines, from the commonwealth fund, and will do research work, and study geophysical prospecting. Mr. Tattum is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and holds a doctor’s degree from the Imperial College at London.
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E. W. Kay, 45-year-old mining man, of Kingman, Arizona, died in a Los Angeles hospital, May 23, following an operation. “Lije” Kay, as he was familiarly known, was brought up in the mining district of Mohave County, Arizona, where he was connected with a number of mine developments, among which was the White Horse Mine.
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Joseph H. Vivian, for the past 43 years a resident of Butte, Montana, passed away on May 15, following a brief illness. He was 69 years of age, and for a number of years, held a high position with the Boston and Montana Mining Company, now a part of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. His son, George, is chief sampler for the Anaconda.
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William F. Smith, 56, mining man of prominence, operating property near Nogales, Arizona, died suddenly in a Nogales hospital, June 4. It is understood that he was planning development of another southern Arizona mine at the time of his death.
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Mexican outlaws killed Charles Koehler, 50, American mill superintendent of the Silver Plume Mining Company, on June 2, near the company’s properties, 25 miles south of Cananea, Sonora, Mexico. The raiders, who numbered 20 men, burned the Koehler home. The homes of Frank Whelen, mine superintendent, and C. Howell, master mechanic, were not molested.
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Instead of the usual portrait of oil, Colonel William Boyce Thompson, copper magnate and nationally known political figure, and philanthropist, will leave his descendants a reel of moving picture film. Colonel Thompson returned to his headquarters in Yonkers, New York, from his winter home at Superior, Arizona, early in May. The film was made on the grounds of his home.
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Stewart H. Udell has been appointed as geologist, with the Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology. His home is in Ogden, Utah, but since he received his master’s degree in geology from the University of Idaho School of Mines in 1928, he has been mine geologist with the Cananea Consolidated Mining Company at Sonora, Mexico. His appointment is effective June 15 and it is planned that he will head one of the Bureau’s geologic field parties this summer.
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Walter A. Rukeyser and Myron Davy, have recently formed a partnership, with headquarters at 842 Madison Avenue, New York City, and will engage in consulting engineering work, particularly in connection with the planning of mills for asbestos mines. Mr. Rukeyser has entered into a two-years’ “technical aid” contract with the U. S. S. R. and will sail, about May 20, for Russia. The terms of the contract permit him to spend three months out of nine in the United States, the other six months to be spent in Russia.
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rehab · CLARENCE FARLOW LEAVES FOR RUSSIA TMJ 6 15 1930

for JUNE 15, 1930

ENGINEER OF MIAMI COPPER LEAVES FOR MINE IN RUSSIA

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Clarence A. Farlow, formerly development engineer with Miami Copper Company, left Miami, Arizona, June 14, for Russia, where he will accept a position as mine superintendent. He leaves Miami Copper after six years of service.

Mr. Farlow, a native of Pueblo, Colorado, was educated at Central High School, at that place, and later attended the University of Missouri, one year, and the Colorado School of
Mines, at Golden, four years. He was for two years, mining engineer with Cananea Consolidated Copper Company at Cananea, Sonora, Mexico.

rehab · EDWARD L SWEENEY BIO TMJ 6-15-1930

for JUNE 15, 1930

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EDWARD L. SWEENEY

What does it cost to build a mill? That question has been asked so often that Edward L. Sweeney, consulting and construction engineer of Phoenix, Arizona, has written an article to give to mine operators an outline of the actual costs involved in the construction and operation of a representative flotation plant. The article is of special value, for it has been prepared by an engineer, who has no machinery to sell, or special process, to adapt to various ores. The mill described was actually built, a careful check made of all costs, and detailed records kept.

“Pat” Sweeney, Mr. Sweeney, or “Pat,” as he is known to all of his friends, brings to his present consulting work a wide range of experience. The early years of his mining work were spent in the Pacific Northwest, where he moved often with the idea of gaining wider experience, and supplementing his college training with actual work in the field. The years 1916-1920 were spent with the Kennecott Copper Corporation at its Alaska plants, first as chemist, then plant foreman, then metallurgical superintendent of plants, consisting of flotation, ammonia leaching, and gravity concentration. In 1921 he joined the staff of the United Verde Copper Company at Jerome, Arizona, serving as chief chemist, and in charge of leaching work. Since 1925 he has been engaged in independent work, especially in the design and construction of metallurgical plants.

Some of the most interesting pieces of recent construction in the Southwest, have been handled by Mr. Sweeney. At present, he is erecting the flotation plant for the United Verde Extension Mining Company at Clemenceau, Arizona. In April of this year, he completed the construction of the flotation plant erected by the American Smelting and Refining Company, at its Swansea Lease, handling this entire job in less than 100 days.

Other projects with which he has been actively connected are: The Davis-Dunkirk Mines, Inc., Slate Creek, Arizona, where mine, mill, and entire camp construction, were completed within four months’ time. He erected the plant for Central Copper Company at Dos Cabezas, the Sonora Development plant at Congress, the design and consulting work on milling for the Three H Mine, test work, plant design and now construction of the 600-ton leaching plant for Hammond Copper Company of Kirkland. He is consultant for Davis-Dunkirk Mines, Inc., Compania Minera Cananea Anexas, S. A., Wenden Copper Company, Cia. Minera do San Carlos, and others.

Mr. Sweeney was born in Yale, South Dakota, 1888. He obtained his grammar and high school education at Tacoma, Washington. After several years in the field he attended the University of Washington, College of Mines, and was graduated from that institution, in 1915, with the degree of B. S. in mining and geology.

In 1916 he married Miss Grace M. Shaw of Ottawa, Canada, and is the father of four children, one boy and three girls.

rehab · F M SMITH BIO TMJ 6 15 1930

F. M. SMITH SUCCEEDS J. T. LUND AS PRES. NORTHWEST LEAD CO.

Of interest in mining and manufacturing circles, is the naming of Frank Marshall Smith as president of the Northwest Lead Company, which concern he has served as vice-president since 1920. His office is one of several interests. He is also director of the Bunker Hill Smelter, which supplies the lead manufactured by the Northwest Lead Company.

Mr. Smith was an eastern boy, born in Philadelphia, and educated in Brookline High School, and in the Columbia School of Mines, from which he was graduated in 1889. For a year, he was employed with the United States Geological Survey, and then came west to Pueblo, Colorado, where he was employed as assayer, and assistant superintendent of the Colorado Smelting Company, until 1898.

That year he chose a Pennsylvania girl, Miss Clara Everhart, as his bride. The same year he formed a connection with the United States Smelting company at Great Falls, Montana, which lasted until 1901. From 1901 until 1919 he was with the American Smelting and Refining Company, nearly all of this time as assistant manager, and manager, of their East Helena plant.

Then the Bunker Hill and Sullivan people presented an inviting future by offering him the position as assistant director of their smelter. The following year, he was made director of the smelter, and to the present time, has proven efficient and capable in helping solve its problems.

Mr. Smith is a member of the A. I. M. E., of the Montana Society of Engineers, and of the Associated Engineers of Spokane, where he is now living. He is a member of the Rocky Mountain Club, a Rotarian, a Mason and a staunch Republican.

rehab · H E NYBERG BIO TMJ 6 15 1930

THE MINING JOURNAL

NYBERG HOLDS DOS ESTRELLAS OPERATIONS AT NEAR NORMAL

H E NYBERG PIC HERE

Notwithstanding adverse conditions in the border country, and present metal prices, H. E. Nyberg, general manager for Cia. Minera Las Dos Estrellas, S. A., operating gold and silver properties at Mineral de Dos Estrellas, Michoacan, Mexico, obviously considers it a sound policy to continue work on a practically regular schedule.

The company is producing and treating approximately 2,200 metric tons of ore daily, which is at present mill capacity. The present working force totals about 8,800 men, compared with not quite 8,000 workmen employed this time last year. No doubt Mr. Nyberg’s specialty for low operating costs, with a maximum profit obtainable, and a particular aversion to waste in employment of men or material, are partly responsible for this.

The company is developing the famous old Esperanza Mine, in an attempt to obtain additional low-grade ore reserves; since that of the Dos Estrellas Mine are rapidly being exhausted. In addition to regular development and productive operations, an option has been taken on a 1,000,000-ton tailings dump, which it is proposed to treat by flotation.

First prospecting in the Dos Estrellas Mine, began in 1899, and formal mining and milling was started about 1904, since which time close to 11,000,000 metric tons of ore have been mined and milled, with a total gold production of close to 86,000 kilos, and a silver output of over
1,000,000 kilos. The lowest total operating cost was approximately six pesos per dry metric ton, a record for mining by the square set and filling method, and milling by the cyanide process.

Mr. Nyberg was born in Pueblo, Colorado—a certain number of years ago—of Swedish descent. He is a graduate of Centennial High School of Pueblo, and holds the degree of mining engineer from the Colorado School of Mines at Golden. He earned his education by hard work, having been employed as laborer, miner, mill man, engineer’s helper, and stationary engineer, in Pueblo, Victor, and Idaho Springs, Colorado.

After graduation from the School of Mines in 1905, Mr. Nyberg worked as mill man at the Magnetic Mill of American Smelting & Refining Company’s zinc plant at Pueblo, and as surveyor and mill man with the Golden Crest Mining Company at Deadwood, South Dakota, during the following year. He then accepted a position in Mexico, with the Teziutlan Copper Company, which he served both at Aire Libre, Puebla, and Los Ocotes, Oaxaca, in the various capacities of draughtsman, surveyor, assayer, chemist, chief engineer, and assistant mine superintendent. Late in 1918, he returned to the United States, and was employed by the Goldfield Consolidated Mining Company, at Goldfield, Nevada.

Mr. Nyberg entered the service of Cia. Minera Las Dos Estrellas, S. A., in September, 1914, and occupied the various positions of chief engineer, efficiency engineer, acting general manager, assistant general manager, and was finally promoted to general manager in 1921, which position he now holds. He also holds the office of geneial manager of Cia. Minera Borda Antigua y Anexas, S. A., and other subsidiary mining companies.

He is a member of the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers, the University Club, and American Club, of Mexico City, and is also a member of the Woodmen of the World, Camp 2, of Pueblo, Colorado, Esperanza Lodge No. 11 F. & A. M. of El Oro, Mexico, and the City of Mexico Chapter H. A. M. He was elected to the exalted office of M. W. Grand Master of the M. W. York Grand Lodge of Mexico, F. & A. M., in March of last year.

rehab · THOMAS L CHAPMAN BLURB TMJ 6 15 1930

THOMAS L. CHAPMAN DIRECTS ESTELLE MINE AT KEELER, CALIF.

Vitally interested in the record of the Estelle Unit, of the American Smelting, Refining and Mining Company at Keeler, California, and of considerable importance to it, is Thomas L. Chapman, mine manager for the past seven years. He was born in Leadville, Colorado, in 1884. Specialized training for his chosen profession was received in the Colorado School of Mines, from which he obtained the degree of Engineer of Mines in 1906.

As assayer and surveyor, the first three years of his active career were spent in Goldfield, Nevada, and Rico, Colorado, while the following three years, he worked in the Independence mill at Victor, Colorado. After three years as shift foreman at the Miami Mine in Miami, Arizona, he went to Ecuador, South America, and became mine foreman of the Zaruma Mines. The six years remaining before he accepted his present position were spent as mine manager of the American Asphalt Association at Dragon, Utah, and as field engineer for the St. Joseph Lead Company.

According to Mr. Chapman, the Estelle Mine adjoins, and is being worked, through the old Cerro Gordo Mine. The ore is of direct smelting type, being silver-lead, in limestone of very uniform grade, and averages 85 per cent lead and 25 ounces silver. From 250 to 275 tons of ore are being shipped each month to the smelter, and the mine is being, systematically developed.

The District in which the Estelle Mine is situated, has numerous faults which cut off the ore bodies. A continuous study in faulting, and geological conditions, is therefore presented. Partly as a result of this problem in his work, Mr. Chapman is particularly interested in geology pertaining to ore bodies, and one of his ambitions is to continue his combination geological studies and work in geophysics.

In 1910, Mr. Chapman was married to Terese L. Harrington of Lead, South Dakota, and he is now the father of three potential mine managers, Thomas I., Jr., 16 years, Charles Edward, 14 years, and William Cullen, 12 years of age.

rehab · GOLDFIELD PHOTOGRAPH (NOT!) TMJ 6 15 1930

Though the article mentions the old photograph, no image was given in the article:

THE MINING JOURNAL

PHOTOGRAPH OF COMBINATION BAR SHOWS GOLDFIELD PIONEERS

Memories of the days when Goldfield, Nevada, was an unknown camp, are roused by a photograph of the famous old “Combination” Bar, and some of its habitues, which is in the possession of Arthur Thomas, a broker and mining man of Salt lake City, Utah.

Ole Elliott, owner, chief bartender, chief bottle washer, and bouncer extraordinary, stands in back of a bar of knotted, unplaned, pine, 1x12 inch planks. The top of the bar is adorned by a plank on which the name of the bar, and that of the proprietor, are scrawled in chalk. Other items of interest in the room, are the barrel stove, the nondescript collection of glasses, and whisky bottles, an alarm clock, and two boxes, which evidently are used as easy chairs. A barn lantern and a kerosene lamp, are hung from the ceiling for lighting purposes.

Although business does not seem to be rushing, the proprietor, who is now owner and manager of the Northern Hotel at Ely, is standing with his flannel shirt sleeves rolled above his elbows, and looks as though he were prepared for action. During his career as a saloon proprietor, two roughs drew guns on Ole, and threatened to kill him; through fearless action and quick shooting, they died with their boots on.

A lean and hungry appearing individual, standing at the right of Ole Elliott, is identified as the late Tex Rickard, who acquired millions, and became famous as a gambler, and prize fight promoter. He is dressed in a blue flannel shirt, black trousers held up by a wide belt, and a wide black hat is pushed back on his head. A wide sweeping mustache adorns his upper lip. Tex has just returned from Alaska.

Leaning over the counter, with his back to the camera, is “Diamondfield” Jack, a former cowboy and prospector, tried in Idaho for the murder of two sheepherders, condemned to death, but later pardoned. Al Meyers, discoverer of Goldfield, is an on-looker, while Sol Camp, and Jack Campbell, mining engineers, are seated by the side of the stove.

rehab · MINING MEN BIOS TMJ 6 30 1930

for JUNE 30, 1930

With Prominent People You Know

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

Oliver P. Posey, mining man of Colorado and Mexico, died lately at Hoquiam, Washington, at the age of 84 years.
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H. S. Gieser, metallurgist, formerly with Tigre Mining Company, at El Molino, Sonora, Mexico, is now in San Francisco.
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Raymond L. Smith, 47-year-old Phoenix, Arizona, miner, was killed instantly in an automobile accident, which occurred June 16.
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George K. Kimball has charge of the night shift in the new mill, of the West Gold Mining Company at Idaho Springs, Colorado.
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John T. Shimmin, metallurgical engineer, has resigned from his position with the Collins Western Corporation, Inc., of Los Angeles, California.
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Henry Krumb, 401 Felt Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, does not expect to return from Europe before October. He is vice-president of the A. I. M. E.
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J. W. Warlord of Mariposa, and Jack Graham of San Jose, California, recently made a preliminary examination of the old Roma Mine, near Bear Creek.
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A. L. Gorman, formerly of Lordsburg, New Mexico, and superintendent of the American Group of mines at Hachita, now has headquarters in Albuquerque.
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Peter Fox, president of the Arrowhead Development Company, Tonopah, Nevada, was married in New York City, on June 1, to Miss Alicia O’Brien of that city.
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M. E. Oswald, Beverly Hills, California, financier, has been elected a director of the United Republic Gold Mines Company, operating the Century Mine, at Kingman, Arizona.
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Roger M. Downer is superintendent of the Idaho Mineral Mining Company at Mineral, Idaho. This company is a subsidiary of the Goldfield Deep Mines Company.
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Fred Searls, Jr., vice-president of the Newmont Mines, of New York, recently examined the property of the Hoge Development Company, near Nevada City, California.
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A. V. Krassow1 mechanical engineer, with Cananea Consolidated Copper Company, at Cananea, Sonora, Mexico, for several years, suddenly died last month, in Glendale, California.
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William Countryman, formerly with Miami Copper Company, has returned to Miami, Arizona, after spending eight months with Cerro de Pasco Copper Corporation in Peru.
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J. H. Causten, after spending some time in the east, has returned to Lovelock, Nevada, and is to enter mining again. He was formerly engineer for the Friedman Interests.
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Philip D. Wilson, connected with American Metal Company, Ltd., has returned from Europe and South Africa, and is now at the company’s New York offices, 61 Broadway.
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J. K. Turner, president and manager of White Hills Silver Mines, Inc., has returned to Los Angeles, following some time spent at the company’s properties, near Kingman, Arizona.
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L. P. Merriman, mining engineer, has been placed in full charge of operations of Amado Mines Company at Arivaca, Arizona, with instructions to sink the shaft to the 250-foot level.
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A. B. McCloud, well known mining man of Randsburg, California, was found recently, with three bullet holes in his head. Authorities have arrived at no solution of his death.
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J. J. Jakosky, and C. H. Wilson, of International Geophysics, Inc., of Los Angeles, are in Arizona, making some preliminary geophysical surveys on property in the northern part of the state.
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Frank Jenkin, formerly mine superintendent of Pittsburgh Vetagrande Mining Company, Zacatecas, Zac., Mexico, is now with Lane-Rincon Mines, Inc., at Mina De El Rincon, via Toluca, Mexico.
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James F. White, miner of the United Verde Extension Mining Company, was found dead in his room at the Daisy Hotel at Jerome, Arizona, June 5. He had evidently suffered a heart attack.
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John Anderson passed away at his cabin, on Chicago Creek, near Idaho Springs, Colorado, on June 5. He was 70 years old, and had lived in the district many years, some of which were spent in mining.
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A. C. Miles has resigned his position as mine superintendent of San Nicolas Mining & Milling Company, at Vicente, Guerrero, Durango, Mexico, and is now with the Empire Link Company of Gilman, CO.
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A. C. Oberg of Duluth, consulting engineer for the State Securities Commission of Minnesota, has been examining mining properties at Silverton, Colorado, for Rochester, and Buffalo, New York, clients.
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Alfred B. Sabin, has been appointed superintendent of the concentrator of The Tigre Mining Company, S. A., at El Tigre, Sonora, Mexico. He was promoted from the position of assistant mill superintendent.
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W. W. Harriet, receiver of the Gold Ace Mining Company, is to be discharged, and claims against the company are to be paid, according to an order filed recently by Judge Frank H. Norcross of Carson City, Nevada.
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Louis N. Shanks, of Las Vegas, Nevada, recently examined the Black Warrior Group of 12 claims, near the Idaho State Line, on behalf of his brother, D. W. Shanks, 55 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California.
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Hugo W. Miller, mining engineer and assayer of Nogales, Arizona, visited the Tombstone District of that state. early this month. While there, he looked over the vanadium field of that section, in company with E. P. A. Larrieu.
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Dr. George Otis Smith, director of the United States Geological Survey, delivered the commencement address, at the Montana School of Mines, at Butte, on June 6. His subject was, “The Engineer’s Larger Opportunity.”
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John H. Robb, engaged in gold mining, in the southern part of New Mexico, for the past 40 years, died at Raton, June 10. Mr. Robb, who was 80 years old at the time of his death, was born in Sydney, Australia.
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Roy F. Fuhrman of Rochester, New York, who graduated from the New Mexico School of Mines last term, has accepted a position with Continental Diamond Drilling Company of Quebec and Los Angeles.
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Horace A. Johnson, of Tonopah, Nevada, superintendent of the Tonopah Mining Company, has, since that company ceased operations, devoted his time to rushing mill construction for the Gold Hill Development Company.
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Carl W. Chilson of Salt Lake City, Utah, consulting geophysicist, has returned from a trip to Nevada mining camps, and intends to return shortly to make a number of surveys. Tuscarora looks particularly interesting to him.
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L. C. Skliris, formerly of Nogales, Arizona, is now located at Moreno, Sonora, Mexico, where the Mexican Graphite Company in which he is interested, has properties. Mr. Skliris is also opening up his Jupiter Mine near Baviacora, Sonora.
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Louis S. Cates, new president of Phelps Dodge Corporation, has this month, been on a visit to the company’s various mines and plants in Arizona. Mr. Cates made the trip by automobile from Utah, this being his first Arizona visit in 11 years.
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A. B. Young of Salt Lake City, Utah, assistant manager of the International Smelting Company, is spending a couple of weeks in New York City. During his absence, his office is being taken care of by B. L. Sackett, general superintendent at Tooele.
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Dennis J. Phillips, Jr., a 28-year-old Denver mining man, was blown to pieces when a case of dynamite that he was transporting in an automobile, exploded. The dynamite had crystallized, and Mr. Phillips was going to bury it, as he was afraid that it would discharge.
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John Jacob Brunner of Hughesville, Montana, operator of the Red Mill, for the St. Joseph Lead Company, and William Earl Lindlief of Butte, Montana, graduate fellow in metallurgy at the Montana School of Mines, have applied for junior memberships in the A. I. M. E.
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Arthur F. Kern, employee of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, died at his home at Santa Rita, New Mexico, June 9. During his life, Mr. Kern followed mining in various parts of the southwest. He moved to Santa Rita, from Pinos Altos, more than six years ago.
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D. D. MacLellan, geologist for the International Smelting Company of Salt Lake City Utah, who is stationed temporarily at the Walker Mine, near Spring Garden, California, recently inspected some prospects at Winnemucca, Nevada, with J. C. Brumblay, Nevada representative.
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Philip R. Bradley, 1022 Crocker Building, San Francisco, California, recently left that city, to inspect the Yellow Pine Property, in Idaho, the Alaska Juneau, at Juneau, Alaska, and the Treadwell Yukon, at Mayo, Yukon Territory. He is consulting engineer for these concerns.
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Robert Wallace, smelter superintendent for the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company, at Midvale, Utah, has been elected as chairman of the Utah section of the A. I. M. E., succeeding J. A. Norden. Guy W. Crane has been elected vice-chairman, and C. T. Van Winkle, secretary and treasurer.
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A party of prominent interests in the American Smelting & Refining Company, including H. L. Carr of El Paso, assistant manager of the Mexican mining department, passed through Nogales, Arizona, the middle of this month, en route to Mexico, to spend a couple of weeks inspecting the A. S. & R. mines.
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E. S. Campbell of Spokane, and Walter Hatley, are working out a plan for financing an extension of the present tunnel, into an ore body discovered by diamond drill two years ago, by the Victor Gold Mining Company, Libby, Montana. J. H. Eby, Box 433, Spokane, Washington, is engineer in charge of development.
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John P. Kone, American prospector of prominence, died on the train, June 15, while en route from his mining property in Oaxaca, Mexico, to his home in San Marcos, Texas. Mr. Kone had been prospecting in Mexico for several years, and was credited with having discovered, and developed, a rich vein of gold ore.
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J. A. Woolf, who is with the United States Bureau of Mines, at Reno, Nevada, is in charge of the pilot plant of the Ohio Copper Company at Lark, near Bingham, Utah, and expects to remain there several months. The pilot plant is experimenting to determine the advisability of building a large flotation mill to treat a large tonnage of tailings.
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W. A. Hayes of Los Angeles, California, a large stockholder in the Mackay Metals Company at Mackay, Idaho, has recently been elected as president of the organization, succeeding Chase A. Clark. Mr. Hayes owns the Sylvania Mine, near Goldfield, Nevada, and has had several years’ experience in British Columbia, Idaho, Nevada and California.
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Ed Kendall, resident of Arizona, for more than two score years, where he was well known as miner and prospector, has been admitted to the Arizona Pioneers’ Home at Prescott. Mr. Kendall is claimed to be the only survivor of the disastrous dynamite explosion in the Silver King of Arizona Mine, near Superior, Arizona, which occurred in September, 1919.
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Robert Sayre, well known mining engineer, visited Green River, Utah, and spent some time in the Henry Mountain country, where it is understood he is engaged in the examination of vanadium, and other mineral deposits. He was formerly in charge of operations at Temple Mountain, in the District, where much vanadium, and radioactive ore, was produced.
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N. D. Hershey, president of the Hershey Mines Corporation, is returning to Castleton, Utah, from the East, where he had been trying to interest capital in his property. He says that he has found it impossible to obtain funds necessary for the work planned for this year, and will confine his activity to just what is required, to keep the property in good shape.
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Three applications for associate memberships in the A. I. M. E. have been asked from the Western States. The men are:
George Benjamin Conway of Helena, Montana;
John Douglas Nicholson, student at the Idaho School of Mines at Moscow, Idaho, and
Thornton Seron Scribner, draftsman in the Division of Agricultural Engineering, at the University of California.
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John Hart, at the age of 81 years, has returned to Albuquerque, New Mexico, with the announcement that he expects to open a mica deposit, which he discovered 86 years ago, near Bland, New Mexico. Mr. Hart was in the gold rush to Bland in 1908, and recalls many stirring days of that period. He retired from the general contracting business,in San Diego, last year.
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M. I. Fowler of Castleton, Utah, owning property in Miner’s Basin, has recently been conducting an examination party through the Tornado Workings, with a view to transferring this property to eastern interests. About the first discovery of gold in the La Sal Mountains, was made on the Tornado ground, and its name appears in the history of the basin, as far back as 1897. This examination was made for the Homestake people of South Dakota.
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Waldemar Lindgren of Cambridge, Massachusetts, geologist, has been appointed as chairman of the organizing committee for the International Geological Congress, which is to meet in Washington, D. C., in June, 1932. The Geological Society of America is the principal host on the occasion, but will be assisted by many other organizations. The Congress has not met in this country since 1891.
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P. H. Lietzow, mining engineer, 919 Blame Street, Los Angeles, California, recently made investigations in San Bernardino County, and discovered ore, containing 6.5 ounces gold, 210 ounces silver, 16 percent lead, and 8.5 ounces osmium, iridium and platinum per ton. The ore occurs in a quartz on a contact of amphibole, and granite-schist, and carries some vanadate of lead, with a little copper in a character which is mineralogically classifield as cupro-descloizite.
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Applications for memberships in the A. I. M. E. have been asked by:
Warren Taylor Graham, of Salida, Colorado, superintendent of Rawley Mines, Inc., at Bonanza, Colorado;
Albert Edmund Humphreys, of Denver, Colorado, president of the Canadian Exploration Corporation;
Herbert Albert Ruth, of Upland, California, designer of metallurgical and industrial plants, and
Rowland Howard Willcomb, of Hughesville, Montana, superintendent of the Block P Mine, of the St. Joseph Lead Company.
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T. H. Oxnam, metallurgical engineer, of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, at Hayden, Arizona, where he has been a resident for many years, left on June 17, to accept a similar position with the Southwestern Engineering Company, European branch. The position taken by Mr. Oxnam calls for duty in France, Germany, Italy, and Belgium, covering a two-year period. During his activities, he will carry on considerable research work, and compile an extensive report on conditions in the countries named.
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Dr. Kuno B. Heberlein, some years ago, vice-president of American Metal Company, and president and manager of its subsidiary, Penoles Mining Company, in Mexico, died in London, the first of this month. Dr. Heberlein had extensive mining interests in various countries, and was also at one time president of the Metallurgical & Chemical Corporation. He was connected with development of the Huntington Heberlein pot-roasting process, and the Harris lead refining process, which he introduced in the United States.
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P. B. Butler of Joplin, Missouri, mining engineer, has been made a director and general manager of the mining operations of the American Gold Corporation, Ltd. He was, for a number of years, associated with the Barnsdall Corporation, as general manager and director, and has instituted the first overhand shrinkage stope in the Joplin Zinc Mines, demonstrating the most economical system of ore extraction for that District. The method was immediately adopted, and has since been the accepted system of ore extraction.
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Roger W. Clarke, chief in charge; Fremont F. Clarke, his assistant; Benjamin Angus, geologist and geophysicist; Hugh D. McGraw, mining engineer and geophysicist, and Norman H. Farrell, radiore mechanic and draftsman, sailed from New York City, on May 28, as agents of the Radiore Company, Inc., to do geophysical work in Russia. The company took a complete set of Radiore geophysical apparatus. After investigation by several technical commissions sent out from Russia, to Europe and the United States, the Commission of the Supreme Council of National Economy of Russia awarded the contract to the Radiore company.
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Ralph S. Baverstock, of the metallurgical firm of Baverstock and Payne, 522 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, California, recently examined the Imlay Mine, Imlay, Nevada, belonging to Sears and Baker, for the Sunset Mining and Development Company. He has also examined the Potosi Mine, Goodsprings, Nevada, on behalf of Los Angeles capitalists; the Doss and Thorne Mine at Hornitos, California; and is now conducting a reconnaissance of the American, and Grey Canyon Districts, south of Unionville, Nevada. In a few days he is to visit the Roberts Mining and Milling Company property, near Beowawe, then the National and Republic Mine, near Graniteville, California, and later the Castaic Mine, in Ventura County.
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Gene Heffron and her dog, Pat, who is responsible for this lead-silver discovery.

LOVE FOR DOG LEADS WOMAN TO LEAD-SILVER OUTCROPPING

Illness may be the lead to fortune if the discovery made by Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Heffron of Spokane continues to display rich values.

Some time ago this young attorney decided to camp in the mountains near Clarks Fork, Idaho, to regain his health. Tired of the idle life of camp, his wife, Gene, used to roam through the hills with a prospector’s pick, and her dog, Pat, who carried the pack. It was on Lightning Creek, about four miles north of the Whitedelf Mine, that the dog with his pack fell over a cliff, and in an effort to free himself, scratched bare an outcropping of lead-silver ore.

Mr. Heffron went on developing the showing, while his wife did some prospecting, and in all, located 10 claims, named the Gene Lee Nos. 1 to 10. Average samples of the ore mined, assayed 15.1 percent lead, and 64.7 ounces silver, and 18.6 percent lead, and 71.9 ounces silver, to the ton. A picked sample assayed 79.1 percent lead, and 288.8 ounces silver.

A trench has been run 200 feet down the hill, into the No. 10 Claim, and at the lowest place, the vein is four feet wide. A camp is being established, and a tunnel started, to open the ground, 100 feet lower than the lowest opening. The preliminary survey for a road has been completed, and the highway from Clarks Fork, the shipping and supply point, can be reached by building one mile of road. Its grade will not exceed 12 ½ percent.

The Gene Lee Mining Company has been incorporated for $500,000.
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Mr. Berner is one of the younger men connected with the Nevada Consolidated, having just passed his thirty-first birthday. He joined the company soon after completing his engineering training at the Colorado School of Mines. His preliminary engineering work was obtained at the University of North Dakota, his native state. His present duties cover underground and surface construction, both frame and concrete. Outside of the routine work, Mr. Berner is particularly interested in safety appliances and inventions.
If it is a golfing, hunting or fishing companion you are seeking, better look elsewhere, for these sports have little appeal to him, but if you wish some one to help plan the landscaping of your “country estate” you will find few more enthusiastic, capable and willing helpers.

In 1923 Mr. Berner married Miss Aldora Bergh, and is the father of a three-year-old son, William Elbert. He is a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and of the American Legion.
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J. A. BENELL DIRECTS CRYSTAL SILICA SAND OPERATIONS

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Combination of circumstances, coupled with ability, experience, and a great deposit of native material, are given by J. A. Benell, president, as important factors in the outstanding success of the Crystal Silica Sand Company of Oceanside, California. In the face of difficult problems, such as a limited supply of water, the company chose 100 acres, estimated to contain 15,000,000 tons of sand, built a complete modern plant, and developed a water supply that with conservative use, is expected to be ample, even for the proposed plant expansion for glass sand.

The finished sand product runs about 96 per cent silica, the remainder being principally feldspar, and will make all ordinary kinds of glass, including “Dutch Flint.” It is also used for mineral wool, waterproofing concrete, and for blast, filter, stucco, and molding sand. Belgian sand sells for $5.80 a ton, in Los Angeles, with all charges paid, and eastern sands of the best grade sell for $11 per ton.

Mr. Benell was born in Gosport, Indiana, and in that state, he received his education from different schools and colleges. During the first 15 years of his business life, he was in railroad work, including the phases of construction, operation and traffic, while the next 10 years were spent in automobile manufacturing, and distribution, as well as in foundry, and metal trades, at various Indiana plants. Thus he received a thorough business background for the eight years, just passed, which have been spent in California, at industrial and survey development, management and financing, including three years directing activities of the Crystal Silica Sand Company. At present, Mr. Benell is associated with the industrial department of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, and is doing laboratory and survey work in the non-metallic field, in development of industrial production balances in the Pacific Southwest. This last named activity is in fulfillment of one of his ambitions,

Technical papers on silica, articles on industrial subjects covering plant facility, mechanical setup, and financing structures, have been written at different times by Mr. Benell. Among his hobbies, he includes specialties in the technical field, as well as a sincere liking for the outdoors and athletics. He is a member of the Southern California Athletic Club, the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the City Club, the Casa del Mar Club, the Manufacturers and Industries Committee, and the Masonic Organization.

He is married to Georgia Hanch, and is the father of a 14-year-old son, John T. Benell.
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CATES RECEIVES 20-YEAR SERVICE MEDAL FROM UTAH COPPER

L. S. Cates, president of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, and former vice-president and general manager of the Utah Copper Company, was presented with the Jackling Gold Medal, awarded each year to all of his employees who have devoted 20 years service to the organization. The presentation was made by Colonel D. C. Jackling himself, at the Alta Club, in Salt Lake City, Utah, before about 30 officials of the organization. D. D. Moffat, general manager of Utah Copper, presided.
Colonel Jackling in his address explained that the medal is the same as is given all employees, irrespective of rank.
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TIGRE COMPANY SEEKS CONTINUATION OF FAULTED VEIN

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F. W. Bailey, in complete charge of mine operations of El Tigre Mining Company, at El Tigre, Sonora, Mexico, reports the development program of that company, at a critical stage, due to faulting on the 1,600 foot Level, completely cutting off the vein. He states that there is an apparent displacement of 800 feet.

The El Tigre Company has completed a most extensive geological study of conditions in the mine, and is now doing considerable development on the west side of the fault with the hope of picking up the vein beyond the fault, and again reviving this famous old property, which has helped make mining history in Mexico.

Last month it was reported that ore reserves at the Tigre Mine had diminished to a little more than a year’s supply, at the present reduced milling rate. Under Mr. Bailey’s supervision, extensive cross-cuts are being driven east and west, from the known veins in the property, and further development is being pushed along the main and the Seitz veins. The company uses the cut and fill system of mining, and produces about 6,000 tons per month. The company’s 225-ton milling plant at El Molino, Sonora, is handling about 160 tons of ore daily.

Mr. Bailey, a graduate of the Texas School of Mines, is well able to supervise mine work at El Tigre, having devoted the past 10 years to mining in that country, most of which time was spent at Parral, Chihuahua. At Parral, he occupied the various positions of mine surveyor with Alvarado Mining & Milling Company; mill shift boss of San Patricio Mining & Milling; and assayer, mine shift boss and mine foreman with American Smelting & Refining Company. He has been with El Tigre company during the past two years.

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UTAHNS DEDICATE MEMORIAL TO PIONEER IN MINING INDUSTRY
(By Gail Martin)

Utah citizens paid homage on Decoration Day, to the memory and deeds of General Patrick Edward Connor, the man who nearly seventy years ago, laid the foundations for the Utah mining industry. Like most pioneers, General Connor profited but little, by his energy and foresight. The founder of an industry that has produced to date, over $1,700,008,000 in metals, and over $350,000,000 in dividends, a veteran of three wars, and a brilliant Indian fighter, General Connor created a name for himself in the annals of western history that will not soon be forgotten.

Of the man, Judge C. C. Goodwin, one of General Connor’s contemporaries, says
in his book, “As I Remember Them”, “He was a splendid soldier, who fought in three wars. During every moment of fifty years he held his life, fortune, and sacred honor, subject to his country’s call. His best services were performed in Utah. Some men fight when they have to. Some men fight when a fight comes to them. Now and then a man goes after a fight. General Connor was of the last class.”

General Connor was born in Kerry County, Ireland, on March 17, 1820. He came to New York in 1839. Hearing of the Florida War, he enlisted in the United States Army, and served with distinction. When the Mexican War broke out, he was first a lieutenant in the Texas Volunteers, and later a captain. At Buena Vista, he was severely wounded. Nevertheless, he fought on. At night, two of his comrades had to hold him in their arms to keep him from dying of the cold, so exhausted was the lion-hearted fighter, from loss of blood.

After the war, Connor crossed Mexico, and embarked for San Francisco. He engaged in the lumber business at Stockton, California, until the Civil War broke out, when he enlisted in the Third California Cavalry, and was made a colonel. In May, 1862, he was ordered to march with 800 men to Utah.

On his arrival in Utah, he immediately recognized its possibilities for mineral production. Most of his men had mined in California. He, himself, was interested in mining. He saw the chances of building up the territory’s prosperity through the development of mining. He issued a proclamation giving every encouragement to his men to prospect for mineral wealth. The result was the discovery of Bingham, in 1863, by George Ogilvie, one of his soldiers. The finding of Ophir, Mercur, and other deposits, in Utah, and Nevada followed. General Connor himself is credited with finding the first ore in the Wasatch Mountain Range, near Alta. He built the first smelter at Stockton, so named by the general after his home town.

Moreover, he added to his renown as a fighter by defeating Chief Bear Hunter near Preston, Idaho. In a bloody engagement, 800 Indians, almost the entire enemy force, were slaughtered. Losses of the Federal troops numbered 14 soldiers killed, and 70 men wounded. In 1866, General Connor was honorably mustered out of service. During the remainder of his life, he engaged in mining. He died in Salt Lake City, December 17, 1891.

In grateful recognition of his achievements and wonderful foresight, Utah citizens united on Memorial Day, at Fort Douglas, to dedicate a memorial to General Connor. Mrs. Bartley P. Oliver of San Francisco, a daughter of General Connor, unveiled the monument, consisting of a block of unhewn sandstone, with a bronze tablet, on which was a bust of the general, and a short history of his life.

Credit for the completion of the Utah memorial, belongs largely to Colonel H. C. Price, post commandant, and Edgar M. Ledyard, president of the Utah Historical Landmarks Association, Director of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining company’s agricultural department at Salt Lake City, and editor of the company’s official safety publication, Ax-I-Dent Ax.
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DEAN ROBERTS IS PRINCIPAL SPEAKER AT VARIOUS MEETINGS

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Dr. Milnor Roberts, Dean of the College of Mines, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, has had a busy month of June, outside of his college work. In the early part of the month, he was in Spokane, attending a meeting of the car service division of the American Railway Association, of which he has been a member for many years.

While in Spokane, Dr. Roberts addressed the Columbia section of the A. I. M. and M. E., on the subject of “The Full Breadth of the Field of Mining Engineering,” pointing out that “a mining engineer receives a very broad training, and is able by study and practice, to conduct the various affairs of a mining company, better than a man who lacks such training and experience. Oftentimes, an engineer is called upon to examine a mine and report upon it, but thereafter large expenditures, and sometimes the operation are guided, if not actually directed, by a promoter, or a capitalist, or manager, who is not fully qualified for the duties he assumes.”

Dr. Roberts spoke again at the regular monthly meeting of the Northwest Mining Association, on June 9th, on “Keeping the Good Name of Northwest Mining.” The Pacific Northwest, British Columbia, and Alaska, is an integral mining territory in which some of the world’s great mining districts have been developed. In addition to these well-known camps, there are numerous individual mines that have paid handsomely, but being situated in out-of-the-way places, they have attracted little public attention. Every year new prospects are discovered, and new properties are added to the list of producers. Although the great Northwest has had some spectacular booms, beginning with the Cariboo rush of the early days, and followed by the Alaska stampedes, the region has been singularly free from large schemes of promotion that have ended disastrously. Possibly the ruggedness of the mountain regions, and the difficulties of transportation, have hindered the prowlings of wildcats.

Within the last decade, the states of Oregon and Washington have suffered to a greater degree than is generally known to the public, through the machinations of fakers, who have reported large quantities of platinum in common rocks, especially in the dark-colored igneous rocks. When the efforts of federal and state agencies, and the mining organizations, had shown the absence of platinum from these ores, the promoters borrowed from alchemy, and changed the metal content to tin. It is now the style for these people to report tin from numerous localities in the Northwest.

It is the duty of competent mining people to use every opportunity to inform the public of the true situation, and thereby prevent the diversion of capital to worthless schemes, instead of allowing its use for exploring some of the thoroughly interesting prospects that abound in the region.

Dr. Roberts is now in New York attending the meeting of the directors of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.
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STATE GEOLOGIST ANNOUNCES DISCOVERIES OF RARE METAL

The increasing use of air travel has brought new demands upon metals, that are light in weight, but strong, and no one is more eagerly searching new sources of supply, than is John G. Marzel, geologist for the State of Wyoming.

Until recently, the Black Hills deposits of beryl were said to be the largest in America, and the beryllium mined from them, was considered especially precious. Today, Wyoming claims deposits that rival those of the Black Hills, and good-sized deposits have been found in the Hartville Uplift, and in the country south of Glendo, Platte County, and in the vicinity of Lander, Fremont County. A similar mineral, lepidolite, said to be the lightest of all known metals, has been located near Lander.

Mr. Marzel was born in Euclid, Ohio, in 1883, and is an alumnus of the Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, from which he received a B.S. in mining engineering, in 1905. The following year, he joined the force of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, at Trinidad, Colorado, and has been in the West ever since. From 1906 to 1919, he was with the United States Reclamation Service in Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas; until 1927 he was engaged in private practice as civil engineer, and geologist, at Torrington, Wyoming, and gave up his office there for the field which he is serving so well.

He is the father of three girls, Hermina, Kathryn and Dona; a member of the Torrington Lions Club; and an active worker in the Wyoming Society of Civil Engineers and in the Cheyenne Engineers Club.
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A. H. PARSONS GATHERS DATA ON PORPHYRY PROPERTIES

Arthur B. Parsons of New York City, assistant secretary of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, is gathering material on the development of the porphyry copper industry; featuring particularly the work of D. C. Jackling.

He left New York, on May 1, for El Paso. Visits were made in Arizona, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Ely, Nevada, and Salt Lake City, Utah, the latter being the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Parsons. Before returning to the East, he intends to visit the iron and copper regions of Minnesota and Michigan.

During the past year Mr. Parsons has written a series of articles on the copper situation and is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on the tendencies of the metal markets.
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W.H. EARDLEY GIVES 22 YEARS’ SERVICE TO U. S. SMELTING CO.

Probably there has never been a time when mine operators were more anxious to cut down their cost of operation, than during the depression in the metal market of the last few months. This interest is common to both the larger and smaller operators, and under the former heading, may be mentioned the flotation mill of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company, at Midvale, Utah. This plant is equipped with up-to-date machinery to treat 500 tons of ore, in 24 hours, and is operated under the general supervision of Walter Hazen Eardley of Salt Lake City, who is assistant manager in charge of smelting and milling operations, for the organization.

Mr. Eardley is a native of Salt Lake City, and was educated in the Latter Day Saints College, in the University of Utah, and received his D. Sc. from the Lincoln Memorial University at Harrogate, Tennessee. He entered the employ of the smelting company in 1908, and has been with the organization ever since, with the exception of two years, 1918-1920, when he was manager of the American Metal Company, Ltd., operating in the Kansas-Missouri-Oklahoma field. His promotions passed through a cycle, from ore purchasing agent, manager of zinc smelters and mines, special investigations, consulting work in New York City, to assistant manager in charge of smelting and milling, which position he has occupied during the last eight years.

His ambition is to increase efficiency and to reduce the costs at smelters, mills and mines and to help develop new processes to attain that end. As a writer, he is credited with a number of articles on metallurgy, mining and physical chemistry, and is the author of “Priceless Pearls on Health.” The American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Royal Society of Arts, in London, value him as a member.
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UNITED VERDE ENGINEER GIVEN A. I. M. E. HONOR

Oscar A. Glaeser, safety and ventilation engineer,of United Verde Copper Company, Jerome, Arizona, has been selected as a member of the National Committee on Mine Ventilation of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. This committee, composed of 12 members, is made up of men of notable achievements in that line of work, selected by the Board of Directors of the American Institute. Dan Harrington, Chief of the Safety Division of the Bureau of Mines, is Chairman of the committee.

Mr. Glaeser has been with United Verde Copper for six years, three years of which have been spent in active charge of ventilation for the mines, and for the past year and a half, he has been Safety and Ventilation Engineer, as well as head of the employment department, of that company.
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STUDENTS IN UTAH SCHOOLS GET $3,000 IN PRIZES ON ESSAYS

The winners in the competition for $3,000 in prizes, for the best essays on the Utah mining industry, have been selected by a committee of mining men, representing the industry, and the School of Mines at the University of Utah.

The largest award was won by Hilary St. Clair, a senior at the University of Utah.

In consecutive order, the other winners were:
Miss Lorene Murray of the Marysvale High School, Scott Riding of the Tintic High School, Barr Miller of the Murray High School, Miss Geneva Hunt of the Enterprise High School, and Miss Dixie Mangum of the B. Y. U. High School at Provo. Each of the winners will have placed to his, or her, credit, $100 in whatever institution of higher learning in Utah the winner desires, it being understood that the money will be used to pay tuition, fees and subsistence.

Awards of $100 were made to college and university freshmen for the two best papers on “What Mining Has Meant to the Economic Development of the West.” The winners were: D. B. Dimick, of B. Y. U. and Miss Bessie Janet Kirkham, of U. of U.

Awards of $200 were made to college and university sophomores for the two best papers on “What Mining Has Meant to the Economic Development of the United States as a Nation.” The winners were: Charles R. McKell, and Carlton Culmsee, both of B. Y. U. at Provo.

Awards of $300 were made to college and university juniors for the two best papers on “The Influence of mining on the Development and Stability of Nations.” The winners were: Fred Stabmann, and Ward H. Johnson, of B. Y. U.

rehab · WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON BIO TMJ 7 15 1930

for JULY 15, 1930

A name that has connoted riches of many sorts, and may yet do so in a greater sense, now becomes an epitaph—William Boyce Thompson. It was a rounded as well as rich life that he led, colored by achievement and shot with vision. He has bequeathed what may also be, for unknown others, a richer future.
He was a unique link between West and East. He combined contacts with mining life and wealth in many places and an intimacy with eastern academic culture and the mobilized wealth of Wall Street, writ on paper. His roots struck deep below ground in many regions—to copper and sulphur on this continent and gold and diamonds in Africa.
%*$#@! pioneer of the first Montana gold rush in the ‘60s, he went through Phillips Exeter and the Columbia School of Mines. That technical learning he welded with the vision that foresaw the profit in copper mines then not thought commercially workable—properties such as Inspiration, Nevada Consolidated and Magma. He helped develop Texas Gulf Sulphur as the world’s greatest source of sulphur.
Out of this new wealth he gave generously, but quietly— such gifts as more than two millions to our own Exeter and largely to the Clark School for the Deaf, in which Mrs. Coolidge once taught and for which C. W. Barron campaigned in his last days. Wholehearted also were his wartime, activities for Belgian relief, Liberty, Loans and Red Cross, his devotion to Roosevelt and his interest in national politics. His independence of thought was manifested in his advocacy of recognition of Russia.
He was financier as well as miner on a grand scale, and among his services were those on the board of the New York reserve bank and on that of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
Possibly his posthumous gifts may yet be greatest—the fruit of the interest in plant life study in our southwestern deserts and of the five millions he gave to endow the Boyce Thompson Plant Institute at Yonkers to eliminate plant diseases and aid plant growth, with more than 40 scientists engaged in that great battle. Such research in new plant types, in effects of heat, moisture, light, etc., has already scored large technical triumphs. Malthus never dreamed of such as Thompson.
Under the earth grew the Thompson fortune. He may have provided new future wealth for mankind from the earth’s surface—Boston News Bureau.

THE MINING INDUSTRY MOURNS DEATH OF WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON

With the death of Colonel William Boyce Thompson at his home in Yonkers, New York, June 27, American mining mourns the loss of one of its outstanding copper magnates, as well as an internationally known philanthropist and politician. He passed away a short time following his return to the East, from Phoenix, Arizona, his death being caused from pneumonia.

Colonel Thompson, with copper and sulphur mines in the United States, diamond interests in Africa, and plant research institutions at Yonkers, New York, and at Superior, Arizona, was “interested in any and every thing that came out of the ground,” and from the pursuit of this hobby is said to have amassed a fortune of possibly $200,000,000.

Most of his interests were in the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, and Sonora, Mexico. He was the moving spirit in development of the Magma Copper Company’s properties at Superior, Arizona, and formerly was president of that company. Colonel Thompson identified himself with the Anglo-South African Corporation, and the Texas Gulf Sulphur Company, and for many years served as Chairman of the Board of the Newmont Mining Corporation.

A pioneer in the mining field, William Boyce Thompson followed in the footsteps of his father, William Thompson, one-time mayor of Butte, Montana, who trekked out of the East in a covered wagon, and whose mining properties later became a part of the gigantic Anaconda Copper Mining Company.

William Boyce was born at Virginia City, Montana, May 13, 1869. The young man was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy at Exeter, Massachusetts, and at the Columbia School of Mines. In 1921, the University of Pittsburgh added an honorary touch to his academic life by bestowal of the degree of LL. D., and in 1923, Kentucky followed with a similar honor. He married Gertrude Hickman of Helena, Montana, in 1895, and to them one daughter, Mrs. Margaret Thompson Schulze of New York, was born.

Colonel Thompson founded the Thompson Arboretum, near Superior, Arizona, where desert shrubs, trees and plants, are cultivated for scientific, and educational purposes. The establishment was founded in the belief that the plants of the world’s arid countries might become useful and practical to future generations. Research is carried on at this unusual institution with all kinds of plants, even from the Sahara and Arabian deserts, and other arid regions. Some years ago, Colonel Thompson established at Yonkers, the Boyce Thompson Institute of Plant Research, which has attracted eminent botanists from all parts of the world.

When Washington signalled, Colonel Thompson donned a diplomatic uniform and went abroad on a mission. When he was not bringing back reports on Russia, business conditions, or peace in Peru, he brought back seeds from Tutankhamen’s tomb, for his backyard research. He was a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, from its founding in 1914, until December, 1919.

In political life, William Boyce Thompson was presidential elector in 1912, a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1916 and 1920, and was mentioned in 1921 for the post of ambassador to Germany. In 1917, he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel in the United States army, and for four months headed the American Red Cross mission to Russia. In July, 1921, he was chosen envoy extraordinary of the United States, to the first centennial of the proclamation of independence of the republic of Peru. The same year he was a member of the advisory commission to the American delegation in conference on the limitation of armament.

The most recent of his many philanthropies was the gift of $1,000,000, a few months ago, to Phillips Exeter Academy, of which he was a graduate and trustee. It is understood that he had set aside an endowment of $10,000,000 for the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Yonkers.

A friend of [Theodore] Roosevelt, he identified himself in 1919, with a movement to raise funds to perpetuate the dead president’s memory. To the Roosevelt Memorial Association he contributed more than $200,000, and served as its first president, and later as honorary head.

During the past four years, Colonel Thompson traveled extensively in an effort to improve his health, his yacht and private car carrying him to numerous points of interest. Much of his time was spent in Arizona, where in addition to seeking recuperation, he was in direct touch with various mining projects.

rehab · MINING MEN TMJ 7 15 1930

For JULY 15, 1930

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

J. F. Geary, consulting engineer, has opened an office at 707 Hives-Strong Building, Los Angeles, California.
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R. P. Mills has been appointed assistant chief clerk of the New Cornelia Mines of Calumet & Arizona Mining Company at Ajo, Arizona.
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Francisco Terminel, of the Secretaria de Industria of the Mexican Government, was recently in Parral, Chihuahua, studying the mining situation.
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C. E. Collins, of Chico, California, superintendent of the Aladdin Divide Mining Company, has gone to Grants Pass, Oregon, to examine a mine.
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W. W. Newton has been placed in-charge of the War Eagle Gold Mine, near Dixie, Idaho, for the Central Idaho Mining and Milling Company.
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John T. Reid, mining engineer of Lovelock, Nevada, has returned to his office after spending several months in the University of California Hospital.
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W. B. Gomez, formerly with Miami Copper Company, Miami, Arizona, is now mining engineer with Bagdad Copper Corporation at Hillside, Arizona.
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Arthur Dewey, for a long time superintendent of the Highland Chief Mine at Oatman, Arizona, is now in charge of the old Rose Mine at Perris, California.
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W. J. Craven, mining engineer of Jerome, Arizona, recently examined the Yellowstone Mine, of the Pueblo Mountain Mining Company, near Winnemucca, Nevada.
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R. B. Monroe of Denver, Colorado, honor graduate of the Colorado School of Mines, has accepted the office of industrial engineer for the Kansas City Gas Company.
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J. J. Jakosky, and C. H. Wilson of International Geophysics, Inc., of Los Angeles, have just completed a geophysical survey of the Lake Shore ,ine, in Pinal County, Arizona.
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H. Blackwood, mining engineer with American Smelting & Refining Company at Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico, is in Boston. He will return to his duties in Mexico in July.
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S. A. Spellmeyer, mining engineer of San Francisco, was a recent visitor at Tombstone, Arizona, where he looked over the Tombstone Extension Property, and the Bob Ingersoll Lease.
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Charles G. Thielicke, formerly assistant superintendent of the La Noria Unit of Cia. de Inversiones del Oro, at Sombrerete, Zacatecas, Mexico, is now located at Fimiston, Western Australia.
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J. H. Eby, mining engineer, P. 0. Box 483, Spokane, Washington, recently spent a week making a geological survey of the property of the Togo Copper Company, near Fruitland, Washington.
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Harry P. Landon, secretary of the San Francisco Mining Exchange, died recently at his home in Berkeley, California. He has served the exchange as secretary for 20 years, and was 71 years old.
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George W. Snyder, manager of W. F. Snyder and Sons; Frank B. Cook, president of the Columbia Trust Company; and Judge W. I. Snyder, spent several days in San Francisco on business recently.
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James Wilson Neill, consulting mining engineer and metallurgist of 430 West Colorado Street, Pasadena, California, has resigned as consulting engineer for the Jumbo Lead Mines, Inc., at Florence, Arizona.
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Harry C. Goodrich, 1409 Deseret Bank Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, has been elected as president of the Utah Society of Engineers. Mr. Goodrich is chief mine engineer for the Utah Copper Company.
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Lawrence R. Jackson, mining engineer, formerly of Bisbee, Arizona, is now supervising installation of a new milling plant at the Alaska Mine, of the Southern Rhodesia Base Metals Company, in Rhodesia.
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Charles Moore of Yuba City, California, is visiting Park City, Utah, and inspecting the properties of the Mayflower, the Park Galena, and the Star of Utah, mining companies, in which he is the leading spirit.
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William Anderson, president of the Eagle Brass Foundry of Seattle, Washington, gave the story of monel metal, a natural alloy of two-thirds nickel and one-third copper, at a recent engineers’ luncheon in Tacoma. [Rehab notes: the precursor to stainless steel, the Monel metal was used extensively in the handrails at Hoover Dam. My father, a pipefitter for Babcox & Wilcox, was employed to install many of these, as well as other duties in the turbine and oil gallery piping, pennstock installation, and other piping, up to 1942, when B&W asked that he work at Terminal Island, California, to build battleships. Among other things, he figured out a way for the company to build pre-fab decks that fit fairly precisely in fabricated hulls (using this method, battleships could be turned out in 3 weeks instead if 3 months), a special insulated rivet gun to protect the hands of the riveters (2 world records were set using these modified tools), and he also ran a women’s welding shop. Originally supervising 30 employees, at war’s end, he suprvised over 3300 company employees of all trades.]
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John Daniell of Los Angeles, California, has returned from an extended examination of the Cochise Mining District, Arizona, and has left to make a periodic inspection of the properties of the California Dante Corporation, Ltd.
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C. J. Carpenter, of Dayton, Nevada, manager of the Interstate Mining and Development Company, is said to have been successful in financing the company in England, and is to return soon to continue development work. [Rehab notes: British capital has played a major role in the mining development of the entire American West. Some towns and districts were wholly financed with English money.]
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Eugene M. Farnham, mining engineer, died recently in Oakland, California, at the age of 58. He graduated from the University of California in 1902 and was at one time owner of quicksilver properties near Mina, Nevada.
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Richard L. Smith, engineer of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is to examine the Springer brucite property near Luning, Nevada, in behalf of H. A. Severinghaus, P. 0. Box 1422, Phoenix, Arizona, and associates, who have purchased the claims.
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Alfred S. Beaven, 55-year-old Anaconda, Montana, mining engineer, was found dead on the desert near Buckeye, Arizona, June 27. He is believed to have died from thirst, having exhausted his water supply while in search of homestead land.
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Frank W. Stall, 2530 N Street, Sacramento, California, president of the National Consolidated Mining Company, was in Reno, Nevada, recently, where he reported that the company has temporarily discontinued operations at National.
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Harry L. Seares, 511 Story Building, Los Angeles, California, has returned from the Silver Plume Mine at Cananea, Mexico. Mr. Seares is one of the field engineers for the Minaret Mines Company, which is operating the Silver Plume.
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Al Frevert, engaged in several mining ventures in the early days at Tonopah, Nevada, died recently at his home in Bird Rock, a suburb of San Diego, California. He was one of the owners of the Mina Mercury property, east of Mina, Nevada.
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Peter E. Olson of Idaho Springs, Colorado, passed away at his home on June 27. He same to Idaho Springs, from Cripple Creek, more than two years ago to work for the West Gold Mining Company, and was highly respected in mining circles, and as a citizen.
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Jules Gallagher of San Antonio, Texas, has lately been at Tombstone, Arizona, in the interest of the Gallagher Vanadium & Rare Metals Corporation, which 25 claims in the Charleston District, on which 15 men are doing assessment work.
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Edward Dickinson, 62, veteran employee of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, died at the Copper Queen Hospital, at Bisbee, Arizona, the middle of June. Mr. Dickinson’s son, John Dickinson, is assistant manager of the Phelps Dodge Mercantile Company store at Bisbee.
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William H. Holcombe was promoted the first of June, from the position of mine superintendent, to general superintendent of the Ojuela Unit of Cia. Minera de Penoles, S. A., at Ojuela, Durango, Mexico. He has been with the company at this point, since 1924.
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W. J. Lawrence of Salt Lake City, Utah, manager of the Caliente Cobalt Mining Company, together with Bert Krause, S. W. Mathews, L. L. Burt, and A. Hawkins of Minneapolis, Minnesota, who are interested in the company, recently visited the property at Caliente, Nevada.
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James S. Douglas, president of United Verde Extension Mining Company, spent several days in Douglas, Arizona, the last of June, and stopped at Jerome on his return trip to New York, where he expects to be most of the summer. He had been in Los Angeles, and Long Beach, California, for three weeks.
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W. F. Staunton, mining engineer of Los Angeles, and Dr. F. L. Ransome, professor of economic geology, at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, were recent visitors in Jerome, Arizona. Mr. Staunton was a former resident of Jerome, and is vice-president of the Verde Central Mines, Inc., operating in that district.
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Dr. George I. Finley, professor of geology in the New York University, accompanied by Arthur D. Howard, arrived in Bluff, Utah, on a summer field trip for their institution. About five years ago, Dr. Finley made a geological survey, south of the San Juan River, from Shiprock, New Mexico, to Goodridge, Utah, and secured considerable data for the institution.
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Charles Beadon of the Utah Lead Company, has been sentenced to four years in prison for mail fraud, in connection with the sale of stock in the company. Harry H. Phillips, of New York, and Philadelphia, broker, has been given a two-year sentence, and Michael Barnett, a Philadelphia lawyer, has been sentenced to a year and a day, for their connections in the mail fraud.
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Carlton D. Hulin recently spent a month in the Mojave Desert, where he made a study of the geology of the Searles Lake Quadrangle, for the California State Division of Mines. He is now doing consulting work at the Sunnyside Mine, in southwestern Colorado, for the United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Company. Mr. Hulin is associate professor of geology at the University of California.
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Felix McDonald, mine superintendent of Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company, has left Inspiration, Arizona, for Salt Lake City, to join Mrs. McDonald, who has been in Philadelphia, attending the graduation of their son from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. McDonald will shortly leave Salt Lake, for a month’s fishing trip in Yellowstone National Park. They will return to Inspiration, by the first of August.
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John T. Omo, actively associated with mining for many years, died at his home in Spokane, Washington. He was president of the Omo Mines Corporation, which operates in the Howser Lake section, of British Columbia. In recognition of his services, he was made a life member of the Northwest Mining Association, and he was one of those actively interested in establishing the Northwest Mines Handbook.
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William 0. Vanderburg, associate mining engineer of the Rare and Precious Metals Experiment Station of the United States Bureau of Mines at Reno, Nevada, recently visited Tybo, in order to study the plant of the Treadwell-Yukon Company. The result of this visit will appear in a report of the Bureau, on reduction of ores at leading milling plants in the United States. The Bureau also has three papers on quicksilver, which are to be distributed as soon as printing funds permit.
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Harry Backus Henderson of Santa Barbara, California, has been awarded the Cornelius F. Kelley fellowship, in ore dressing, recently established at the Montana State School of Mines. Amounting to $2,500 annually, the fellowship is for study of the fundamentals of flotation concentration, and has been made possible through co-operation of the Anaconda Copper Company. For the past year, Mr. Henderson has been engaged in flotation research, under the direction of Professor A. M. Gaudin.
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Glenn Anderson, formerly superintendent of the Southern Copper Mining Company, at Nogales, Arizona, will be engaged for the summer, in examining properties in Colorado and Idaho. His forwarding address will be c/o General Development Company, 61 Broadway, New York City.
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C. Y. Clayton, professor of metallurgy, at Missouri School of Mines, is traveling in the western mining districts this summer. Professor Clayton’s work is in connection with a newly developed hollow drill steel, manufactured by the Colonial Steel Company, Pittsburgh, Pa. This steel is to be distributed under the brand name “Excel.” The western sales office of the Colonial Steel Company is at 825 Santa Fe Avenue, Los Angeles.

rehab · SILAS GILLAN PROFILE TMJ 7 15 1930

24 THE MINING JOURNAL

SILAS L. GILLAN NUMBERED AMONG PROMINENT ENGINEERS

We have only to look to the consulting phase of mining and geology, to find men of thorough education, personal ability, and of utmost enthusiasm for their work. Among these is Silas L. Gillan, who has been engaged in private practice as a mining engineer, and geologist, in Los Angeles, California, since 1921, and who now maintains an office at 812 Subway Terminal Building.

While his higher education was begun at the University of Wisconsin, Mr. Gillan received his degree in mining engineering from the University of Minnesota School of Mines, in 1907. As engineer in charge of a project for the Irrigated Lands Company, the first year of his career was spent at Moapa, Nevada. From 1908 to 1920, he acted as mining engineer for the United States Government in determining the mineral, or non-mineral character, of lands in Arizona, New Mexico, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, California and Nevada, the latter part of the period being spent principally in California oil fields. The following year, 1920-1921, was spent in the Natural Resources Division of the Income Tax Unit, at Washington, D. C., as valuation engineer, and from that time to the present, he has engaged in private practice in Los Angeles.

Mr. Gillan’s present work is principally with the following phases:
Examination and appraisal of oil lands;
geological examination for oil and gas, and other minerals;
engineering services to litigants in matters concerning oil land, drainage problems, water rights, mineral lands generally, determination of recoverable oil and gas reserves and their value, and income tax problems. He has written several articles describing mineral properties and on tax problems.

As a member of several important professional organizations, including the American Mining Congress, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and the Engineers’ Club of Los Angeles, Mr. Gillan is in close communication with all that is new in his profession. In order to dispel the impression that he is over-serious minded, we must confess that he seeks his pleasure at the Jonathan Club in Los Angeles.

In 1908, at Minneapolis, Minnesota, Mr. Gillan was married to Emily N. Crosby of that city, and is now the father of four children, Crosby L., 19; Emily, 17; Adelaide, 17, and Mary Jane Gillan, 12 years of age.

rehab · THOMAS V CONNOR ZACATECAS MILL MAN TMJ 8 15 1930

A Simple Flotation Reagent Feeder

Thomas V. Connor, Mill Superintendent, Cia. Minera y Beneficiadora, S. A., has perfected a devise which eliminates many of the objections to standard feeders.

The flotation reagent feeder was designed and perfected by Thomas V. Connor, while metallurgist for Cia. Inversiones del Oro silver flotation mill, at La Noria, Zacatecas, Mexico. The device has been in successful use and operation for a number of months, and is giving very satisfactory service. It is especially valuable as a simple burette, and glass tubing
replaces expensive iron tubing, valves and flotation reagent feeders.

Among the advantages which might be outlined for this device are that the reagent feed is known at all times, or for any period of time; an accurate solution sample may be taken at any time, or for any period of time; the reagent feed is constant at all times, or for any period of time; there is no power required or mechanism to get out of order. It can be easily moved to any desired place. The initial cost is low.

Mr. Connor is especially interested in applying principles and modus operandi of the laboratory, to the mills, which he considers are, in reality, laboratories on larger scales. His development of the reagent feeder described is in line with this interest.

Well known in many of the Western and Mexican mining camps, Mr. Connor was mill and mine superintendent back in 1903-06 with the Wild Horse Cyanide Mills Company at Cripple Creek, Colorado. For the next seven years, he conducted his own engineering office and laboratory at Goldfield, Nevada. The call to Alaska came in 1913, and he served as chemist and experimental engineer for the Alaska Treadwell Mines Company, for three years. In 1916, he took charge of the remodeling of the 100-ton cyanide mill at Santo Domingo, Peru. In 1917, he returned to the United States, and joined the staff of Miami Copper Company. From 1920 to 1925, he was chemist, and in charge of experimental work for the American Smelting and Refining Company at its Veta Grande, and Velardena units, in Mexico, leaving that position to become chemist at Saltillo, and Concepcion del Oro smelters, of the Mazapu Copper Company, and in charge of experimental work at the San Eligio flotation mill. Three years later, he took over the position of metallurgist for Cia. Inversiones del Oro at its flotation mill at La Noria. In 1929, he became cyanide mill superintendent for Cia. Minera y Beneficiadora, S. A., Cieneguillas, El Oro, Durango, which position he holds at present.

Mr. Connor was born in 1880, at St. Louis, Missouri. His high school education was obtained at the Central High School, Pueblo, Colorado. He was graduated from the University of California in 1903, with the degree of Bachelor of Science.

rehab · MINING MEN TMJ 8 15 1930

for AUGUST 15, 1930

With Prominent People You Know

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

M. T. Streeter, identified in Colorado mining circles, passed away at Oklahoma City, at the age of 69.
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Evan Williams is shipping three carloads of ore daily from the Findley Dump, at Cripple Creek, Colorado.
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John R. Turner has been appointed as manager of the Jack Waite Consolidated Mining Company, of Wallace, Idaho.
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J. B. Paxton, mining man of Wagoner, Arizona, is making an extended trip by automobile, through New York State.
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George Goit, engineer with the Chloride Consolidated Mines Company, Chloride, Arizona, died the last of July, following a short illness.
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Thomas J. Bradbury, one of the discoverers of the Sixteen-to-One Gold Mne, near Alleghany, California, died in Nevada City,at the age of 62.
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Jesse S. MacDonald, former superintendent for the Mineral Mountain Copper Company, Santa Rita, New Mexico, is now in Soviet Russia.
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William Anderson of Deer Lodge, Montana, has shipped a two-ton sample of phosphate rock, from his mine at Garrison. to manufacturers in the East.
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Van Dyne Howbert, vice-president of American Metals Company, has just returned to New York from an extended trip through the Southwest, and Mexico.
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Oscar DeCamp, formerly superintendent of the Bella May Mine at Metaline, Washington, for the Metaline Mining and Leasing Company, died recently at the age of 78.
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Lloyd C. White, 1022 Crocker Building, San Francisco, California, manager of the Yellow Pine Mining Company, in Idaho, recently spent a month at the company’s property.
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Herrick McLeod of Cripple Creek, Colorado, has been appointed as State Mine Inspector, of District No. 2. He will fill the vacancy caused by the death of M. J. McCarthy.
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J. C. Taylor, Jr., vice-president in charge of sales of the Taylor-Wharton Iron & Steel Company, sailed on July 19, for Europe, on a business trip for his company. He will return August 20.
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Oscar R. Howard of Los Angeles, general manager of Tom Reed Gold Mines Company, lately visited the company’s property at Oatman, Arizona, accompanied by stockholders in the organization.
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David D. Baker, engineer with the Cia. Nacional de Minas y Cautecas, has just returned to his headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, following a five-months’ trip through Baja California, Mexico.
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W. Howard Moore, well-known Coeur d’Alene mine operator, passed away at his home in Wallace, Idaho, July 7. His untimely death was the result of an automobile accident, the week before.
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A. M. Gaudin, research professor of ore dressing at the Montana State School of Mines, is gathering material for a textbook on ore dressing, to be published by the McGraw-Hill Book Company.
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FRANK M. LELAND, ENGINEER
CONS. COPPER MINING CO.

One of the men in close touch with the construction and development program, now under way at the Blue Ledge Mine, at Copper, California, under operation by the Consolidated Copper Mining Company, is Frank M. Leland, consulting engineer and in charge of operations. Mr. Leland was born on March 9, 1858, in Ontario County, New York, and was married to Mary Hart of Placerville, California, on June 17, 1884, at Tuscarora, Nevada.

After learning the machinist’s trade in the Illinois Central shops in Chicago, Mr. Leland went to Nevada, and worked in a machine shop at Austin. He spent some time as foreman of the Star Grove Mill at Lewis, and later of the Aetna Mill at Galena, Nevada. After building electric railroads in California, he was with the Risdon Iron Works in San Francisco, for 10 years, as manager of the mining machinery department. The following 11 years, were spent as president and general manager of the Empire Copper Company at Mackay, Idaho. He was then general manager of the First National Copper Company at Corona, California, for four years, with the Moore Dry Dock Company for three years, and superintendent of a railroad, for four years.

Mr. Leland has written several articles for the technical press, among them being one on home-made timber frames, and another on operations at the Buck Passer Mine. He has been a member of the A. I. M. E. since 1906, and is also affiliated with the Knight Templars, Comandery and Shrine.

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John D. Ryan and Cornelius F. Kelly, chairman and president, respectively, of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, are spending a few weeks in Montana on a combined business and pleasure trip.
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H. H. Lykins, Los Angeles representative of Taylor-Wharton Iron & Steel Company, 465 East Third Street, has returned from a trip to the Arizona mining camps. Mr. Lykins reports business is on the upgrade.
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William Fahle of Wallace, Idaho, president and general manager of the Independence Placer Mining Company, Ltd., has resumed work in the Clearwater District, and is personally in charge of developments.
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Fred Walker of New York, son of H. B. Walker, vice-president of the American Smelting and Refining Company, has been inspecting the properties of the Federal Mining and Smelting Company in the Coeur d’Alenes.
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Dr. Curtis L. Wilson, professor of metallurgy at the Montana State School of Mines, is preparing a textbook, under the caption, “The Metallurgy of Copper,” which will be published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
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Matt Yakominic of Roslyn, Washington, an employee of the Royal Development Company, was killed when he leaned too far from the platform, in the upraise, from the Trinity Tunnel, and fell 175 feet to the tunnel floor.
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Frank F. Hood, for several years, chief clerk with the Southwest Metals at Humboldt, Arizona, has accepted a similar position with the Swansea Branch of the American Smelting and Refining Company, Swansea, Arizona.
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Lt. CoI. Robert H. Dickson, Inf-Res. 409th Infantry, has just returned from two weeks’ military training at Camp Stephen D. Little, Nogales, Arizona. Lt. Col. Dickson is manager of the Verde Central Mines, Inc., Jerome.
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Thomas Craig was recently found dead in the drift, at the bottom of the 70-foot Goldfield Belmont Shaft, where it is believed he was overcome by bad air. He was working in this property for Guy Millard of Tonopah, Nevada.
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W. L. Zeigler of Wallace, Idaho, metallurgical engineer for the Hecla Mining Company, has examined the Jack Waite Mill, and has submitted several recommendations to its management that would make for profitable operation.
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H. G. Ferguson and W. D. Johnston of Washington, D. C., are in Grass Valley, California, studying conditions at the North Star Mine, of the Empire-Star Mines Corporation. Both men are geologists with the United States Geological Survey.
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Dr. Philip J. Shenon, has resigned his position as Associate Professor of Geology, at the Montana School of Mines, and is to be in charge of a United States Geological Survey field party, which is to start work near Grants Pass, Oregon.
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Dr. C. L. Camp of the Department of Paleontology, University of California, and a party of scientists, spent the early part of July, in field study near Green River Utah, in research of early vertebrate fossils, especially those of Triassic formation.
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Sam G. Dolman, deputy supervisor of the Santa Barbara County Office of the California State Mining Bureau, and Miss Helen McNew, secretary, will be permanently located in Santa Barbara, to which city, the office has been moved from Santa Maria.
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Dr. L. D Ricketts, accompanied by Mrs. Ricketts, is sailing at an early date for Europe, expecting to return about the first of the new year. They are taking the boat to Vancouver, thence overland by the northern route, embarking from the port of Quebec.
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Col. H. H. Stout, formerly consulting metallurgist for Phelps Dodge Corporation, has moved his office, to 40 Wall Street. While Col. Stout will continue to act as a consultant for Phelps Dodge, he is devoting the major portion of his time to private practice.
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Dr. Jaroslav Malkovsky will represent the Colorado School of Mines, at the Geophysical Union at Stockholm, Sweden, during August. He will read a paper of his own, and two by Dr. Carl A. Heiland, head of the Geophysical Department of the Colorado School of Mines.
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Albert Bray and Wesley Roper are building a water line, to a gold property in the Sawtooth Mountains, near Deseret, Utah.
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W. W. Hess, mining engineer, is making an examination of the Ice Lake Gold Zone, 12 miles west of Silverton, Colorado, in the interest of Birmingham capitalists.
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S. A. Himebaugh of Colorado Springs, Colorado, recently spent some time at Silverton. Although 88 years of age, he mounted a horse, and made an inspection of the Hoosier Boy Group of mining claims, six miles north of the city.
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L. O. Goodman, president of the Ardsley Butte Corporation, and of the Ardsley Butte Mines Corporation, has returned to his office at 85 Hirbour Building, Butte, Montana, after spending two months in the East, and middle west, in the interest of his companies.
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Due to the complete shut-down at Ruby, Arizona, of the Eagle Picher Lead Company’s Montana Mine, of which he was foreman, E. A. Nicolai has accepted a position with the New York & Honduras Rosario Mining Company, at its mine at San Juancito, Honduras, Central America.
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R. A. Asbury, manager of the sodium sulphate mines of the Arizona Chemical Company, has left Camp Verde, Arizona, on a business trip to Erie, Pennsylvania, and other eastern points. Mrs. Asbury accompanied her husband on the trip, and both will return to Arizona in the early fall.
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F. W. Lounsberry, 1115 Thirty-Third Street, North, Seattle, Washington, staff engineer of the Universal Alaskan Corporation, was in Hoquiam recently, conferring with W. F. Henderson, president of the Inspiration Survey Mining Company, with regard to methods of operating the property.
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W. A. Wilson of Salt Lake City, Utah, prominent mining engineer, suffered a broken collarbone, and several bruises, in an automobile accident. He was returning from Hailey, Idaho, and his car ran off the pavement into a ditch, as he was attempting to proceed through a cloudburst which swept the Salt Lake Valley.
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Ernest J. Ristedt has accepted the position of safety engineer with the Cerro de Pasco Copper Corporation, with headquarters at Oroya, Peru. Mr. Ristedt was formerly with Inspiration Consolidated, and Old Dominion, in Arizona, and more recently, ventilation and safety engineer with Mexico Mines of El Oro.
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Winston Norman, formerly of Spokane, Washington, has accepted a position with the Cerro de Pasco Copper Corporation, of Lima, Peru. Harold Kingsmill, general manager of the company, began his mining career with Norman’s father, Sidney Norman, at the old Washington Mine, in the Slocan District, of British Columbia.
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E. W. Whitney of Wewoka, Oklahoma, and William C. Green of Tulsa, Oklahoma, president and vice-president, respectively, of the Hercules-Ajax Mining and Milling Company, visited the company’s property in Gunnison County, Colorado, recently. Mr. Green will remain in active supervision of the power plant being installed.
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W. G. Damon, editor and general manager of the Mohave County Miner, a weekly newspaper, published at Kingman, Arizona, died in a Los Angeles hospital on July 28. Mr. Damon has long been identified with Arizonas’ mining progress, particularly in Mohave County, and was responsible for the development of the newspaper that he headed.
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Falling 16 feet, when a railing on top of a boiler at the old Calumet & Arizona power plant, at Bisbee, Arizona, gave way, George Howard, employee of Calumet & Arizona for the past 20 years, sustained injuries which resulted in his death August 1. Mr. Howard was also well-known in the Cananea District of Sonora, where he worked before going to Bisbee.

J. W. Thompson of Salt Lake City, Utah, Chief Flotation Engineer for the General Engineering Company, sailed from New York, August 8, for Rio Tinto, Spain, where he will put the new 2,000-ton flotation plant of the Rio Tinto Copper Company into operation. This plant was designed and built at the London Plant of the General Engineering Company.
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Harry S. Thayer, formerly connected with the United States Reduction and Refining Company of Colorado, and more recently engaged as a consulting engineer with headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Salt Lake City, Utah, has been retained as consulting engineer of the New York Mining Exchange, with offices at 67 Wall Street, New York City.
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S. M. Soupcoff, engineer with the American Smelting and Refining Company, in the McCornick Building, Salt Lake City, has resigned after 17 years’ affiliation with the Guggenheims. He has become associated with Moore, Leonard and Lynch, investment bankers and brokers, with headquarters at 111 Broadway, New York City. Mr. Soupcoff will make his home in New York.
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J. C. Roberts and L. D. Hudson, both of Spokane, Washington, have been awarded the contract to sink the shaft, 100 feet, for the Silver Tip Mining Company at Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The work will be on the ore vein, and will include a skip pocket. They intend to install close to $7,000 worth of mining machinery. George Cochran has been awarded the contract for the construction of ore bins.
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J. N. Davis, assayer of Tonopah, Nevada, is to be in charge of the new mill of the Gold Hill Development Company, which is to be completed by August. Mr. Davis has had experience with the Chino Copper Company of New Mexico, the Angels Copper Company in California, the Pittsburgh Silver Peak Company in Nevada, the West End Consolidated, also in Nevada, and has been in private practice for the past two years.
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L. K. Armstrong, 720 Peyton Building, Spokane, Washington, was head of the Spokane committee in charge of entertainment, for the Princeton University party of geologists, and distinguished scientists, who have been inspecting property in the Coeur d’Alenes. The mining Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce, and the Northwest Mining Association, in joint session in Spokane, have been acting as hosts to the Princeton party.
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T. B. Nolan and Ian Campbell of the United States Geological Survey, have resumed their study of the Tonopah area, and will spend the remainder of the summer in the eastern half of the District. Last summer, the work was centered in the western half of the District. This district had not been studied by the geological survey since 1918, and the present work was made possible through cooperation of the state, and the survey. Nevada was granted $10,000 on the suggestion of Dr. Ferguson of the survey.
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KELLEY FELLOWSHIP, IN ORE DRESSING, GOES TO H. B. HENDERSON

Harry Backus Henderson of Santa Barbara, California, a graduate of the College of Mines, University of California, received the degree of Master of Science in Metallurgical Engineering, and was awarded the newly established Cornelius F. Kelley Fellowship in ore dressing, at the Montana School of Mines commencement exercises at Butte, June 6. The title of Mr. Henderson’s graduate thesis was, “The Effect of Particle Size on Flotation of Mill Products.”

In the colorfully decorated gymnasium, before a large audience of Montanans, and upon a platform, where were seated distinguished engineers and educators in caps and gowns, Mr. Henderson received his Master’s Degree from Dr. M. A. Brannon, Chancellor of the Greater University of Montana, and his appointment to the research fellowship from Dr. F. A. Thomson, president of the Montana School of Mines.

In announcing the fellowship, founded by the president of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, and carrying with it $2,500 a year, President Thomson said; “We feel that the establishment of the Kelley Fellowship in ore dressing is a recognition of the splendid work that has been done here during the past year by Prof. A. M. Gaudin, Research Professor of ore dressing, and his assistants, John Groh and Harry B. Henderson. It is likewise a recognition of the facilities of the School of Mines, for fundamental research in the field of the application of science in the mineral industry.”

rehab · J F POWERS, TROY MONTANA TMJ 8 15 1930

J. F. POWERS ENGINEERS THREE PROJECTS NEAR TROY

One of the most important projects that has been launched in northwestern Montana, in several months, is the long tunnel which the Mecca Metals Company is driving into Grouse Mountain, in the vicinity of Troy. This tunnel, 8 x 8 feet in the clear, will be driven along the vein system about 9,000 feet, to the Silver Strike Mine, at a vertical depth of approximately 2,000 feet below the surface. It will also serve as an outlet for 11 other properties operating on the higher levels of the mountain, by cutting off, from 12 to 15 miles of their haul to and from the railroad.

Both the Mecca Metals, and the Silver Strike, companies are subsidiaries of the Liberty Metals Company, and the engineering of the tunnel is entrusted to Joseph Francis Powers, for the past seven years general manager of the parent concern. His name needs no introduction in the mining camps of the northwest.

Mr. Powers came to Central Idaho from his native state, Wisconsin, during the Thunder Mountain Gold Rush, and for eight years worked in various camps in the vicinity of Orogrande, Buffalo Hump, and Elk City. His occupation varied—part of the time he was engaged in clerical work, and part of the time in mining, assaying, and mine management. He left Idaho in 1908 and located in Siskiyou County, California, where he was manager of the Victor Gold Mining Company, until 1912. The following year he did some prospecting in Jackson County, Oregon, and gradually continued his course northward into the Swauk Placer Mining District in Washington, and finally to Troy.

Trying to divide his time between three enterprises is no easy job, and he finds every minute of his time occupied. The parent company is a silver-lead producer, and a 100-ton flotation plant is being installed there. Two miles of electric power line are being built, and will furnish a surplus over requirements.

Mr. Powers is a member of the Geographic Society, the A. I. M. E., and the Northwest Mining Association.

rehab · MINING MEN BIOS TMJ 8 30 1930

for AUGUST 30, 1930

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

Robert Sumner Wells of Colville, Washington, has joined the junior members of the A. I. M. E.
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Robert E. S. Heineman, assistant geologist for the Arizona Bureau of Mines, at Tucson, was lately in New York.
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A. G. Stowe, formerly at Kingston, New Mexico, operating the Oversight Mine, now has headquarters in Los Angeles.
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Joseph W. Milsom, deputy superintendent of the Denver Mint, died recently. He was 67 years old.
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W. E. Mendenhall has given up his work as editor of the Silver World, Lake City, Colorado, and is to engage in gold placer mining.
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E. W. Bedford, mining engineer of Mina, Nevada, has examined the Standard Mine, at Downieville, California, which is under option to A. B. Railton of Reno.
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H. A. Guess, vice-president of American Smelting & Refining Company, has joined the Board of Directors of Mining Trust, and has been elected vice-chairman.
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H. Heggie, formerly metallurgist for the Anaconda Copper Company, is now at Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia, engaged in consulting work.
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Emille George Jensen, general manager of the Utah Ore Sampling Company at Murray, Utah, has applied for membership in the A. I. M. E.
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James A. Wayne, attorney of Wallace, Idaho, has been elected to the Board of Directors, of the Jack Waite Consolidated Mining Company.
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W. C. Hall, mining man of Plymouth, California, received a fractured ankle when his car ran off the highway, and crashed through several trees.
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Frank T. M’Collough, director of the Grandview Mines, dropped dead on Riverside Avenue, in Spokane, Washington. He came to that city before 1889.
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Charles Simenstad, mining engineer, has recently moved his offices from 402 Securities Building, Seattle, Washington, to 918 Northern Life Tower, in the same city.
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H. D. Heist, consulting engineer, 502 Dooly Block, Salt Lake City, Utah, has completed a survey of mining property in the Miner’s Mountain District, in Wayne County, Utah.
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Glenn Mills, of Tonopah, Nevada, has installed a retort at his cinnabar property in the lone District, in Nye County. The ore averages 4.5 percent quicksilver. Wood is used as fuel.
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Chester F. Lee, mining engineer, Colman Building, Seattle, Washington, recently examined properties in the Mother Lode District of California, on behalf of Seattle and Michigan interests.
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Inar Nogaarz won the mucking contest at the Annual Miners’ Field Day celebration at Butte, Montana, recently, defeating last year’s champion by one second. He is employed at the Badger Mine.
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T. de Vries has completed six months of post-graduate work in flotation, at the Montana School of Mines, at Butte, Montana, and has returned to Holland, where he is engaged in mining engineering.
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W. J. Forbach has returned to Superior, Arizona, from Los Angeles, where it is understood he transacted business in connection with the Pinal Copper Company, in which he holds a substantial interest.
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B. N. Rickard, manager of the El Paso Smelting Works, of the American Smelting and Refining Company, who is serving as general chairman of the joint meetings of the Western Division, American Mining Congress and the A. I. M. E., which is to be held in El Paso, Texas, in October. Extensive plans, both for the technical sessions, and for entertainment of the guests, are being made, and the meeting promises to be a great one.
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Edgar Willis, formerly foreman at the Whitesides Channel Mine, of the Aladdin Divide Mining Company, has been transferred to a similar position at the company’s property at Placerville, California.
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A. Strom, and Carl Walden, have been re-elected president and secretary, respectively, of the Metals Mining Company, which operates East of Bonners Ferry, Idaho.
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A. F.Horle, Chief Engineer, American Smelting & Refining Company, Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico, is now in Boston, and will be back to his duties early in September.
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K. C. Nelson of Great Falls, Montana, inventor of the Nelson gold saving device, is installing one of the machines on the property of the Acme Mining Company, near Sulphur, Nevada.
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William Thomas Davey, retired miner of Grass Valley, California, died recently at Nevada City. He participated in the Alaska gold rush, and was at one time, associated with the Pennsylvania Mine.
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E. E. Miller, mining engineer, died in Denver, Colorado, at the age of 70 years. Death followed an operation for appendicitis. He was a native of Newton Falls, Ohio.
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Jasper Sandoval, employee of the Durango Smelter, of the American Smelting and Refining Company, was severely scalded when he poured water on matte, and it exploded. (REHAB NOTES: water seeps into pores and voids, turns to steam almost instantaneously, creating combination steam and molten or semi-solid metal flying through the air)
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J. W. Warford, mining engineer of Mariposa, California, recently examined the Permit Mine, which is near the Spread Eagle property, of the Whitlock Mines Corporation.
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E. Ross Householder, consulting mining engineer of Kingman, Arizona, recently spent several days examining the Hays Copper Claims, 11 miles southeast of Needles, California, which are jointly owned by W. W. Hays of Needles, and Jerome J. Booth.
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Professor R. S. Lewis of the University of Utah School of Mines and Engineering, has returned to Salt Lake City, from a month’s trip through the iron and copper districts of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
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Thomas Turner, president of Money Metals Exploration Company, and N. S. Kelsey, consulting engineer of Los Angeles, were lately on a two weeks’ visit to the Money Metals Mine, in the Big Bug District, near Prescott, Arizona.
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E. A. Engelhart, interested in mine development near Hillside, Arizona, was recently in Prescott, making preparations to leave for Pennsylvania on a several weeks’ business trip, at the end of which time, he expects to return to the mine.
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D. C. Jackling, president of the Utah Copper Company, arrived by private car in Salt Lake City, Utah, on August 15. He spent two days inspecting company properties, then, left for Trude, Idaho, where he vacationed.
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Jay A. Carpenter, Professor of Mining, at the Mackay School of Mines, at the University of Nevada, will assist with the mineral survey being conducted by H. G. Ferguson, Field Geologist of the United States Geological Survey.
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W. Ray Cox has resigned as Mineral Examiner, in the United States General Land
Office, and has established himself as a consulting mining engineer in Portland.
His address is Lewis Building, 271 Oak Street.
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Thomas Hamilton, of Los Angeles, spent the fore part of the month at Tombstone, Arizona, attending to matters pertaining to his Velma Group of Mines. He has acquired the interests of his former associates in this property.
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Arthur Carnduff committed suicide in Cripple Creek, Colorado, by blowing his head off with dynamite. He was a mining promoter, and the organizer of the Colorado Springs Branch of Bonbright and Carnduff, of Philadelphia.
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G. Cleveland Taylor has resigned, as General Superintendent of the Hazel Mine, of the World Exploration Company at Van Horn, Texas, where he has been in charge since October, 1928. F. E. Browne, Vice-President, and Manager of the company, is now in active charge at the property.
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Elza Des Jardins, and his wife, were seriously injured when their car left the highway, near Golden, Idaho, and fell into Clearwater Gorge. They were en route to the property of the Central Idaho Gold Mines Company, near Elk City, which Mr. Des Jardins has been managing.
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H. L. Lewis, 79-year-old pioneer mining man of Arizona, died at Ray, August 12. Coming to Arizona 48 years ago, from Missouri, Mr. Lewis had been a prospector, and worked for many years at mines of some of the larger companies in Arizona.
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Jack Flynn, 63-year-old mining man of Chloride, Arizona, died at the Mohave County General Hospital, at Kingman, August 18. Mr. Flynn came to Mohave County during the boom days at White Hills, and had since worked claims in the Chloride and Weaver Districts.
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Paul Steger, recently mine superintendent with San Nicolas Mining & Milling Company, S. A., of Vicente Guerrero, Durango, Mexico, is now engineer with Cia. Minera de Plomo, S. A., a Mexican subsidiary of Ahumada Lead Company, at Villa Felix U. Gomez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
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George H. Garry of Philadelphia, internationally known geologist, is spending two months at Summitville, Colorado, where he is making surveys and tests for the Summitville Mines Corporation. This corporation is also known as the Reynolds-Barnsdall interests, and is owned by Denver, and New Jersey capitalists.
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H. T. Robinson of Los Angeles, California, has entered into a contract to build a 250-ton concentrating plant, near the Blue Ledge Mine at Copper, California. The plant is expected to cost $200,000. The mine is operated by the Consolidated Copper Mining Company, 202 Liberty Building, Medford, Oregon.
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R. G. Fries, working a placer mine, near Wickenburg, Arizona, met with a serious accident August 5, when returning from a business trip to Phoenix. In alighting from the train, before it had come to a stop, Mr. Fries stumbled, one foot falling on the track, resulting in an injury that made amputation of the foot necessary.
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John L. Dynan, mine superintendent of the Gold Hill Development Company, operating at Round Mountain, Nevada, has submitted his resignation. The mine and mill are to be managed by Horace A. Johnson, who formerly held the same position with the Tonopah Mining Company, controlled by the same interests.
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Dr. John W. Finch, 668 Gilpin Street, Denver, Colorado, will take office on September 1, as Dean of the School of Mines, of the University of Idaho. He succeeds A. W. Fahrenwald of the school faculty, who agreed to hold the position temporarily, after the resignation of Francis A. Thomson, now president of the Montana School of Mines.
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R. S. Dean, Chief Engineer, Metallurgical Division of the United States Bureau of Mines, after having spent the entire month of July at the Bureau’s Intermountain Station at Salt Lake City, Utah, went to Berkeley, California. He expects to spend some time at the Bureau’s Station at that place, before returning to Washington.
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Harry E. Epstine has submitted his resignation as President of the San Francisco Mining Exchange, and Charles E. Hudson, who has had 40 years experience in the brokerage business, has been elected to fill the vacancy, Mr. Epstine stated that his personal affairs needed attention.
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Edgar L. Newhouse, Vice-President of the American Smelting and Refining Company, was recently in Salt Lake City, Utah, on his annual tour of inspection. He was one of the principal speakers at a dinner given for J. M. Bidwell, Business Manager of the company’s local office, who has retired.
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F. L. Byron, Vice-President and General Manager of the Byron and Royce Mining Syndicate, has taken over the assay office from the syndicate, and will continue to conduct business in the same location, 229 East First Street, Casper, Wyoming. He is remodeling the furnaces, and adding new equipment.

Mrs. G. H. Eichenlaub of Chicago, substantial stockholder of the Squaw Peak Mining Company, was a recent visitor at the company’s Camp Verde Mine in Arizona. Mrs. Eichenlaub thoroughly inspected the mine workings, going over plans with officials for continued development of the property.
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Victor Gardiner Hills, 75-year-old mining engineer of Denver Colorado, died recently at Skouriotissa, Nicosia, Cyprus, where he was engineer for the Cyprus Mines. He had been engaged in mining in Colorado, and was a member of the A. I. M. E., the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, and the Canadian Mining Institute.
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A. H. Buck, of the New Jersey Zinc Company, of New York City, recently spent a week examining zinc properties in San Juan, and Ouray counties, in Colorado. Mr. Buck is an official of the company, and General Manager of the Empire Zinc Company, a subsidiary of the New Jersey company, which operated in Eagle County, Colorado.
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High Kilkenny, pioneer miner of Park City, Utah, died recently in Salt Lake City, at the age of 80 years. At one time he prospected for the Ontario Mining Company, later locating for himself the Little Bell Group, which he sold. At the time of his death, he was President of the Golden Head, and Bonanza Mining Company, at Park City.
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N. N. Vishnevsky, formerly in the employ of the Utah Copper Company, has recently completed a translation, for the Department of Mining and Metallurgical Research, of the University of Utah, of Volume I of “The Materials of Ore Dressing of Non-Metallic Ores,” which is published by the Union Socialistic Soviets Republics, Russia.
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Jerry B. Smith, 75 years old, resident of Arizona since 1914, died at his home in Phoenix, August 9. In 1917, Mr. Smith entered the employ of the Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company, at Inspiration, Arizona, and became a resident of the Central Heights suburb, near there, where he remained until about a year ago, when he moved to Phoenix.
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Harold C. Plummer, Manager of Arizona Commercial Mining Company, left Globe, Arizona, August 4 for a short vacation on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Plummer has lately been supervising preparations to close down his company’s mines, as they are completely worked out. He expects this to be done before the first of the year.
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George Wingfield, well-known Nevada banker and mine operator, was married to Miss Roxy Thoma, daughter of the late Dr. Thoma, who practiced medicine at Austin during the flush days of that silver camp. Returning from their honeymoon, they will make their home at the Wingfield home on Court Street, with spacious grounds overlooking the Truckee River.
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E. S. Leaver, Supervising engineer of the United States Bureau of Mines Station, at Reno, Nevada, and H. A. Doerner, Associate Chemist, recently spent a week at the Intermountain Station conferring with R. S. Dean, Chief Engineer, Metallurgical Division of the Bureau of Mines, and O. L. Oldright, Supervising Non-ferrous Metallurgist.
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J. J. Forbes, Supervising Engineer of the United States Bureau of Mines Health and Safety Work, with headquarters at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, visited the Intermountain Station of the Bureau, at Salt Lake City, Utah, for a conference with D. J. Parker, who is in charge of the Bureau’s health and safety work in Utah, and the Pacific Coast states.
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Efforts are being made by Bisbee, Arizona, and Los Angeles bankers, to locate the whereabouts of the sister of Ed Ollerenshaw, former employee at the Calumet & Arizona mines at Bisbee, who ended his life in a Los Angeles hotel, August 2. It is understood that Mr. Ollerenshaw had expressed a request that his sister, the name of whom is unknown, receive one-half of his estate.
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C. W. Traughber, Metallurgical Engineer, for The Dust Recovering and Conveying Company, at Cleveland, Ohio, has returned from Mexico, where he placed in operation, some equipment installed in a smelter there by the Dust Recovery Company. He leaves immediately for Italy, where he will supervise the starting up of some fume recovery equipment that has been shipped to the Societa Di Monteponi, in Sardegnia.
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Norbert GeIla, well-known as the inventor of the “Elbof” method of geo-electrical investigation, recently left Houston, Texas, for Chile, South America, to form a new organization, in association with the Chilean government, for the purpose of doing geophysical research work in locating ore deposits. One crew is now on the way from Germany, to Chile, to carry out these investigations, using all geophysical methods.
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Floyd S. Weimer, Consulting Engineer for the Anaconda Copper Company, has returned from Europe, where he spent the past three years. While abroad, he supervised construction, and starting of the electrolytic zinc plants of Giesche Spolka Akcyjna, at Katowice, Poland; Socitea de Pertusola, at Crotone, Italy; and Det Norske Zinkkompani, at Odda, Norway. He will join the Anaconda staff in this country.
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O. P. HaIler, Technical Director of the Houston, Texas, office of Piepmeyer & Company, has been in Mexico for three months, making some geophysical surveys on property, in the northern part of the State of Zacatecas. Due to the excellent results obtained from the surveys, Mr. Hailer, and the geophysical crew, were recalled for further surveys, which will extend over a period of approximately two months.
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Dean Theodore J. Hoover, of Stanford University, has been appointed as Chairman of a special meeting, to confer with the Mineral Committee, of the California State Chamber of Commerce, in an effort to prevent the filing of claims for purposes other than mining. In years past, claims that contained no minerals have been filed for alleged mining purposes, but in reality were taken over for the establishment of summer recreation sites, and for other purposes.
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W. P. Hanson, and J. T. Shimmin, and associates, have exercised their option to lease the old Longstreet Mining District, about 52 miles northeast of Tonopah, Nevada. Mr. Hanson is Director and Vice-president, Mr. Shimmin, Director and General Manager, of the Longstreet Gold Mining and Milling Company, which has been organized recently. They are leaving
Los Angeles at once, to recondition the 100-ton mill, and Diesel power plant, and expect to have the entire plant in operation by September 5.
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Flamio Tabaracci passed away recently at Beatty, Nevada, where he has been living for the past 18 months, on account of his health. He was born in Naples, Italy, about 45 years ago, and came to Nevada at the age of 18. After being employed by the Walker Brothers of Salt Lake City, Utah, owners of the principal properties at Royston, he made two carload shipments from that mine, one of which returned $37,000 and the other $14,000.
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E. L. Sweeney, well-known consulting and construction engineer of Phoenix, gave a most interesting and instructive talk this month on “Concentration of Ores” before the Rotary Club at Prescott, Arizona. Among the most recent mill constructions supervised by Mr. Sweeney, are the new plant for United Verde Extension Mining Company, at Clemenceau, Arizona, the one for Davis-Dunkirk, near Prescott, and the new plant for Hammon Copper, at Kirkland.

rehab · MINING MEN TMJ 10 30 1930

for OCTQBER 30, 1930

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

J. K. Tvedt is starting work on the Willie Rose mine, now called the Copper Nugget, 12 miles south of San Simon, Arizona.
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George W. Worthington is superintendent of the Yellow Pine Company at Stibnite, Idaho.
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Walter Douglas, formerly president of Phelps Dodge Corporation, has returned to New York, from Europe.
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E. M. Dawes of Fallon, Nevada, has relinquished his option on the Hutchinson property, a mile north of Midas.
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James S. Douglas, president of United Verde Extension Mining Company, has returned to Jerome, Arizona, after spending some time in Europe.
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William Romischer has succeeded Leo J. Coady, of Wallace, Idaho, as chief engineer for the Federal Mining and Smelting Company.
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H. H. Taylor, of Miami Copper Company, has returned to Miami, Arizona, after a month’s trip to Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.
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Casper A. Schmidt, superintendent of the Empire Zinc Company at Hanover, New Mexico, has been spending some time in New York.
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R. D. Lawrence, mining engineer of Zacatecas, Mexico, is at this time in Australia, where he is making a study of gold mining and milling methods.
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S. C. Kreyns, assistant superintendent for American Smelting & Refining Company at Hayden, Arizona, has made application for membership in A. I. M. E.
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George Kingdon, general manager of United Verde Extension Mining Company, lately returned to Jerome, Arizona, from a three weeks’ business trip to Idaho.
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E. M. Favyer, mining engineer, died at his ranch home, northwest of Willcox, Arizona, October 10, at the age of 58. He had resided at Willcox, about 15 years.
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H. G. Moulton, consulting mining engineer, 14 Wall Street, New York City, has returned from a month’s visit to San Francisco, and other cities, on the Pacific Coast.
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Richard Mulcahy, formerly geologist with Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company, has left Inspiration, Arizona, for permanent residence at Cananea, Sonora, Mexico.
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P. C. Steinel, traffic manager of United Verde Copper Company, has returned to Jerome, Arizona, from New York, after three weeks spent in the East on company business.
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Clifford R. WilfIey, mining engineer, and Oscar N. Bribach, analyst, are conducting a partnership at 1948 Broadway, Denver, Colorado, known as Wilfley and Bribach.
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Martin Crego has been appointed manager of sales of Phelps Dodge Sales Company, Inc., in New York City, to succeed Charles A. Austin, who resigned because of illness.
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Ed Botsford has returned to his duties as mechanical foreman at the New Cornelia Mines, at Ajo, Arizona, from a three weeks’ vacation spent in Buffalo, New York.
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ROBERT E. TALLY NOMINATED FOR PRESIDENT, A. I. M. & M. E.

Robert E. Tally, president of United Verde Copper Company at Jerome, Arizona, was nominated for the presidency of the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers by the official nominating committee. No other nomination was offered. This nomination is subject to ratification by a letter ballot, the results of which will be announced at the general meeting of the Institute to be held in New York in February.

H. A. Guess, vice-president of American Smelting & Refining Company, and Howard Favenson, consulting engineer of Pittsburgh, were nominated for vice-president. Louis S. Cates, president of Phelps Dodge Corporation; Karl Eilers and H. G. Moulton of New York City, and S. R. Elliott, general superintendent of the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company, of Ishpeming, Michigan, were nominated for directors.

There are but few men as well qualified to rise to presidency of the Institute, as Robert Tally, from the standpoint of both capability, and position to give the organization a high quality of service. Long an outstanding figure in both national and state mining organizations, Mr. Tally has devoted many years of work and service to the mining industry.

A sketch of Mr. Tally’s life and accomplishments would be altogether superfluous. He is probably best known for his long and active association with United Verde Copper, which company he served as assistant general manager for six years, and as general manager for eight years, previous to his election as president of the organization early this year. At that time he was succeeded as active manager of the properties by W. V. DeCamp, formerly assistant general manager, and Mr. Tally moved his headquarters to New York City. He has been president of the American Mining Congress since 1928.
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William C. Sullivan, master mechanic at the Hughesville, Montana, mine, of the St Joseph Lead Company, was electrocuted October 6, when he came in contact with a power wire.
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Thomas W. Murray of Spokane, Washington, well-known mining man and operator in several northwestern camps, has returned from Seattle, where he has spent several months.
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H. A. Guess, vice-president, and managing director of the Mining Department of American Smelting & Refining Company, has returned to New York from a trip to Europe.
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John Howard Bailey, formerly an employee of United Verde Copper Company, for a period of 15 years, passed away at Jerome, Arizona, October 12. He was 76 years of age.
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Burton Lowther, of Denver, has been appointed as Consulting Hydraulic and Sanitary Engineer for the government town to be constructed near the site of the Hoover-Boulder Dam. (Boulder City).
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John B. Huttl, representative of Engineering & Mining Journal at Tucson, Arizona, is a candidate for membership in the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.
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J. C. Underwood, former Nogales, Arizona judge, and prominent mine operator, dropped dead October 4. He was 73 years of age, and had been a resident of Nogales for 35 years.
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Bela Low, Engineer of Mines, has announced the relocation of his offices to 5 Nassau Street, New York City, on October 1. His headquarters were formerly at 225 Broadway, New York.
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James A. Adams has resigned as superintendent of the Blok Mines, Inc., at Alto, New Mexico, and will accept the position of mill superintendent, with the Peru Mining Company at Deming.
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A. T. DeForrest of San Francisco, California, president of the Columbia Steel Corporation, spent some time in Salt Lake City, and at Ironton, Utah, where a constructive program is being fostered.
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A. J. McDermott was a recent visitor in Douglas, Arizona, where he was formerly connected with the Calumet & Arizona smelter. He was en route from the East to his home in Alhambra, California.
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Richard I. Evans, member of the Salt Lake Stock Exchange, and former president of that organization, has opened an office in the Flatiron Building, Denver, Colorado. He will specialize in mining Issues.
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A. L. Parker, well-known mining man of Mohave County, Arizona, died of pneumonia at his home in Kingman, a few weeks ago. Mr. Parker had been interested in mining properties in the White Hills, for some years.
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James W. Oldham, 1000 Grand Avenue Temple, Kansas City, Missouri, President of the Shenandoah-Dives Mining Company, recently visited the company’s mines at Silverton. He was the guest of Manager Charles A. Chase.
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Ross D. Leisk, assistant mine superintendent of United Verde Extension Mining Company, has returned to Jerome, Arizona, from a business trip, which took him to New York, and into Canada. He was gone several weeks.
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H. C. Henrie, Phelps Dodge Corporation, Bisbee, Arizona, who has been General Chairman of the Mining Section of the National Safety Council, during the past year, is now a member of the executive committee of that organization.
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Joseph Acton, machine shop foreman for Nevada Consolidated Copper Company at Hayden, Arizona, was accidentally shot and killed while on a deer hunting trip near Springerville, Arizona, October 16. He was 35 years of age.
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Oscar Viklund, of the Eureka Standard Mining Company, won the first prize in the mucking contest at the Utah State Fair. He loaded one ton of coal, into a standard mine car, in 2 minutes and 5.6 seconds. The prize was $50.
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Mrs. Ray Siedlitz, promoter of the Gold Bar Mining Company, was recently at the company’s properties at Cleator, Arizona, from Los Angeles. It is understood that plans have been made to equip the mine with a small milling plant.
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A. W. Fahrenwald, of the Idaho School of Mines, Moscow, Idaho, addressed the Associated Engineers of Spokane, on October 15. He explained the results of the experiments that he has been carrying on, in the flotation of ores.
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Ewald Kipp, Jr., has been transferred from the Mine Department of United Verde Copper Company, Jerome, Arizona, to the Research Department at the company smelter, at Clarkdale. He is working in the zinc test plant at the present time.
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F. W. Libbey, who has been in charge of the Pinto Valley Company’s properties, at Miami, Arizona, is now in charge of properties of the Zenda Gold Mining Company at Barstow, California. The same interests are backing both properties.
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H. F. Foster, formerly of Salt Lake City Utah, has assumed charge of the Rabbit Mine, in the Greenhorn District, in the vicinity of Baker, Oregon. He has had 30 years’ experience as a mine operator in the United States, and in foreign mines.
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Alexis Lyons, former employee of United Verde Copper Company, left Jerome, Arizona, October 15, for New York, where he will sail for Chile. Mr. Lyons has signed a three years’ contract with the Braden Mine, of Kennecott Copper Company, in that country.
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F. H. Soderstrom, Superintendent of the Bunker Hill Mines Company, at Tombstone, Arizona, has moved his family to Bisbee, Arizona, planning to make trips to the mine, as occasion demands. The Bunker Hill properties are operated largely by lessees.
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Howard H. Fields, ore purchasing agent for the El Paso Smelting Works, of American Smelting & Refining Company, addressed the senior class of the College of Mines at El Paso, October 9, on the topic, “The Mine Manager and His Relations with the Smelter.”
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Frank M. Smith, of Spokane, Washington, left El Paso, Texas, for the Errington Mine, of the Bunker Hill Company, at Sudbury, Canada, and will not return to Spokane for a few weeks. In El Paso, he presided over a part of the session of the American Mining Congress.
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I. H. Knapp passed away at Clifton, Arizona, October 4, at the age of 80 years. Mr. Knapp was for many years, connected with the Detroit Copper Company, and in later years, devoted time and money to the development of other mining claims in the Morenci District.
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James Williams, and Alfred Nelson, of the United States Mines Company, at Bingham Canyon, Utah, won the drilling contest at the State Fair. They drilled 15 7/8 inches into granite, in 10 minutes, using eight-pound double sledgehammers and 7/8-inch steel. Their prize was $100 in silver.
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WALBERG ATTEMPTS TO PUT OVER WYOMING PROSPECT

The Great Divide Mining and Milling Company has started the development of a promising free gold prospect, 23 miles from Saratoga. The ledge is known to be from five to eight feet wide, and averages $39 ore. The development has been left to the good judgment of F. E. Walberg, formerly superintendent for the Empire Chief people at Lake City, Colorado.

Frank Edward Walberg, is a native Coloradoan, born at Boulder, July 3, 1896. He was reared in the mining camps, and his engineering was learned through practical experience. At the age of 17, he got a job as drill man with the Primos Chemical Company in Boulder, and the next year was made shift boss under Superintendent Coan. He spent three years in mining camps in Nevada, and during the war (WW1) joined the United States Navy.

Following the war, he was stationary engineer at Ogden, Utah, for the Southern Pacific Railroad, but gave up that position to go back to the mining camps, this time at Salida, Colorado. He worked in Colorado camps until January 1930, when he was appointed as Superintendent of the Empire Chief Mining Company, at Lake City. The development done by him, made thousands of tons of ore available for milling in the 200-ton concentrating plant recently completed on Henson Creek.

Walberg is decidedly an outdoor man. His recreations show that as clearly as his work, and he never loses a chance to go to a football or baseball game, or to go fishing and hunting.
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W. T. Roberts, mining engineer, well-known in Yavapai County, Arizona, for the past 30 years, is engaged in prospecting work along the Upper Verde River, in search of radium ore. He is representing a group of members of the Smithsonian Institution, who are financing the work.
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Charles Rees, of New York City, Vice-President in charge of mining operations, for the Vanadium Corporation of America, and Robert Sterling, of Boulder, Colorado, Western Manager for the company, spent two weeks at the mine and mill of the Rare Metals Corporation at Naturita, Colorado.
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Joe W. Mowles, superintendent of the Eder Gold Mining Company, Oatman, Arizona, has placed a hoist and other equipment on an old mining property near the Moss Mine, in the Silver Creek section of Mohave County, Arizona, and is getting everything in shape for sinking to a considerable depth.
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W. P. Hammon, 505 Balfour Building, San Francisco, California, has taken an option on 1,600 acres, in the vicinity of Manhattan, Nevada, and is testing the ground by means of drills, and is taking samples. Hammon has promoted some of the most extensive dredging jobs that have been undertaken in Northern California.
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Louis Garbrecht, consulting geologist and mining engineer, has announced that he has re-entered independent practice, with offices at 1211 Mills Building, El Paso, Texas. He will engage in general consulting work, comprising examination and reports on mining properties, and oil lands, specializing in commercial appraisal.
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Lewis E. Ashbaugh, consulting engineer, 1966 Broadway, Denver, Colorado, is reporting on the old Criterion gold properties, in the Leadville District, near Alma, Colorado, worked in the old Spanish days when Mexico controlled that area. He is also serving the new owners of the Emancipation Mine, at Boulder, noted for its wire gold.
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L. C. Newton, iron manufacturer of Los Angeles, is supervising the installation of a 20-ton rotary furnace, at the property of the Antelope Springs Mercury Mines, Inc., near Lovelock, Nevada. C. N. Schuette, 806 Call Building, San Francisco, designed the mill, and prepared its specifications, and is expected at Lovelock in a few days.
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Silas L. Gillan, Mining Engineer, has been chosen as President of the Engineers Club of Los Angeles, California, located at 838 South Spring Street, to succeed Paul Overton. Gillan is a graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Mines, and has maintained an office in Los Angeles, as Consulting Engineer, for the last nine years.
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F. E. Townsend, who has been Chief Chemist for three of the American Smelting & Refining Company plants in Mexico, and three of the smelters and chemical works of the National Zinc Company in the Middle West, has opened an office as consulting chemist, assayer and metallurgist at 728 Wyandotte Avenue, Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
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E. M. Biggs, prominent mine operator of Nogales, Arizona, has been spending several weeks looking over his mining properties near San Javier, Sonora, Mexico. Mr. Biggs was accompanied to San Javier, by Paul Eachus, lessee of the property. They were to be joined there by mining men from Columbus, Ohio, who are also interested in the holdings.
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Robert W. Handley, Engineer and Chief of Service Research, with Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, at Panda, Belgian Congo, was recently in Arizona, visiting various mining districts, before leaving for New York City, where he will sail on his return trip to Africa, late this month. Mr. Handley, accompanied by his wife, has been making a tour of various mining districts in this country.
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John L. Dirks, Rookery Building, Spokane, Washington; Rowland King, Mining Engineer, also of Spokane; accompanied by A. W. Bowen, and L. L. Boyer, of Sandpoint, Idaho, examined the Boyer Mine, near Sandpoint, recently acquired by the Explorers Prospecting Company. They have found the vein to be 800 feet wide, length unknown, and are arranging for diamond drilling.

James A. Brittain, who has represented the E. F. Houghton & Company, in Arizona, New Mexico, western Texas, and Mexico, for the past five years, with offices in El Paso, has been transferred to the State of Alabama, as distributor of the company, with offices at Birmingham. Captain G. Tyndale-Lee, will succeed Mr. Brittain as distributor in the El Paso territory, effective November 1.
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Apparently unaware that a large insulator box on which he was working, housed a 85,000-volt line, Gustavo Perez, machinist at the United Verde Copper Company’s smelter at Clarkdale, Arizona, was electrocuted October 1, when he touched the electric line as he crawled inside the box to make repairs. He was 36 years of age. This was the first fatal accident in over two years, at the smelter.
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W. H. Eardley, Assistant Manager of United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Company, with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, is making an examination of the new Tom Reed strike and development work, around the Oatman District, in Arizona, with the idea in view, of considering opening the Goldroad Mine, if the new strike indicates that there is a possibility of the ore extending into Goldroad ground.
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Dr. John Wellington Finch, Dean of Idaho School of Mines, is Chairman of an editorial committee of noted geologists, who will supervise the writing of a memorial volume, on the ore deposits of the Rocky Mountain region. This edition will honor Dr. Waldemar Lindgren, now 70 years of age, known as the greatest living economic geologist, and Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Joe Uzelac, Level Boss at the No. 2 Mine, of the Ray branch of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, Ray Arizona, has completed a full year without a lost-time accident for any of his men. During the year, his men worked 20,014 man shifts, and the work included everything pertaining to mining, such as stoping, driving drifts, raises, motor haulage, etc.

R. S. Harding, at the same mine, has completed 18 months of 18,868 man shifts similarly.
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Leigh E. B. Nicholls, who has been associated with his brother in a brokerage business, Walter J. Nicholls Company, Inc., Spokane, Washington, for the past 14 years, has entered business for himself. He has opened an office in the Standard Stock Exchange Building in Spokane. William A. Nicholls has been in the brokerage business since 1896, the last 18 years of that time in New York, and is withdrawing from the brokerage business in Spokane temporarily.
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J. Dawson Hawkins, mining and milling technical expert, died in a hospital at Colorado Springs, Colorado, after an extended illness. He was born in Philadelphia, and was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, in 1887. After working a year in the Pittsburgh steel mills, he came to Colorado, and during his career, worked with the Globe Smelting and Refining Company, the Colorado-Philadelphia Reduction Company, and others. He was a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Mechanical Engineers, the Society of Chemical Industries of London, and the Chemist Club of New York City.
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Applications for membership in the A. I. M. E. have been filed for:
Keith Steele Charlton of Ellensburg, Washington, geologist, Dominion Explorers, Ltd., Great Bear Lake;
Lyman H. Hart of Butte, Montana, assistant geologist, Anaconda Copper Mining Company; Ferdinand F. Hintze of Salt Lake City, Utah, associate professor of geology;
Walter Randall Martin of Long Beach, California, president, Martin-Decker Corporation;
Arthur John O’Connor of Kimberly, Nevada, assistant chief engineer, Consolidated Coppermines Corporation;
and Roger Sid Phippeny of Tacoma, Washington, assistant secretary, Big Missouri Mining Company, and others.
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Joseph H. McCoy, of Battle Mountain, Nevada, was killed, and Capt. Charles H. Krengle, of Twin Falls, Idaho, was injured, when the car in which they were riding, collided with a truck, near Glenns Ferry, Idaho. McCoy was the discoverer of a gold camp south of Battle Mountain, which bears his name. He sold his claims to the Nevada Gold Dome Mining Company, and later leased them. A month ago he sold his lease to Capt. Krengle, who is president of the McCoy Consolidated Mining Company, which owns property adjoining the Gold Dome Mine. McCoy was an official of the company, and had gone to Idaho with Krengle, in connection with the financing of a mill. He was 60 years of age, and stood high in the respect of the community.
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PROMINENT ARIZONA MINING MAN PASSES AWAY IN NEVADA

George E. Bent, for many years General Manager of the Boston-Arizona Copper Company, at Skull Valley, Arizona, died suddenly in Searchlight, Nevada, October 18. He was 65 years of age.

Although he had spent the greater part of his time in Prescott, Arizona, and vicinity, Mr. Bent recently closed the Boston-Arizona, due to the slump in the copper market, and transferred his attention to the Duplex Gold Mine, near Searchlight. Mr. Bent had purchased this property only a few months ago, from George H. Colton, of Los Angeles, for a consideration of approximately a quarter of a million dollars.

On a recent trip to Prescott, Mr. Bent had announced that the 100-ton mill, being constructed at the Duplex, was nearing completion. By the first of December, he expected to be able to begin active development of the property, and the milling of gold ore already blocked out in the mine.

Mr. Bent, a native of Nova Scotia, had been interested in mining operations in various countries besides the United States, including Alaska, South America, and Australia. In addition to his interest in the southwest, he had real estate and business contacts in the East.
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FOSTER HEADS FIRST BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF EXCHANGE

Headquarters for the Southwest Mining Exchange have been established in the Bartlett Building, in Los Angeles, and Ernest P. Foster has been chosen as the Chairman of its first board of governors. The exchange is fostered by a hard-working group in good standing in mining circles.

Ernest DurrelI Foster, was born in a little New York town in 1877. As a boy he attended public school, and worked on the farms, and in the woods, in central New York. Later, he attended the Fulton High School, in New York, the Somerville English High School, in Massachusetts, took a commercial course, and in 1899, entered the Boston University Law School. In 1901, he was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar, and during two years, practiced with Shepard, Stebbins and Storer.

In 1903 he was granted his LL.B. from the Boston University Law School, with his classmate, Ethel Twycross, whom he married in October, and formed the partnership of Foster and Foster. Mrs. Foster took the three-year course, in two years, Cum Laude. Shortly afterwards, they moved to the West, and started an evening law school in Los Angeles, which they taught for three years. In his capacity as a lawyer, he formed connection with several other attorneys in handling special cases, his most interesting being those in apex litigation.

His training in mechanical, and mining engineering, and in technology, came in the form of private courses, and his venture into that phase of the industry came in his organizing the Pacific Reduction Company, a $5,000,000 Arizona corporation, to build and operate a custom smelter at Crucero, California.

He organized and financed the Rotary Products Company, to perfect rotary machinery, and was doing well when the war came on and his special machinery and tools were needed by some firm in the Emergency Ship Division.

During his career, he was Chief Geologist for the Malibu Ranch, 23,000-acre tract; surveyed the Stookey Rancho of 6,000 acres, in the Tehachapi Mountains; churn drilled to between 408 and 650 feet, the property of the Mojave-Rand Silver Corporation, at East Randsburg, California.
It was in 1927 that he became interested in placers in Nevada, Oregon, and California. His attention was devoted mainly to the possibilities on Opportunity Bar, on Briggs Creek, and to the Panther Bar, on the Illinois River, in Southern Oregon.

During the last few years, he has maintained an office at 671 I. W. Hellman Building, Los Angeles, as an economic mining geologist, and is the sole trustee of Foster Mines, an investment trust.

Foster has four sons; two who hold good positions, one in college, and one in high school. He was formerly Vice-Grand Master I. O. O. F. in Massachusetts; member of the Knights of Pythias, of the Los Angeles Bar Association, and is always a willing worker in the welfare of his community. He is an admirer of fine arts, especially in desert landscapes in oil and pastel.
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“The Lure,” a painting by Will MoIIen.

“THE PROSPECTOR AND HIS BURRO” ON PROGRAM AT MINING DINNER
Everyone who is familiar with the writings of the late Will C. Higgins, founder of the Salt Lake Mining Review, recalls his stories of “The Prospector and His Burro” which used to appear regularly in that publication. In fact, prospectors and burros have long been recognized as the vanguard of early mining in the Western states, and have thus become the subjects of stories and of pictures.

It is of interest, therefore, to note that the picture here reproduced, was painted in 1912 by an artist then living in Seattle, and that the original is owned by Percy E. Wright, a consulting engineer, whose home is in that city. The picture, as autographed by the artist, Will Mellen, is called “The Lure,” and in the original, the colors and the shadows of the Arizona sunset are beautifully brought out, as are also the yuccas and other vegetation such as the desert affords.

The artist’s ideas for this and for other subjects depicting mining were gained while he was working in the mines, and on mining surveys.

At a dinner given on September 18 by Capt. John C. Benson, president of the Cherokee Development Company, of Angels Camp, California, in honor of his son, John F. Benson, Secretary, and Resident Manager of the company, this picture was used on the front cover of a very attractive program, the cover being in gold, and under the picture were the words:
“The days of old, “The days of gold, “The days of forty-nine—--——’t

There were more than fifty invited guests at this dinner, which was held at the New Washington Hotel, these guests being principally local people who are interested in the Cherokee company, the men, their wives, and their daughters attending. Those from California, were John F. Benson, wife, and little daughter, from Angels Camp; and Mrs. Parry Small, of San Francisco.

Of the Cherokee organization, those on the program were Capt. John C. Benson, President; Carl M. Johanson, vice-president; John F. Benson, secretary and resident manager; and Percy E. Wright, consulting engineer, Seattle; and B. H. Bennetts, metallurgist, Tacoma, the latter being chairman of the North-Pacific Section of the A. I. M. & M. E.

Mining on the California Mother Lode, and recent developments in gold mining and metallurgy, were the subjects discussed.

Col. Robert M. Watkins of the Cherokee organization, Seattle office, acted as toastmaster.
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WALTER D. ABEL ESTABLISHES HIS OWN OFFICE IN LOS ANGELES

Walter D. Abel, Chief Engineer of the Division of Corporations, State of California, and favorably known in the mining, and oil circles, in Western states, has resigned, according to an announcement made by Corporation Commissioner Arthur H. Garland. Abel will engage in private practice, with headquarters at 602 Quinby Building, 650 South Grand Avenue, in Los Angeles. Chiefly, he said, his plan is to act as associate with attorneys, and mining men, generally, and as consultant with engineers, co-operating with them, and advising in oil and mining matters for presentation to the corporation commissioner.

Mr. Abel was born in Denver. He is a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines. After leaving college, he had a continuous engineering experience as operator, and mining engineer, in many western states, and Mexico. He came to California to reside in 1921. Following a brief service with the State Highway Commission, he accepted appointment as Assistant Engineer with the Corporation Division, and became Chief Engineer in 1928. He served in the San Francisco, Sacramento, and Los Angeles offices of the Division. His practical experience, together with his familiarity with oil and mining operations, and geological conditions, generally, has made his services invaluable.
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JUDGE SNYDER AND HENRY I. MOORE PASS AWAY

Utah lost two more of its prominent mining men with the death of Wilson I. Snyder and Henry I. Moore. Both had been active in Utah and Nevada mining. “Judge” Snyder, as he was known to mining men, was Vice-President, Director, and general counsel, for the Tintic Standard Mining Company; Moore had been counsel for the Nevada Douglas Consolidated Copper Company and, until last year, receiver for the Salt Lake and Utah railroad.

Judge Snyder, the author of “Snyder on Mines” and other useful treatises on mining, although not in robust health in recent years, was active in business up to the last day of his life. The morning of October 8 he awoke intending to go down to his office. He complained of feeling tired, and in a few minutes was found dead.

He spent his boyhood days on a ranch near Park City. At 18 years, he began to study law in the office of Judge J. G. Sutherland, and was admitted to the bar in 1878. He practiced law in Park City until 1901.

Snyder was a firm Republican; organized the firm of Snyder, Westerfelt, Wynder, and Wright, and played a leading part in the financing of the Tintic Standard enterprise, and reaped a fortune as a result.
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Henry I. Moore, well known as an attorney, and a mining man, was born at Austin, Texas, March 9, 1878. He came to Salt Lake in 1912, and has lived there continuously since. He was admitted to the bar, in Texas, in 1897; served in the Spanish-American War, and Philippine insurrection; was prosecuting attorney at Del Rio, Texas, and was President of the United Veterans fellowship.

Moore was taken ill on the train, while returning from the East, and rushed to the Holy Cross Hospital, where he died of cerebral hemorrhage without regaining consciousness.

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for NOVEMBER 15, 1930

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

Raymond A. Chase, president of the Chase Mines, Inc., Prescott, Arizona, has been on an extended business trip to El Paso.
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Oscar A. Ellis, former manager of the Ellis Mills Manufacturing Company, San Francisco, California, passed away, October 19.
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E. G. Howe, who has had headquarters in El Paso for some time, is now on the staff of Real del Monte y Pachuca, at Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico.
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Alex Lucy, prospector of Hillside, Arizona, has sold a number of his mining claims to the Bagdad Copper Company, also operating at Hillside.
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W. J. Loring, general manager of the Hammon Copper Company, Kirkland, Arizona, was recently at Searchlight, Nevada, examining a gold property.
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C. A. Lantz has resigned as manager of Santa Gertrudis Company, Ltd., with properties at Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico. He will re-locate in California.
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A. Chester Beatty, new director of American Metal Company, Ltd., has returned to London, following a trip to Serbian properties of Selection Trust.
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John Scelt, 44-year-old miner of Oatman, Arizona, died at Kingman, October
21. He was a native of Austria, having come to this country as a very young man.
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Don Gilbert, geologist of Salt Lake City and Bingham Canyon, Utah, has been inspecting some mining property in the Goodsprings District, near Las Vegas, Nevada.
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C. F. Diemond of Pasco, Washington, has been elected as President of the Weigle Mining and Milling Company, which has property a half mile east of Kellogg, Idaho.
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R. G. Ferguson, geologist and engineer of Moran, Texas, states that he is looking for good placer acreage. He expects to install a concentrator as soon as he is located.
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Walter A. Foster, representing Eastern men, has spent 10 days sampling the workings of the Admiral Consolidated Mining Company, nine miles west of Valley, Washington.
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Washington Vanderlip, of San Francisco, was recently at Chloride, Arizona, looking over properties of the Chloride Consolidated Mines Company, for which he is consulting engineer.
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Roger McPolin is superintendent of the North Standard Mining Company, in the East Tintic District, near Eureka, Utah. His brother, Michael, was superintendent, until his death recently.
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John L. Boardman, of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, at Butte, Montana, has been made Chairman of the Engineering Committee, of the Mining Section of the National Safety Council.
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H. C. Dudley, President of the CusiMexicana Mining Company, was recently on a trip of inspection to his company’s properties at Cusihuiriachic, Chihuahua, Mexico, from Duluth, Minnesota.
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Walter Eaton, formerly superintendent of mines of Real del Monte y Pachuca, at Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, has resigned his position with that company, and will shortly leave for South America.
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C. M. Staples of Morenci, Arizona, has been appointed fiscal agent of the Arizona Copper Company, formerly operating properties in Greenlee County, of that state. The appointment replaces H. W. Hill.
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Aaron Saenz has been appointed to head the Department of Industry, Commerce, and Labor, in Mexico. He will serve in the capacity of Secretary of the department, and will be in direct charge of mining affairs.
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R. W. Stramler, formerly shift boss with Phelps Dodge at Morenci, Arizona, is now assisting in construction of the new mill and cyanide plant, for the Emerson Mining Company at Congress Junction, Arizona.
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Walter W. Davis, formerly of Leadville, Colorado, but now living in New York City, has resigned as Vice-President, and General Manager of the Yak Mining, Milling, and Tunnel Company, at Leadville, Colorado.
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C. T. Van Winkle, well-known mining engineer of Salt Lake City, Utah, was lately in Kingman, Arizona, looking over mining interests in Mohave County. He examined the Gold King Coalition Mine, while in that locality.
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Letson Balliet, mining and industrial engineer, who has been identified with silver mining in Tonopah, for 25 years, plans to make a change shortly, perhaps to open offices as a consultant in Reno, Oakland, or in Salt Lake City.
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Julian Boyd, consulting mining engineer, of 1014 Central Building, Los Angeles, California, has been elected President of The Radiore Company, which has been doing extensive geophysical survey work throughout the world.
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W. A. Keys, 36 Hermosa Avenue, Long Beach, California, spent some time at Idaho Springs, Colorado, where he and his associates are operating as the Black Bear Mines, Inc. They are completing a program of development.
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Miss Annie Eder, head of the Eder Gold Mining Company, is spending some time at the company’s properties at Oatman, Arizona, from California. It is understood that she plans to remain there until the shaft reaches its objective.
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S. Power Warren has been granted a leave of absence as Associate Professor of Metallurgy, at the Colorado School of Mines at Golden. He is working on his M. Sc. degree at Queen’s University, at Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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C. F. Burt, formerly with the Dolores Mines, of American Smelting & Refining Company, at Matehuala, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, is now with the New York & Honduras Rosario Mining Company, San Juancito, Honduras, Central America.
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CRAMER JOINS CONSULTING STAFF MINE AND SMELTER SUPPLY CO.

Official announcement h a just been made of the appointment of C. B. Cramer, as Consulting Metallurgist, to the Marcy Mill Division, of The Mine and Smelter Supply Company, with headquarters in Denver, Colorado. This appointment, according to Clark Grove, Executive Vice-President of that company, adds another highly trained, nationally recognized engineer, to the staff of the Marcy Mill Division, which is the manufacturing end of the company.

Mr. Cramer was born in Ansonia, Connecticut, in 1881. He received his elementary school education in Ansonia, his high school training in New Haven, and later worked his way through the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, graduating with such high honors as Sigma Xi in 1902. Immediately following his graduation from Yale, he taught chemistry in that institution for three years.

In 1905, he first became identified with the mining industry, as assistant chemist, for the Copper Queen Smelter, of the Phelps Dodge Corporation. Two years later, he was appointed chemist to the Shannon Copper Company, and later chemist to the Arizona Commercial Mining Company at Copper Hill, Arizona. In 1910 he became assistant chemist to the Old Dominion Mining and Smelting Company, at Globe, Arizona, and the following year, was appointed chief chemist.

In 1913 Mr. Cramer represented Old Dominion in the original flotation tests, which were conducted simultaneously at Globe and Inspiration. The following year he was appointed metallurgist, with supervision over the first large-size flotation units at Globe, and remained in that capacity until 1917, when he was transferred to the General Concentrator Department of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, at Douglas.

During this period, and in conjunction with H. Kenyon Burch and F. E. Marcy, he conducted an investigation at Nacozari, which resulted in the successful adaptation of the Marcy rod mill, 32 of which, were installed by Phelps Dodge Corporation for its new mill at Bisbee, and the remodeling operations at Tyrone and Nacozari.

During the copper shutdown in 1921, Mr. Cramer spent several months at Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico, in connection with Marcy rod mill operations of the Mexican Corporation, S. A., and later in that year, made two professional trips to Alaska, and British Columbia. In 1923, he was named Consulting Engineer, for the Concentration Department, of Phelps Dodge Corporation, at Douglas, and continued in that capacity until his appointment as Consulting Metallurgist, to the Marcy Mill Division, of The Mine and Smelter Supply Company.

Officials of The Mine and Smelter Supply Company, feel that Mr. Cramer brings to them a long and successful experience in metallurgy, based on a fine educational background, which should rebound to the continued leadership of the company, in the manufacture of milling and concentrating equipment.
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Lincoln C. Ure has been elected as Vice-President, and Manager, of Ross Beason and Company, brokers at Salt Lake City.
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J. G. Flynn, Superintendent of the Shattuck Denn Mining Corporation, Bisbee, Arizona, has been elected President of the Bisbee Chamber of Commerce.
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R. R. Beard, formerly metallurgist with Phelps Dodge at Morenci, Arizona, is now Mill Superintendent, with Moctezuma Copper, a Phelps Dodge subsidiary at Nacozari, Sonora, Mexico. Mr. Beard took over his new duties at Nacozari, October 20.
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Frank L. Sizer, Mining Engineer, of 1103 Hobart Building, San Francisco, California, has recently made a detailed examination of the Goldfield District, and has expressed the opinion that the old camp is showing signs of coming back to life.
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C. E. Dewey, mining engineer of Denver, Colorado, was stricken with a heart attack, and died on the train, near Lamy, New Mexico. He was on his way to Pasadena, California, accompanied by his wife, and a daughter. He was 71 years old.
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Ralph Baverstock, 552 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, California, recently made an examination of the Groveland Gravel Mine, in Tuolumne County, and of the Granite King Mine, in Kern County. He has left for the Castaic Mine, in Ventura County.
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H. Vincent Wallace, Mining Engineer, of San Francisco, has accepted a position with Wright-Hargreaves Mines, Ltd., Kirkland Lake, Ontario, and has left for the Northern country. He has had considerable experience in mining the Mother Lode, in California.
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Judge William D. Monmornier, Secretary, of the Leadville Mines Company, at Courtland, Arizona, and of the Flourine Mining & Milling Company, Pearce, Arizona, was taken ill suddenly, October 18, and passed away during an operation, in Phoenix, the following day.
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T. W. Quayle, Mine Superintendent, of United Verde Copper Company, Jerome, Arizona, addressed the Student Chapter, of the American Association of Engineers, at the University of Arizona, at Tucson, October 30. He remained in Tucson for the mining revival, held the following two days.
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W. A. Waldschmidt, Assistant Professor of Geology, at the Colorado School of Mines, at Golden, addressed the Colorado Engineering Council at its weekly luncheon, held in the Adams Hotel, Denver, Colorado, October 28. His subject was. “The Microscope and Its Relation to Industry.”
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Donald S. Hopkins of Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, and Mark Newman, Mining Engineer, and Geologist, of Joplin, Missouri, accompanied by W. P. Hopkins of Spokane, Washington, and President S. W. O’Brien, examined the property of the Metaline Contact Mines Company, in the Metaline District, in Washington.
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George F. Tweedy, of Los Angeles, and F. F. Kip, of San Diego, California, have returned from an inspection trip to the Soledad Mine, at Llano, Sonora, Mexico. The Soledad Mine is under lease to Mr. Kip and A. E. Place, 1020 Haas Building, Los Angeles. Mr. Tweedy was examining the property on behalf of coast capital.
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L. R. Budrow, 2846 Third Street, San Diego, California, Consulting Engineer for the Lucky Tiger-Combination Gold Mining Company, was on a recent visit to the company’s properties at El Tigre, Sonora, Mexico. He reports that while the market for the mine’s output is not encouraging just at the moment, work is going forward at a steady rate.
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Gus L. Dueschnes, of New York City, has been in Kingman, Arizona, looking after affairs of the Pilgrim Gold Mining Company, for clients who have taken over an interest in the company. Mr. Dueschnes was a resident of Kingman several years ago. He plans to remain there until matters have been ironed out, and the mine put on a new development basis.
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Edward C. Kane, Assistant General Superintendent of Mines, for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, at Butte, Montana, since 1926, passed away, following three months’ illness. He had completed more than 20 years of faithful service to his company, and his demise is felt keenly throughout the organization. His honesty and loyalty won for him many friends.
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J. J. Jerome, pioneer mining man of Mohave County, Arizona, died of pneumonia at Kingman, October 15, at the age of 86. Mr. Jerome was a Civil War veteran, having served in one of the regiments of his native state of New York, with honor, and distinction. Going to Arizona in 1876, he became interested in mining at Cedar, and later at Yucca, Arizona.
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Karl Eilers, of New York City, well-known metallurgist, spent some time in Salt Lake City, where he has a large acquaintance. In 1901, he took charge of the Murray Plant, which had just been built, and during the years 1904 and 1906, supervised the building of the Garfield Smelter.
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Tom Craig Velie, secretary of the Velie Metals Company, operating the Silver Monument Mine, at Chloride, New Mexico, died suddenly, October 25, at an El Paso hospital, where he had entered for treatment of an infection a few days previous. Mr. Velie, only 25 years of age, was Captain of the El Paso polo team, and the great-great grandson of the founder of the John Deere Plow Company.
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R. L Agassiz, President of Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper Company, Boston, was re-elected President of the Copper & Brass Association, at the tenth annual meeting of that organization, held in New York, last month. Louis S. Cates, F. S. Chase, H. Donn Keresey, and Thomas D. Brophy were elected Vice-Presidents. Stephen Birch was re-elected Treasurer; William A. Willis, Manager, and Bertram B. CadidIe, Secretary.
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George W. Hezzlewood, custodian of the Consolidated Cortez Silver Mines Company’s property at Cortex, Nevada, is gathering information for the Silver Survey, of New York City, which is doing educational work on behalf of silver, among farmers, manufacturers, bankers, and professional men. John F. Coleman of New York City is backing this paper, and Randolph P. Mills, Suite 1216, 60 New Street, New York City, is editor.
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Dr. Gerhard J. R. Fisher, has been appointed Research Engineer, for The Radiore Company. Dr. Fisher obtained his doctor’s degree from Dresden, and has devoted much time to geophysical work in European countries. He is a member of the American Institute of Radio Engineers. Since being attached to the organization of The Radiore Company, he has made some extensive improvements in the apparatus used by that company.
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Inability of a pilot to see another plane under him, as he glided to a landing, was blamed for the freakish accident which caused the death of C. W. Cushman, a Mexico mine official. Mr. Cushman had just landed his own plane, when another ship, landed on his machine, dragging him from the cockpit, and into the whirling propeller. He was killed instantly. Mr. Cushman was Superintendent of the San Luis Mining Company, in the State of Durango.
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Carl F. Bierbauer, superintendent of the Hercules, California, Explosives Plant, of the Hercules Powder Company, passed away October 28, of heart disease. He was former director of the Hercules Experimental Laboratories, and a chemical engineer of outstanding ability. He was an active member of the American Chemical Society, and of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Bierbauer was 51 years old, and unmarried. With no previous indication of illness, his death was an unexpected sorrow to relatives, and his many friends.
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Martin Le Boutillier, well-known attorney, associated with the law firm of Ellinwood & Ross, at Phoenix. Arizona, died by his own hand, in Phoenix, October 29. Ill health suffered for more than 12 years as a result of service in France, during the World War, is believed to have been responsible for the act. Mr. Le Boutillier was graduated from Yale in 1912, and later attended the Harvard Law School, entering the practice of law in New York, and giving it up to enter the service, in 1917, where he was commended for distinct bravery. He was a director of the Phoenix National Bank, and had long been associated with the Lewis W. Douglas Interests, in Arizona, serving the Grand Central Mining Company, as secretary, for a number of years.
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Henry D. Laraway, who for 14 years has been on the engineering staff of The General Engineering Company, in its Salt Lake office, died October 24, after an illness of six days, with pneumonia. During his employment with The General Engineering Company, he had charge of a number of important designing and construction jobs for the company, including the mill for the Silver Dyke Mining Company, at Neihart, Montana; the mill of the Amulet Mines, Ltd., Rouyn, Quebec, Canada; the flotation plant of the Utah Sulphur Industries, at Sulphurdale, Utah, and was, for 19 months, in Russia, superintending the construction of a copper flotation plant. He started on the staff of The General Engineering Company in 1916, and returned to them after he was discharged from the Army, in 1918.
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AN ACTIVITY REVIEW OF A POPULAR SOUTHWEST ENGINEER

A sketch of the life of W. A. Leddell, Mechanical and Metallurgical Engineer, of prominence, in the Southwest, reveals the fact that he has served in a consulting capacity some of the more important mining companies in that territory, with special emphasis in Mexico, since the establishment of his headquarters in El Paso, several years ago. Mexico activities of Mr. Leddell
have included metallurgical work for such companies as Mazapil Copper, Republican Mining &
Metal Company, Cia. W. A. Leddell Santiago y Anexas, International Ore & Smelting, Pittsburgh Vetagrande Mining Company, Neg. de San Rafael y Anexas, and the Picacho Mining Company. The Velie Metals Company, operating in New Mexico, is also among Mr. Leddell’s clients. In that same state, he has lately been assisting in the selection of equipment for work of the Hidalgo Copper Company, on the Waldo Property at Lordsburg.

Mr. Leddell established his offices in the Mills Building at El Paso, in 1921. He specializes in the design of mining and metallurgical plants, including the supervision of construction, and the selection, and installation, of suitable equipment, and power units, for such plants. He is a graduate of the Stevens Institute of Technology, where he received his M. E. degree, with the Class of 1904.

Before taking up independent consulting work, Mr. Leddell was Mechanical Engineer for the El Oro Mining & Railway Company at Mexico City. Besides his association with various mining companies, he was at one time with the Denver Engineering Works, and the Dorr and Hardinge companies. He was also at one time, designer at the Raritan Copper Works at Perth Amboy, New Jersey. From 1915 to 1918, Mr. Leddell served as Assistant Chief Engineer for U. S. Smelting, Refining & Mining Company, at Salt Lake City, and was formerly superintendent of construction for Phelps Dodge’ at Morenci, Arizona.

Leddell has designed so many milling plants, with detail drawings for all parts, that now, when he wants a drawing of any particular milling device, or detail of any part, he merely has to reach into his file case, and get one. He usually has one on hand that fits the condition to be met, or that can fit any condition, with slight alterations. His wide experience has made his advice on milling matters eagerly sought.
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WIFE OF COPPER MAGNATE HEADS RAILWAY AND RESEARCH BOARDS

Mrs. William Boyce Thompson, widow of the late Colonel William Boyce Thompson, has been elected chairman of the Board of Directors, of the Magma Arizona Railroad, extending between Superior, and Magma, Arizona. Entire capital stock of the railroad company is controlled by Magma Copper Company, of which Colonel Thompson was the leading spirit for many years.
Mrs. Thompson has also been elected Chairman of the Board of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, founded by her husband, and which has established arboretums at Yonkers, New York, and at Superior, Arizona. During his life, Mr. Thompson is said to have endowed this institute, to the extent of $10,000,000, and had made plans for the further extension of its usefulness.

Before her marriage, Mrs. Thompson was Miss Gertrude Hickman of Helena, Montana.
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CUPS AWARDED PROSPECTORS AT MINING REVIVAL MEETING

As has been the custom at the five Mining Revival Meetings held during recent years in Arizona, silver cups were awarded by the ore buyers of Magma Copper Company, Phelps Dodge Corporation. and American Smelting and Refining Company. at the Tucson meeting. held on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1.

The race was close on the award to the oldest prospector, and, after much deliberation, the cup was given to Tom Bentley, of Tucson, as being the oldest Arizona prospector, having started in 1877. Bentley was 72 years of age, and had been prospecting 53 years. The runner-up was
W. B. McCleary, of Tucson, who came to that city in 1878, but who had been prospecting in Pennsylvania, previous to that time.

The winner of the cup for women prospectors was Mrs. Gus H. Jaeger, who had spent many years in the mountains around Tucson, working side by side with her husband, in the development of his mining claims, and who, between times, taught school, to provide her husband with funds for further prospecting.

The Tucson Mining Revival meeting brought about 200 mining men and prospectors together and much was accomplished in letting the small mining man know what assistance and cooperation he could secure, through the facilities of the Arizona Bureau of Mines, the custom smelters, and the staffs of the large mining companies.
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1930 SAUNDERS GOLD MEDAL PRESENTED TO JACKLING

Leading mining engineers and executives, from all parts of the world, attended the banquet in New York, October 31, at which time the 1930 William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal, was presented to Daniel C. Jackling, of San Francisco, President of Utah Copper Company.
The Saunders Medal is awarded annually, by the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers for “achievement in mining.” Previous awards of the medal have been made to John Hays Hammond (1929), Herbert C. Hoover (1928), and David W. Brunton (1927). Mr. Jackling is distinguished in mining circles for his scientific work in developing low-grade copper ores, an achievement that is said to have resulted in making the Utah District, one of the great copper-producing regions of the world.

Mr. Hammond, holder of the 1929 award, was toastmaster at the dinner. Others at the speakers’ table were: Newcomb Carlton, President of Western Union Telegraph Company, William H. Bassett, President of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, who made the presentation address; Lafayette Hanchett, President of the Utah Power and Light Company; W. S. Boyd, of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, and Pope Yeatman, of Philadelphia.

Mr. Boyd, in his address, recounted the early struggles of Mr. Jackling, who, in his young engineering days, had foreseen the possibilities of making low-grade copper ores profitable, but whose views were met with scorn by the mining experts of 30 years ago.

Mr. Boyd stated that it was almost entirely due to the engineering genius, and organizing ability of this year’s Saunders’ medallist, that the copper produced in the Utah district was so great, that the 1929 production represented about 27 percent of that mined in the United States, and over 13 percent of world production. Mr. Boyd said that at the end of last year, Utah and Nevada mining properties have produced since the beginning of operations, a total of 349,000,000 tons of ore, which yielded $1,183,000,000 worth of copper, and $44,000,000 in precious metals.
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TESTS ON REFRACTORY ORES MAY PUT BERTHA MINE ON PRODUCTION

Alvah Elmer Kellogg, of Medford, Oregon, whose story of Ed Schiefflin of Tombstone fame, appears in this magazine, was born in Hillsboro, Oregon. June 5, 1868. His education included his high school training at Goldendale, Washington; a special course in mathematics under private tutelnge; and a course in law. From 1902, until last year, he practiced law at Gold Hill.

Kellogg has owned mining property in Southwestern Oregon since 1898, and has been actively engaged in its operation. One of the most interesting phases of his work, has been in his study of the geology of that country, and of Northern California. He has done some reporting on the mines within this area, and has contributed many worthwhile technical articles of the geology, mines, mine operations, flora and fauna of this country. Many federal and state engineers have surveyed the district, and he has always made himself acquainted with them and been keenly interested in their work.

Kellogg owns the Bertha Gold Mine, six miles from Gold Hill, which Ed Schiefflin was on his way to develop, when he died. As soon as a process can be perfected for reducing the refractory ores found in that mine, and in the region in general, this mine will be worked. The payshoot is on a limestone-quartzite contact, and tentative plans are to sink 8,000 feet on it before starting to mine any ore.
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Ed Schiefflin, The Founder of Tombstone
By A. E. KELLOGG, Medford, Oregon.

While Schiefflin is best known for his discovery of the famous Tombstone Mine, in Arizona, many prospectors have searched the Oregon hills, in an endeavor to relocate the gold deposit, the knowledge of which, Schiefflin took with him at his death.

Fate returned Ed Schiefflin, the discoverer of the famous Tombstone Mine, and founder of its companion mining town of Tombstone, Arizona, to Oregon, the land of his birth, to begin the long, long, journey over the trail of the great beyond. While the tragic end came more than three decades ago, the wandering trail of the old-time prospector is still interwoven and strewn with romance, from Oregon, to Arizona.

According to Schiefflin’s acquaintances of his youth, if he had not been a prospector, he would have been a hunter, trapper, fisherman, or pearl diver. The fascination of the lucky chance, and that noble element of eternal hope planted in the human heart, stronger, perhaps, in Schiefflin’s, than others, led him on in an endless procession. Schiefflin grew in youth to have sublime faith in the Goddess of Fortune, and dreams that he would some morning wake up in a treasure vault of Captain Kidd of pirate fame.

Inspired by the strike of the Gold Hill Pocket Gold Mine, which gave up nearly a million dollars, practically from the surface of the ground, on the summit of Gold Hill, Schiefflin’s boyhood mind saw visions of sudden and magnificent wealth, and fame, in other hills. The strike of the Gold Hill Pocket, and the Steamboat Pocket, in an adjoining district, on a par with the home strike, pushed the youth on toward the goal of his heart’s desire.

Lengthening years of hardships, privation, hunger, and toil, wasted much of his energies, but did not dim his hope. His once shiny brown locks, tossed in the mountain storm, and bleached by the sun of the desert, turned to a grizzly gray. His manly form of youth, rugged, and straight as the mountain pine, became slightly bent. The desert seemed more hot and dusty, the mountain trail more hard and steep; the pick and shovel often slipped in his nervous hand—and then the strike of Tombstone!

Schiefflin, a %*$#@! pioneer who wrested a home in the early ‘50s’, in the Rogue River Valley of Southern Oregon, from hostile Indians, became a waif in the rugged, timbered mountains of the region, lording the hills with his gun, horse and dog. At the age of 16, he came to grief as a poacher. For killing deer out of season, the sheriff arrested him, and took the offender before his father, who was justice of the peace. The father fined the boy $25. Ed was without a dollar in the world, and the father refused to pay the fine. The youth finally sold his only worldly possession, a valuable cow and calf, and paid the fine. Defiant, and swearing vengeance against the sheriff and father, Schiefflin left home, declaring he would find a fortune in the hills of other lands.

According to a brother, Charles Schiefflin, who died in Medford, Oregon, several years ago, and who is responsible for this sketch of the youth, related that the family did not hear of Ed again for years, until after he had netted a fortune from the sale of the Tombstone, shared equally by his brother, Albert Schiefflin, and Richard Gird. On his return to Oregon he provided the father and mother, still living, with a grand home in southern California.

The writer, who has been a resident of Rogue River Valley, the past 40 years, and a resident of Gold Hill for 30 years, learned much of the founder of Tombstone, piece by piece. Perhaps Judge C. B. Watson of Los Angeles, law partner of the writer for many years, and formerly of Gold Hill, and Ashland, Oregon, now knows more about the affairs of the founder of Tombstone than any other living person. The Judge, was Schiefflin’s legal advisor during the many years of the old prospector’s home and yacht building, and Palace Concord bus, drawn by four prancing steeds mounted with chime bells, fashioned after the ore-hauling caravans down in Arizona. Those were the days of spending the money yielded by the sale of the famous Tombstone mine.

Periodically, newspaper and magazine stories carry accounts of the origin of the gruesome-named town of Tombstone, Arizona. This appellation was adopted from the famous mine, which made the discoverer, Ed Schiefflin, the Gold Hill, Oregon, boy, a millionaire. Varied versions are given among the several writers.

According to Judge Watson, it was in the late ‘70’s when Geronimo, the famous Indian chieftain, was giving the ‘Uncle Sammies’, a merry chase down in the Southwest, that Schiefflin found some very promising prospects in the Tombstone District; but; on account of the Indian warfare and shortage of supplies in that isolated region, he covered up his new find and retired to Nevada.

When the next spring came, for the purpose of getting a grubstake, Schiefflin engaged himself as guide to a detachment of United States Cavalry, which was seeking an unknown route into the Indian Country, and beyond the new find. Reaching the diversion point on the trip, and on leaving the troopers, Schiefflin addressed the commanding officer, pointing to his way and the distant hills, “Out there I expect to find my fortune.” The crafty officer, smiling, replied, “Yes, you’ll find your tombstone—ol’ Geronimo will get you.” When Tombstone was laid out, Schielflin named it in recollection of the grim advice of the army officer.

The founder of Tombstone, crowned with wealth and fame, but weary of feasting and entertainment, turned again in the late nineties to fanciful dreams of the lucky chance of his youth. The footsteps of the old picturesque prospector faltered. With a gold pan in his hands, heavily laden with gold, he laid down alone for the long, long rest, in the land of his youth, but “with the hillside for his pal, and the stars for tall tapers, he continued to search in the shadow lands of the mountains and deserts, from whence the wanderer never returns.”

The end came suddenly, down in the hills of Cow Creek, with only the rugged Umpquas between the dead prospector, and the old Schiefflin homestead on the Rogue, out from Gold Hill. The string of gold in the pan gave evidence of a rich “diggings” in the neighboring hills. While the lost mine has been sought by prospectors from Oregon to Arizona, and from Mexico to Alaska, yet it has never been found. Its location was locked up with the finder, who took the secret with him to the grave.

A short time before Sehiefflin’s death, he brought from the southwest country, a young mining friend, Charles J. Meiers, to reopen the Bertha Gold Mine, of ex-Sheriff Alex Orme fame, on Foots Creek, three miles from the old Schiefflin homestead. He was on his way to Gold Hill for that purpose when he passed away. On last parting, Schiefflin told Meiers that on his return to Gold Hill, they would sink 3,000 feet on the Bertha pay shoot before starting to mine. Following the death of Schiefflin, Meiers searched long and hard for the lost mine, down on Cow Creek. Later, he returned to Gold Hill, and attempted the project planned by Schiefflin. The Bertha was wet, and the rock was hard. His money spent, and unsuccessful in interesting financial backing, Meiers, “busted” and disgusted, in the late ‘90’s joined the mad rush to the Yukon. After long years of hardships and disappointments in the frozen north, fortune favored the pioneer sourdough. With an itching for the trails and hills of southern Oregon, his old love, and still hale and hearty, Meiers returned a year ago, from his sunny California home, to renew the search for the lost mine.

According to Mrs. Charles Schiefflin of Medford, Oregon, who spent several seasons with her late husband, brother of Ed, in searching for the lost mine, Ed cared little for dogs during his long prospecting and mining career. However, several years before he died, he became attached to a big, shaggy mongrel dog, which belonged to a sister who lived on a farm out from Salem, Oregon. On leaving after a visit with the sister, Ed was permitted to take the family pet, and the dog was ever afterwards the constant companion of the old prospector.

On arriving at the scene of the final prospecting, Ed left his Concord bus, and four horses in the pasture, and care of a neighboring rancher on the creek. Several days after time of the usual visit of the prospector to see his steeds, the rancher became alarmed at his absence. Going to the cabin, where Ed was making his headquarters, between trips in the hills, the subject of the search was found a few feet from the cabin door, sprawled on the earth with a gold pan lying at his side, dropped in a dying grasp. The dog was guarding the body, and refused to let the rescuer approach. After bringing assistance, all attempts to remove the body were unavailing, and finally two lasso ropes were used to control the dog.

Ed, on arriving at the cabin, had apparently put on a pot of beans to cook, and on way to the panning pool toppled over in death. His blankets and camp kit, which he used on his several days’ stays in the hills away from the cabin, like the new gold find, have never been found.
The wife, on learning of the death, prepared for a big funeral. The body was embalmed, and incased in an outside casket box ready for shipment to their California home. However, in the meantime, Ed’s will disclosed the request that he be buried at Tombstone, in a rough box, robed in his mining clothes, with his pick and shovel at his side. His body was not to be taken into a church, no religious ceremony, or hearse used in the burial service, and such simple ceremony at the grave, should be conducted by some of his old-time pals at Tombstone.

The wife followed his instructions in detail, excepting that there was a hearse at Tombstone to receive the remains, and carry it to the hillside burial plot. However, it is stated here that on the arrival of the body at Tombstone, the burial box was too large to get into the hearse, and a truck was used, and joined the funeral procession, which extended from Tombstone, to the burial hill three miles west of the town. The attendance at the grave, it is said here, was made up of all the inhabitants, both whites and Indians, of Tombstone, and the country, for miles around. Ed’s faithful and only companion during his last days in the Oregon hills, the dog, was one of the chief unconsolable mourners after the death.

Some interesting comments on these last-day activities, of the founder of Tombstone, are made by Charles A. Banfield of Portland, Oregon. While visiting Douglas County, Oregon, with his father, some 30 years ago, he heard the full particulars of the death of Ed Schiefflin. He reports these as follows:

“Ed Schiefflin was found dead in Texas Gulch, on the headwaters of Coffee Creek, which flows into the South Umpqua River about three miles East of Milo Post Office. This was the end of the stage route, and as the roads further up the river were not in good condition they were used only by pack trains.

“From what I could learn at that time from the old prospectors, Indians, and natives of the country, Schiefflin had come across the Cow Creek Divide, and down a creek known as Shirley Creek, which flows into the South Umpqua, on the South side of the river, near Milo. He had been prospecting for some time on Shirley Creek, then went to Milo, bought supplies, and went into the head of Coffee Creek, at Texas Gulch to prospect, where he was found just outside of a cabin. In his gold pan he had about $50 in gold, and on his diary book he had written down, ‘I have struck it again.’ That was the last of Ed Schiefflin.

“Now, as to his prospect or mine, and the whereabouts, that is the question. Some say it is on Shirley Creek, others say it was across the divide of Cow Creek. The character of the rock found in his gold pan denotes a much different kind of rock from that found on Coffee Creek, as that is in conglomerate. As to the formation on Shirley Creek, it is mostly quartz, or porphyry quartz, and slate, which seems to correspond with that found in his pan. I did not inspect the sample that Schiefflin was panning—it was reported to me by parties that had seen the sample.

“There is one thing I cannot understand. Why would Schiefflin take his samples from one prospect, then crush and wash them in another place, unless he already had his samples at his finger tips, and they were very rich, for most prospectors will test the ore on the ground. So the question still is, ‘Where did the gold come from?’ Coffee Creek, or Shirley Creek, or on the Cow Creek side?”
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UNITED VERDE EXTENSION ACQUIRES OLD VULTURE MINE

An option has been acquired on the famous old Vulture mining property, near Wickenburg, Arizona, by the United Verde Extension Mining Company, of Jerome, Arizona. The completion of this transaction, was immediately followed by the announcement of plans for the sinking of a three-compartment shaft to a depth of 500 feet.

Recent diamond drilling, by the Vulture Mining and Milling Company, under the direction of D. H. Finlayson, manager, has resulted in the discovery, beneath 375 feet to 430 feet of capping lava flows, of a new faulted action of the old Vulture Lode. This new discovery lies fully 1,800 feet northeast, of the easternmost walls, of the old surface workings, on the lode, and a probable length of 1,000 feet is indicated. The vertical shaft is to be sunk near the discovery drill hole, which should allow convenient prospecting of an immense amount of the new lode. It has not yet been stated whether the work will be done by contract, or by United Verde Extension crews.

More than $125,000 has been expended by the Vulture Company, in the exploration, which resulted in the relocation of the lost vein, according to Mr. Finlayson. This program has been carried on over a period of three years. Early in the development, some milling equipment was installed, and the old vein worked in an effort to meet development costs. However, the faulting became so intricate that this program was given up, and exploration carried on without production.

The Vulture Mine was discovered by Henry Wickenburg in 1863. Published reports credit the mine with a gold production as high as $15,000,000, during the early days when the oxidized gold ores were mined almost at grass roots. The first period of Vulture history was ended in 1887, when the early day operators believed the vein had been worked out. In 1909, a faulted segment of the vein was located, and approximately $2,000,000 in gold recovered, but the complicated faulting again baffled the operators, and the mine was closed in 1917. It was practically idle from that time, until taken over by the Vulture Mining and Milling Company in 1927.

The old Vulture made history for the central portion of Arizona, and this new discovery, with the development now planned, should give a tremendous impetus to mining in the Wickenburg district and adjacent territory.

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for AUGUST 30, 1930

NEW MEXICO MINING ATTORNEYINTERESTED IN MILL OPERATION

Although specializing in mining law, Alvan N. White, attorney of Silver City, New Mexico, is, of late, devoting considerable of his interest and time toward getting the mill of the Golden Giant Mining Company in operation, in the Pinos Altos District. Mr. White has been secretary-treasurer of this company for the past 20 years, having promoted sale of the property, to Oklahoma capitalists in 1909. Golden Giant ore runs an average of about $40 per ton, principally in gold.

Early last year, Mr. White organized the Copper Key Mines, Inc., for operation of a group of claims in the Central Mining District, and a vigorous development schedule was outlined. However, pending better metal conditions, particularly copper, further work at this property is being held in abeyance. The Oak Grove Property, at Pinos Altos, is being developed by Mr. White, and although the gold vein on this claim is not very large, assays have shown the values to run up to $240 per ton. Mr. White is also a part owner of the Gold Gulch property near Santa Rita. The C. C. Julian interests, last year optioned the Gold Gulch, to American Smelting & Refining Company, but the option was later relinquished.

Mr. White is an enthusiastic mining booster for New Mexico, and was the author of the bill passed in the Eighth State Legislature, creating the Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, of the State of New Mexico. Several bulletins, including one on fluorspar, have been published and distributed by this bureau, and others are in the course of preparation.

Born and educated in Tennessee, Mr. White came to Silver City, in 1896, as an attorney, where he made a careful study of mining law, later specializing in that branch of practice. He married Miss Louise Dickinson, of Nashville, in Silver City, in 1899. They have two children, Athington and Arneille. Athington White is a mining graduate of the University of Arizona, and is at present assistant superintendent of the Swansea Mining Company at Swansea, Arizona.

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for AUGUST 30, 1930

MINING ENGINEER MEETS DEATH ON CALIFORNIA DESERT

About the middle of July, P. H. Lietzow, consulting engineer, of Los Angeles, died on the desert in Southern California. Whether death was caused by the intense heat, heart failure, or whether he was a victim of foul play, has not yet been determined, since the body was not found until some time after death. He was buried in San Bernardino.

Mr. Lietzow was born in Berlin, Germany, and, after coming to the United States, he studied geology and engineering for two years, at the University of Chicago. He then went back to Germany, where he received his E. M. from the school at Freiburg. After returning to this country, he studied at Golden, Colorado, under Professor Traphagen.

After completing his education, Mr. Lietzow spent one year surveying in Alaska, three years as engineer at the Desert Queen Mine in California, one year as shift boss and engineer at Telluride, Colorado, and five years as engineer for the Mohave United Mining and Milling Company in California. The following two years, he was with the Tonopah Belmont Company, in Nevada, after which time he spent four years in prospecting, and in consulting engineering work in California, and other western states.

Considerable research work in quicksilver, copper, bentonite clays, and all metallic and non-metallic ores, was done by Mr. Lietzow. He wrote technical articles on these topics for several publications.

rehab · ANACONDA SAFETY AWARDS STEWARD MINE TMJ 11 15 1930

MINING MEN BIOS TMJ 11 15 1930

ANACONDA COPPER HONORS HER CREW AT THE STEWARD MINE

The crew of miners, at the Steward Mine, of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, is credited as one of the safest in the organization. It worked 7,118 shifts without a single lost-time accident. H. B. Tunnell is Foreman, Richard Curran, Assistant Foreman; William Murphy, Safety Engineer, and Percy Tretheway, Shift Boss.

The first 10 shift bosses on the company’s payroll who have had no lost-time accidents for September, or for two or more consecutive months, are:
Tom Connors at the Tramway Mine;
A. McKinnon at the Mountain Con;
Percy Tretheway at the Steward;
A. B. Goodell at the Anaconda;
F. Holland at the Badger State;
Thomas Blackler at the Anselmo;
Knute Voll at the West Colusa;
Harry Mitchell at the Mountain Con;
W. Clark at the Badger State; and
E. E. Humfeld at the Tramway.

rehab · MINING MEN BIOS THE MINING JOURNAL 12 15 1930

for DECEMBER 15, 1930

With Prominent People You Know

The activities and movements of men well known and prominent in the mining industry of the Western States.

Evan Morgan, former manager of the Loon Lake Copper Mine, passed away at Loon Lake, Washington.
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Harry Burt, Mining Engineer of Prescott, Arizona, has moved to Phoenix, where he will make his future headquarters.
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C. H. Wilson, of the International Geophysical Company, Inc., Culver City, California, is in Salt Lake City, Utah, on business.
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E. W. Bedford, 1020 Jones Street, Reno, Nevada, is supervising the drilling of a chrome prospect, seven miles from Folsom, California.
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J. J. Jakosky, of the International Geophysical Company, Ltd., 8520 Schaefer Street, Culver City, California, is in Reno, Nevada, on business.
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George R. Colton, of Los Angeles, former owner of the Duplex Mine, at Searchlight, Nevada, passed away suddenly. Heart disease caused his death.
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James S. Douglas, President of United Verde Extension Mining Company, of Jerome, Arizona, has returned to his home at Douglas, Arizona, from Paris.
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V. L. Board, who has been General Superintendent of the Public Service Company of Colorado, for several years, has been elected a Vice-President of the company.
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J. W. Wayman, one of the large shareholders in El Banco Mining Company, at Silverton, Colorado, has returned to Los Angeles, California, from a visit to the property.
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Alberto Terrones Benitez, having terminated his tenure of office as Provisional Governor of the State of Durango, Mexico, has established an office, as consultant, in the City of Durango.
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Leo V. Naudine, formerly mill foreman with San Francisco Mines of Mexico, at San Francisco del Oro, Chihuahua, Mexico, may now be reached at Hotel McCoy, El Paso, Texas.
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Charles W. Birum, Manager of the Imperial Gold Mines, near Battle Mountain, Nevada, was assaulted, and painfully injured recently, by a man that he had employed at the mine.
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William H. Hax, of New York City, President of the Basin Montana Tunnel Company, at Basin, Montana, is in Butte, in the interest of a tunnel project which the company is organizing.
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F. Cushing Moore, J. M. Porter, A. W. Fahrenwald, and Connor Malott, have been elected as Trustees of the Northwest Mining Association, 828 Lindelle Block, Spokane, to serve three years.
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Henry H. Jones, formerly General Superintendent for the Utah Rock Asphalt Corporation, at Sunnyside, Utah, has been engaged as Chief Engineer, for the Royal Tiger Mines Company, at Tiger, Colorado.
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Jesse D. Marmaduke, of Denver, Colorado, passed away November 15. He was President and General Manager of Jessica Mines Company, at Idaho Springs, and President of the South Park Oil Company.
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SAUNDERS GOLD MEDAL GOES TO F. W. MACLENNAN OF MIAMI

The highest honor, which the mining industry can bestow, is to be awarded to F. W. MacLennan, General Manager of Miami Copper Company, when the William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal is presented to him at the annual banquet of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. The award to Mr. MacLennan is in recognition of his outstanding service to the mining industry, in the establishment of a record in bringing the lowest grade ore heretofore mined, to production on a commercial basis; the low-grade ore body of Miami Copper Company.

The selection of Mr. MacLennan as the 1931 recipient of the Saunders medal was made by the unanimous choice of the mining medal committee of 15 members. The Saunders medal has previously been awarded to David William Brunton, Herbert Hoover, John Hays Hammond, and Daniel C. Jackling. Outstanding achievements have in each case been responsible for the awarding of the medal.

Mr. MacLennan has a resourceful and analytical mind, the true engineering mentality, combined with the self-confidence and courage to put over his ideas. He is most enthusiastic in his work, and has the faculty of transmitting that enthusiasm and confidence to his associates, and aids in anything he undertakes.

In his association with both employer and employees, he is most loyal, and has their confidence, respect, and friendship, to an exceptional degree. He has the justly earned reputation of being fair and impartial in his dealings with his employees, and takes a keen interest in all the various details of employment. These traits of character have been largely responsible for the wonderful success he has had in solving the difficult problems at Miami Copper Company in handling the low-grade ore deposit.

Mr. MacLennan was born in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, in 1876. He obtained his education at McGill University, graduating in 1898,with the degree of Eectrical Egineer. The following year,he spent in Liege, Belgium, where he did post-graduate work. In 1900,he obtained his Mning Egineering degree. Mr. MacLennan has been associated as engineer with many of the leading mining companies, including: Le Rio Mine, Rossland, B. C., 1900; Velvet Mine, at Sheep Creek, B. C., 1901; Cornucopia Mines, in Oregon, 1903; Utah Consolidated Smelter, Murray, Utah, 1904; Superintendent of Oro Denoro Mine, Summit, B. C., 1904; Engineer, Highland Boy Mine, Bingham, Utah, 1905; Superintendent, Ely Witch Mine, Ely, Nevada, 1906; General Superintendent of Mines (copper and coal), Cerro de Pasco Copper Company, Peru, 1907; examination work in South American, and United States, mines, 1910; Mine Superintendent, Assistant Manager, and General Manager, Miami Copper Company, since 1913.

Mr. MacLennan is a member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, has served as Governor of the Arizona Chapter of the American Mining Congress, and is an enthusiastic golfer, having acted as president of the Southwest Golf Association. He is also a member of the Almaden, and Cobre Valley clubs, Miami; Arizona Club, Phoenix, Arizona; and the Jonathan Club, Los Angeles.
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Antone Harris, shift boss of ShattuckDenn Mining Corporation, Bisbee, Arizona, died at the Calumet & Arizona hospital, November 20, of pneumonia. He had been a resident of the Bisbee District for several years.
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E. V. Given, formerly of Needles, California, has returned to Kingman, Arizona. Mr. Given was one of the discoverers of the Gold Wing gold ore strike, near Kingman, which created quite a sensation early in the year.
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Jack Larsen, miner at the Boriana Mine at Yucca, Arizona, passed away at the Mohave General Hospital, in Kingman, November 18, following an attack of influenza. Mr. Larsen was born in Sweden, 45 years ago.
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Henry B. Abbett, Purchasing Agent for the University of Colorado, at Boulder, has resigned, to accept a similar office at the Purdue University, LaFayette, Indiana. He was succeeded by his assistant, Leslie F. Robbins.
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L. D. Anderson, Chief Engineer for the United States Smelting, Refining, and Mining Company, Newhouse Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, is on his way to Russia, to supervise the erection of steel mills, and blast furnaces.
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H. J. Evans, Superintendent of Cia. Minera Nazareño y Catasillas, S. A., of Salaverna, Zacatecas, Mexico, which several months ago, closed down, pending better metal prices, is at present located in El Paso, Texas.
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Louis S. Cates, President of Phelps Dodge Corporation, is Chairman of the Mining Industries Division of the Emergency Employment Committee, which is raising money for the relief of unemployment in New York.
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Robert Clarke, engineer in the Mining Department, of the American Smelting and Refining Company, 616 McCornick Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, inspected the recent strike of honeycomb quartz, in the Lulu Mine, at Frisco.
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Parker Karney has been placed in charge of the machine drill for the Matrix Mining and Milling Company, near Anacortes, Washington. He has a number of years’ experience in drilling, and recently worked at the Anacopper Mine.
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Harry B. Radcliffe, recently in Nogales, Arizona, from the Twin Bell Mines, 14 miles northeast of there, stated that he now had several carlots of ore ready for consignment to the Douglas Smelter, from the old Golden Rose Camp.
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James Christiansen, operator of the Lincoln Mine, at Crown King, Arizona, was in Fresno, California, late this month, attending a business meeting of his company. Mr. Christiansen is Secretary of the Calincoln Mines, Inc., of Crown King.
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Trevor B. Thomas, Superintendent of the Continental Dredging Company, near Breckenridge, Colorado, was drowned in the pit of the big boat, November 21. The bank caved in, and sank the dredge into the icy waters, before the relief skiff could reach him.
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William Phillips, old-time prospector, and a resident of Gila County, Arizona, for the past 30 years, died in Miami, November 19. Mr. Phillips had several mining claims in that district, which he had been prospecting for many years. He was 73 years of age.
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L. Dupen, age 71, well known in the Bisbee District, of Arizona, where he was at one time, private secretary to Walter Douglas, former President of Phelps Dodge, died in Los Angeles, November 19. Mr. Dupen left Bisbee to make his home in California, three years ago.
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J. T. Joyce, Jr., son of John T. Joyce, Commissioner of Mines in Colorado, has been appointed as General Manager of the American Development and Service Company, mining and oil business, with his headquarters in Denver. He is a lawyer and former newspaperman.
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Dan J. Sullivan, 85-year-old pioneer of Yavapai County, Arizona, passed away, at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, late in November, following an operation. Mr. Sullivan owned and operated mining properties at Congress, Arizona, where he had resided for many years.
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Charles D. Vail, Civil Engineer, who has been Manager of Parks and Improvements, for the city of Denver, Colorado, has been appointed as Chief Engineer for the Colorado Highway Department, by Governor Adams, filling the vacancy caused by the death of Major L. D. Blauvelt.
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Charles W. Nichols, Chairman of the Board of Directors, of Nichols Copper Company, was a recent visitor at the company’s El Paso refinery, leaving there for several weeks in California, before returning to New York. He plans to stop off in El Paso on his return trip East.
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Preston A. Griffith, well-known resident of Douglas, Arizona, and for 23 years an employee in the offices of Calumet & Arizona Mining Company there, died November 23, at the age of 75. Before going to Douglas, Mr. Griffith was connected with the El Paso & Southwestern Railway.
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James C. Roberts, President of the Denver chapter of the A. I. M. E., Secretary to the Denver Safety Council, and Professor of Safety Engineering and Efficiency, at the Colorado School of Mines, died November 25, at his home in Golden, Colorado. Pneumonia caused his death.
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T. H. Jenks who was called to London, England, in August, on account of the illness of his wife, returned last month, and will in the future, make his headquarters at 1221 Lucerne Blvd., Los Angeles, California. Mrs. Jenks passed away, at the end of August, in a London nursing home.
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Edward J. Bumsted, of Santa Monica, California, former Nevada mine operator, is installing a plant at the Rinconada Mine, of the Mercury Corporation of America, at Santa Margarita, California, to replace the one destroyed by fire October 31. The new plant will be equipped with electric power.
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A number of changes have been made in the explosives plant management of the Hercules Powder Company, Inc. At the Hercules, California, plant, J. B. Johnson succeeded the late C. F. Bierbauer, as Superintendent. At the Bacchus, Utah, plant, M. M. Inskeep succeeded L. W. Babcock, as Assistant Superintendent.
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Dr. George Woodbury, of the Colorado State Historical Society, has been elected as President of the Denver chapter of the Archeological Institute of America. Charles M. Schenck, President of the Denver Board of Education, has been elected as Vice-President; and Charles Morrell of the University at Denver, has been elected as Secretary.
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E. G. Sullivan, formerly in charge of steam shovels at the old Boston Consolidated Mine, Bingham Canyon, Utah, has returned to Salt Lake City, to make his permanent home. He has worked the last 10 years in the copper mines in the Belgian Congo, and before his return to America, was in charge of 33 steam and electric shovels.
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A. J. Harshberger, President of the Department of Mines of the Chamber of Commerce, at Tucson, Arizona, has prepared a consignment of tungsten concentrate, for shipment to New York City. The concentrates are expected to bring $10 per unit of 20 pounds. Mr. Harshberger represents a number of mining properties in the Tucson district.
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John B. Selman, 81-year-old miner and prospector, was found burned to death in his cabin, 25 miles northeast of Florence, Arizona, November 28. Mr. Selman had lived in the mountain region there, for from 15 to 20 years, working several mining claims. It is understood that he recently sold a group of claims to the Pacific Lead-Silver Company, of Los Angeles.
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C. K. McArthur, representative of The Dorr Company at Globe, Arizona, has returned from a six weeks’ trip to Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, where he was supervising initial operation of Dorr equipment, for the New International Nickel Company Concentrator. Mr. McArthur attended the industrial convention and oil exposition recently held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, while en route to Canada.
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Henry Blackford, Secretary of the Chase Mines, Inc., Prescott, Arizona, and A. C. Nebeker, Assistant Superintendent of the Sheldon Mining Company at Walker, Arizona, were in Phoenix, the middle of November, conferring with H. C. Hicks, President of the New York Mining Exchange, who was in Arizona on a western tour of mining districts, at that time. Both Mr. Blackford and Mr. Nebeker reported themselves impressed with the possibilities offered Arizona, through the exchange.
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A heart attack November 23, proved fatal to Justin T. Hinds, of Prescott, Arizona, prominent in Yavapai County mining circles for nearly 30 years. Mr. Hinds would have been 65 years of age had he lived a few days longer. He was at one time, Manager of the Logan mining property, in the Cherry Creek District, and was also interested in development of the Verde Mines and Milling Company. He had previously been interested in mining in Colorado, and in the Goldfield District of Nevada.
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Patrick Joseph Quealy, Wyoming capitalist, passed away following several days’ illness. He was born in Ireland, and came to this country when he was nine years old. His first work in Wyoming was as State Inspector of the coal mines. Shortly after he launched his first enterprise in southwestern Wyoming, he founded the town of Kemmerer. Quealy was also President of the Cokeville State Bank, Vice-President of the First National Bank at Rock Springs, a director of the National Copper Bank at Salt Lake City, and founded the First National Bank of Kemmerer. He was a member of the A. I. M. E. and a charter member of the Alta Congressional Club.
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Martin Michel of El Paso, Texas, District Manager of the Texas-Louisiana Power Company, supplying electrical power for larger mining operations in New Mexico, was a recent visitor in Silver City, in the interest of the Texas-Louisiana plant, and equipment there. Mr. Michel has been with the company in that district, for a little over a year, and it was under his supervision, that extensive improvements making for greater efficiency have been made at plants in the El Paso, and New Mexico territory. Mr. Michel stated that his company has an investment of close to a million and a half dollars in plant, office buildings, and equipment, at Silver City, and that he had no fear for mineral production in that section.
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MINING MAN OF ARIZONA PASSES AWAY AT DOUGLAS
William M. Adamsori, three times Mayor of Douglas, Arizona, and for many years, active in mining affairs of that state, passed away at his home in Douglas, late last month. He was 68 years of age.

Mr. Adamson was at one time connected with the W. A. Clark interests in Montana, and later in Arizona. He lived at Butte 13 years, serving two years as Montana State Boiler Inspector. He was once assistant master mechanic for the old Butte & Boston Mining Company, resigning in 1891 to go to Clarkdale, Arizona, where he was put in charge of construction of the United Verde Smelter. He later became master mechanic at the Copper Queen Branch, of Phelps Dodge, at Bisbee, and in 1904, was given charge of construction of the Copper Queen Smelter at Douglas. At the time of his death, Mr. Adamson was the controlling figure of the Arizona Gypsum Plaster Company, operating in Arizona, with a plant at Douglas, and to this organization, he gave the greater part of his time during the past few years.

He served as a member of the first city council at Douglas, and lacked but one vote of being the first mayor of the town. His first election to the latter office was in April, 1906. He retired, but was recalled in 1916, when he was overwhelmingly returned to office, and was then re-elected for the third time, in 1918 without opposition. He resigned this office in 1919, because of failing health, and spent a large part of the next 10 years in extensive travel.
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DEAN PROBERT URGES EDUCATION IN THE PROPER USE OF METALS

“Human beings are the vassals of the mineral kingdom,” according to Dean Frank H. Probert of the College of Mining, at the University of California, in one of a series of four lectures delivered at the University of Arizona, Tucson, during the latter part of November, and early in December.
It was pointed out by Dean Probert, that the animal and vegetable kingdoms, upon which man is also dependent, are inexhaustible, but that mineral resources of the world were rapidly being consumed, and are non-replenishable. In his lectures, he traced the history of metals and minerals since the beginning of time, and interestingly showed how the use of metals by man has been intimately linked with the progress of civilization, and that education in their proper use [metals] was essential to further progress.

Dean Probert is a forceful and talented speaker, and is, by both training and experience, capable of presenting a message which carries an unusual background of broad observation.
Frank Holman Probert was born in London, June, 1876, and studied at the Royal College of Science. During his early career, he was associated with the Royal School of Mines in London, but for the most part, his interest has been confined to the developments of this continent.
His capability has made him a prominent figure on many boards. He served on a special committee on war minerals investigation, for the United States Bureau of Mines, and has been retained as Consulting Engineer for the Bureau. At the close of the war [WW1], he went to Europe as a member of an American commission to investigate the damaged mineral industry, and reparations, in northern France.

He has spent some time investigating the mineral resources of northwestern Ontario; has operated the Lanfair Lead Mines, in North Wales, and mines in Germany; and spent some time in research engineering in Arizona, for what was then known as Phelps-Dodge & Company. During the past 14 years, he has been identified with the University of California, and, with the exception of his first year there, has been Dean of the College of Mining.

His name is closely linked with the progress of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, the American Mining Congress, the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy at London, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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TRAUERMAN PRESENTS TRUE PICTURE OF MONTANA RESOURCES

One of the most persistent disseminators of Montana news, is Carl J. Trauerman, who through his Montana Natural Resource Bulletin, covers the developments of mining, agriculture, oil, timber, scenic beauties, fishing, hunting, and railroad building.

He established the bulletin in 1924, and Carl J. Trauerman it is doing splendid work in bringing public attention to the manifold resources and attractions of the “Treasure and Pleasure State.” The items of the publication are based on facts obtained through field correspondents, and are carefully checked by the editor, before they are presented to the public. All opinions are relegated to a side shelf. That the bulletin has fulfilled its mission, is partly explained in its reprint circulation in 350 magazines in the United States, Canada, and England, which altogether reach more than fifteen million people.

This is not his only interest at Butte. In 1926, he was the prime factor in organizing and incorporating the Montana Stock and Bond Company, which is established at 25 East Broadway in the Montana metropolis. He is President of that organization, and handles only high-grade securities.

By profession, Trauerman is a Mining Engineer, an alumnus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1907, he became associated with the Enterprise Mining Company in New Mexico, and operated mines in Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado, for a few years, with the exception of a few months during which he acted as Manager of the Mines and Mining Department of the Wall Street Journal, in New York City.

In 1912, Trauerman established his residence in Butte, and assumed the position as Consulting Engineer for the Butte Central, and Research Engineer, for the Butte and Superior Mining Company. During his experience, he invented, with John E. Rothwell, the air lift thickener, and made several improvements on drum filters. While the war was in progress, he gave valuable service in the production of manganese for use by the government ordnance department, and has the distinction of being the first person in metallurgical history to successfully concentrate “pink” manganese. At the close of the war, he became associated with silver and oil developments near Helena, Montana, and from this field, took up the brokerage and publishing business.

He is also President of the Butte Radio Club, the largest organization of its kind in the United States; Secretary-Treasurer of the Montana Alumni Association of the M. I. T.; a willing worker in the civic organizations at Butte; and does some writing on general mining and milling, thickening, continuous drum filters, testing laboratory methods, cyanidation, fluxes, and methods of assaying.
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MOREHOUSE ELECTED NEW HEAD FOR MINING EXCHANGE

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The recently organized Southwestern Mining Exchange has replaced its temporary set of officers with a board of governors, which will function the first year. The new officers are: Frank C. Morehouse, President; David J. Evans, Vice-President; H. M. Benedict, Secretary-Treasurer. Elmer E. Robinson is both Attorney for the exchange, and Director. E. D. Foster, retiring temporary chairman, will remain on the directorate.

Morehouse, who heads this organization, which proposes to make Los Angeles the mining center of a great district, is an internationally known mining engineer, and operator, and at present, one of the principal owners of the American Flag Mine, and Constellation group of mining properties in Utah, controlled by the Central Park Mines Co. He maintains residences in both Los Angeles, and Salt Lake City. Vice-President Evans was associated as engineer with the late Senator W. A. Clark, for 15 years, and is a well-known figure among the mining, milling, and smelting fraternity.

The exchange will be limited to 200 members, but will begin functioning when a reasonable number of seats are sold. Fred T. Davis, in charge of the executive offices, in the Bartlett Building, states that reservations are already in for more than a score of seats. A limited number of memberships are being placed with mining men and brokers in Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Oregon, and Washington. Permanent location of the exchange will be in the financial district on Spring Street.
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rehab · MINING MEN BIOS THE MINING JOURNAL 12 30 1930

LOUGHEAD, OF AIRPLANE FAME, NOW TURNS TO GOLD MINING

Malcolm Loughead, of Los Angeles, who, with his brother, Allen H. Loughead, invented the “Lockheed” airplane, and automobile hydraulic brake, is meeting with highly encouraging results in the development of a property of two claims, or 40 acres, at Whiskey Slide, about eight miles east of Mokelumne Hill.

From the bottom of a 118-foot single compartment and manway vertical shaft, sunk solely for prospecting purposes, he has extended into a large vein, a north drift, 200 feet, and a south drift, 50 feet. He plans to continue the north drift, which he states is exposing a full face of ore, assaying $20 a ton in gold, an additional 250 feet, and the south drift, 50 feet more, before sinking the shaft to greater depth.

Mr. Loughead calculates that he has about developed sufficient pay ore by the shaft, and laterals referred to and in other workings on the property, to warrant the erection of a small mill, but he says he will not proceed definitely with such plans until he is fully convinced on that score. He has equipped the property with a small gasoline prospect hoist, air compressor, machine drills, etc., with which excellent progress is being made in the exploratory work.

Mr. Loughead acquired the property about a year ago, by individual purchase, and is developing it with his own funds. His brother, Allen H. Loughead, however, has become so impressed with the results obtained, that he himself is investigating other properties in the same locality with a view to acquisition and development, in association with a syndicate of Chicago capitalists, as a private project.

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MINING JOURNAL

FORMER GOVERNOR OF DURANGO NOW ENGAGED IN MINING LAW

Alberto Terrones Benitez, having terminated his tenure of office as Provisional Governor of the State of Durango, Mexico, has established an office as consultant, in the city of Durango. Mr. Benitez is attorney for a number of mining companies operating in that state, and has written several reports on the mining and natural resources of that section. He is at present, finishing a complete report on the Guanacevi Mining Company, including the survey of a tunnel two kilometers long, for exploring and unwatering the San Pedro mines of the camp.

Mr. Benitez is special counsel for the Soto Mines Company, S. A., which was organized under his direction, and is also counsel for the Highway State Commission and several public works committees. He is also personally interested in coal mining in the San Pedro del Callo, and San Luis de Cordero, districts of Durango, where some important discoveries have of late, been made. He plans to soon visit these regions to make a report thereon.

Engineering was Mr. Benitez’s chosen vocation, and despite his having become a lawyer, he has kept up his study along the engineering line, using it in connection with mining matters with which he comes in contact, and in his investigation of the natural resources in his native state. Last October, Mr. Benitez was Chairman of the Eighth Convencion Nacional de Ingenieros, which took place in Durango, at which time he presented one of his reports on “The Natural Resources of Northwestern Durango.” This report is to be published in this month’s issue of the Revista Mexicana de Ingenieria y Arquitectura. His paper on “The Survey of the Natural Resources of the State of Durango,” is a summary of reports written as a result of investigation and exploration from the years 1911 to 1927.

A glimpse of Mr. Benitez’s personal life, may be gleaned from the following facts:

He was born at Nombre de Dios, Durango, some forty years ago, and received his education in primary school up to 1900;
in preparatory school at the Instituto Juarez, Durango, Mexico, for six years, and at the professional law school at the Instituto Juarez, for four years.

He was admitted to the bar in December, 1910, following which, he devoted all his professional activity to mining cases. In 1913, he married Maria Langone, of Mexico City. They have five children, four boys and one girl. Mr. Benitez is a member of the Rotary Club of Durango, and of Centro Nacional de Ingenieros, of Mexico City.

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for DECEMBER 30, 1930

With Prominent People You Know

The activities and movements of men well known and prominent in the mining industry of the Western states.
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William W. Mein, Room 1443, 315 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California, has returned from Africa.
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D. A. Callahan, of Wallace, Idaho, is in the East, where he will attend the Mine Depletion hearing on Internal Revenue taxation.
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E. J. Wilde, of American Fork, Utah, passed away at the age of 67. He was general manager of the Whirlwind Mining Company.
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Robert Adams of Houghton, Michigan, is metallurgist at the property of the Salyer Consolidated Mines Company, at Salyer, California.
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Earl T. Nichols, formerly employed by Shattuck-Denn Mining Corporation, at Bisbee, Arizona, recently died of pneumonia. He was 24 years of age.
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Ralph M. H. Geumlek, formerly assistant general manager of the Gold Crown Silver Mining Company, Cleator, Arizona, is now located at Annapolis, Missouri.
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Emory Cobb, who made the drawings used by the Phelps Dodge, in the Carson patent litigation, died at his home in Phoenix. His death was from heart failure.
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Frederick A. Fickert, mining engineer of Tehachapi, California, has spent some time at Virginia. City, Nevada. He formerly practiced engineering in that town.
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Percy E. Wright, consulting engineer of Seattle, Washington, has been making a complete examination of the Silver Plume Mine, at Alto, in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
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W. Ambrossinoff, formerly mill superintendent for Mazapil Copper Company, at El Cobre, Zacatecas, is now with Cia. Real del Monte y Pachuca, at Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico.
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E. G. Howe, formerly with Cia. de Real del Monte y Pachuca, at Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, is now in charge of the Cia. Minera Unida Oriental, S. A., reduction plant, at Copala, Sinaloa, Mexico.
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L. E. Mustard has been appointed as resident sales and service engineer, in charge of the Denver office, of The Bristol Company. His office is 527 United States National Bank Building.
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Nicholas Hoffman, employee at the New Cornelia Mines, at Ajo, Arizona, for the past 15 years, died suddenly at his home there, December 1. Heart failure is believed to have been the cause of his death.
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George Stevens, prospector of the Clifton-Morenci District, died at Clifton, Arizona, November 28. Mr. Stevens had been working mining claims along the San Francisco River, in that district, for several years.
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Raymond B. Pierce, analyst for Hanover Bessemer Iron & Copper Company at Fierro, New Mexico, is a candidate for junior membership in the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers.
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J. E. Byron, 642 University Avenue, Boulder, Colorado, consulting engineer and
United States Mineral Surveyor, is engineer in charge, for the Emancipation Mining and Milling Company, operating at Salina.
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K. E. Seaman, 1129 Eleventh Street, Boulder, Colorado, has been engaged as mill superintendent, for the Emancipation Mining and Milling Company at Salina. He has 35 years’ mining and milling experience.
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Sherwin F. Kelly is lecturing on geophysics and geology, and is doing some consulting work. Until recently, he had been assistant manager of the Schlumberger Electrical Prospecting Methods, 25 Broadway, New York City.
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Charles Oster, president of the St. Joe Consolidated Mines Company, has returned to his office, 111 Broadway, New York, from a visit to the San Francisco office. The St. Joe Consolidated has property in Idaho, and in Nevada.
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John G. Worth, who has been for some months located at Angels Camp, California, has returned to Superior, Arizona, where he is connected with the Fortuna Property, of the Belcher Extension Consolidated Mines Company.
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Stewart Carpenter, for several years a resident of Douglas, Arizona, will leave the first of the year, for Northern Rhodesia, South Africa, where he will be engaged in construction work at the Roan Antelope copper properties.
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Stanley C. Harold, for several years a specialist on drainage, conservation, curtailment, and unit operation problems, has opened offices for general geological and engineering practice, in the Chapman Building, Los Angeles, California.
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Col. D. C. Jackling, president of the Utah Copper Company, accompanied by his family, and a party of friends, has arrived at Callao, Peru. They are traveling in the Colonel’s yacht, Cyprus, and plan to visit the copper mines in Chile.
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Walter Douglas, formerly president of Phelps Dodge Corporation, has been spending some time at the company’s properties in Arizona. Mr. Douglas lately returned from Europe, and plans to spend considerable time in Phoenix, during this winter.
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Paul W. Webster, of the Utah Sulphur Industries, at Sulphurdale, Utah, is in New York City. Their new plant is not operating now, as it is not arranged for winter weather. Prospecting with drills will be started as soon as the weather moderates.
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The Frank M. Maloney and Company brokerage house, at 157 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, has been closed, and Maloney has moved back to Reno, Nevada. The change was made, to enable him to render better service to his interests in California.
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J. B. Downey, 2944 North Second Street, Phoenix, Arizona, has been appointed District sales representative, of the Dayton-Dowd Company, for the State of Arizona. Mr. Downey will represent the company’s entire line of centrifugal pumping equipment.
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J. BENJAMIN PARKER CONTINUES EXPERIMENTS IN FLOTATION

J. Benjamin Parker, 168 Helm Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah, is the president of the Metallurgical Engineering Corporation, and inventor of the Parker flotation machine.

His work combines general consulting in metallurgy, and the building, selling, and installation, of portable mills. Since the invention of his flotation machine, he has carried on further research, to the end that he may perfect a portable mill, which will be economical to operate, and suitable for developing small properties.

Parker was born in Portland, Oregon, July 17, 1889, and educated in the schools of the Northwestern country. His professional career dates back to his employment as assayer and chemist, for the C. M. Fassett Company, at Spokane, Washington, where he remained three years. In a similar capacity, he joined the Federal Mining and Smelting Company, at Mullan, Idaho, and was in its employ two and one-half years.

He was consecutively experimental metallurgist, for the Ohio Copper Company, at Lark, Utah; mill superintendent for Childers Leasing Company, at Midvale, Utah; flotation metallurgist for the Interstate Callahan Mining Company, in Idaho, and flotation metallurgist for the Sullivan Mining Company, at Kellogg, Idaho. He worked two years with each of these organizations, and for the last eight years, practiced as a consulting metallurgist as stated above.

Parker is a member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.
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George A. Bethune, who some years ago, operated an assay office in Kingman, Arizona, and who left there, for Jerome, returned to Kingman for a short visit late last month. Mr. Bethune has spent the past few years in Mexico, and in various parts of the West.
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Colonel Allen T. Bird, president and manager of the Kino Copper Company, of Nogales, Arizona, passed away early this month. Colonel Bird had been in ill health for some time, necessitating his giving up active management of the Kino properties during the past year.
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With a view to new development, J. M. Shiner, geologist and mining engineer, 1717 Orchard Street, Glendale, California, recently examined the Mercer mining property, at Radium, near Globe, Arizona. No definite plans have yet been announced relative to future work on the property.
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John A. Hinds, president of the West Gold Mining Company, succumbed to a heart attack, in his home, in Denver, Colorado, December 8, at the early age of 42. He had been active until the time of his death, and was intending to leave for his Idaho Springs office, when he was stricken.
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J. A. Wright, and John McCall, of the Texas Chief Mines Company, and E. H. Ward, of Ensley, Alabama, president of Ward Gold Mines Company, have arrived at Durango, Colorado. Their visit is principally to inspect the rich gold-silver strike, in the McCartney Vein, of the Texas Chief.
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A. F. Carper, formerly on the engineering staff of the Tonopah Mining Company, has become associated with W. W. Charles, in the development of the Gold Coast Mines Company, at Como, Nevada. The company maintains its headquarters at 209 Van Nuys Building, Los Angeles, California.
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William Hogan, president and general manager of the Empire Metals Company, 174 South Howard Street, Spokane, Washington, has returned from the company’s holdings in the Orogrande, and Elk City districts, in Idaho. Assessment and development work on the claims has been finished for the season.
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Roy V. Wright, of New York City, has been elected as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He took office at the fifty-first annual meeting of the organization, held in New York City, December 1, and will serve as president during 1931. Wright formerly lived in St. Paul and Minneapolis.
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M. B. Cutter has resigned as president of the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad Company, and was succeeded by W. L. Haehnlen. The new president is the president of the Tonopah Mining Company, which owns the railroad, and makes his headquarters at 570 Bullitt Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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A. T. DeForrest, president of the Columbia Steel Corporation, 215 Market Street, San Francisco, accompanied by three officials of the organization, inspected the Torrance and Pittsburg mills in California. They are on their way to the home office, from an inspection of the company’s property in Utah.
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James F. McCarthy, president and general manager of the Hecla Mining Company, attended the mine tax depletion hearing before a congressional committee, at Washington, D. C., December 6. He was accompanied East, by his wife and son, and they expect to return to the Coeur d’Alenes shortly before Christmas.
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E. L. Sweeney, consulting engineer, of 1410 North Second Street, Phoenix, Arizona, has been made engineer in full charge of operations, of the Emerson Mining Company, of Octave, Arizona. Mr. Sweeney plans to first make a complete sampling of the property, in order to recommend a program of development to the owners.
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Frank R. Wicks and W. W. Wishon, of Los Angeles, recently examined the Yellow Treasure Mine, 15 miles northwesterly from Randsburg, California, belonging to Anthony DeMayo. The examination was made in the interest of the proposed Wishon Mining Corporation. A small property only is desired.
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Arthur J. Maese, a graduate of the Texas School of Mines, at El Paso, who has been in Australia since November, 1929, is at this time engaged in the erection of a large lead smelter being constructed at Queensland, for the treatment of production of an English mining company. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Maese, of El Paso.
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Frank G. Henckell, well-known in mining circles of Arizona, died at his home in Phoenix, December 3, following an illness of two months. Mr. Henckell was auditor and purchasing agent for the MacNeill Mine, of the Tonopah Belmont Development Company, at Palo Verde, before it
was closed down some months ago. He went to Arizona, from Nevada, in 1926.
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Marcus D. Banghart, mining engineer and assistant mine superintendent, for El Tigre Mining Company, of El Tigre, Sonora, Mexico, has made application for membership in A. I. M. E. Jose Trinidad Comacho, Jr., surveyor, assayer and sampler, with Cia. Minera de La Cienega, at La Cienega, Dto. Rayon, Chihuahua, Mexico, is also a candidate for membership.
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A. T. Sweet, Professor of Metallurgy, at the Michigan College of Mines, and C. L. Adams, mill superintendent of Mohawk Mining, are designing a new classifier for recovering fine particles of metal in the sluiceways, for the Salyer Consolidated Mines Company, at Salyer, California. Professor Sweet is metallurgical and ore dressing consultant, for the Salyer company.
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E. C. Outlaw, mining engineer of 749 Peyton Building, Spokane, Washington, accompanied by Leo Binder and George Paulsen, planned to be in Mexico early this month, to inspect property of the San Pedro Mining Company. They expected to examine other properties, with a view to taking them over, after going over the San Pedro property, located near Cosala, Sinaloa.
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W. W. Widdowson, of Santa Monica, California, formerly associated with the Dudley mining interests in Mohave County, Arizona, died in Los Angeles, late last month, following a long illness. Mr. Widdowson was formerly interested in the C. O. D. Mine, near Kingman, and was an official of the Antelope Gulch Mining Company, operating at Congress Junction, Arizona.
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Robert L. Morton, mining and civil engineer, of Yuma, Arizona, died at his home there, December 8. His death followed a brief illness of pneumonia, in his 56th year. Mr. Morton was born in East Randolph, New York. Following his graduation at the University of Arizona, in 1899, he opened an assay office at Yuma, and he later worked in various mines throughout the State of Arizona. In recent years he had been engaged in cement contracting at Yuma.
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James H. Henley, of Seattle, Washington, passed away after six years of illness. He had engaged in mining enterprises in Colorado, Montana, Arizona, California, British Columbia, and Alaska, and lived in Seattle, since 1905. Henley was a charter member of Nile Temple Shriners, a member of Daniel Bagley Lodge, F. & A. M., of the Eastern Star, and of University Commandery, Knights Templar, and of the University Presbyterian Church. He was 76 years of age.
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Frank P. Hebert is now acting as custodian of the La Paz Placers, at Quartzsite, Arizona, formerly worked by the Virginia Louise Mining Company, which company’s lease and bond on the property, expired September 1. Mr. Hebert was recently in Phoenix, with interesting specimens of gold from these placers, when he stated that plans were being made for new development work. Dry washers are being permitted to work on the property, and inquiries for placer operations at this locality are welcome.
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Thorold F. Field, internationally known mining engineer and geologist, was, the middle of this month, in Bisbee, Arizona, renewing old acquaintances. Mr. Field lived in Bisbee more than 20 years ago, serving for four years as geologist for Calumet & Arizona Mining Company. In addition to his engineering activities in this country, for which he maintains headquarters in Duluth, Minnesota, Mr. Field is particularly interested in the Rhodesian copper fields, being a director of three large copper companies operating in South Africa.
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Glenville A. Collins, president of the Glenidick Mines Corporation, and Homer Derrer, field engineer of the company, have lately been at Kingman, Arizona, looking over the Glenidick mining interests in Mohave County. Mr. Collins returned to the coast, but Mr. Derrer will remain at the property, to supervise pumping of water from the mine, for a thorough sampling of all the workings. Mr. Collins, who has headquarters at 2174 Roanoke Road, San Marino, California, recently announced that the Glenidick Company had surrendered its lease and options on the Silver Bell, and Martinez Mines, which it had been working at Florence, Arizona.
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A. J. Balmforth, superintendent of the 85 mines of Calumet & Arizona Mining Company, at Valedon, New Mexico, and Mrs. Rena T. Howard of Baltimore, were married at Lordsburg, New Mexico, December 9. The wedding was witnessed by a group of between 50 and 75 friends, and relatives of the couple. The bride has been visiting this fall and winter with her cousin, Mrs. Hoval A. Smith, of Warren, Arizona. In addition to his host of friends in New Mexico, Mr. Balmforth is equally well known in the Bisbee-Warren District, where he was, for many years, chief engineer for Calumet & Arizona, before his promotion to superintendent of’ the 85 Mines of the company. He has been living at Valedon during the past four years.
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JAMES C. ROBERTS, OF GOLDEN, PASSES AWAY SUDDENLY

James C. Roberts, three times a member of the faculty of the Colorado School of Mines, died at his home in Golden, November 25, after being ill with pneumonia only four days. He was one of the West’s most widely known mining men, and at the time of his death, was Secretary of the Denver Safety Council.

Jim Roberts was born in Newbern, North Carolina, 63 years ago. He was graduated from the University of North Carolina, and did graduate work at the Columbia University.

He first came to Golden, in 1898, as Professor of Metallurgy, and Assaying. He left in 1900, and returned in 1915, as Professor of Safety Engineering and Coal Mining, remaining until 1920. In 1922-28, he was employed by the school as field secretary.

He served the old Globe smelter, in Denver, as chief assayer, and was chief metallurgist for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. His hobby, however, was safety and efficiency, which he followed as head of the United States Bureau of Mines, in the Rocky Mountain Division.

Exposure at the fatal Leyden coal mine disaster, when he was constantly on duty for weeks, weakened his health, and for the past three years, he has been a semi-invalid. Never once did he complain, nor spare much time from the safety council.

Mr. Roberts was president of the Colorado chapter of the A. I. M. E., and a member of several scientific societies. He was a Mason, and member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. He founded the Golden Kiwanis Club, and for eight years, was its secretary. Music was a great hobby of his.

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THE MINING JOURNAL

With Prominent People You Know

I. A. Owens has leased the Bird Mines, 11 miles east of Alpine, Arizona.
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George J. Klein, rate expert for the Wyoming Public Service Commission, has resigned to accept a position in the East.
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Charles Phipps, formerly an employee of The Old Dominion Company, at Globe, Arizona, is now engaged in engineering work in Chile.
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Marcus Whitman, 72, mining man of Salt Lake City, Utah, passed away. He had mining interests in Utah, Idaho, and in Nevada.
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Paul Baker, Utah mining man, has been placed in charge of operations at the Baltic and Buckboard Mines, at Randsburg, California.
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A. H. Lawry, of Goldfield, Nevada, of the engineering staff of George Wingfield, has examined the Gold Metals Property, at Manhattan, Nevada.
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A. C. Mackenzie, Secretary of the Utah Chapter of the American Mining Congress, has returned from the annual convention at Washington, D. C.
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E. J. Stoll, of Omaha, Nebraska, President of the Platinum Metals Corporation, at Albany, Wyoming, recently spent some time at the property.
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J. O. Elton, Manager of the International Smelting Company, 818 Kearns Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, is in New York City on business.
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Aristarco Carrascosa, lawyer and mining engineer, died at his home in El Paso, late in December. He is survived by his widow, and eight children.
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G. A. Burr of New York is engaged in opening several new gold properties on the Nayo River, two days’ journey west of Guadalupe y Calvo, Chihuahua, Mexico.
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Albert Z. Megede, President and General Manager of the Delaware Mining Company, at Silverton, Colorado, visited Kansas City, to confer with his business associates.
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D. M. Leckie, Mill Superintendent for the Royal Development Company, at Red Mountain, near Leavenworth, Washington, has been appointed as General Superintendent.
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R. L. Hughes is in charge of mining, for the Cobalt Gold Mining Company, at Gold Hill, Colorado. He is well known in Colorado camps, and has 25 years of experience.
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W. S. Hall, consulting mining engineer, of El Paso, Texas, died of pneumonia, December 26. He was 77 years of age, and had been a resident of El Paso for 10 years.
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L. A. Friedman, Vice-president and General Manager of the Seven Troughs Gold Mines Company, at Lovelock, Nevada, has returned from a business trip, to Montreal, Canada.
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George H. Harbordt, General Manager of Cia. Minera de Peñoles, S. A., is spending some time in New York. He expects to be absent from Mexico for about two months.
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NEVADA MINE HAS TWO-YEAR RESERVE BLOCKED OUT

The Mt. Montgomery Quicksilver Company has blocked out enough ore at Mt. Montgomery, Nevada, to run a 25-ton furnace a couple of years, according to Louis W. Whiting, President and General Manager. It is 6 to 12-pound quicksilver ore that lends itself readily to reduction. The company planned to install the furnace last summer, but
financial arrangements were not completed early enough in the season to allow its construction. The mine is at an altitude of 9,000 feet, and the snow flies early.

Louis W. Whiting was born at Washington, D. C., 46 years ago. He studied mechanical engineering for three years, at the University of Maryland, and civil engineering for two years, at the George Washington University.

In 1905 he was made an inspector in the construction of a highway bridge across the Potomac River at Washington, followed as instrument man, and chief inspector at the Anacostia River Bridge, also in Washington.

He came to the western country in 1907, and joined the city engineering department in Seattle, Washington. There, he became associated with the Guggenheim engineers, who, realizing his natural talents and observations, advised him to change his career to mining. As a sideline, he scouted the territory along Southern Oregon, and Northern California, and superintended the operation of a couple of mines.

In 1914 he returned to Seattle as Assistant Engineer for the Port of Seattle, on dock construction.

During the war (WW1), he was wounded, and gassed, in Belleau Woods, and while convalescing, built docks at St. Nazaire. He returned to the front with the Sixth Engineers, was again wounded, gassed, and injured by explosives.

These circumstances have made it necessary for him to stay in a dry climate, so he took up mining in Nevada. Besides the Mt. Montgomery Quicksilver, he owns several mines, including the controlling interest in the Endowment Mining Company. Several carload shipments have been made from the Endowment, but work has been suspended there until the price for silver improves.

Whiting enjoys hunting and fishing, and general out-of-door sports. He is fond of dogs. He has coached some football, and at the outbreak of the war, was signed up with a southern university.

He is a member of several military organizations, and a charter member of the American Legion, and of the Society of American Military Engineers.

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James Hamilton, Vice-president of the Lincoln Mining Company, has returned to his home in Detroit, Michigan, from a visit of the company’s mines, west of Osburn, Idaho.
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Albert S. Konselman, mining engineer of Prescott, Arizona, plans on going east on business for the Barbara Mine, in Yavapai County, Arizona. He will be gone several months.
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Richard Garvey, formerly interested in mining properties in the Oatman area, in Mohave County, Arizona, died at his home in Los Angeles, December 16. He was 92 years of age.
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Heath Steele, Vice-president of the American Metal Company, Ltd., has returned to the company’s New York office, from Northern Rhodesia. He sailed from this country last July.
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H. R. Morse, of Palm Beach, Florida, has decided to do some preliminary development on mining claims in San Bernardino County, California. The work will be started in January.
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Ed Moulton, well-known pioneer mining man, and sawmill operator, of Grant County, New Mexico, died December 29, in Santa Rita, following a brief illness. He was in his eighties.
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C. E. Tinsley, who recently operated a lease in the old Rex workings, on Nine Mile Canyon, is in charge of operations for the Silver Spoon Mining Company, near Bonners Ferry, Idaho.
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John W. Suliins, war veteran, and old-time miner of Yavapai County, Arizona, passed away at the Arizona Pioneers’ Home, at Prescott, December 9. He was more than 80 years of age.
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Paul A. Larsh, mining engineer of Silver City, New Mexico, will be at Union, Nebraska, for six months, investigating the Jones Point Link Stone exposure, on the Missouri River, below Omaha.
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C. D. Wilkinson, mining engineer, Box 174, Tonopah, Nevada, has made an examination of the Original Gilbert property in Nevada, now being operated by the Gilbert Standard Mining Company.
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C. C. Ballantyne passed away at his home in the Bransford Apartments, Salt Lake City, Utah. He was a man of varied experiences, and was interested in Bingham mines, and in Wyoming oil.
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Thomas P. Michell, Manager of the United Operating Trust, Inc., at Silverton, Colorado, has gone to the headquarters of that organization, in Rochester, New York, to confer with officials of the trust.
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George C. Gates, about 75 years of age, died at Wilbur Springs, California, following a heart attack. He was an authority on concentration, and had devoted the greater part of his life to mill work.
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John F. Mulhall, of Amatlán de Canas, Nayarit, Mexico, expects to shortly install a process for treatment of gold and silver ore, from his properties in that country. He is the sole owner of the holdings.
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John A. Thomas is Mine Superintendent of the Christmas Copper Company, at Christmas, Arizona. His name was incorrectly given as John A. Thorne, in the December 30 issue of The Mining Journal.
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P. C. Eisenhauer has been appointed as General Superintendent, for the Seven Troughs Gold Mines Company, at Lovelock, Nevada. Robert Dixon has been made Mine Foreman, to succeed Eisenhauer.
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Granville S. Moore, and G. Cleveland Taylor, consulting engineers, at present located in the H. W. Hellman Building, in Los Angeles, are investigating gold properties in Arizona and Southern California.
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J. N. Ethridge, 46-year-old retired mining man, died at his home near Globe, Arizona, December 17. Mr. Ethridge had been active in mining several years ago, but had retired from work because of ill health.
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Ed. Kevern of the engineering staff of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company, at Kellogg, Idaho, has been inspecting the new Slate Creek mineral area, northeast of Metaline Falls, Washington.
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E. H. Ward, of Ensley, Alabama, has given up his connection with the United States Steel Corporation, in order that he may devote more time to the Ward Gold Mining Company’s property, near Durango, Colorado.
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Dr. W. C. Mendenhall, of Washington, D. C., has been appointed Acting Director of the United States Geological Survey, to succeed Dr. George Otis Smith, who resigned, to become a member of the new power commission.
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Ernest Schneider has been chosen as President of the Telluric Mining and Smelting Company, to succeed J. J. Sawbridge, of Yakima, Washington. The company’s headquarters have recently been moved from Seattle, to Yakima.
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B. F. McAllister, General Manager of the Protection Gold & Copper Company, at Bouse, Arizona, spent some time in Los Angeles, late in December. It is understood that the company will resume operations early in the year.
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E. J. Schrader, who has been Assistant General Manager, in charge of operations for the Seven Troughs Gold Mines Company, has resigned, and moved back to Reno, Nevada, where he will reopen his office as consulting engineer.
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F. W. Libbey, who was for some time, Superintendent of the Zenda Gold Mining Company, at Barstow, California, has returned to Miami, Arizona, where he is again connected with the Pinto Valley Company.
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It is understood that Jack Mclver, of Phoenix, has returned to Oatman, Arizona, where he expects to reside for several months. Mr. Mclver has of late, been at Oatman, getting things in shape at the Teliuride Mine, for further development below the 600 Level.
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James I. Moore, Jr., General Superintendent for the Chelan Copper Company at Chelan, Washington, explained the developments at the Holden Mine, on Railroad Creek, before the Lake Chelan Chamber of Commerce, at its meeting on the evening of December 4.
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Mark N. Ailing, mining engineer, and who has a large interest in the Kern oil fields, has turned his attention to the development of a placer proposition in Calaveras County, California. Ailing makes his headquarters at 284 Perkins Street, Oakland, California.
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L. R. Robins, consulting mining engineer, 2589 Jefferson Avenue, Ogden, Utah, examined the property of the Gold Metals Mining Company, at Manhattan, Nevada. The examination was made for “Death Valley” Scotty, and his partner, A. M. Johnson, of Chicago.
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W. J. Loring has been elected a director, as well as Managing Director and Vice-president, of the Searchlight Gold Corporation, at Searchlight, Nevada. The company is building a 100-ton mill, and making other important improvements, that will go into operation about February 1.
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Archibald McNab, mining engineer, formerly employed in the vicinity of Prescott, Arizona, was killed while working in a mine in Peru, South America, November 15. Mr. McNab went to Arizona, following his graduation at McGill University, and left there last spring, for Peru.
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J. M. Porter, of Spokane, Washington, well known to mining men through the Northwestern states, and scheduled for the Vice-chairmanship of the Columbia Section of the A. I. M. E., passed away in his office, in the Peyton Building, while talking with a friend on the silver question.
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Seized with a heart attack after he had been host to a Christmas party in his home, in San Francisco, California, Edmund Jussen, mining engineer, and geologist, passed away. He was well known in the mining camps of Silver Peak, and Battle Mountain, Nevada, and in the Coeur d’Alenes, in Idaho.
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Dr. Paul Meyer, Professor Emeritus at the Colorado School of Mines, passed away December 12, at the age of 76. He was a native of Switzerland, and came to the School of Mines in 1900. Dr. Meyer was one of the best mathematicians in the country, and was granted his honorary membership last spring.
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John D. Ryan, Chairman of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, is one of six distinguished industrial leaders, after whom, have been named six study halls in the new College of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, at Notre Dame University, the gift of E. N. Hurley, wartime Chairman of the United States Shipping Board.
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Eugene T. O’Dell, 58-year-old mining man, of Santa Cruz County, Arizona, was found dead in his room in a Nogales hotel, December 27. Death was believed to have been caused by a heart attack. He had been interested in mining for some years, and was reported to be the owner of the Bonanzita Mine, in Sonora, Mexico.
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Hugh M. Craigie, Mining Engineer, and Foreman, for the American Smelting & Refining Company, at Santa Barbara, Chihuahua, Mexico, was on December 23, reported captured, and being held for ransom, by Mexican outlaws. Military authorities cooperated in an effort to secure his release. Craigie has been with A. S. & R. since 1924.
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J. M. Horton, of Fillmore, California, has been elected as President of the West Gold Mining Company, at Idaho Springs, Colorado, an office created through the sudden death of President and General Manager J. A. Hinds. H. E. Winser has been elected as Vice-president and General Manager. George H. Curnow is Secretary-Treasurer.
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J. R. Towner, partner with Henry Ott, in the development of the Cardinal, and Florine Mines on Cinnabar Mountain, 12 miles east of Mina, Nevada, has sold his interest to his partner, and going into a hospital, in Santa Barbara. Upon his return to Nevada, he intends to open up a property of his own, close to the Cardinal and Florine Mines.
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H. S. Martin, formerly Metallurgical Engineer, at the Arthur Plant, of the Utah Copper Company, has located permanently at Mullberry, Florida, where he has become assistant to President J. F. Burrows, of the Phosphate Recovery Corporation. A few days ago, he returned to Salt Lake City to close his affairs, and return to Florida with his wife and family.
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John Sikes, Chief Watchman for Miami Copper Company, for the past 17 years, dropped dead December 19, as he was leaving the Miami-Inspiration Hospital, after receiving treatment for a previous heart attack. He had walked about 100 feet from the hospital, when he fell. Mr. Sikes was born in Gonzales, Texas, in 1869, and went to the Miami District 20 years ago.
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Albert L. Fritz, of Tucson, Arizona, has resigned as Director and Treasurer, of the Fritz-Hamilton Mines Development Company, and will hereafter be associated with the Mineral Belt Mines, Inc., which has been organized for development of the Swastika property, and the Annette-Olivette and Corda-Flannery Groups of claims, in the Olive Mining District, of Pima County, Arizona.
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E. O. Slater, Manager of the Smith Emery Company, chemists, 920 Santee Street, Los Angeles, California, has been appointed Chairman of a newly created nonmetallic minerals committee. The committee is sponsored by the Manufacturing and Industrial Department of the Chamber of Commerce, and will endeavor to establish coordination between the producer and consumer.
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J. A. Porterie, 75-year-old pioneer of Phoenix, Arizona, well-known in mining circles of that state as an assayer, died suddenly December 17. In addition to operation of his assay offices, Mr. Porterie had been interested in a number of Arizona mining ventures, and was at one time, Chemist at the Vulture Mine, at Wickenburg. He was born in France, and for a time, attended a Paris Mining School.
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Neal N. Geoglein, operating the San Andres Mines, Escalon, Chihuahua, Mexico, was recently on a tour of inspection of various quicksilver properties, in which he is interested, in the States of Durango and Zacatecas. He is reported producing a large amount of quicksilver from the San Andres properties at the present time, and expects to begin operations, at some of the other mines, within the near future.
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Alberto Genty, formerly one of the-largest ore shippers in the famous mining region of Sierra Ramirez, near San Juan de Guadalupe, State of Durango, Mexico, is continuing operations on a reduced scale. Mr. Genty will take advantage of the present lull in mining operations, and spend a couple of months in France. During his absence, mines of Mr. Genty will be in charge of his brother, Fermin Genty, of Estacion Rivas, Durango.
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S. A. Madrid, who has been Metallurgist in charge of the flotation mills of the CusiMexicana Mining Company, of Cusihuiriachic, Chihuahua, Mexico, has left for Yoquivo, via Guerrero, Chihuahua, to be associated with Cia. Minera Hermes, S. A., and there he will erect a flotation mill which will be operated as a custom plant,to enable miners of that district,to dispose of ores that will not stand shipping. He will also operate a mining property or two, on company account,
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Louis S. Cates, President of Phelps Dodge Corporation, was recently in Douglas, Arizona, for a business conference, with P. G. Beckett, Vice-president and General Manager of Phelps Dodge. Mr. Cates had been on the Pacific Coast, on a trip he started from his New York offices, on December 15. Douglas was his only Arizona stop, this trip. While in that city he expressed the opinion that business improvement would not come in the form of a boom, but would likely come steadily, and upon a firm basis.
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John H. Young, pioneer cattleman, merchant, and mining man, of Youngsville, New Mexico, passed away December 24, at the age of 92 years. Mr. Young was born in Ireland, but was brought to this country by his parents, when a small child. In his youth, he came West, and prospected in Colorado. He was elected the first mayor of Del Norte, Colorado. After going to New Mexico, he prospected extensively, and opened up the La Belle, and Red River Mining Districts, near Taos. He left several mining claims at his death.
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John A. Grosbeck, the discoverer of the famous Flagstaff Mine at Alta, Utah, passed away suddenly. He went to Alta when a lad of 18, to work at the great Emma Strike. Attracted to the country northwest, and higher up the slope, he found some float and searched for its source. After laboring without results, he sat down on the trunk of a great windfall, and while sitting there, picked up a piece of galena. The mine passed through the hands of several owners, and has yielded many thousands of dollars.
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Canadian copper production is no menace to the red metal industry in the United States, in the opinion of W. G. McBride, of Montreal, formerly General Manager of the Old Dominion Company, who, with Mrs. McBride, has been visiting in Globe, Arizona, as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Barkdoll, present Old Dominion Manager.

Unemployment in Canada has not provided the widespread serious public problem that has been reached in the United States, according to Mr. McBride. Upon the conclusion of their visit in Globe, the couple will leave on their return trip to Montreal, where Mr. McBride is Head of the Mining and Engineering Department, of McGill University.
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L. A. CHAPTER OF MINING ASSN. HOLDS ITS ANNUAL MEETING

By unanimous vote of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Mining Association of California, at its first annual meeting, held recently at the Engineers’ Club, Charles L. Gilmore, of Sacramento, was recommended for the position as Director of Natural Resources in the council of Governor Rolph.

Another feature of the meeting was the appointment of a committee, consisting of C. R. Walleck, mine operator; G. A. Joslin, consulting mining engineer; A. B. Law, lawyer; and the chairman, Walter G. Clark, consulting engineer, to meet the new Commissioner of Corporate Securities, Mr. Haight, and to discuss matters with him, from a mining point of view. That the constitutionality of the Corporate Securities Act is being tested in the courts, was shown by clippings read by Edward W. Brooks, Chairman of the Publicity Committee.

State Director B. M. Snyder reported that at the annual meeting of the Association, and Mining Congress held at Sacramento, on December 6, it was recommended that gold used in the arts be, in the future, bought direct from the miner, thus probably creating a natural premium, or possibly forcing an artificial one. Chairman Clark said that in his experience, this had been suggested years ago in England, and caused a European uproar.

For the standing committee on Workmen’s Compensation, Roy L. Cornell, on facts compiled by the Chapter Secretary, Edgar Bush, reported favoring the State Compensation Fund. Dudley N. Humphrey, former Corporate Securities Commissioner for the State of Colorado, gave a talk on the commission experiences in that state.

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ARIZONA MAN EN ROUTE TO AFRICAN COPPER MINE

Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Carpenter, have left Douglas, Arizona, for New York, on the first lap of a journey to northern Rhodesia, South Africa, where Mr. Carpenter will be engaged in construction work at the Roan Antelope copper properties. En route, they planned to make a brief stop at the Madeira Islands.

From Capetown, South Africa, the Carpenters will travel six days by rail, to Luanahya, where they are to be met by D. D. Irwin, General Manager of Roan Antelope, and former Superintendent with the Copper Queen Branch of Phelps Dodge at Douglas; James Sheppard, a former Arizonian, and George Neville, who was superintendent for the Dwight P. Robinson Company, when it rebuilt the Copper Queen Smelter.

Mr. Carpenter will be with the Smelter Buildings Department of the Roan Antelope. He has previously lived in Arizona practically all his life, and is a graduate of the Phoenix High School and the University of Arizona, class of 1924, with a degree in civil engineering. He was with Calumet & Arizona Mining Company, at Douglas, for two years, before becoming identified with the Robinson Construction Company. When the smelter renovation work at Douglas was completed, he became Assistant Head of the Preparation Department of the Copper Queen Branch of Phelps Dodge.

Another Arizonian, who will also leave shortly for a position with Roan Antelope, is P. L. Schefer, of Bisbee. It is understood that he will become Mill Superintendent with the company.

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ARIZONA STATE MINE INSPECTOR REAPPOINTS STAFF

Tom C. Foster, re-elected Arizona State Mine Inspector, has announced the re-appointment of his former staff of deputy mine inspectors, and office secretary. He began his new term of office, with headquarters in the state capitol building, January 5.

Those renamed by Mr. Foster, are J. C. Anglin, of Globe, Deputy Mine Inspector for the Central District; Clifford J. Murdock, of Mayer, Deputy Mine Inspector for the Northern District, and James Malley, of Bisbee, Deputy State Mine Inspector for the Southern District. Mr. Anglin and Mr. Malley have both served as deputies since 1923, when Mr. Foster first became mine inspector for the state. Mr. Murdock has served as Deputy Mine Inspector, since August 1, 1928. Mrs. Nellie B. Plumb will continue as Mr. Foster’s office secretary.

A native of Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he was born in 1873, Mr. Foster has spent practically all of his adult life in some phase of the mining industry. He was brought to the West, by his parents, at a ver

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