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rehab · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:39 pm Post subject: 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.

rehab · Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 7:19 pm Post subject: MINING MEN TMJ 11 30 1929

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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rehab · Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject: MINING MEN TMJ 06 30 1931

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.

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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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