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783 May 6, 1922 Engineering and Mining Journal-Press

MEN YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

H. C. Schmidt is making a three weeks’ visit to San Francisco.
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John Tallant is on his way home to San Francisco, from La Paz, Bolivia.
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Eugene H. Dawson is examining mining properties in Southern Illinois.
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Roy H. Elliott has been in Gold Hill, Nev., inspecting operations of the United Comstock.
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Frank L. Sizer has returned to San Francisco, from inspecting a mine in Mono County, Cal.
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Harry L. Brown, Chief field engineer of the American Metal Co., has returned from a trip to Cuba.
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Charles B. Rogers, of London, is expected to arrive in New York, May 8, on the steamship “Orbita.”
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E. Percy Smith, mining engineer, announces occupancy of his new office at 15 William St., New York City.
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Harold McLeod Cobb, General manager of the Soto Mines Co., has arrived in New York, from El Paso, Tex.
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Reginaldo Opeda has recently been examining prospects at Jimulco. He has returned to Guanacevi, Durango, Mexico.
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H. C. Dudley has returned to Pasadena, Cal., from a visit of inspection to the Ahumada lead mine, in Sonora, Mexico.
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E. E. Whitely, Superintendent of the Calumet & Arizona Mining Co., has been called to Minnesota, by the death of his father.
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Sir Henri W. A. Deterding, of the Royal Dutch-Shell Oil Co., is in California on a tour of inspection, of the company’s properties.
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Raymond Guyer, of Spokane, left on April 21, for a trip of inspection to the property of the Con Gold Mining Co. at Acaponeta, Nayarit, Mexico.
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Hewitt O. Fearn, mining engineer of Hyder, Alaska, and Oyster Bay, N. Y., left New York on April 30, for Maracaibo, Venezuela, on oil exploration.
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Theodore Dickel has finished his engagement with the Cia Minera de Eureka, at Tejamen, Durango, and will examine properties elsewhere in the State of Durango.
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C. M. Loeb, President of the American Metal Co., reached Seattle on April 25, after a trip of seven months around the world. He arrived in New York, on May 1.
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M. W. Hayward, Chief engineer of the Cia Minera de Peñoles, has been in Guanacevi, Durango, Mexico, for the last two weeks, inspecting the company’s properties.
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H. A. Linke, of Salt Lake City, and Peter Roder, of New York, have joined the Federal engineering force at the Independence-North Star properties, near Hailey, Idaho.
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George L. Dickinson has been transferred from Santa Barbara, Chihuahua, Mexico, to Asarco, Durango, as Chief Assayer of the branch there, of the American Smelters Securities Co.
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Robert N. Bell, former State mine inspector of Idaho, who has been operating the Red Bird property, came East recently, in the hope of securing beneficial medical attention for his eyes.
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Philip L. Foster, Robert M. Raymond, and Alfred F. Main, consulting mining engineers, announce that their offices were removed on April 25, to 350 Madison Ave., New York City.
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C. M. Weld, of Weld & Liddell, has returned to New York, from a professional trip to Alabama and Tennessee, and will leave on April 30, for West Virginia, where he will investigate some coal properties.
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J. B. Moore has resigned as manager of the Jimulco Mining Co., and the Texas-Mexico Mining Co., at Jimulco, and Velardeña, Durango, Mexico. He is succeeded by I. S. James. Mr. Moore has gone to Santa Cruz, Durango, to take charge of the Santa Cruz Mining Co., succeeding S. W. Loving.
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G. H. Dowell, Manager of the Copper Queen Branch, of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, has gone on a six months’ vacation to California and Honolulu. D. D. Irwin, formerly in charge the corporation’s operations at Nacozari, Sonora, Mexico, is in charge temporarily of the Copper Queen Branch.
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The partnership of Huntoon & Van Arsdale has been discontinued. L. D. Huntoon will continue practice as consulting mining engineer, at 115 Broadway, New York City, and G. D. Van Arsdale will continue practice as consulting chemist and metallurgist, at 1011 South Figueroa St., Los Angeles.
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Dr. F. V. Meriweather, Surgeon for the U. S. Bureau of Mines, and R. V. Ageton, Car Engineer for the Bureau, have returned to Houghton, Mich., from a trip to Elcor, Minn., where they presented a hero medal to Dan Beondich, on behalf of the Bureau, in recognition of his work in saving lives at a mine fire at Elcor.
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H. Foster Bain, Director of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, left Washington on April 30, for a trip of inspection in Alaska, during which he will witness tests of coal from the Chickaloon, and Bering River fields, to determine their fitness for naval use. En route, he will visit the experiment stations of the Bureau, at Urbana, Denver, San Francisco, and Seattle. He will leave Seattle on May 17, and visit Governor Bone, at Juneau, going on to Seward and Sutton, where the coal tests will be held, and traversing the region covered by the Alaskan railroad.
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Mining and metallurgical engineers visiting New York City last week included:
E. James Lowry, of South Bend, Md.;
Eugene Lilly, of St. Paul, Minn.;
Donald C. Barton, of Houston, Tex.;
Henry Johnson, of Kingman, Ariz.;
Frank Hess, of Washington, D. C.;
R. O. Griffis, of Middletown, Ohio;
R. A. Schmucker, of Red Hook, N. Y.;
G. R. Elliott, of Goderich, Ont.;
And Lloyd L. Evans, of Cleveland, Ohio.
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The Utah Metal Mine Institute will hold the second meeting, since its organization, in Park City, July 14 and 15. The Park City meeting will be the first of the two meetings planned for 1922, and the time will be devoted largely to the inspection of the mining properties in the camp. The second meeting of the year will take place in Salt Lake City, at a date not fixed, and will include papers and discussions. Members of the Executive committee are: A. S. Winther and E. A. Hamilton, of Bingham; H. M. Hartman, of Ophir; Forest Mathez and O. N. Friendly, of Park City; T. P. Billings and A. J. May, of Tintic; and C. A. Allen, Ernest Gaford, N. A. Robertson and A. G. MacKenzie, of Salt Lake City.
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OBITUARY

Jesse G. Morgan died at Webb City, Mo., on April 27.
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Harold J. MacKenzie, of Woodstock, Ontario, died of pneumonia, on April 25, in his thirty-first year. He was graduated from Toronto University, with honors, as a mining engineer, in 1914, and was engaged with the Clark-Dodge Corporation of New York, in charge of the Montana Consolidated Copper Co. When the war broke out, he enlisted in the Canadian Engineering Corps, rose to the rank of Major, and won the Military Cross.
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W. H. Armstrong died recently, in Vancouver, B. C. A high tribute was paid to his work by members of the Vancouver Branch, of the Canadian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy. It was pointed out that he had much to do with the founding of the great fire-clay refractories, and brick industry, of Clayburn; the development of coal mining at Merritt, the development of the Ikeda Mine, at Queen Charlotte Island, and exploration for coal and other minerals in the Similkameen district, Queen Charlotte Islands, and other portions of the province.
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Engineering and Mining Journal-Press Vol. 113, No. 18 MAY 6, 1922

The principal virtues of molybdenum as an alloy for steel, are embraced in its ability to increase the elastic limit and resistance to fatigue, and to decrease brittleness. Metallurgical problems, such as that of keeping the molybdenum in the steel, and making a homogeneous alloy, have been solved.

One of the chief uses promises to be in automobiles. For some time the Wills Sainte Claire has been advertised as “the mo-lyb-den-um car,” and it is understood that the Nash, Chevrolet, and Studebaker have adopted the new alloy, or will do so shortly. The Studebaker will soon be made entirely of molybdenum steel, with the exception of springs.
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THE JOURNAL-PRESS STAFF

FELIX EDGAR WORMSER

THE GREAT WAR marked the beginning of the recognition of the engineer as a factor in governmental affairs, as it brought to the front, all of the latent talent in every department of industry and science, that the most intensive effort on the part of the Government could effect. After peace came, the Engineering and Mining Journal found an opportunity to call into its editorial staff, Felix Edgar Wormser, who had distinguished himself through his work with the Journal’s Editor-in-Chief, in the Bureau of Mines, as a mining engineer engaged in its minerals investigations, and in the settlement of the war minerals claims, resulting from the Government’s stimulation of the production of essential materials.

Mr. Wormser was born on Oct. 3, 1894, at Santa Barbara, Cal. In 1901, he came to New York City with his parents, and from 1908 to 1912, was a student in Stuyvesant High School. He entered Columbia University in 1912, taking a mining course, and winning a Morgan scholarship, in 1915. Mr. Wormser was stroke oar on the Varsity Crew in 1915, and during his course, became a member of Delta Upsilon, and Theta Tau fraternities. He was graduated in June, 1916, with the degree of Engineer of Mines, and immediately thereafter went to Oregon as a mining engineer, for the Snake River Mines Co., at Huntington, Ore., and the Baker Mines Co., at Cornucopia, Ore., doing some work of a geological nature also for the Cornucopia Mines Co., of the same camp, and aiding the manager in his activities.

While employed at the Baker mines, Mr. Wormser took an examination as a United States Mineral Surveyor, and received an appointment, becoming the youngest mineral surveyor in the state. At the outbreak of the War, he enlisted as a private in an engineering unit situated in Washington, becoming a second lieutenant, after being ordered to, and completing his training in, the Engineer Officers’ Training School, at Camp Humphreys, Va. In March 1918, he received an appointment to the U. S. Bureau of Mines, under J. E. Spurr, on minerals investigation, and war minerals relief work, being responsible for several papers issued on the metal situation.

In April, 1920, Mr. Wormser joined the staff of Engineering and Mining Journal, specializing in the work of the paper having to do with metal quotations, the markets, and in the non-metallic minerals, and conducting, also, the departments devoted to consultation and company reports. Readers of Engineering and Mining Journal and of the Journal-Press, are familiar with his Market Studies, which have attained general recognition as authentic and trustworthy analyses of metal and mineral production, and marketing conditions.

A paper on this subject, “The importance of Foreign Trade in Copper and Other Metals,” was published under his signature in the March, 1921, issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, which was devoted to the foreign trade problems of the United States.

Mr. Wormser was married to Elsie Wolff, at St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, on March 18, 1920, and makes his home in New York City. He is a member of the A. I. M. E. and of the Columbia University Club. More than six feet two inches tall, and possessing a long “reach,” Mr. Wormser is admirably fitted for boxing, which is his favorite indoor sport, although he owns, also, to some experience on the tennis court.

The junior member of the staff, Mr. Wormser has evinced marked adaptability to the requirements of technical journalism, and his office associates believe that he will attain the same warm popularity and esteem with Journal-Press readers, that he enjoys among the members of the Journal-Press force.

In accordance with the policy recently adopted by Engineering and Mining Journal-Press, of establishing a closer contact between the field, and the editorial office, Mr. Wormser will, during May and June, make a trip through the Black Hills gold-mining region of South Dakota, and the Montana mining districts, where he will devote especial attention to those activities centering in Butte, visiting, also, the Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, mining region.
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March 18, 1922 ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL

MEN YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

J. B. Tyrrell, of Toronto, left for London last week.
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E. J. Collins, of Duluth, is in Arizona on professional business.
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D. W. Brunton sailed for Tahiti, from San Francisco, on March 3.
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Fred J. Siebert, consulting engineer of Reno, has been in Randsburg, Cal., on professional business.
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W. H. Williams, discoverer of the California Rand Silver mine, at Randsburg, is in San Francisco.
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E. P. Mathewson arrived in San Francisco, on March 13, from a six months’ business trip to India.
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Walter A. Rukeyser left last week for The Pas, Manitoba, en route to the Elbow Lake district, in Canada.
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Major H. H. Armstead returned to Talache, Idaho, the first of March, after spending the winter in New York.
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C. W. Purington has been at Vladivostok, during January and February, and has now returned to Yokohama.
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J. E. Spurr, Editor of Engineering and Mining Journal, addressed the San Francisco section of the A. I. M. E., on March 6.
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George D. Carpenter, of St. Louis, Vice-president of the St. Louis Smelting & Refining Co., was recently in San Francisco.
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H. S. Munroe, General Manager of the Granby Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd., has left Canada, on a visit to California.
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Burt G. Shields, of New York, has been nominated as assayer of the New York assay office, succeeding George R. Comings, deceased.
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B. C. Gemmell, General Manager of the Utah Copper Co., accompanied by J. E. Cawley, left Salt Lake City, for New York, on March 2.
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W. C. Browning, General Manager of the Magma Copper Co., Superior, Ariz., is visiting New York, and other Eastern points, on a business trip.
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J. W. Sherwin, General Manager of the West End, and Halifax companies, in Tonopah, is in Tonopah, having come from his headquarters in Oakland.
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W. C. Fellows, manager of the Ben Harrison mine, in Grant County, Ore., returned to Oregon recently, from a three months’ sojourn in Kentucky.
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Julius M. Cohen, Consulting engineer of the Elbow Lake mines, in The Pas district, Manitoba, has gone to the property to arrange for preliminary development work.
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Bulkeley Wells, President of the Metals Exploration Co., left Denver on March 10, for the New York office of the company, where he will remain until about April 1.
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Norman Carmichael, former General Manager of the Arizona Copper Co., Ltd., has been named to represent the interests of that corporation, on the Phelps Dodge directorate.
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C. B. Manville, of the Johns-Manville Co., of New York, accompanied by Robert Malcolm, and John S. Evarts, was a recent visitor to the Thumb Butte property, in Mohave County, Ariz.
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L. S. Cates, Assistant General Manager of the Utah Copper Co. and General Manager of the Ray Consolidated Copper Co., and D. D. Moffat, left Salt Lake City, on March 2, for Arizona, on an inspection of the company’s properties.
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Charles V. Safford, Administrative Assistant to A. B. Fall, Secretary of the Interior, was in Denver on March 10 and 11, conferring with heads of the General Land Office, Reclamation Service, National Park Service, and Bureau of Mines.
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Harmon F. Fisher has been appointed as engineer, connected with the Research Division, of the American Petroleum Institute. Mr. Fisher has been a consulting engineer, and was previously Engineer in Charge of Operation, at the Government helium plant No. 3, Petrolia, Tex.
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Charles S. Herzig, of New York, made an inspection of mining property in Montana, the latter part of February; from there going to the Coeur d’Alenes, where he made an examination of the Independence Lead Co.’s property above Mullan, Idaho, and the Rex Consolidated, north of Wallace.
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D. A. Rossell has resigned the Superintendency of the Iron Cap mill, at Globe, Ariz., to take charge of the Milling Department of the Mineral Products Co., with headquarters at Boston. He will be succeeded at Globe by W. H. Rith, who has been in charge of the C. O. D. mill, in Mohave County.
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Dr. J. D. MacKenzie, head of the British Columbia Branch, of the Canadian Geological Survey, has left Vancouver for Ottawa, to confer with Charles Camsell, Deputy Minister of Mines, and other officials, regarding the plans of the Canadian Geological Survey for field work in British Columbia, during the coming summer.
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Carl Sparks, a mining engineer who has been specializing in placer mining at the Fairbanks, Alaska, station of the Bureau of Mines, is returning to the United States, and will be stationed at Berkeley, Cal., until the end of the fiscal year, where he will be engaged upon a report of the results of his work. After July 1, he will return to the Mine-Rescue Division, in which he formerly served.
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H. Foster Bain, Director of the Bureau of Mines, was elected President of the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association, at its annual meeting at Washington, D. C., last week. Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, was named First Vice-President, and Samuel Gompers, President of the A. F. of L., Second Vice-President. George S. Rice, Chief Mining Engineer of the Bureau, and James Lord, of the Mining Department of the A. F. of L., were elected Directors.
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Mining and metallurgical engineers visiting New York City last week included:
L. C. Fopeano, Kannarock, Va.;
Alma Ek, Chile, S. A.;
T. B. Counselman, Babbitt, Minn.;
and John T. Reid, Lovelock, Nev.
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OBITUARY

Benjamin Magnus was found dead in Poughkeepsie, on March 13. Mr. Magnus was a graduate of the Columbia School of Mines, and for many years was connected with the Mount Morgan Copper Co. in Australia.
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Dr. John Casper Branner, noted geologist, and for a time, President of Stanford University, died recently at his home in Palo Alto. Dr. Branner was known principally for his researches in the geology of Brazil. As an inspiring teacher, he did much to develop the Department of Geology at Stanford.
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William H. Nicholls, a pioneer of the Cascade Range, in Michigan, died on March 7, at the age of eighty. Captain Nicholls came to America, from England, about forty years ago, and was first employed at the Jackson mine, Negaunee. Later, he took charge of the Star West mine, at Palmer, for the Corrigan-McKinney interests.
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Alexander M. Gow, Assistant Chief Engineer for the Oliver Iron Mining Co., Duluth, Minn., died at his home on March 8. Mr. Gow had been connected with the Oliver Iron Mining Co. for the last seventeen years, during which time he had complete charge of its mechanical activities on the Mesabi and the Michigan iron ranges. The introduction of larger type machinery in open-pit work and underground mining on the Lake Superior iron districts was due in great measure to his effort and foresight. Mr. Gow was greatly esteemed by all who knew him and was distinguished in his profession. He was a graduate of Washington and Jefferson University and also took a postgraduate course at the University of Ohio.
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March 18, 1922 ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL 451

Mining Engineers of Note
Horace Pomeroy

MY TRAINING and experience have been rather ordinary,” says Horace Pomeroy. This is a common complaint among mining engineers, who have made enviable records in the profession, many of them seeming to think that it requires a narrow escape from voracious cannibals in the African tropics, the successful administration of the technical and business affairs of a great mine, or a rise from a struggling shoelace peddler, to the affluent presidency of a reasonably sized mining corporation, to entitle the engineer to any recognition.

Although perfectly true that the operators of large mining properties are usually well known by name, to fellow engineers, it is no less equally true, that the engineers of smaller mines, have problems just as momentous, and difficult to solve. Inasmuch as fewer people are financially interested in the smaller ventures, it is not surprising that engineers connected with them, do not receive as much publicity, as the fellow members engaged in larger operations.

Horace Pomeroy was born in Pennsylvania, in 1875— nothing out of the ordinary in that. His father, who was a mining engineer, took his family out West, when Horace was but a few years old. We hate to think what would have happened had father Pomeroy remained in Pennsylvania—Horace would probably have gone into coal mining, and the War Minerals Relief Commission would have been without the services of a valuable member.

However, he received a grammar-and high-school education, in Portland, Ore., and was graduated from the Engineering Department, of Leland Stanford, Jr., University, in 1897. The love of an outdoor life which he acquired, and his fondness for athletics undoubtedly had something to do with his stay at the university for a year, after graduation, as Graduate manager, whose duties involved a supervision of athletic funds.

For five years, Pomeroy worked with his father in various gold-dredging, and gold-mining operations. He occupied himself with different engineering tasks, and ultimately became engineer for the King of Arizona mine, at Kofa, Ariz. In 1908, he was made General Superintendent, and for five years remained in charge. The King of Arizona was a low-grade gold mine, with fuel and water scarce, and situated forty-five miles from a railroad.

In other words, one of those mines—there are many like that in the United States—far off the beaten track, and requiring much perseverance and skill, to overcome unusual operating conditions. That he managed to make a good profit on $6 ore under those circumstances, is surely nothing ordinary. In 1906, Pomeroy resigned, to become the General Manager of the Black Mountain mine, in Sonora, Mexico, a gold-silver property, where he stayed until 1911. The mine was equipped with a 1,000-ton plant, and mining, milling, and cyaniding, were done under $2 per ton. “Conditions, of course, were all in our favor,” modestly says Mr. Pomeroy, which, if correct, is also out of the ordinary. The Black Mountain mine closed down in 1911, and he took up consulting and examination work for about five years.

He then directed the operations of the Mammoth mines, at Schultz, Ariz., as General Manager, a mine producing molybdenum, and being developed into a gold mine. He remained there from 1917 to 1919, when he was called to Washington to act as a commissioner on the War Minerals Relief Commission, filling the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. Foster, one of the three commissioners originally appointed.

Mr. Pomeroy quickly made his presence felt in the expedition of the work of the commission. He never forgot his role of a public servant, and discharged his duties, and contributed his opinions, from that standpoint. He was true to the training of judicial decision, and prompt impartial action, which alone can make a successful mine operator, and hence, is the best preparation for a man for public service.

When we compare men of this type, with those who come into public service through the school of law and politics, and observe how the latter have come to forever act with an ear to the ground, for an unfavorable reaction against their decisions, and a hand swift to retract, alter, and conciliate, any and every faction, we heartily wish that we could fill up the public service with mining engineers.
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March 4, 1922 ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL 375

MEN YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

Rush T. Sill, mining engineer, of Los Angeles, recently examined property near Randsburg, Cal.
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J. K. Turner, mining engineer, of Goldfield, Nev., is in Oatman, Ariz., on professional business.
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W. J. Loring left San Francisco recently, on a business trip to Boston, New York, and Washington.
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George Gray has resigned his position as manager of the Canadian Association Goldfields, of Larder Lake.
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Robert F. McElvenny, Manager of the American Smelting & Refining plant, at Omaha, was a visitor in Colorado, recently.
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Henry C. Carr, who has been investigating mineral deposits in Brazil, during the last six months, has returned to New York.
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Luther W. Lennox is Mill Superintendent, of the Veta Grande unit, of the American Smelting & Refining Co., at Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico.
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W. H. Blackburn, General Manager of the Tonopah Mining Co., has returned to Tonopah, from a business trip to the Mother Lode district in California.
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James F. McCarthy, of Wallace, Idaho, President and Manager of the Hecla Mining Co., is in Milwaukee, attending a meeting of the directors of the company.
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Walter S. Weeks will discuss mine ventilation, at the meeting of the San Francisco Section, of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, on March 14.
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Frederic Keffer, formerly Manager of the Canada Copper Co.’s Boundary, B. C., operations, is recovering at his home in Spokane, from an operation performed during February.
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Frederick Burbidge, of Wallace, Idaho, General Manager of the Federal Mining & Smelting Co., is inspecting the zinc-mining operations of the company, at Baxter Springs, Kan., and Picher, Okla.
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F. J. Katz, who has been in charge of mineral statistics, for the Bureau of the Census, during the time that the 1920 returns were coming in, has completed that work, and will resume his duties with the U. S. Geological Survey. He specializes in work on abrasives and metallics, generally.
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H. A. Megraw has resigned as engineer, for the Kennedy-Van Saun Manufacturing & Engineering Corporation, of New York, to become Vice-president and Treasurer, of the Crown Oil & Wax Co., of Baltimore, Md.
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Lieutenant Colonel John G. Barry, formerly of the Geological Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and now, mining geologist and engineer of El Paso, Tex., recently returned after completing an extensive geological study in the region of Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico.
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E. J. Donohue has resigned the position of General Manager of the Britannia Mining & Smelting Co., after having been with the company for about nine years. Having entered the service of this company, in the early years of its enterprise, on Howe Sound, B. C., he has been closely identified with its development and expansion. Mr. Donohue feels that his health demands a prolonged rest, and so has asked to be relieved of the responsibilities of his office.
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Mining and metallurgical engineers visiting New York City last week included:
W. B. Plank, Easton, Pa.;
Herbert W. Smith, Washington, D. C.;
Paul R. Cook, Bulgaria;
C. F. Jackson, Cleveland;
Harrison Souder, Cornwall, Pa.;
W. R. Chedsey, State College, Pa.;
Richard R. Smith, Bolivia;
R. R. Wilson, Victoria, B. C.;
and Francis Nicholson, Charlotte Court House, Va.

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OBITUARY

George P. Harrington died recently in Los Angeles, at the age of seventy-four. He was for years, engaged in mining in the Crown King district of Arizona.
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J. A. Bauer, who went to Arizona in the early days of Tombstone, and who was later connected with the management of the Hill Top mine, in southeastern Arizona, died recently from heart disease, in a Douglas hotel.
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Schuyler Lawrence, for many years a resident of Chihuahua, Mexico, died Jan. 9, at Mysox, Pa. Mr. Lawrence was interested in a number of mining properties near Santa Eulalia. He was a member of the A.I.M.E. and the A.S.M.E.
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Frederick Corkill died in Oakland, Cal., on Feb. 13, at the age of sixty-five. He was at one time, foreman of the Northern Belle mine, at Candelaria, was later superintendent of the West End mine, at Tonopah, and in recent years, has been in the employ of “Borax” (Frank) Smith, as field and consulting engineer.

[Rehab Notes: Frank Smith originally discovered borax at Candelaria, NV, in the vicinity of Rhoades Marsh. Later prospecting brought immense deposits of the mineral near Death Valley, at Ryan and also west of Death Valley Junction. He hired a crew that hand graded a road from near Ryan, down through Tecopa (CA), into Sandy Valley (NV), over Stateline Pass (near Primm, NV), and towards the spur of the railroad in Ivanpah Valley. 14 months working on the road, and finally the day came to drive a traction steam engine and two ore cars, from Death Valley to Ivanpah Valley. Hard water, general lack of decent fuel, and other obstacles, and Borax Smith simply dismounted the traction engine to find another way.

The traction engine made its way to Eldorado Canyon, NE of Searchlight, NV, to haul gold/silver ore to the mills along the Colorado River, but had its problems there as well.

Borax Smith struck up a deal with William Clark, who was building an alternate railroad from Los Angeles to Salt Lake (now UPRR), to also be partners in a spur from Las Vegas to Tonopah (LV & Tonopah RR), so that Smith could haul borax from the mine to the markets all over the USA. However, 9 miles out from downtown Las Vegas, and Clark got greedy, and started overcharging Smith for freights and material.

Ticked off, Frank Smith then went back to the [now] Santa Fe RR to work out a spur railroad (Tonopah & Tidewater), that took off from Ludlow (CA), and meandered north through Baker (CA), Beatty (NV), Goldfield (NV) and to the borax mines. Smith’s line had a few troubles like a big flood in a dry lake shutting down shipments for 1 ½ years, as well as sweltering heat (120 degrees in summer) in one of the hottest parts of the Mojave Desert, but all in all, Smith’s RR made more money than Clark’s, and outlasted Clark’s by about 20 years, for their was more mining centers along Smith’s RR, and paying freight shipped.

Eventually, Frank Smith located another Borax deposit of immense worth, in a more convenient spot at Boron (CA), and moved the entire operation there, where it is still being worked. One can read about the whole gig In both “Railroads of Western Nevada and Eastern California” as well as “The Tonopah & Tidewater RR”.]
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George Robert Smith, member of the Legislative Council of Quebec, died at Thetford Mines, Quebec, on Feb. 20, at the age of sixty-two years. Mr. Smith was born at Newark, N. J., and went to Canada, to engage in the mining industry. He became interested in the development of the asbestos deposits of Quebec, and was President and General Manager of Bell’s Asbestos Co., Thetford Mines, and Vice-president and General Manager of the Asbestos Manufacturing Co., of Montreal.

Mr. Smith was one of the founders of the Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Institute, of which he was President for some time. He took an active part in public affairs, and in 1911, was appointed a member of the Provincial Legislative Council.
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March 4, 1922 ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL 367

Geologists of Note
James Furman Kemp

WHEN THE TITLE “Daddy” or “Uncle” is applied to a professor by his students, it is a dead sure sign that he has won a warm spot in their hearts. This note of university life finds expression in the great esteem in which James Furman Kemp is held by his students, old and new. Kindly, sympathetic, modest, an inspiring figure in his profession, he possesses qualities that have naturally endeared him to those who have been fortunate enough to come in contact with him, in classroom, and field. His career has been that of a scholar.

Born in New York, in 1859, he was one of the first students in Adelphi Academy, and, graduating in 1876, he entered Amherst. Being always fond of outdoor life, hunting, fishing, and the like, he was early attracted to geology. While at Amherst, a mining excitement was engineered in the town, and many townspeople — the faculty was also not immune—suffered the usual severe losses. The little experience was a moving influence in his decision to prepare to teach geology, from a mining standpoint, and to do what he could to spread sound education on ores and minerals.

Years afterward in reading J. P. Whitney’s “Life and Letters” he was interested to observe that the same motive had actuated Whitney to prepare his “Metallic Wealth of the United States,” an extremely influential work. On graduating in 1881, from a fairly severe classical, and scientific course, Professor Kemp entered the School of Mines, of Columbia College, as it was then called, and received an E. M. degree, in 1884.

He did all the work he could with Prof. J. S. Newberry, then one of the veterans of American geology, and especially experienced in the West. He was his private assistant later, and in 1885, accompanied him to the International Geological Congress at Berlin, remaining in Germany after the sessions, to study petrography and mineralogy at Leipsic and Munich.

Returning to the United States, Professor Kemp taught at Cornell, for five years, and was called to Columbia, in 1891, to succeed his old teacher, Professor Newberry, who had become incapacitated. Columbia has been his home ever since, except for a short absence from his professional duties there, on account of illness. It has been Professor Kemp’s aim to see all that he consistently could, of the mining districts of America, and Europe.

His book, “Geology and Ore Deposits of the United States and Canada,” was the first thorough work of its kind in the country. Practically all mining engineers are familiar with it. Adirondack geology, particularly its Pre-Cambrian problems, have greatly interested him, and he has written constructively upon the subject.

The most active problem in his mind, has been that of ore formation. Of the influence and importance of igneous agents in the cooling stages of intrusive rocks, he early became convinced, and has written much to show not only that these agents might produce the effects, but that there was no other reasonable case which would. The comparatively shallow depths to which the evidence shows the ordinary ground water to extend, was one important conclusion; and the necessity of contributions from the igneous mass, to the contact zones, was another, the last coincidentally advanced with Professor Lindgren.

A list of the literature, which Professor Kemp has contributed to better understanding of mineral deposits and geology, would be far too long to include here. Occasionally he has appeared as an expert geological witness in mineral litigation, and has been engaged in a consulting capacity on both mineral and other projects.

He has been very active in the affairs of the American Institute of Mechanical Engineering, was its President in 1912, and is now an honorary member. He is a familiar figure at practically all the meetings of the Institute, not to forget Mrs. Kemp, who has been his constant companion in all his trips.

His interest has also extended to the Mining and Metallurgical Society, the Geological Society of America, and other scientific organizations. The affection of his students for Professor Kemp is reciprocal. “I never would have been happy if I could not have taught, and have had students around me, who have been a hundred times more to me, than I could tell them in words,” is how he modestly expresses it.
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Engineering and Mining Journal-Press Vol. 113, No. 24 JUNE 17 1922

MEN YOU SHOULD ABOUT

W. J. Loring has returned to San Francisco.
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G. L. Sheldon, of Denver, Col., has gone to Fuerte, Sinaloa, Mexico.
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Eugene B. Braden has returned from New York, to San Francisco.
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R. C. Moore is doing geological work on the Kaiparowits Plateau, in Utah.
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Thomas H. Leggett has returned to New York, from a journey to Nevada and Utah.
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T. A. Rickard returned to San Francisco last week, from a visit to Santa Rita, N. M., and Denver, Col.
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A. I. D’Arcy, mine operator of Goldfield, Nev., has returned to Goldfield, after an absence of two months.
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L. F. S. Holland is examining mines in central Oregon. He expects to return to Hollywood, Cal., about the middle of June.
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John V. W. Reynders, a director of A. I. M. E., addressed the local the Institute in San Francisco.
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W. W. Wishon has been appointed Consulting Engineer to the Katherine Big Four Mining Corporation, operating near Kingman, AZ.
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J. M. Shaw, Director of the Exploration Company, sailed to London, from New York, on June 13, on his return from El Oro, Mexico.
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Major J. M. Campbell of Middlesboro, England, made a tour of inspection of the mines and open pits on the Mesabi Iron Range last week.
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John A Anderson has gone to Overland Canyon, Tooele, Utah, to do prospecting work. He expects to remain there until September.
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D. D. Muir, Jr., in charge of the office of Salt Lake City office of the U. S. Smelting, Refining, & Mining Co., was in San Francisco early in June.
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C. D. Avery, of the U.S. Geological Survey, has returned from a visit to the Moorcroft, Wakeham, Thornton, Osage, and Newcastle oil districts.
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J. D. Northrop is in New Mexico, making a special examination on the east side of the San Juan Basin, in connection with coal leasing work.
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Luther B. Eames, formerly with the Goldfield Consolidated, and Hollinger companies, is now with the Stearns-Roger Manufacturing Co., of Denver.
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A. H. Brooks, in charge of the Alaskan Division, of the U. S. Geological Survey, is en route to Alaska with the party of C. H. Huston, the Assistant Secretary of Commerce.
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Stanly A. Easton, Manager of Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining & Concentrating Co., spent a few days at the home office of the company, in San Francisco, early in June.
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C. H. Abeling, Mill Superintendent for the Vipoint Silver Mining Co., at Vipont, Utah, is making a visit to Boise, Idaho; Spokane, Wash.; and the Coeur D’Alene mining district.
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Prof. Frederick W. Sperr, with a party of forty-two students, from the Michigan College of Mines, spent two weeks recently, on the Gogebic Range, studying mining methods and equipment.
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F. A. Wildes, State Superintendent of Mines, recently visited the Mesabi iron range on one of his inspection trips. The trip included the operations and plant of the Mesabi Iron Co. at Babbitt, Minn.
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H. I. Altshuler, formerly with the Cerro de Pasco Copper Corporation, at Cerro de Pasco, Peru, is now at Tayoltita, Distrito de San Dimas, Durango, Mexico. Mr. Altshuler was recently in San Francisco.
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Major Yuill, mining engineer, of London, England, has arrived in Canada, and is on his way to Lake Chibougamou, Quebec, to examine the mineral deposits there, in the interests of a group of British financiers.
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Dr. Frank D. Adams, Professor of Geology, and Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science, at McGill University, Montreal, has been appointed Chairman of the Canadian Advisory Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
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John G. Barry, consulting mining geologist, has recently completed some examinations in the Santa Eulalia camp, and has proceeded to the Santa Barbara, and Parral districts of Chihuahua, Mexico, on additional work.
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James F. Callbreath, Secretary of the American Mining Congress, arrived in Denver on June 12, and will remain to complete arrangements for the Western Mining Conference, which will be held there, June 20 and 21.
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In recognition of his services in developing metal research in this country, Dorsey A. Lyon, Chief Metallurgist of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, has had conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Science, by the University of Utah.
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Frank H Blackwell, Chief Geologist and Mining Engineer of the McKinney Steel Co., and Clarence D. Pitman, Mining Engineer, have gone to the company’s gold mine in Mexico. They will visit other southwestern properties, and Mr. Pitman will take up residence in El Paso.
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H. L. F. Blake, mining engineer, of Ottawa, has gone on an exploring expedition to the Ungava district in Northern Quebec, in charge of a party of British engineers, representing important English financial interests. The principal objective of the expedition is Lake Chibougamau, on the southern border of Ungava.
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Sidney Paige, G. W. Stose, and Mrs. Knopf, geologists in the services of the U. S. Geological Survey, left June 1 for a field conference in Pennsylvania, to establish certain conclusions with regards to the Glenarm series. They were joined in the field by Florence Bascom and Anna L. Jonas. State Geologists Ashley and Mathews expected to participate in the review of the stratigraphy, with which both Pennsylvania, and Maryland, are concerned.
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H. S. Mulliken, head of the new War Minerals Supply Division, of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, Washington, D. C., is in New York on Wednesday and Thursday of each week, largely in connection with the co-operative Government work connected with the determination of prices, obtained for major metals. He has offices in the Custom House, in connection with the U. S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Room 734, and may be addressed there.
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F. G. Cottrell, formerly Director of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, and until recently, head of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, of the National Research Council, has been selected for the directorship of the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory, of the Department of Agriculture. He will succeed Richard C. Tolman, who has resigned to become Professor of Physical Chemistry, and Mathematical Physics at the California Institute of Technology at Pasadena. No decision has been made as to the exact date on which Dr. Tolman will turn over the work to Dr. Cottrell, but it probably will be late in the summer. Dr. Tolman’s duties with the Callfornia Institute of Technology, begin with the Fall term.
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Mining and metallurgical engineers visiting New York City last week included:
Charles F. Jackson, of Cleveland, Ohio;
G. J. Kennedy, of Easton, Pa.;
M. F. Sayre, of Schenectady, N. Y.;
S. W. Harris, of Silver City, N. M.;
S. A. Crandall, of Kellogg, Idaho;
T. K. Muir, of El Paso, Tex.;
W. M. Dake, Jr., of Denver, Col.,
and A. J. Bartlett, of Marytown, W. Va.
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OBITUARY

H. W. Pridgeon, Manager of the West Springs, Ltd., died April 19, at Johannesburg, South Africa. Mr. Pridgeon was, for many years, Underground Manager of the Brakpan Mines, and in 1916, was appointed Manager of the Daggafontein gold mine. In 1919, he was transferred to West Springs.
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James H. Pearce, aged seventy-four years, a leader in the development of the Minnesota iron ranges, and one of the founders of the city of Chisholm, Minn., died at Minneapolis, on June 3. Mr. Pearce came to the Minnesota iron ranges from Michigan, thirty years ago, as General Manager of the Corrigan McKinney interests. He was instrumental in opening up some of the first mines on the Mesabi Range, and was at one time, associated in mining with A. M. Chisholm and George H. Crosby of Duluth.
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JULY 29 1922 Engineering and Mining Journal-Press Vol. 114, No. 5

MEN YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

A. H. Collbran, of Korea, is in San Francisco.
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A. C. Spencer has returned to Washington, after a western trip.
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C. B. Croner is doing special metallurgical work, at Gray, Idaho.
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Professor E. A. Hersam began his work on the drill steel problem, at Boston, on July 15.
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A. P. Miles, of the International Nickel Co., is visiting the Kirkland Lake gold field, in Ontario.
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Dr. R. B. Moore, Chief Technologist of the Bureau of Mines, has returned from a business visit to Europe.
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A. J. Bone, of New York, has been inspecting several mining properties in the northern Manitoba mineral belt.
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Frank H. Abler has been appointed Mines Superintendent, for the Shropshire Mines, Ltd., at Minsterley, Salop, England.
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W. G. Mather, President, and several of the directors of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., are looking over the company’s holdings in the Lake Superior district.
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J. H. Hensley has been made Superintendent of the Hiddenite Crushed Stone Co., at Hiddenite, N. C. He was formerly with the Southern Spar & Mica Co.
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James Irving, of James Irving & Co., Los Angeles, has recently returned from Milford, Utah, where he made an examination of the Humboldt and Bohn properties.
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George Milliron, formerly General Superintendent with the Pittsburg Limestone Co., has been appointed Superintendent of the Kittanning Limestone Co., at Kittanning, Pa.
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George H. Garrey, who has been absent for some five months upon geological examination work in Nevada, California, Arizona, and New Mexico, has returned to Philadelphia.
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J. A. Bancroft, who resigned the Chair of Metallurgy, in McGill University, Montreal a year ago to take a position with the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting & Power Co., will return to McGill in the Fall.
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Lewis W. Newman, General Manager and Secretary of the Great Northern Iron Ore Properties, at St. Paul, Minn., was a recent visitor on the Mesabi iron range, where he made a tour of insection, of the company’s properties.
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R. F. Murrill, and George H. Borth, engineers of the Inspiration Consolidated Copper Co., have been visiting the Lake Superior mining districts, looking for time-saving devices to use in a new shaft, which their company is to sink.
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The Bureau of Mines, at Washington, has appointed an advisory committee of Nevada mining men, to act with the Rare and Precious Metals Station, of the Bureau at Reno, Nev. Members are as follows: John G. Kirchen, of Tonopah; Frank M. Manson, of Reno; R. A. Hardy, of Gold Hill; C. B. Lakenan, of McGill; E. A. Julian, of San Francisco; and Governor Emmet D. Boyle, of Reno.
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R. S. Beall has been put in charge of the zinc oxide plant, of the Empire Zinc Co., at Canon City, Colo., which has recently resumed operations.
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The address of George Reed, assayer and smelter man, who is a graduate of the University of California, and who has worked in Guatemala, Idaho, Colorado, Mexico and California, is desired by Herbert Lang, 2637 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, Cal.
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Charles E. Bunnell is to be President of the Alaska Agriculture College, and School of Mines, located four miles from Fairbanks, which will open this September. Earl R. Pilgrim, now metallurgist at the Kirk-Simon Smelting Co., at Harbor City, Cal., will be head of the Department of Mining and Metallurgy, and Ernest N. Patty, Manager of the Gorrien Zinc Mines, near Northport, Wash., will be head of the Department of Geology.
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J. E. Spurr, George Otis Smith, Edward B. Mathews, R. A. F. Penrose, Jr., and Horace V. Winchell have been designated to be delegates on the part of the United States, to the Thirteenth International Geological Congress, to be held at Brussels, Aug. 10 to 19, 1922. Herbert Hoover has been appointed an honorary member of the delegation, but, due to the strike situation, he will not be able to make the trip. As Mr. Smith is also prevented from attending, David White will take his place.
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OBITUARY

E. M. Grenier, traveling auditor for the American Smelting & Refining Co., at Denver, Col., died at Henryetta, Okla., on July 6.
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Reginald P. Rowe, one of the organizers of the National Lead Co., died suddenly on July 17, at his home in Brooklyn. Mr. Rowe was seventy-three years old. He was born in the Barbados, West Indies, and came to this country, when fourteen years old. He was graduated from Danbury Institute, and the Trinity School, and was awarded a scholarship at Columbia University. Mr. Rowe was Vice President, and a director of the Baker Castor Oil Ca.; was a Director of the Magnus Co.; and was Vice President, and a director, of the Matheson Lead Co. In addition to holding a similar position with the National Lead Co., he was Vice President, and a director of the United Lead Co.
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Engineering and Mining Journal-Press July 15, 1922

MEN YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

Karl C. Parrish has returned to Barranquilla, Colombia.
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George A. Packard is examining property in Southern California.
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Frederick Bradshaw is in Tonopah, and will leave shortly for Surf Inlet, B. C.
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E. M. Hamilton expects to leave San Francisco for Mexico, on professional work, about July 15.
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E. P. J. Burgess, of Butte, Mont., has returned home, after a three weeks visit in New York City.
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A. J. Collier and W. W. Boyer are doing geological work in the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming.
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O. J. Egleston, Chief Engineer for the U. S. Smelting, Refining & Mining Co., was recently in San Francisco.
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J. K. Turner, of Goldfield, Nev., is leaving New York after an extended visit, and will go to Oatman, Ariz.
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R. D. Mesler returned on July 3, from field work for the U. S. Geological Survey, in Tennessee and Virginia.
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R. L. Lloyd, Vice-President of the Dwight & Lloyd Metallurgical Co., has returned from a ten-week trip abroad.
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R. C. Moore and party have headquarters at Panguitch, Utah, and are working southward on the Kaiparowitz Plateau.
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R. L. Chase, of Denver, has left to spend a month on examination work in the San Juan district, in Southwestern Colorado.
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David Cole, who recently returned to El Paso, from inspection trips to Cananea, Mexico, and Clarkdale, Ariz., was in Los Angeles on July 6, and will sail from Seattle, to Anyox, B. C., on July 16.
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C. T. Hutchinson, formerly Business Manager for the Mining and Scientific Press, and now with the McGraw-Hill Co., is visiting New York.
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D. W. Brunton, J. Vipond Davies, and J. Waldo Smith, have been appointed Consulting Engineers for the Moffat Tunnel Commission, in Colorado. [Great railroad book about the making of the Moffat Tunnel, named “The Moffat Road”.]
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J. D. Sisler, of the Pennsylvania Geological Survey, is spending the summer, mapping the geology of the Myersdale quadrangle, in the southwestern part of the state.
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Fred G. Farish, General Manager of the Metals Exploration Co., is spending the months of July and August, looking over the various interests of the company in California and Nevada.
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E. O. Ulrich will sail for Europe on July 12, to represent the Smithsonian Institution, and the U. S. Geological Survey, at the International Geological Congress, which meets in Brussels, Aug. 10 to 19.
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H. B. Carlton, of the Research Department, of the University of Pennsylvania, who is making a tour through Canada, investigating the peat industry, recently visited the government peat field at Alfred, Ont.
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S. Matsukuma, General Manager of the Mitsubishi Mining Co., Ltd., of Tokyo, Japan, was recently in San Francisco. He will make a tour of the principal coal-mining centers in the United States.
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M. E. Johnson, of the Pennsylvania Geological Survey, visited the Tidioute oil pool, in the northwest part of the state, a few days ago, and will soon resume geologic mapping of the Pittsburgh quadrangle.
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Dean Milnor Roberts, of the University of Washington, College of Mines, has recently returned to Seattle, after making examination of a mine and milling plant in Montana, and mining property in northern Washington.
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C. F. Sturtevant, mining engineer of Salt Lake City, Utah, has been examining properties in the Crown King and Big Bug districts, Yavapai County, Ariz., accompanied by Andor Syverson, and R. Kingdon, formerly of the United Verde Extension Mining Co.
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E. G. Sievers, who has been in charge of the U. S. Geological Survey statistical and geologic work, on natural gas and natural gas gasoline, has been transferred from the Survey, to be an Assistant Valuation Engineer in the Oil and Gas Section of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Mr. Sievers began work in his new position on July 10.
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W. A. Howard, who has been in the employ of the United States Smelting Co. from 1904, to the present time, first as Ore Settlement Clerk, then as Chief Ore Buyer, and later as Assistant General Manager, is going to Cornell University, for special study. Mr. Howard resigned as Assistant General Manager at the end of 1921, but remained with the company until now.
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W. H. Eardley, formerly with the United States Smelting Co. at Salt Lake City, and since 1920, having had headquarters in New York, where he was engaged in various phases of mining operations, among other things, on special work for the United States company, is returning to the employ of that company as Assistant General Manager, at Salt Lake City; D. D. Muir, Jr., being General Manager.

Mr. Eardley was Ore Purchasing Agent for the United States company, from 1908, to 1915. In 1915, he investigated the zinc situation for the company in the middle West, and later, was placed in charge of the company’s mines and smelters in Missouri. In 1917, he became General Manager for the American Metal Co., operating mining and milling property in Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
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Colonel Arthur S. Dwight, President, and Charles F. Rand, past president, of the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers, have received from the French Government, the Croix de Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur. The formal presentation of these honors will be made at the Engineers’ Club, on July 20, at a luncheon given to Gaston Liebert, Consul General for France.

Colonel Dwight served conspicuously with the 11th Engineers, and was given the D. S. O. by the British government. Mr. Rand has been one of the leaders in all engineering movements for many years, and was honorary secretary of the delegation of engineers, of which Colonel Dwight was also a member, which visited England and France in the summer of 1921, to confer the John Fritz Medal, on Sir Robert Hadfield, and Eugene Schneider.
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Mining and metallurgical engineers visiting New York City last week included:
W. G. Wright, of Buenos Aires, Argentina;
John W. McKim, of Casper, Wyo.;
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OBITUARY

Fred R. Mellis, of the Oregon-Idaho Investment Co., Baker, Ore., died recently of apoplexy. He had been associated with the mining industry of eastern Oregon, for an extended period, one of the enterprises of the Oregon-Idaho Investment Co. being a sampling mill at Baker.

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August 19, 1922 Engineering and Mining Journal-Press 337
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MEN YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

Allen R. Partridge is engaged in private practice, at Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico.
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R. A. Hall is now Superintendent of the Ben Hur property, at Randsburg, Cal.
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H. S. Denny has returned to London, from Mossamedes, in Portuguese West Africa.
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Fred. L. Morris is Consulting Engineer to the Atlin Silver-Lead Mines Co., in British Columbia.
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James M. Little was in New York last week. He expects to return to Arizona within a few weeks.
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C. H. Munger, and Philip R. Mather, of Cleveland, are inspecting the properties of the Pickands, Mather Co. in the Lake Superior district.
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Frank Lenoir, mining engineer in the employ of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co., has resigned, and will establish himself in Los Angeles.
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W. Scott Turner, Consulting Engineer for the Mining Corporation of Canada, is visiting the Flin Flon copper property, in Northern Manitoba.
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R. R. Templeton, petroleum engineer of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, is making a study of oil production practices, and pumping equipment, in California.
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Charles E. Rogers sailed for London last week, after a visit of several weeks in this country. He expects to make a business trip to South Africa, in the near future.
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R. S. Walker, of Cleveland, Consulting engineer for the M. A. Hanna Co., has returned East, after transacting business matters at the office of the company, in Duluth.
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B. D. Stewart, Territorial Inspector of Mines, has been advanced by the Director of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, to take general charge of the Bureau’s activities in Alaska.
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Fred Hellman was in Juneau, on July 28, on his return from the Keno Hill district, Y. T. Mr. Hellman will make a study of the mining method developed at the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co.’s mine.
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A. G. Larson, mining engineer of Spokane, returned to his home city, the first week in August, after a professional visit to the Daly-Alaska property, on the Alaska side of the Portland Canal district.
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Lewis G. Westgate has arrived in the Pioche district, in Nevada, to begin reconnaissance work for the U. S. Geological Survey. Mr. Westgate will be joined later by C. H. Dane, and D. O. Hewett.
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George Clothier, Provincial Resident Mining Engineer, of the mining district centering about Prince Rupert, B. C., has been in the Stewart and Anyox districts, in northern British Columbia, recently.
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L. R. Clapp will succeed J. A. Bancroft, as Assistant Manager of the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting & Power Co.
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W. H. Hannay, metallurgist for the Trail smelter, is at Thane, Alaska, superintending the shipment to Trail, B. C., of mill machinery, purchased by the Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co., from the Alaska Gastineau.
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E. A. Holbrook, the Assistant Director, of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, has accepted an appointment as Dean of the School of Mines, of Pennsylvania State College. The employment of Mr. Holbrook, is a part of an effort to build up an outstanding school of mines, in the center of Pennsylvania’s great coal-mining region.
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Howard Evanson, one of the Consulting mining engineers attached to the Pittsburgh staff, of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, has been called to Washington, to serve as Special Assistant, to Director H. F. Bain during the coal emergency.
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Walter J. Eaton, for the past year, Mine Superintendent for the Smuggler Union Mining Co., in Colorado, has resigned, and will leave Telluride, Sept. 1, to make an extended trip through the Northwest, after which he expects to return to Mexico.
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Waldemar Lindgren, Professor of Economic Geology, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, formerly in charge of the Western Division, of the Geological Survey, has been making a survey of the geology of the Jerome district, Arizona.
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Howard F. Wierum, who has been in charge of operations of American Minerals Production Co., near Valley, Wash., for about five years, is severing his connection with that company, except in an advisory capacity, and announces his intention of entering the plastic magnesite production field.
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R. M. Murray, formerly Assistant General Manager, for the Mount Lyell Mining & Railway Co., Tasmania, has been appointed General Manager in place of the late Robert Sticht.
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Mining and metallurgical engineers visiting New York City recently included
Maurice Cocherell, of England;
Robert S. Lewis, of Salt Lake City, Utah;
E. C. D’Yarme of Wichita Falls, Tex.;
B. Barnes, of Bauxite, Ark.;
R. L. Baldwin, of Milwaukee, Wis.;
J. Nelson Nevins, of Pasadena, Cal.;
Win C. McNutt, of Elk City, Idaho,
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OBITUARY

Harry Whitney Treat was killed near Chilliwack, B. C., on July 31, in an automobile accident. He was fifty-seven years old, and leaves a wife and two daughters. His home was in Seattle. He was occupied at different times, in various mining ventures in the Northwest, including the exploitation of a copper property on Texada Island.
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James R. Thompson, prominent mining engineer of the Lake Superior iron ore district, died on Aug. 6, at his home in Ishpeming, Mich., at the age of fifty-seven years. He was one of the outstanding figures in the early development of the iron-ore districts of northern Michigan. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, Mr. Thompson went directly to the Lake Superior iron-ore district, where he served successively as Chief Engineer of the Jackson mine, at Negaunee, the Iron Cliffs Co., and the Lake Superior Iron Co. at Ishpeming. From the last post, he went to the General managership of the Newport mine, for the Schlesinger interests.

He is credited with the discovery of the enormous deep-lying ore deposits of the Newport mine, at Ironwood, Mich., which gave that property its place as the largest underground iron-ore mine in the world. He was General Manager for the Newport Mining Co., for several years, and became an authority on deep mine hoisting.

In 1910, he severed his connection with the Newport mine to become General Manager of the American mine, at Diorite, Mich., in which property he had an interest. The American mine was abandoned in 1918, by the operators, the M. A. Hanna Co., owing to depletion of the ore reserves, and since that time, Mr. Thompson had been developing some valuable green marble deposits of the Upper Peninsula.

He was also President of the Lake Superior Loader Co., marketing the Armstrong underground automatic loading machine. Mr. Thompson was a keen geologist, a mechanical and mining engineer of note, and an inventor, who had made important contributions to the field of iron-ore development, and treatment. He was an indefatigable worker, a wide reader, and a man who evinced a vital interest in humanity.

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