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AUGUST 19 1922 EMJ Vol. 114, No. 8

Mining Engineers of Note
EDGAR P. RATHBONE

MOST LAYMEN get their notion of a mining engineer from perusing fiction written by imaginative persons, whose hazy information regarding the species, is largely hearsay. According to the popular idea, the mining engineer is a two-fisted (he must have two fists) chap, who is engaged in wresting endless wealth from the “treasure vaults of mother earth.” The mining of virgin gold is most romantic, but silver and even vulgar copper, find occasional favor among enterprising authors. The life of a proper mining engineer should be a kaleidoscopic series of adventures, as he moves from one remote place to another, on the fringe of civilization, with intermittent visits to New York, or London, to spend some of his money.

Unfortunately, few successful engineers live up to the advance notices of fiction; but occasionally one rises above the commonplace, and approaches them. Peruse, if you please, the following chronological sketch of the career of Edgar P. Rathbone, of London:

Ushered into the world at Liverpool, in 1856, young Rathbone received a practical education in mining while serving as an “articled pupil” to the late Emerson Bainbridge, manager of sundry coal-mining enterprises. Incidentally, he participated in the rescue work at the time of the great explosion at Swaithe Main, near Barnsley, when 130 men were killed. This experience had the effect of damping his enthusiasm for coal mining.

He became a student at the Royal School of Mines, in 1877; he studied later at Freiberg, and finished his schooling at the University of Liege. From Belgium, he went to London, where he opened an office as consulting engineer, in the firm of Bainbridge, Seymour & Rathbone, otherwise Brandy, Soda & Repentence, as the partners were styled by their intimates.

The plans for the founding of the Institution of Mining & Metallurgy, were made at meetings held in their office. Mr. Rathbone did the foreign work for the firm, and in a single year, traveled more than 25,000 miles, in making examinations in the southern part of the United States, in Mexico, and in Bolivia. Two thousand of these miles were covered astride the back of sundry patient burros.

[Rehab notes: I don’t know about ‘patient’ but in my book, the Burro rates right up there with some of the noblest of animals. Full of spirit, zest, love (for those willing to take the time to nurture such animals under their care), and sometimes payback in the form of finding some vein, rock ledge, rock, water source, etc., for their deserving or kindly master that puts up with all the mood swings of the Burro critter. Even in the Bible, burros could see what humans could not, as in the angel that appeared in the road…]

After a series of negotiations with bloodthirsty brigands in Mexico—the fact that his subsequent career remains to be reviewed, indicates that the negotiations were reasonably successful…

He went to the Rand gold fields, in South Africa, in 1889. Here, he established the South African Mining & Engineering Journal. As the first government inspector of mines, Mr. Rathbone found himself in what he naïvely describes, as an “untenable” position, at the time of the Jameson Raid; accordingly, he retired from the country. In his retreat, he was more fortunate than John Hays Hammond, who was captured, condemned to death, and finally let off with a fine of £1O,OOO. He deems himself particularly fortunate, because he knows of no one who could, and would have, paid a ransom on the Rathbone head.

[rehab notes: I can follow that. After being held captive a few times, I think word got back that instead of somebody paying my ransom, the captors would have to pay to give me back. Through some rather bizarre turns of events, my personal philosophy includes that when there is some downtime, endeavor to make one’s self useful. In one situation I taught the captors basic English and did translations. In another, I taught people how to pick out gems or pan for gold. While in another situation, I elected myself mayordomo (boss or foreman), and supervised the construction and structural aspects of a guerilla camp school/church building. In all of these challenges, instead of being shot, I left with mutual respect, and sometimes, home addresses to send a letter.]

On returning to London, he undertook a “roving tour” of the world’s mining districts, on behalf of a syndicate, or South African capitalists. This was the year of the Klondike rush, and Mr. Rathbone ‘visited almost every mining district in Canada, from the Arctic Circle, to the United States boundary.

There followed another professional journey to the United States, and later, to various mines in Hungary, Rumania, and Italy. Our “biographee” was saved from becoming disgustingly wealthy, by the failure of Dame Nature to enrich sufficiently the South African gold reefs, on the opposite side of the basin, from Johannesburg. For the South African Syndicate he acquired options on “farms”, traversed by several miles of reefs, which he had identified as being the same as those that were being so successfully exploited. He says that his geological conclusions proved to be absolutely correct; the fly in the ointment, was the low gold content of the reef.

During the World War, Mr. Rathbone did his bit by serving in the C. I. D., and as a member of the Headquarters Special Constabulary. His son, Basil Rathbone, is on the stage in New York. The elder Rathbone confesses that he has now resigned himself to living in the reflected glory of a Broadway star, although he insists that he is still a young man at sixty-six.
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AN INTERVIEW WITH THEODORE J HOOVER EMJ OCTOBER 10 1925

WITH the termination of the present academic year, Stanford University has definitely committed itself to a six-year course, and has established an engineering college comprising all of the engineering units, mining and metallurgy, civil, electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering. Theodore J. Hoover has been chosen to head the new unit in the capacity of Dean.

In outlining the plan of reorganization, Mr. Hoover said: “The basic ideas of the plan, which has been adopted by the Board of Trustees of Stanford University, have been under discussion for a number of years. They have been tried out in the Department of Mining and Metallurgy, which established a six-year course in 1919. The results have been such as to convince us that the six-year plan is worthy of extension, to the other engineering departments.

“The important features of the new plan are first, the formation of a lower division, which will include two years of general work for all engineering students. Second, an additional two years, completing a four-year undergraduate course, leading to an A. B. degree in engineering. The work of the last two years will be broad in its scope — mathematics, economics, history, business law, and courses in the business college, language, geology, physics, general science, and cultural courses.

A small number of options, aggregating from 10 to 40 units, will be permitted students who have elected specific engineering courses. These options will be restricted to basic or general departmental courses, in the several groups. Third, a two-year graduate course, in the special branch of engineering, elected by the student. The bars will be down, and the student will be given professional work to the ‘nth degree, in fact, all that he can master. The professional engineering courses will be remodeled, and amplified to accord with this condition.

“I am especially anxious to work out this idea of engineering, superimposed upon a broad fundamental undergraduate course, based upon the sciences, and cultural subjects. We cannot teach engineering in the university, but we can train men in the use of precision apparatus, in theory, and in principles. We can train them in an orderly method of thinking, in marshaling facts, and in an appreciation of dimensions and quantities.

“Looking backward over thirty years of technical education, it is of special interest to note the general adoption, in laboratories of commercial machines. This marks a passing phase, and I am convinced that commercial sizes of machines are unimportant, for the equipment of laboratories. Men, books, and scientific and precision apparatus, are the important educational tools.

The facile use of the English language is of the greatest importance. Training in economics is an outstanding point; for engineers, in my opinion, must have a substantial background of economic facts. Engineering practice must be individually developed by experience in the field.

“The details of our general plan have not yet been determined, and a special committee will have this in hand. I have unbounded faith in this idea, in spite of failures elsewhere to make the six-year plan workable. The narrow, highly specialized technical course, based upon four years, has been tried out, and found inadequate. It has produced the technician who goes about with a monkey wrench in his hip pocket.

The opposite type, a thoroughly trained executive, with a well-balanced outlook upon life, who is capable of participation in general public affairs, and who will be a leader in his profession, as well as a capable technician, is the objective which Stanford University has set out to attain.

The development of the Junior College plan, in the educational system of California, promises to reach a point such, that within a few years, it will be possible to abandon the lower division instruction, in the engineering course, and restrict the University work to the upper division of undergraduate work, and the post-graduate engineering courses. This will make it possible to more effectively expend our budget, which now totals about $100,000 per year for all engineering departments.”

Mr. Hoover is a Stanford alumnus. He acquired his engineering experience in the mining industry. Soon after graduation, in 1901, he became Assistant Manager of the Standard Consolidated Company, at Bodie, Calif., and Manager in 1903. While at Bodie, he introduced tube-mill grinding, and vacuum filtration, and constructed a complete ore-treatment plant. He also reconstructed the hydro-electric plant, which was one of the first California plants to be installed for mine service.

From 1906 to 1910, he served as Consulting Engineer for Minerals Separation, Ltd., of London, in the course of his work, inventing new processes and machinery for the application of the flotation process. He designed and supervised the erection of ore treatment plants in Mexico, Australia, Finland, and Russia. From 1911 to 1918, he served as Director and President of over twenty mining, metallurgical, and petroleum companies, in different countries. His experience has touched many phases of mining.

Since 1919 he has been head of the Mining and Metallurgical Department of Stanford University.
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ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL MAY 28 1921

MEN YOU SHOULD KNOW

M. I. Goldman has completed a study of salt domes, on the Texas and Louisiana coast.
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William Parsons has joined the engineering force of the Darwin Silver Co., at Darwin, Cal.
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Norman Carmichael, General Manager for Arizona Copper Co., Clifton, Ariz., is in New York City.
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W. A. Coughlan, of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., is now with Consolidated Asbestos, Ltd., at Thetford Mines, Que.
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Benjamin D. Stewart has been re-appointed by Governor Thomas Riggs, as
Territorial mine inspector, for Alaska.
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B. M. Walton has accepted the position of Manager, for Porcupine Paymaster Mines, Ltd., at South Porcupine, Ont.
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C. E. Siebenthal, geologist, of the U. S. Geological Survey, is doing geologic work in the Joplin district, Missouri.
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James P. Porteus, Superintendent of the Bonney mine, Lordsburg, N. M., has returned from a business trip to New York City.
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G. C. Bateman, Manager of La Rose Consolidated Mines, addressed the Toronto Board of Trade recently, on the mining industry of Ontario.
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W. C. Campbell, mining engineer, of Toronto, who was in Africa, for several years previous to his recent stay in Mexico, has returned to Toronto.
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Thomas L. Chapman, who has been making examinations in the Lordsburg, N. M., and Patagonia, Ariz., districts, has returned to Los Angeles, Cal.
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F. W. Holler, recently Superintendent for the Belmont Surf Inlet Mines, Ltd., at Surf Inlet, B. C., may now be addressed at 2145 Goodrich Ave., St. Paul, Minn.
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S. C. Thompson recently appointed consulting engineer, for Kirkland Proprietary Mines, Ltd., has been examining its Tough-Oakes and Burnside properties, Kirkland Lake.
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Moses Johnson, formerly District Inspector of Mines, at Lethbridge, Alta., has been appointed to a similar position in the Drumheller district. He has headquarters at Calgary.
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W. H. Crago, and Frank Hutchinson, of Duluth, Minn., with L. D. Davenport, of Boston, Mass., will sail from Seattle, Wash., early in June, to examine iron ore and coal deposits in Manchuria.
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Wilfrid Kilian, Professor of Geology, at the University of Grenoble, in the Dauphin, France, has been awarded the Gaudry gold medal, the highest distinction conferred by the Société Géologique de France.
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Raymond Guyer, mining engineer, of Spokane, Wash., who recently visited
Katherine, Ariz., and Ely, Nev., districts, has gone to La Jara district, Tepic, Mexico, where he is interested in a gold property.
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Duncan McDonald, District Inspector of Mines, at Calgary, Alta., is now General Superintendent of the Mine Rescue and First-Aid Department, of the Canadian Department of Mines, for the province of Alberta.
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Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, was awarded the Mary G. Thompson gold medial by the National Academy of Sciences, on April 26, “for distinguished research in geology and paleontology.”
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Stewart Campbell, of Hailey, Idaho, who was elected Mine Inspector, for the State of Idaho, last fall, is making his first official visit to the mines of Northern Idaho. He recently spent about three weeks in the Coeur d’Alene district, and expects to return in the Fall, to make a more extended investigation.
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C. V. Corlegs, President of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Dean R. W. Brock, of the University of British Columbia and former director of the Geological Survey of Canada, and J. J. Denny, metallurgist at the Nipissing mine, recently received honorary degrees from Queen’s University.
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Dr. M. Y. Williams, Professor of Paleontology, in the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C., and formerly, geologist on the staff of the Canadian Geological Survey, is in charge of one of three parties sent out by the Canadian Geological Survey, to make a geologic survey of the Mackenzie River district.
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Dr. Mariano Ospina Perez is now Director of the National School of Mines, at Medellín, Colombia. Dr. Perez, who succeeds the late Dr. Tulio Ospina in this position, is a mining engineer of experience, and the president of several mining companies. He is also the recently elected head of the firm Tulio Ospina y Cia., mining factors, Medellín, Colombia.
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Mining and metallurgical engineers recently in New York included:
Edouard L. Foucar, of San Francisco, Cal.;
A. B. Shutts, of the American Ores & Asbestos Co., Globe, Ariz.;
D. S. Clements, of Pittsburgh, Pa.;
P. W. Donovan, of E. J. Longyear Co., Minneapolis, Minn.;
C. Vey Holman, of Rockland, Me.;
W. A. Rukeyser, of Montreal, Que.;
Frank A. Edson, of the Oklahoma Geological Survey;
Erskine Ramsay, of Birmingham, Ala.;
Edward H. Cook, of Culiacan, Sinaloa;
R. H. Barksdale, of Richmond, Va.;
And Prof. R. W. Brock, Dean of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C.
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Edward B. Rosa, Chief Physicist, of the U. S. Bureau of Standards, since 1910, died suddenly in his office at Washington, D. C., on May 17, at the age of sixty. Dr. Rosa first attained national prominence, by developing the respiron calorimeter used in Professor Atwater’s nutrition experiments.

Most of his chief work has been in the advancement of electrical science. Among his notable contributions was the establishment of the laws governing electrolytic corrosion. During the war, he developed a number of instruments of great usefulness, including the geophone, for accurately locating mining operations. He also devised improved direction finders, for radiotelegraphy.

Dr. Rosa was Secretary of the International Commission on Electrical Standards, a member of the American Engineering Standards Committee, and of many learned societies, including the United States National Academy of Science.
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Utah, in the death of William S. McCornick, on May 18, Salt Lake City, has lost one who, for almost fifty years, was a beneficent and forceful influence in the development of the state. Mr. McCornick, who was eighty-four years old, went to Utah in 1873, and engaged in a banking business first known as White & McCornick,and later as McCornick & Co. From that time onward he gave generous support to worthy enterprises of all kinds, so that he was justly regarded as one of the builders of Utah.

Mr. McCornick, early recognized the mining opportunities of the state, and the potential value of the mining industry. Among other things, he helped to further the development of such properties as the Silver King Coalition, the Daly West, and the Centennial-Eureka. In 1899, when the United States Mining Co., bought control of the Centennial-Eureka, a check for $1,385,000 passed through the McCornick bank, and was cashed there, and this hung for years in Mr. McCornick’s office.

At the time of his death, Mr. McCornick was a director in the Silver King Coalition, the Utah Power & Light Co., and in the American Smelting & Refining Co., as well as in many enterprises not connected with mining.
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March 25, 1922 ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL 499

MEN YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

R. K. Neill has returned to his home in Spokane, from an Eastern trip.
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D. E. Sutherland has returned from a six weeks’ vacation at Palm Beach, Fla.
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Andrew Larsen, mining engineer of Spokane, is making a professional visit to Arizona.
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A. A. Richie has resigned as Foreman of the Simon Silver-Lead mine, near Mina, Nev.
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Joseph Irving is now engaged in heap-leaching experiments in the Jerome district of Arizona.
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G. W. Voelzel has completed special sampling work in Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico, and will return to Tyrone, N. M.
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William Watters, Superintendent of the Tonopah Divide mine, returned to Tonopah on March 11, from San Francisco.
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A. H. Burroughs, Jr., Managing Director of the Armstead Mines, Inc., Talache, Idaho, recently spent a few days in New York.
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Frank P. Short has gone to Keno Hill, in the Mayo district, of the Yukon Territory, on consulting work for the Keno Hill, Ltd.
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H. H. Hartzell has been made Manager of the Huttig Lead & Zinc Co. in the Joplin-Miami district, succeeding B. E. Brown.
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Cornelius F. Kelley, President of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., was in Montana last week, inspecting the properties of the company.
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James R. Robbins, District Manager of the Montana Power Co., at Great Falls, Mont., has been made assistant to Cornelius F. Kelley, President of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co.
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Benjamin. B. Thayer, vice-president of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., has returned to New York, from a visit to the company’s properties in the West.
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L. P. Barrett, State Geologist of Michigan, is making his annual inspection of mining properties in the Lake Superior district, for appraisal purposes.
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Stanley T. Wood, Manager of the Montana-Morning mine, near Troy, Mont., has returned to the Northwest, after spending some time in the East.
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A. C. Munro, formerly with the San Francisco Mines of Mexico, Ltd., is now Mill Superintendent of the Britannia Mining & Smelting Co., British Columbia.
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John D. Ryan was elected a director of the American Brass Co. at the last regular meeting.
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P. B. Goudkoff, former Professor of Geology, at the Tomsk Institute of Technology, is in New York. He is the author of many works on mining geology dealing with Siberia.
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Karl A. Bernsen, of the General Engineering Co., Salt Lake City, who has supervised construction of the new 150-ton all-flotation mill of the Armstead Mines at Talache, Idaho, left for Salt Lake City about the middle of March. Mr. Bernsen expects to go later to supervise mill construction in Missouri.
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W. J. Rolfe, and K. C. Browne, have resigned from the staff of the International Nickel Co. at Creighton Mine, Ont. Mr. Rolfe has accepted the position of Superintendent at the Associated Goldfields mine, at Larder Lake, Ont. His position at the Creighton mine has been filled by the appointment of Charles E. Lively.
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Mining engineers who recently visited San Francisco included:
P. M. Simon, Mina, Nev.;
C. A. Heller, Philadelphia, Pa.;
W. W. Avery, Gold Hill, Nev.;
W. J. Quigley, El Paso, Tex.;
and J. Kinnear, McGill, Nev.
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Mining and metallurgical engineers visiting New York City last week included:
George A. Osborn, Fresno, Cal.;
Carl M. Smith, Little Rock, Ark.;
L. D. Osborne, Lang, Cal.;
and P. E. Nolan, Maracaibo, Venezuela.
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OBITUARY

Thomas J. Carrigan, pioneer railroad, and mining man, aged sixty-five years, died in Los Angeles, Cal., on March 8.
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Charles E. Hart, mining operator of Nevada, who was spending the winter with his brother, H. H. Hart, in Redlands, Cal., died there, March 8. Mr. Hart was fifty-six years old.
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Henry Cecil, of Barrie, Ont., died in Toronto, on March 14, as the result of injuries received in an elevator, the previous day. Mr. Cecil was at one time prominently connected with the Tough Oakes and Hunton-Kirkland mines. He had also had considerable mining experience in South Africa and Australia.
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C. C. Burger, President of the Copper Canyon mine, in Nevada, and the Woodstock lead mine, in Oklahoma, died on March 10, in New York City. Mr. Burger was born in Philadelphia, fifty years ago, and started his mining career as consulting engineer for John Hays Hammond, following his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the University, St. Nicholas, The Lambs, Ardsley Country Club, the Midday Club, and the Bankers’ Club.
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William Thomlinson, a British Columbia mining man, died recently at his home at New Denver, Col. Mr. Thornlinson went to British Columbia, thirty years ago, and became interested in mining. After completing a course of mineralogy at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, he was employed by the Provincial government in the collection of mineral specimens for exhibition purposes. He served as the British Columbia representative on the Mineralogical Staff of the Canadian Government Commission, at the Panama Pacific International Exposition, at San Francisco, as well as the Panama International Exposition, at San Diego, Cal. Later he became identified with the Munition Resources Commission.
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Philip B. Argall, a mining engineer and metallurgist, of international reputation, and an expert in the cyanide process, died of influenza at Denver, on March 19. Mr. Argall was born near Belfast, Ireland, in 1854, and his first position in his chosen work, was with the Tigroney mines, on his native island. Following this engagement, he was employed by various companies, in Ireland, Wales, and England, finally going to New Zealand in 1884, as manager of the Kapanga mine.

The next year, he was appointed superintendent of a group of mines in the Barranca district, of Sonora, and soon after, went to Colorado as Manager of the La Plata smelter, at Leadville. When the cyanide process first became of commercial importance, Mr. Argall became interested in it, and acted as Consulting Metallurgist to the American McArthurForrest Co. From 1894 to 1901, he was Manager of the Metallic Extraction Co., which built the first large plant to treat Cripple Creek ore, by cyanidation.

He acted as Consulting Engineer to the Dolores Mining Co., to the Golden Cycle Mining Co., and to Stratton’s Independence, Ltd., among many other companies, after entering the consulting field in 1901. His wife died in 1903.

Two of his five sons have been in partnership with Mr. Argall, in his metallurgical activities. Mr. Argall leaves a host of friends among the older members of the profession. He is survived by ten children.
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January 15, 1921 ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL 115

MEN YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

Matthew Van Siclen, mining engineer, of the Bureau of Mines, was in New York City recently.
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C. P. Ross, who has been investigating oil geology in South America, has resumed his work with the Geological Survey.
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Carl J. Calvin, Assistant Chief engineer of the Arthur Iron Mining Co., has left for Los Angeles, Cal., on a month’s visit.
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Charles L. Burdick, mining engineer, of the Chile Exploration Co., sailed from New York City, on the “Santa Luisa,” on Dec. 29.
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George W. Stose, geologist, of the Geological Survey, has been elected President of the Geological Society of Washington, D. C.
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K. C. Heald, who has been classifying oil lands in Montana and Wyoming, for the Geological Survey, has returned to the Washington office.
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S. M. Soupcoff, mining engineer, with the Garfield Smelting Co., Salt Lake City, Utah, was in New York City, on professional business, on Jan. 7.
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James T. Kemp, with the International Nickel Co., Port Colborne, Ont., was in New York City over the holidays. He has returned to Port Colborne.
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N. H. Darton, who has been doing geological work for private interests in Mexico, for the last nine months, has resumed his duties for the Geological Survey.
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T. C. Hopkins, of Syracuse University, is in Washington, to undertake some special work for the Geological Survey’s section of Foreign Mineral Reserves.
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Henry C. Perkins, mining engineer, of Washington, D. C., has been appointed a member of the Advisory Board of the Super-power Survey. Mr. Perkins is a member of A. I. M. E.
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Dr. C. D. Walcott, former Director of the Geological Survey, and Vice Chairman of National Research Council, will succeed the late Dr. Bumstead, at least temporarily, as active chairman of the council.
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J. M. Callow, mining engineer of Salt Lake City, Utah, and President of the General Engineering Co., has been in Superior, Ariz., on professional affairs. He is expected to return to Salt Lake City by Jan. 18.
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A. C. Oliphant is acting assistant secretary, in charge of the Washington, D. C., office of American Engineering Council. His address is care of McLachlen Building, 10th and G Streets, N. W.
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Glenville A. Collins, mining engineer of Seattle, Wash., has taken over the management of the Drum Lummon Mines, Ltd., replacing W. Porteous Sloan. The property is situated near Hartley Bay, Douglas Channel, B. C.
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Charles F. Thompson, recently connected with the Metallurgical Department, at the Burro Mountain branch, of Phelps Dodge Corporation, is reported leaving that service to go into the Mining and Milling Department of the Mine & Smelter Supply Co.
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E. L. Jorgensen, formerly General Superintendent of Reduction, for the Chile Exploration Co., Chuquicamata, Chile, and for fifteen years, with Guggenheim companies, has opened an office as consulting engineer, at Suite 1429, 150 Nassau St., New York City.
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Charles W. Goodale, mining engineer, and Chairman of the Bureau of Safety, of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., Butte, Mont., is the 1921 recipient of the gold medal of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America.
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Herbert S. King has been appointed Superintendent of the Chandler Mining Co.’s Chandler mine, at Ely, Minn. Mr. King is one of the directors of the company. The former incumbent, Capt. Frank A. Kent, resigned, and has gone to San Fernando, Cal., to spend the winter.
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George E. Farish, consulting mining engineer, has resigned as Managing Director of those Central American properties to which he has exclusively devoted his time, for the past two years. Mr. Farish is resuming his general consulting practice at 25 Broad St., New York City.
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Walter R. Crane, mining engineer, who has been Chief engineer for the War Minerals Relief Commission, during the past year, has now taken up his duties as Superintendent of the Tuscaloosa, Ala., Experiment Station of the Bureau of Mines. His headquarters are at Birmingham, Ala.
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George C. Mackenzie has been appointed Secretary of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and has assumed his duties at the institute’s headquarters in Montreal. Mr. Mackenzie was recently President of Electric Steel & Metals Co., Welland, Ont., and formerly served at Ottawa, as Secretary of Munitions Resources Commission.
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Dr. Henry M. Ami, F.R.G.S., for many years, connected with the Canadian Geological Survey, and for the last four years, attached to the British Embassy, at Washington, conducting studies in war metals and minerals, has gone to the south of France for a prolonged rest. He will resume work in connection with the Canadian Geological Survey, on his return to Canada.
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A. P. Watt, metallurgist, of New York City, died Dec. 29, 1920, from the effects of an attack of influenza, which he contracted a year ago.
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Henry Andrews Bumstead, Chairman of National Research Council, died on the train, while returning to Washington, from Convocation Week at Chicago. As scientific attaché of the United States Embassy, at London, in 1918, Dr. Bumstead was in immediate charge of the exchange of confidential scientific data with the Allies. He was born in 1870, at Pekin, Ill., and had been Professor of Physics, at Yale, and Director of the Sloane Physical Laboratory there, since 1906.
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Herman Garlichs, metallurgist, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and during the World War, an advising metallurgist, as a “dollar-a-year man,” died on Saturday, Jan. 8, at his home. Mr. Garlichs was born in Brooklyn, May 28, 1859. He was graduated from the Columbia School of Mines, in 1880, and soon after, went to Colorado, where he became a United States Deputy Mineral Surveyor. As mining expert and metallurgist, he was associated from 1884 to 1908, with the Aurora, Omaha and Grant, Velardeña, Kansas City, American, and St. Louis smelting companies, in the West, and later with the Balbach Smelting Co., in Newark, N. J. He retired from active business a few years ago, but retained membership in A. I. M. E. and M. & M. S. A.
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Ferdinand Schlesinger, of Milwaukee, Wis., one of the directors of the Newport Mining Co., operating the Newport mine, Ironwood, Mich., and owner of other extensive holdings on the Marquette and Gogebic ranges, died suddenly on Jan. 3, while aboard a train, on his way to California. Mr. Schlesinger, many years ago, was connected with the Chapin mine, Iron Mountain. Subsequently he acquired interests in many mines in the Lake Superior district, and had considerable holdings there, when he gave up active business a few years ago. At that time, other interests joined him in organizing the Steel & Tube Co. of America, taking over the Newport mine, the Anvil-Palms, at Bessemer, Mich., and the Isabella, on the Marquette Range.
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December 24, 1921
ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL

MEN YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

W. H. Blackburn, of Tonopah, was recently in San Francisco.
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C. E. Chaffin has returned to New York, after a six-months’ trip to South America.
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F. J. S. Sur, petroleum geologist of San Antonio, is inspecting lands in
Rockwall County, Tex.
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V. S. Garbarini, Superintendent of the Argonaut mine, at Jackson, Cal., was recently in San Francisco.
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George H. Garrey, who recently returned from geological work in British Columbia, was a visitor in New York, last week.
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N. S. Sheridan, mining engineer with the Midnight mine, in Idaho, is in New York, in consultation with the directors of the company.
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Hugh M. Henton has resigned his position with Case School of Applied Science, and has opened an office as consulting engineer, at 615 National City Building, Cleveland, Ohio.
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R. W. Stone, of the staff of the U. S. Geological Survey, has resigned, to accept a position as Assistant State Geologist of Pennsylvania. He will enter upon his new duties Jan. 1.
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David White, Chief geologist of the U. S. Geological Survey, delivered a lecture on “The Origin of Coal and Petroleum” on Dec. 17, before the Royal Canadian Institute, at Toronto.
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Mining and metallurgical engineers visiting New York City last week, included: John C. Anderson, Tucson, Ariz.;
E. B. Emrick, Grand Junction, Col.;
Stanly Easton, Kellogg, Idaho;
Arthur C. Green, Chicago;
E. Eggleston Smith, Paris;
Charles Janin, San Francisco;
J. S. Cheyney, Cañon City, Col.;
Frank M. Smith, Spokane;
Gaichi Yamada, Japan;
Thomas S. Roberts, Shamokin, Pa.;
And David Douglas, Fort Worth, Tex.
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OBITUARY

Edward C. Arnold, General Mine Foreman for the Federal Lead Co., Flat River, Mo., died suddenly at Farmington, Mo., on Dec. 7. Mr. Arnold was a native of Texas, and was associated with the Inde Gold Mining Co., Inde, Durango, Mexico, for several years, previous to 1913, when he went to Flat River. He was thirty-six years old.
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Stephen Donaldson, Mine Captain at the Kirkland Lake mine, was killed on Dec. 13, by a blasting accident. Mr. Donaldson was thirty-four years old.
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Robert H. McKean, Manager of the Credit Department, of the McGraw-Hill Company, Inc., died at his home on Dec. 17. Mr. McKean’s services began with Engineering and Mining Journal in April, 1902, as assistant in the Accounting Department. Within two years, he had been promoted to the position of Head Bookkeeper, and at the time, the Journal was purchased by Mr. Hill, he was in charge of the Accounting Department.

About a year after the purchase of the Engineering and Mining Journal, by the Hill Publishing Co., Mr. McKean was appointed Manager of the Journal, which position he held until he was elected a Director, and Secretary of the Hill Publishing Co. At this time, he assumed the Management of the Credit Department of the company. He was a Director and Secretary of the Hill Publishing Co. until its consolidation with the McGraw Publishing Co. After the consolidation he became Manager of the combined credit departments, and held this position until his death.
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Personal Notes Engineering and Mining Journal — Vol.126, No3 July 21 1928

C. O. LINDBERG, of Los Angeles, is now in New York.
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ARTHUR NOTMAN has returned to New York, from a professional engagement.
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W. LEE HEIDENREICH is now ill Alaska examining several mining properties.
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FREDERICK E. SCHMITT has been appointed Editor of Engineering News-Record. Mr. Schmitt has been on the staff of the publication since 1902. He is perhaps best known for his report on the collapse of the Quebec bridge, in 1907, which won countrywide recognition by its accurate and detailed analysis of the causes of the failure. Mr. Schmitt succeeds Frank C. Wight, who died last September.
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J. F. Cook, Consulting mining and mechanical engineer, left Johannesburg recently for London.
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F. C. BAKER, of the New York office of Consolidated Goldfields, of South Africa, is in London.
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Dr. W. S. MCCANN has returned to London, after spending four months in Southern and Northern Rhodesia.
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FRANK M. SMITH, Smelter Director, of Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining & Concentrating, visited the Salt Lake district, last week.
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PAUL BILLINGSLEY, Consulting mining geologist, of Salt Lake City, is making an extended business trip through the Northwest.
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O. F. OHLSON has been appointed General Manager of the Alaska government railroad. Mr. Ohlson succeeds NOEL W. SMITH, resigned.
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DE WITT SMITH, Managing Director of United Verde Copper, returned to New York recently, from a visit to the company’s properties at Jerome.
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A. B. HARDWICK, Statistician of International Smelting, returned to his headquarters in Salt Lake City, on July 5, from a ten days’ business trip to California.
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HERBERT C. ENOS has returned to Los Angeles, from Nevada City, and Death Valley, Calif., where he has been making examinations of mines and sulphur properties.
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DR. WALTER E. ROLOFF, head of the Department of Economics, at the University of New Mexico, has accepted a position with the Colorado School of Mines, at Golden, Col.
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E. BALIOL SCOTT, Editor of The Mining Journal, won a ‘very handsome silver mug, “230 years old” at the Summer meeting of the Mining and Metallurgical Golfing Society.
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P. F. ATHAS, President of Magna Gold Mines, has returned to Salt Lake City, from a visit of several weeks to the property of the company, situated 45 miles southwest of Austin, Nev.
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GEORGE A. PACKARD, mining engineer, of Boston, will be in Neihart, Mont., in July, and early August. He intends to visit the Globe district of Arizona, before returning to Boston, in September.
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COMPTON I. WHITE, Manager of the Whitedelf property, in the Clark Fork district, of Idaho, returned to Clark Fork recently, after attending the Democratic National Convention at Houston, Tex.
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Dr. R. C. WALLACE, head of the Department of Mineralogy and Geology, at the University of Manitoba, and Commissioner of Mines for the province, has been appointed President, of the University of Alberta.
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H. T. TYRELL is in charge of development work, on a group of 23 claims adjoining the property of Gem Lake Mines, in northern Ontario. The work is being carried out by New York and Toronto interests.
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D. F. HEWETT, of the Geological branch, of the U. S. Geological Survey, has left Washington, to visit mining districts in the West, in connection with his studies of dolomitization, and its relation to ore deposits.
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THEODORE R. WRIGHT, Superintendent of Concentrators, of Cerro de Pasco Corporation, is on leave from Cerro de Pasco, Peru, and is visiting Western mining districts, where he is investigating recent milling practice.
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F. O. WILLIAMSON, of the Williamson Company, of San Francisco, inventor of the Williamson ball mill, was recently in the copper districts of Arizona, where he made a special study of the installations of his mill.
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OTTO SUSSMAN, Vice-president of American Metal, will sail for Europe, late in July. During his absence, HARRY L. BROWN, who returned recently from Cuba, will be stationed at the New York offices of the company.
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BLAKE R. VANLEER, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, at the University of California, since 1920, has been appointed Assistant Secretary of the American Engineering Council, succeeding A. G. OLIPHANT, who has resigned.
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C. N. GERRY, Statistician at the Intermountain Station, of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, returned to his headquarters there, on July 5, from a week’s visit to various mining properties, in the Star and Iron Springs districts of southern Utah.
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A. M. GAUDIN, Associate Professor of Metallurgical Research, of the University of Utah, and C. T. VAN WINKLE, Consulting mining engineer, of Salt Lake City, returned to that city on July 7, from a two weeks’ inspection trip to the Philipsburg, Mont., mining district.
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H. I. SMITH, Associate Chief, of the Conservation Branch of the U. S. Geological Survey, and B. W. DYER, District engineer, with headquarters at Salt Lake City, are making an inspection trip of government-owned mineral properties in Oregon, Idaho, and California.
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D. M. DRAPER and O. W. EWING, of Salt Lake City, Utah, presented Senator Joseph T. Robinson, of Arkansas, Democratic candidate for vice-president, with a gavel, the head of which consisted of copper from the Bingham mine of Utah Copper, at the recent Democratic National Convention.
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Dr. HARRISON SCHMITT, Chief geologist for the Southwest Division, of the New Jersey Zinc Company, left for Parral, Chihuahua, on July 15, from Hanover, N. M. Dr. Schmitt will complete an examination of the properties of American Smelting & Refining in the Cordero district, which he was forced to abandon in 1926, because of trouble with bandits.
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GRANT B. SHIPLEY, of Pittsburgh, Pa., has recently been elected a director of the Mond Nickel Company, Ltd., of England and Canada. For some time, Mr. Shipley has been Chairman of the Board, and President of the American Mond Nickel Company, Ltd., which has offices at Pittsburgh, and a plant at Clearfield, Pa., where the company manufactures pure nickel, and nickel alloy products.
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WALTER L. REDROW has been appointed by President Coolidge, to the position of Examiner-in-chief, and member of the Patent Office Board of Appeals. He succeeds the late Sidney F. Smith. While serving as an examiner in the Patent Office, Mr. Redrow has had experience in those classes of invention involving metallurgy, electro- chemistry, and other related technical and chemical subjects.
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ERNEST W. ELLIS, Assistant Professor of Mining and Metallurgy, at the University of Idaho, has been appointed Acting secretary, of the Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology, by Governor H. C. Baldridge. He will serve in this post until the State Board of Education appoints a new Dean, of the School of Mines, at the university, to succeed Dr. F. A. THOMSON, who recently resigned.
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Dr. EDWARD DEAN ADAMS, engineer of New York City, has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Louvain, and has been made Commander of the Order of the Crown, by the Belgian government. Dr. Adams represented the Engineering Foundation, at the dedication of the Louvain Library, and the Engineers’ memorial carillon and clock, on July 4.
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G. H. BLANCHETTE, exploratory engineer of the Canadian Department of the Interior, is in charge of the expedition which sailed from Halifax, N. S., recently, in search of minerals in the territory surrounding Hudson Bay. He has secured leave of absence for two years. J. C. ROGERS, consulting engineer of Toronto, is in charge of the Geological Department of the expedition.
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JAMES G. HALL and ENOS CURTIN, New York brokers who set off for the Chibougamon District, in Quebec, by airplane on July 7, were found safe on Lake David, Quebec, July 16. They had been forced to land there on Sunday, while on their way to look over some gold claims, with a view to financing them immediately. Lake David is only about 20 miles from the Chibougamon District. Sixteen planes were chartered by telegraph, to look for them.
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G. G. Warren, President; S. G. Blaylock, General manager; and W. M. Archibald, Chief Engineer of Consolidated Mining & Smelting of Canada, recently inspected the development work that has been done at the Big Missouri Group, in the Salmon River District of British Columbia. Three diamond drills have been running day and night for some time, presumably to determine whether the final payment on the property, which has been optioned by Consolidated, will be made this month when it comes due.
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OBITUARY

Byron Burr Stowe, Manager of W. A. Harriman & Company’s manganese concession in the Russian Caucasus, died recently from sleeping sickness.
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H. C. Smith—An Appreciation

A friend and professional associate of H. C. Smith, American mining engineer at Pachuca, State of Hidalgo, Mexico, who was murdered on May 30, as reported in “Engineering and Mining Journal” of June 9, has sent us the following appreciation:

By the tragic death of H. C. Smith, the mining profession loses an engineer of outstanding ability, and a man who has inspired, to a rare extent, the admiration and devotion of his friends. To all of us who knew the Dos Carlos mine in its development stages, the achievement of bringing it up to a production of 25,000 tons per month, within eighteen months of crosscutting the vein, from the old Santa Gertrudis mine, will always remain an astonishing feat; no small share of the credit belongs to Smith.

But mines, especially mines in Mexico, cannot be operated successfully by technical ability alone. Force of character, a sensitive understanding of human beings, and an ability to translate this understanding into a sure touch in handling men—all the qualities of leadership—are the indispensable adjuncts of technical skill. It was his ability to inspire others with his own enthusiasm, his own will to overcome the most formidable difficulties, and, perhaps more than all else, his ready and sympathetic understanding of his subordinates’ problems that made “Si” so beloved by all who have been privileged to work with him.

He never spared himself, yet his endeavor was always to spare others, and many times he was heard to say to a foreman, after a hard morning’s round, “Well, don’t go and do too much climbing this afternoon; take it easy round the levels.”

No man was ever more loyal, to his assistants. When things went well, “The Boss” saw to it that his foremen got the credit with the management, but always when things were awry, he would step in and take the kicks, which were the deserts of others, himself.

“Si” was the most sympathetic teacher that ever helped a young engineer: he was never dogmatic, and no subordinate ever put forward an idea that was not given a fair trial, and a helping hand. Small wonder then, that he commanded a loyalty, and affection, such as fall to the lot of few executives.

The soul of generous hospitality, his house was always open. The Smiths’ New Year’s Day party was, for many years, an annual tradition in Pachuca, and innumerable evenings of supper and bridge, will remain to many, as the most delightful of our Mexican experiences, for he had, to a marked degree, the Westerner’s genius for being the perfect host.

To his friends, his loss is irreparable, and leaves a gap that no one else may never quite fill; yet we can take comfort from the fact that “Si’s” short life was one of achievement; he has left behind with us who worked with him, an ideal of “straight-shooting,” and we know that he looked on death with the same calm heart and steady eyes, with which he had always faced life.

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The new ten-stamp mill of Metals Mining & Smelting Corporation at Montague, Halifax, Nova Scotia, was recently put into operation by G S Harrington, Minister of Mines for the province. The mill is of the latest design, containing crushers, stamps, and Wilfley tables, and has a capacity of 50 tons a day. It is stated to be the first unit of a larger mill contemplated to be built on the site.
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293 ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL FEBRUARY 18, 1922

Mining Engineers of Note

Frank Klepetko

AMONG the group of engineers who have been, and are actively associated with copper mining and metallurgy, none stands out more prominently than Frank Klepetko. Entering his work, at a time when copper metallurgy received the impetus, that has been followed by a continuous period of development, he soon acquired an important place, as an authority in copper smelting and refining. He was born in what is now Czechoslovakia, in 1856. His parents came to the United States in 1867, and settled in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended the public schools, being graduated from high school, in 1875. He obtained his degree of Engineer of Mines, at the School of Mines, Columbia University, in 1880. In common with many men, prominent in the copper industry today, Mr. Klepetko began his service in the Lake Superior “Copper Country.”

From 1880 to 1882, he was employed by the Conglomerate Mining Co., of Michigan. He then entered the employ of A. S. Bigelow, of Boston, Mass., and his associates, in their various mining and smelting enterprises, in Michigan, the principal of which were the Tamarack, Osceola, and Kearsarge mining companies, the Hancock & Calumet R.R., and the Dollar Bay Smelting Works.

But the call of the West, which has weaned many away from the first fields of their endeavor, was strong, and in 1891, he was transferred by Mr. Bigelow, to Montana, to complete the construction of the Great Falls smelter, for the Boston & Montana C. C. & S. Mining Co., and, when this was finished, he remained there to Superintend the operation of the plant. Many difficulties had to be overcome, and many problems solved, to bring the plant to its present high degree of economy, and efficiency.

Among these, may be mentioned the following: The improvement of wet-concentration methods for ores, effecting higher savings; development of a satisfactory and economical calcining furnace; the gasifying of high-ash coal; the application of gas to reverberatory smelting of copper ore calcines; the development and application of the blast furnace to the semi-pyritic smelting of raw copper ores, including their mechanical charging; the development of the direct converter process for copper mattes—i.e., the bringing of molten copper mattes directly from the furnace, to the converter, without intermediate solidifying and re-melting; the improvement of the parallel system of electrolytic copper refining, and the development and improvement of mechanical appliances in all departments. These improvements placed this plant so far ahead of similar plants, that it became a model property, and its improvements were copied by copper metallurgists generally.

In 1896, Mr. Klepetko was appointed General Manager of the Boston & Montana, and the Butte & Boston mining companies, which later were absorbed by the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. In addition to these duties, he was appointed, in 1900, Manager of the Anaconda reduction works. In 1902, he resigned his active Montana positions, to take up consulting work in New York, and he has been so employed ever since. Under his supervision and management, the great copper smelting works at Great Falls, Mont., the Utah Consolidated smelter, at Salt Lake City, the Michigan Smelting Co.’s smelter at Houghton, Mich., the Cerro de Pasco smelter in Peru, and the Anaconda smelter of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. have been constructed. When Mr. Klepetko left the Anaconda smelter, it was considered one of the best, both from a metallurgical, and an economic standpoint.

While in Peru for the Cerro de Pasco Mining Co., Mr. Klepetko became convinced that there were splendid opportunities for profitable mining in that country, and he acquired large mining interests there.

Mr. Klepetko has always been a man of great energy, and believes in being personally on the job. For over a year, he has been in Peru, supervising the work being done at plants in that country, in which he is interested. He is a member of the Columbia University Club, the Engineers’ Club, the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, and the Montana Society of Engineers.
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OTHER MEN YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

Vernon S. Rood, of the Utah Apex mine, has gone East on business.
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F. C. Merritt, consulting engineer for the Loring interests, visited Reno, and the Comstock, early in February.
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Alexander Wise, Superintendent of the Comstock Middlemines Co., left Virginia City, for San Francisco, on Feb. 1.
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John A. Burgess, Consulting engineer, and geologist, of San Francisco, has been in Mina and Candelaria on official business.
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Walter A. Rukeyser has returned from a trip to the new gold district, in the Elbow Lake region, of northern Manitoba.
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Herbert G. Moulton has become associated with Coverdale & Colpitts, consulting engineers, 66 Broadway, New York City.
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Frederic R. Weekes sailed on Feb. 11, for Venezuela, where he will be engaged in professional work, for the next two months.
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A. J. Young, President of the Bailey Silver Mines, Cobalt, has been elected President of the Atlas Gold Mines, in the Shining Tree district.
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Allen Murray Yonge has recently accepted temporary appointment as efficiency engineer, of all of the state institutions of California.
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F. W. Bradley has been in Spokane recently, in connection with the Day-Hecla lawsuit, but will return to San Francisco soon.
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A. A. Richie has been appointed Mine Foreman, of the Simon Silver Lead Mines Co., to succeed Tom McNamara, who is seriously ill, and in San Francisco.
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John M. Fox resigned, the first of the year, as Superintendent of the California Rand Silver Co., and is now in Johannesburg, on professional business.
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N. O. Lawton recently became associated with Duncan MacVichie, in the practice of consulting and mining engineers, with an office in Salt Lake City.
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G. T. Jackson, formerly Manager of the Alaska Gastineau, has been appointed Manager of the Shasta Zinc & Copper Co. at Winthrop, Shasta County, Cal.
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H. Foster Bain addressed the Engineers Club of Philadelphia, and affiliated societies, Feb. 14, on the subject, “The Field for Mining Engineers in China.”
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G. M. Fowler, of Salt Lake, geologist for the International Smelting Co., made a business trip through Reno, Tonopah, and southern Nevada, during the first week in February.
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Bradley Stoughton, formerly Secretary of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, was elected President of the Yale Engineering Association, at the annual meeting, on Feb. 2.
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Donald B. Gillies, of Cleveland, Vice-president of the McKinney Steel Co., and the President of the Michigan College of Mines Alumni Association, recently visited Houghton and Calumet, to meet the alumni.
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Kenneth Williams has been appointed Metallurgist, at the Copper Queen smelter, of the Phelps Dodge Corporation. He was formerly General Foreman of reverberatory furnaces and roasters, at that plant.
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Oscar Spitzer, representing the International Minerals & Metals Corporation, recently visited the Wisconsin Zinc district, with a view to obtaining a future calcined-blende ore supply, for his company’s smelter at Springfield, Ill.
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W. B. Tucker has been transferred from the Los Angeles field division, of the California State Mining Bureau, to the Redding branch. C. McK. Laisure, who was in charge of the Redding branch, has been made District Engineer of the Bureau, with headquarters in San Francisco.
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Mining and metallurgical engineers visiting New York City last week included:
E. W. Moore, El Cajon, Cal.;
William Griffith, Scranton, Pa.;
E. O. Daue, Philadelphia.;
E. Mosonyi, Bis, Mexico;
W. Spencer Hutchinson, Boston;
A. J. Klamt, Los Angeles;
A. L. Colby, Bethlehem, Pa.;
W. W. Taylor, Signal Mountain, Tenn.;
W. A. Wilson, Salt Lake City,
and Christian Urang, Salt Lake City.
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OBITUARY

J. A. Lannon, Manager of the Lucky Twenty mining company, Ouray, Col., died recently.
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Arthur Ferland died at Haileyburg, Ont., on Feb. 9, at the age of sixty-six years. Mr. Ferland was one of a syndicate who purchased the property, which is now the Nipissing mine, and was a director of the Chambers-Ferland Company.
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Eugene B. Day, Managing Director of the Hercules mine, and one of the most prominent mining men of the Northwest, died of heart disease, in Spokane, on Feb. 11. Mr. Day was born in Truckee, Cal., in 1874, and went to the Coeur d’Alenes, in 1886. He was one of the original owners of the Hercules mine, and was also a director and stockholder in the Tamarack and Custer Consolidated Mining Co., the Northport Smelting & Refining Co., and the Pittsburgh Smelting Co.
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ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL-PRESS 1031 December 26, 1925

Men You Should Know About

Elmer E. Paxton, Director and General Manager of the Engels Copper Mining Co., resigned recently, but will continue as a director of the company.
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F. Park Geyer, President, and W. A. Moncrief, Vice-president of the Marland Oil Co., of Texas, have returned to Fort Worth, Tex., from a business trip to the East.
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W. A. Hooten, mining engineer, is in Alberta, Canada, in charge of placer drilling operations, for Chicago clients of the Southwestern Engineering Corporation.
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Walter A. Schmidt, President and General Manager of the Western Precipitation Co., of Los Angeles, recently returned to New York from a business trip to Europe.
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B. Britton Gottsberger, of the faculty of Yale, who had been in Europe for three weeks; George H. Carnahan, and Frank H. Carney, recently returned to the United States, from abroad.
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Clarence C. Malmstrom, who has been Assistant melter and refiner, at the Denver Mint, has been advanced to the office of Assayer. He has been connected with the Mnt for twenty-one years.
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A. Archibald, Pesident and General Manager of the Nevada Consolidated Mines Co. at Grass Valley, Calif., was recently in San Francisco, in connection with the purchase of cyanide equipment for his property.
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Percy B. Reid, formerly Chief controller of Chinese Immigration, and Division Commissioner of Immigration, on the Pacific Coast, has been appointed Gold Commissioner of the Yukon Territory, with headquarters at Dawson.
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Major H. Waters Van Ness, R. E., of London, who has been making examinations in the Mixteca section, of Oaxaca, Mexico, has returned to Mexico City, and northern points, having announced that he will return, and be temporarily located in Oaxaca.
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Hans Lundberg, Field Manager of the Swedish American Prospecting Corporation, and Karl Sundberg, an engineer affiliated with the same organization, have been awarded gold medals for meritorious work in electrical engineering, by the Engineering Academy of Sweden.
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T. C. Wilson, mining engineer, for eleven years Foreman of the Timber Butte mill of the W. A. Clark interests, recently left Butte, to become General Manager of a new mill at Leadville, Col. Before his departure, he was presented with a handsome gold watch by the mill employees.
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H. S. Lyne, petroleum geologist of Australia, has been engaged to join the geological staff of the Standard Oil Co. Prior to his departure for his new post, the directors of the South Australian Oil Wells Co., for which Mr. Lyne has acted as consulting geologist, gave him a farewell luncheon.
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James W. Gemmell has been appointed Vice-president of the Lake Superior Corporation, and Algoma Steel Corporation, of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., in charge of finance and accounts of both corporations, and subsidiary companies. He remains Treasurer of the Lake Superior Corporation.
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O. H. Griggs, of Los Angeles, and Frank A. Kennedy, of Boise, Idaho, both former operators on the Mesabi iron range, have made a joint examination of the Mother Lode Copper Co.’s properties, near Baker, Ore., and of the Red Ledge property, owned by the Idaho Copper Company, Ltd., in Adams County, Idaho.
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Guy C. Riddell has returned to New York after a three months’ trip to England, and is again at his office, at No. 1 Broadway, New York City.
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Dr. George Rogers Mansfield, of the U. S. Geological Survey, recently visited the Idaho School of Mines, at Moscow, and gave a series of addresses on the areal, and structural geology, of Southeastern Idaho, where for many years, he has been engaged in an intensive and detailed study of the great Permian phosphate deposits.
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R. E. Clarke recently resigned as General Purchasing Agent of the Utah Copper Co., the Nevada Consolidated Copper Co., the Nevada Northern R.R. Co., the Ray Consolidated Copper Co., the Butte & Superior Mining Co., and the other of the D. C. Jackling’s Associated Companies, and has become associated with the American Rubber Manufacturing Co., in the capacity of Vice-president In-charge of Sales.
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Fred M. Prescott, of Menominee, Mich., and Abe Mathews, of Wakefield, Mich., have been appointed by Governor Groesbeck of Michigan, to the Board of Control, of the Michigan College of Mines, at Houghton. They succeed John R. Van Evera, of Marquette, and Ocha Potter, of Ahmeek, whose terms of membership have expired. Mr. Prescott is president of the Prescott Company, a manufacturer of pumps. Mr. Mathews is an executive for Pickands, Mather & Co.
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Obituary

W. J. Kirby, a Spokane mining engineer, was killed recently, by a fall in the East Pacific property, near Winston, Mont. He was fifty-two years old.
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Charles E. Finney, long identified with mining and smelting interests in the United States, and with various railroads, and industrial and financial institutions, died in Chatham, N. J., on Dec. 11. In 1888, he entered the service of the Consolidated Kansas City Smelting & Refining Co., and later, was with the Messrs. Guggenheim, as Manager of Mines, Smelters, and Refineries, in the United States and Mexico, and with the American Smelting & Refining Co. Mr. Finney, when the Guggenheim Exploration Co. was organized in 1900, had charge of the initial operations of that company, and was subsequently engaged in many metallurgical and mining enterprises. His entire business life had been devoted to the mining and metallurgical industries, in which he was widely known.
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Charles E. Knox, highly esteemed as a mining man, and well known in the West, especially in Nevada, died on Nov. 4, 1925, at his home in Berkeley, Calif., He was fifty-eight years of age. Independence, Mo., was his birthplace. His first mining experience was as early as 1890, in Montana, where he was Manager of the Monitor Gold Mining Co., which was owned by his father, the son being also a stockholder in the enterprise, which paid dividends for several years.

He did not remain long in Montana, and returned to Independence, where he organized a manufacturing company, which specialized in hose-reel and fire equipment. This business grew rapidly, and it became necessary to transfer it to Philadelphia, which became his home, for the time being. The call of the West proved strong, however, and he sold a part of his interest in the company, and went to Nevada, at a time when Tonopah first began to attract attention. He organized the Montana-Tonopah Co. and undertook deep exploration in an area north of the Mizpah mine. Success was attained, and the first cyanide mill was constructed on the slopes of Mount Oddie. This mill became the prototype of later mills. The Montana, under his efficient management, made an excellent record.

Knox took an active interest in the welfare of his employees, and also in Tonopah and Nevada, generally. Not so long ago, he organized another development company, and began operations on the Gypsy Queen shaft. The shaft was equipped, and considerable progress had been made in sinking at the time of Knox’s death. He was Vice-president and General Manager of the Mizpah Extension Co., of Tonopah, and had interests in many of the prospects and mines of Goldfield. He effected an organization of the Lucky Boy, at Hawthorne, Nev., and was President of the Black Oak mines, at Soulsbyville, Calif. Well informed in mining matters, Charles Knox, through his interest in others, won the friendship, and the regard, of many in the West, who will regret sincerely his passing.
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EMJ AUGUST 25 1928 Personal Notes

Dr. KUNO B. HEBERLEIN left New York, for London, on the “Mauretania” on Aug. 16.
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T. A. RICKARD is in Victoria, B. C., and will return to California, about the middle of September.
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W. A. SIMPKINS, mining engineer of San Francisco, has returned from a mine examination trip to Idaho.
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SYDNEY H. BALL, of Rogers, Mayer & Ball, left New York on Aug. 17, for a month’s professional trip, to Colorado.
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CLAUDE COMPTON, of Warren, Ariz., Chief chemist of the Copper Queen branch, of Phelps Dodge, is in southern California.
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JAMES F. MCCARTHY, President of Hecla Mining Company, was in New York, recently. He spent a few days in Washington, before going to New York.
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P. G. BECKETT, General Manager of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, will leave Arizona, for Canada, on Sept. 7, returning via New York, late in that month.
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J. F. ROBERTSON, Smelter Manager, Mond Nickel Company, Coniston, Ontario, inspected smelting and milling plants in the Salt Lake Valley district, last week.
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G. W. CRANE, Consulting mining engineer, of Salt Lake City, returned to his headquarters there, on Aug. 13, from a three weeks’ business trip to New York, and Washington, D. C.
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RAYMOND SPILSBURY, Smelter Superintendent for the Cerro de Pasco Copper Corporation, Oroya, Peru, has been in the Salt Lake Valley district, making a study of metallurgical methods employed there.
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Major Sir THOMAS CULLINAN, D.S.O., of Johannesburg, South Africa, the discoverer of the Premier Diamond mine, and interested in many South African mining enterprises, is making a tour of Canada, accompanied by his wife.
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F. K. MIDDLETON HUNTER, mining engineer, who recently returned to the United States, from Chuquicamata, Chile, is at present, engaged in mine examinations, which will take him into Canada, for the next two months.
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B. M. BIRD, Supervising engineer, of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, and until recently, Superintendent of the Northwest Station, of the Bureau, at Seattle, has been transferred to the Southern Station, at Tuscaloosa, Ala., where he will soon assume his duties as Superintendent of that station.
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H. A. BUEHLER, State geologist of Missouri, and CHARLES E. SCHWARZ, mining engineer, as consultants of the National Lead Company, are inspecting the Triumph mine, near Hailey, Idaho, and the properties of the Combined Metals Reduction Company at Bauer, Utah, and Pioche, Nev.
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H. B. LUMSDEN, Assistant Director of Development, for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, is in British Columbia, making arrangements for a survey of the non-metallic mineral resources of western Canada. Through the instrumentality of the railway’s development department, a large deposit of high-grade talc is being developed near the British Columbia-Alberta boundary, 24 miles southwest of Banff.
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N. F. KOEPEL, of the Andes Copper Mining Company, Portrerillos, Chile, recently visited metallurgical plants in the Salt Lake Valley. Following a trip to Inspiration, Ariz., Mr. Koepel will return to New York, whence he will sail for Chile.
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T. L. WRIGHT, Metallurgist, of the Cerro de Pasco Copper Corporation, Oroya, Peru, has also just completed a visit to the metallurgical plants in the Salt Lake Valley, and the Butte district.
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Dr. HENRY MACE PAYNE, Consulting engineer, and Director of the Bureau of Mining Economics, of the American Mining Congress, delivered by invitation, at a meeting of the Kiwanis Club, at Evansville, Ind., on Aug. 23, an address on “Brains and Business.” Dr. Payne, who has had a wide experience in mining engineering in the United States and foreign countries, is a frequent speaker on economics, for similar organizations in various parts of the Country.
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OBITUARY

JOHN NELSON, retired mine operator, of Cripple Creek, Col., died in Denver on Aug. 7. Mr. Nelson was 67 years old.
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ANDREW MACKIE NIVEN died recently at Johannesburg, aged 73. He was a pioneer, an old and highly respected member of the Stock Exchange, and a director of numerous gold mines and collieries.
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V. S. DWELLY, for some years, Superintendent of the Buena Tierra mine, in Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico, died recently in San Diego, Calif., where he had gone in search of health. He had been incapacitated since 1924.
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GEORGE R. HANCOCK, for many years prominent in the mining industry of Utah, died at his home in Salt Lake City, on Aug. 2, following a short illness. He was 74 years old, and had retired from active business fifteen years ago. Mr. Hancock was born Feb. 24, 1854, at Winchester, Tenn. After engaging in the lumber business for several years in Michigan, he went to Utah in 1890, and soon became interested in the development of the mineral resources of the state. He served in an official capacity with the Daly West Mining Company, Gold Hill Mining Company, and the White Knob Copper Company. In association with Col. William M. Ferry, he developed the Quincy mine, at Park City. Mr. Hancock was survived by his widow and a daughter.
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EUGENE AUGUSTUS HOFFMAN TAYS died at Turlock, Calif., on July 22 last, while receiving medical treatment for cancer, in a sanitarium at that place. He was born at West Point, N. Y., on Oct. 24, 1861, while his father was civilian instructor at the Academy. Mr. Tays attended schools in Kentucky, and Burlington, N. J., and also Union College at Schenectady, N. Y., where he graduated in 1884, as a civil engineer.

He was with the Mexican Central Railroad for a time, then joined Albert K. Owen and Arthur Stillwell, in laying the route of what is now the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railroad. From then on (1885), he made Sinaloa, Mexico, his home, operating first as a civil engineer, and then as a mining engineer. For several years, he was manager of the San José de Gracia mines, in Sinaloa; also in Chinipas, and at the Maconi Silver mines, of Queretaro. From 1907-10, his mining operations were mostly in the Western United States, and British Columbia. During the Mexican revolutions, he took up ranching; raising tomatoes, alfalfa, and other produce. In 1920, he organized the Liga Agricola, a nonprofit, co-operative marketing association, for the distribution of Mexican tomatoes and other winter vegetables, whose principal office is Nogales, Ariz. He was General Manager of this organization, until the time of his death. He is survived by his wife, Rosaura Veda de Tays, four sons, Alexander, Eugene, George, and Clement, and two daughters: Mrs. Lambert, now living at Suva, Fiji Islands; and Mrs. W. E. Dunn, of Leonia, N. J. Mr. Tays’ remains were interred in San Blas, Sinaloa, Mexico, his home. He had been a member of the A.I.M.E. for more than thirty years.
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Engineering and Mining Journal — Vol.126, No.8

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