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124 EMJ JANUARY 13 1917 MEN YOU SHOULD KNOW

ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL Vol. 103, No. 2

Percival Johnson has been made Director of the Pulaski Iron Co.
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C. M. Weld announces the removal of his office, to No. 2 Rector St., New York.
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Marshall O. Ortoer has removed his office to 213 Boston Building, Denver. Col.
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R. B. Marchant, Treasurer of J. G. White & Co., New York, was recently elected Vice-president of the company.
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J. B. Moore has accepted a position as Mine Manager, for the Tigre Mining Co,. at Esqueda, Sonora, Mexico.
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H. M. Beattie—We have received an inquiry for the address of Mr. Beattie, who was in Chicago, in 1912.
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Dyke V. Keedy has gone to South America on professional business. He expects to be absent about three months.
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Heath Steele has been elected President of the Mining and Development Co., with head offices at 60 Broadway. New York.
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E. S. Christiansen has been appointed Manager of the Detroit office, of the United Smelting and Aluminum Co., of New Haven. Conn.
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Persifor G. Spilsbury left New York, on Dec. 28, for an Inspection trip to the Joplin and Oklahoma zinc fields, and then to Arizona.
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F. B. Tough has resigned his position with the Kern Trading and Oil Co., in order to enter the Petroleum Division, of the U. S. Bureau of Mines.
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K. C. Li. president of the Hunan Government Lead Smelting Works, was recently in San Francisco to purchase machinery and supplies.
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Mark R. Lamb, for several years, Manager for Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. In South America, has resigned from the service of the company, and will return to the United States.
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R. N. Lyman has resigned as Mine Manager, for the Seneca-Superior Silver Mines, to become President, and Managing Director, of the Elliott-Kirkland Gold Mines, Ltd., with offices at Cobalt. Ont.
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James MacNaughton, First Vice-president, and General Manager of the Calumet & Hecla, and subsidiaries, is at Houghton, Mich., from Boston and expects to remain a month or six weeks.
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James Lord has retired as President of the American Iron and Steel Manufacturing Co., of Lebanon. Penn., after 41 years of continuous activity In the iron and steel manufacturing business.
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Charles W. Henderson, the statistician in charge of the Denver office of the Geological Survey, is in Washington, conferring with H. D. McCaskey, the head of the Mineral Resources division, of the Survey.
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N. O. Lawton, manager for the Vermont Copper Co., South Strafford. Vt., left on Jan. 2, for a trip through the West, on professional business. He will visit prominent mines and mills, returning to Vermont about Feb. 1.
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Francis Church Lincoln, Director of the Mackay School of Mines, Reno. Nev., is at present, examining a copper mine in Ontario, Canada, and will return to Reno, about Jan. 8. 1917, to take up the work at the School of Mines.
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Captain E. N. Cory has been promoted to the position of Assistant Superintendent of the mines, of the Jones & Laughlin Ore Co., in the Michigan field. He was formerly in charge of the Rolling Mill mine, of the company, in Negaunee.
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John A. Davis, Superintendent of the Fairbanks, Alaska, Experiment Station, of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, is selecting his equipment in New York and Boston. before Leaving for Alaska, Mr. Davis will visit several of the stations of the Bureau of Mines.
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Frederick G. Clapp, petroleum engineer and geologist, addressed the Geological Society of America, at Albany, N. Y., on Dec. 28, 1916, on “Ethics of the Petroleum Geologist,” and “Revision of the Structural Classification of Petroleum and Natural Gas Fields.”
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George C. Hicks. Jr., Vice-president, and engineer for the P. H. & F. M. Roots Co., of Connersville, Ind., for the past 11 years, announces his retirement from the company, on Jan. 1, 1917. Mr. Hicks will act as consulting engineer for the company for a short time. Before taking up work again at some other company, he expects to take a six months’ vacation.
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Obituary -

Lieut. Gerald Galt, a mining engineer, son of Judge Galt, of Winnipeg, who was serving overseas with the Canadian Engineers, was instantly killed on Christmas night, by a shell. He was 29 years of age, and a graduate of the Toronto School of Practical Science. Previous to his enlistment, he was engaged in a large copper mine at Rancagua, Chile.
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Capt. John Trethewey, a retired mining engineer, died in Toronto on Christmas Day, after a long illness, at the age of 77. He had during his active life, been identified with a number of mining enterprises, and for several years, was connected with the Silver Islet mine in the Lake Superior region. He was formerly a resident of Owen Sound, but came to Toronto, about ten years ago. He leaves a widow, three daughters, and two sons.
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George L. Wright, a pioneer mining man of Ouray County, died on Dec. 22, 1916. after a brief Illness brought on by an acute attack of kidney trouble. Mr. Wright made several large fortunes in mining, being among the first promoters of the big Sneffels mines, about 36 years ago. He still controlled many big properties in that district. Among them are the U. S. claims, which are traversed by the new Camp Bird tunnel, and which promised to bring him another large fortune. He was 75 years old. and is survived by his widow, who lives In Ouray, and by a brother, who lives in California. His passing marks the last of Ouray’s real old timers.
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William M. Gilliland, Chief mechanicaI engineer for Pickands, Mather & Co. in the Lake Superior district, died in his office, in Duluth, Dec. 26, 1916. Death came suddenly from acute indigestion. He came to the Lake Superior district 14 years ago, taking a position as Assistant mechanical engineer for the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. at Ishpeming.

He left that company, to become Chief engineer for the Quincy Mining Co., in the copper district, going from there, to Douglas Ariz., to take charge of the machinery at the smelteries of the Calumet & Arizona Mining Co.

He returned to the Lake Superior district four years ago, to enter the employ of Pickands, Mather & Co. He was 53 years of age, a graduate of the University of Illinois. The funeral took place in Quincy. Ill.
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August, 1923
PACIFIC MINING NEWS OF THE ENGINEERING & MINING JOURNAL-PRESS

Personals

Ira B. Joralemon has returned to San Francisco.
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W. D. O’Brien, of Santiago, Chile, is in San Francisco.
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Arthur J. Crowley, of Sulphur, Nev., was in San Francisco last month.
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F. Bowerman, of Johannesburg, S. Africa, is in San Francisco, and expects to return home, within the next month.
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E. P. Crawford is in San Francisco, after a year spent in Western Chihuahua. He expects to return to Mexico shortly.
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W. R. Wilson, President and General Manager of the Crow’s Nest Pass Coal Co., visited Vancouver and Victoria, B. C., in July.
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Frank Daniels, of Pasadena, Calif., passed through San Francisco recently, on his return from a three weeks’ vacation in Northern California.
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Andrew G. Larsen, mining engineer of Spokane, Wash., has returned from Stewart, B. C., after inspecting some properties in that district.
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Rudolph Gahl, consulting metallurgist, has moved his office, from 804 Equitable Building, Denver, Col., to 1101 Laurel St., Berkeley, Calif.
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R. C. Riblet, of the Riblet Tramway Co., Spokane, Wash., is in Peru, superintending the erection of a new tramway line for the American Smelting & Refining Co., from Singirual to Milluachaqui.
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Dr. Charles Camsell, Deputy Minister of Mines of Canada, is inspecting mining conditions in British Columbia. His department, he states, is desirous of seeing prospectors direct special attention to mineralized districts adjacent to railways.
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Samuel L. Silverman, of New York, heads a party that left recently for the Portland Canal district, B. C. Among those with him are Malcolm Stobie, of Stobie & Furlong, Toronto, Ont.; R. B. Lamb, mining engineer of New York, advising Mr. Stobie; W. D. Wilson, of Hamilton, Ont.; and F. H. Phippen, of Toronto, Ont. Mr. Silverman is interested in the development of the Forty-Nine, and Bush properties, situated in the same section as the Premier mine, and he, and his confreres, intend inspecting these, and other mining prospects.
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Leopold Albu, Managing Director of the General Mining & Finance Corporation, of London, Eng., passed through Vancouver, B. C., recently, en route to Northern British Columbia and Alaskan mining fields. After inspecting mining properties, he will return East, via California. Mr. Albu said that Canada has all the advantages of South Africa, plus ample water and profuse vegetation.
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The engineering practice previously conducted under the firm name of Dahl & Wartenweiler, Los Angeles, has, since May 1, been taken over by S. K. Dahl, who will continue the business of designs and construction of mine-surface plants, and industrial plants, with offices in the Central Building, Los Angeles. Mr. Otto Wartenweiler, in withdrawing from the firm of Dahl & Wartenweiler, has accepted an appointment as engineer with the Hammond Lumber Co.
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Olaf P. Jenkins, Associate Professor of Economic Geology, State College of Washington, is making a geological examination of the coals of Skagit County, Washington, for the Division of Geology, Department of Conservation and Development. This is a continuation of the work he did in Whatcom County, last summer, the report of which is now in the hands of the State Printer.
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F. A. Leach, Jr., has been appointed Vice-president arid General Manager of the Pacific Gas & Electric Co., to succeed John A. Britton, who died recently. Mr. Leach entered the public-utility service 25 years ago, in the employ of the Oakland Gas Light and Heat Co., of which John A. Britton was President and Manager. Upon Mr. Britton’s acceptance of the presidency of the California Gas and Electric Corporation, of which the Oakland Gas Light and Heat Co. was a subsidiary, Mr. Leach was appointed to succeed him as manager of that company, and also the Berkeley Electric Lighting Co.

Then, upon the organization of the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. in 1905, Mr. Leach became manager of what is now called the East Bay division of the combine. Three years ago, he was called to the head office in San Francisco, as Vice-president In- Charge of Public Relations and Service, and in that capacity, has had charge of the operation of the company’s territorial divisions and districts, throughout the entire system.
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General R. G. E. Leckie, a mining engineer of prominence in Western Canada, died recently in Vancouver. In recent times, he had been engaged in putting the Windpass mine, at Chu Chua, upon a producing basis. Through his efforts, Trite, Wood and Wilson, of Fernie, B. C., have been assisting in the financing of the Windpass property.
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UNDERGROUND MINING SCENE
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PHILLY GEAR WORKS
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1921 DUPLEX 4X4 TRUCK AT WORK
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MINING AT THE FACE (END OF THE TUNNEL)
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1921 VULCAN LOCOMOTIVE
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1922 UNDERGROUND MINING
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NEW SOUTH WALES PROSPECTOR
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May, 1923 PACIFIC MINING NEWS OF THE ENGINEERING & MINING JOURNAL-PRESS
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Personals

Marc L. Latham is at Trona, Calif.
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William Motherwell is at Los Angeles, Calif.
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T. F. Stipp, Assistant Resident Geologist of the Kern Division, Associated Oil Co., has been transferred to Fellows, Calif., to similar duties there.
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E. P. Mathewson has accepted an appointment as consulting engineer, on the staff of the Granby Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. of British Columbia.
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Chester B. Allen, of Minerals Separation North American Corporation, was in Spokane recently, on his way to the Coeur d’Alenes, on business connected with company affairs.
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Dr. George Hanson, of the Canadian Geological Survey, recently addressed the Vancouver Island Prospectors’ Association, on the geology of the Salmon River district, Portland Canal.
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Roy H. Elliott, recently Assistant Manager of the Metals Exploration Co., has opened an office as consulting mining engineer, at room 1200, in the First National Bank Building, San Francisco, Calif.
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Stephen Birch, President of the Kennecott Copper Corporation, recently donated $2,000 to the Alaska Agricultural College, and School of Mines, at Fairbanks, Alaska, to be used in building up a reference library.
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O. E. Coombs and H. S. Little, of San Francisco, dredge men for the Hammond interests, recently arrived in Fairbanks, Alaska, en route to Nome, to prepare for next season’s operations. They have a dog team waiting at Nenana, and will mush down the Yukon, to St. Michaels, then cross Norton Sound, to Nome.
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R. H. Kergin, the representative in the British Columbia Legislature, Portland Canal, and Atlin sections, has returned to Victoria, after touring the cities of eastern Canada, and the United States. He said “the Premier mine is much more talked about in the East than it is here, and there is a great deal of American capital being sent into the country. We are on the eve of a real boom in mining, although the people of British Columbia apparently do not recognize this.”
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At the annual meeting of the Independent Oil Producers Agency, at Bakersfield, Calif., on April 11, 1923, L. P. St. Clair was re-elected President for the ensuing year.

The following were elected to the Executive Committee: I. W. Fuqua of Los Angeles; W. H. Hill and G. R. Garrison of San Diego; W. W. Colm and P. H. Welsh of Fresno; W. L. Stewart of Los Angeles; E. E. Bailey of Pasadena; L. P. Guiberson of Taft; D. S. Ewing of San Francisco; H. D. Colson of Taft; Z. L. Phelps of Coalinga; Chester H. Warlow of Fresno.
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The Board of Directors for the year includes: E. E. Baily, E. W. Baily, C. A. Barlow, F. C. Berry, C. J. Berry, George A. Betts, L. C. Bowles, E. W. Clark, W. W. Colm, H. D. Colson, Martin Coyne, T. J. Crumpton, T. B. Doub, D. S. Ewing, I. W. Fuqua, J. Goldman, D. J. Gonyer, R. E. Graham, L. P. Guiberson, G. R. Harrison, W. H. Hill, H. A. Jastro, H. T. Johnson, W. T. Knowles, C. A. Landgron, H. Layer, C. W. Goddard, J. L. McGinn, F. R. McQuigg, Alex Miller, S. W. Morsehead, T. A. O’Donnell, M. C. Parker, H. R. Peacock, G. R. Peckham, Z. L. Phelps, C. E. Price, G. A. Scott, W. B. Robb, L. P. St. Clair, W. L. Stewart,, A. M. Strong, H. W. Thomas, T. R. Thompson, W. R. Wardner, C. H. Warlow, A E. Weil, H. H. Welsh, M. H. Whittier, T. M. Young.
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S. W. Morsehead and L. P. St. Clair were chosen to act on the Arbitration Committee.
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George W. Lane was re-elected attorney for the year.
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Personals

Among those who attended the inaugural meeting of the Mining Division of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce were: P. T. Albert, Sacramento, Calif.; Isabella C. Alberta, Oakland, Calif.; Mark N. Ailing, Angels Camp, Calif.; H. C. Anchor, South Porcupine, Ontario, Canada; Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, Humboldt County, Nev.; Stanley Arnot, Plymouth, Calif.; A. T. Arthur, Tonopah, Nev.; H. J. Barton, Yreka, Calif.; J. Biggs, Sacramento, Calif.; Robert H. Bedford, Grass Valley, Calif.; Sam Beer, Greenwood, Calif.;

Win. J. Belcher, Marysville, Calif.; Robert J. Burgess, Oroville, Calif.; Drury Butler, Sacramento, Calif.; D. Bryce, Battle Mountain, Nev.; J. O. Carlisle, Downieville, Calif.; A. L. Chappell, Stockton, Calif.; J. Whitfield Clarke, Johnsville, Calif.; Oscar L. Coflin, Grass Valley, Calif.; Jos. T. Collins, San Francisco; J. L. Corbett, Hilt, Calif.; F. C. Crosby, Lincoln, Calif.; Win. Daley, Sacramento, Calif.;

Frank M. Darrow, Jackson, Calif.; W. E. Darrow, Jackson, Calif.; Chas. C. Dowd, Tuolumne, Calif.; L. H. Duschak, San Francisco; Chauncey H. Dunn, Sacramento, Calif.; Eganswood J. Sharp, Searchlight, Nev.; Geo. W. Elliott, Sacramento, Calif.; H. L. Englebright, Nevada City, Calif.; Alexander Egans, Reno, Nev.; W. L. Erwin, Sacramento, Calif.; B. W. D. Evans, San Francisco; W. E. Everson, Elk Grove, Calif.; Arthur B. Feote, Grass Valley, Calif.;

Will J. French, San Francisco; J. A. Fulton, Grass Valley, Calif.; S. E. Gamble, San Francisco; V. S. Garbarini, Jackson, Calif.; S. G. Gearhart, Stockton, Calif.; A. A. Gibson, San Francisco; J. L. Gluyas, Sacramento, Calif.; Edson O. Grant, Sacramento, Calif.; Major U. S. Grant, San Francisco; F. E. Haley, San Francisco; Fletcher Hamilton, San Francisco; James I. Herz, San Francisco; Edwin Higgins, San Francisco;

James M. Hill, San Francisco; H. R. Weathers, San Francisco; E. S. Howard, Sacramento, Calif.; A. S. Howe, Sutter Creek, Calif.; Robert H. Howson, Sacramento, Calif.; B. Irwin Hoxie, Amador City, Calif.; Leon Johnson, Sacramento, Calif.; Robert I. Kerr, San Francisco; W. S. Kingsbury, Sacramento, Calif.; J. Kruttschnitt, Jr., Tucson, Ariz.; Henry A. Kunz, Angels Camp, Calif.; C. A. Logan, Auburn, Calif.; Fred McCall, Sacramento, Calif.; Geo. McAulay, Forrest Hill, Calif.; Ralph McGee, Jackson, Calif.;

C. O. McMorry, Sacramento, Calif.; J. A. McDavitt, Sacramento, Calif.; D. E. McPherson, Jamestown, Calif.; Henry A. Myers, Plymouth, Calif.; M. H. Miller, Downieville, Calif.; J. A. Montreeville, Angels Camp, Calif.; F. H. Morey, Placerville, Calif.; Albert F. Morrison, Los Angeles, Calif.; Mitchel W. Nathan, Sacramento, Calif.; George Nickerson, Sacramento, Calif.; C. F. Prentiss, Sacramento, Calif.; John H. Ragon, Nevada City, Calif.;

Fred. L. Rheinschomiller, Sacramento, Calif.; Frederick C. Rodgers, New York; Lloyd L. Root, San Francisco; Alex. F. Ross, Jackson, Calif.; A. J. Ross, San Francisco; G. McM. Ross, Stockton, Calif.; Philip F. A. Ryan, Sacramento, Calif.; A. R. Sedlacke, Decatur, Ill.; Mrs. E. R. Skemp, Sacramento, Calif.; T. D. M. Slaven, Sacramento, Calif.; Almon. E. Smith, Magalia, Calif.; Webb Smith, Sacramento, Calif.; Watterson J. Simpson, Chicago, Ill.;

Wilbur Field Smith, Sacramento, Calif.; James Spiers, Jackson, Calif.; K. Steindorff, San Francisco; A. D. Stevenot, Melones, Calif.; F. D. Stevenot, Carson Hill, Calif.; M. L. Summers, Hammonton, Calif.; Harry B. Seymour, Sacramento, Calif.; J. J. Sutton, San Francisco; K. R. Sharron, Virginia City, Nev.; William H. Sweet, Pershing County, Nev.; H. Shear, Sacramento, Calif.; A. Terrault, Placerville, Calif.; Yanco Terzich, Sacramento, Calif.; C. Tilton, Sacramento, Calif.; E. H. Traxler, Sacramento, Calif.;

P. C. Van Fleet, Humboldt, Nev.; Jas. W. Ward, San Francisco; Corey T. Wells, Sacramento, Calif.; Walter R. Woock, Cathay, Calif.; George J. Young, San Francisco; P. T. Youston, Nome, Alaska; F. W. Ye Testa, Huizochic, Mexico.
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The Western Division of the American Mining Congress will meet in San Francisco on June 11, 1923.
May, 1923

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