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ENGINEERING AND
May 8, 1926 MINING JOURNAL-PRESS 779

People You Should Know About

H. M. Kingsbury sailed from New York on April 28 on the “Mauretania,” en route to South Africa.
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L.F. Strobel, of New York, has gone to Denver, where he will be engaged in matters involving mining interests in Cripple Creek.
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Bennett R. Bates, manager of the export division of the Dorr Company, returned last week, from an extended trip through Mexico.
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George Harbordt, vice-president and general manager of Cia Minera de Peñoles, Monterey, Mexico, is in New York for two weeks.
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T. Wolfson, president of the Metal Sales Corporation, has sailed for Brussels, in the interests of the Copper Export Association.
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E. K. Higgins, formerly acting engineer for the Berta Mining Co., has informed Engineering and Mixing’ Journal-Press that he is no longer associated with the Berta company.
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Julia Gardner, of the Geologic Branch of the U. S. Geological Survey, sailed on April 30 for Spain, by way of Paris, to attend the meetings of the International Geological Congress, at Madrid.
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A. W. Allen returned to Antofagasta [Chile] in April, after a visit to the copper and manganese-silver properties of the Poderosa Mining Co., at Collahuasi, near the Chile-Bolivia frontier. After a short stay in Antofagasta, he left for the nitrate pampa. [rehab notes: in the Southern hemisphere, seasons are opposite of what they are here. Placing Mr. Allen in the Fall season. The nitrate stations are located in the desert east, northeast, and north of Antofagasta, being formed in an extremely dry climate. Rain is very sparse in that part of the world. When visiting the area in 1977, the last rainfall in Antofagasta had been in 1911, though it is common to have foggy conditions in the mornings. Antofagasta has a lot of Chinese, British, and Dutch influences. 3 hours to the East lie the large open pit copper mines of the Chuquicamata region, yet at 11,000 feet in altitude, the desert area is as dry as farther West. Geologically notable are remnants of the old water lines of previous ocean shorelines when the whole portion was once at sea level; since lifted by subduction zones of plate tectonics.]
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Professors R. C. Beckstrom and P. F. Shannon, and eleven juniors in petroleum engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Col., were in Houston recently, while on a tour of inspection of oil fields and refineries in the surrounding Gulf Coastal district.
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R. P. Tears, formerly of the Noranda Mines, Quebec, has been appointed Superintendent of the Grace Gold Mine, at Eagle Lake, in the Kenora district, of northern Ontario, which has been recently acquired by the United Mine & Power Syndicate of Montreal, and is being reopened.
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Walter Hovey Hill, of Boise, Idaho, has been spending some time in New York City, and during the course of his visit attended the complimentary dinner given to John Hays Hammond, on May 8.
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Professor Allan E. Sedgwick, head of the Department of Geology, of the University of Southern California, has been conducting groups of students of the university through the oil fields of Santa Paula, and Comirillo, and other geologically important and interesting regions of the Southwest.
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W. B. Cramer, of Warren, Ariz., consulting engineer for the Phelps Dodge Corporation, gave two lectures before engineering and chemistry students of University of Arizona, on April 27. The subjects of the lectures were “Concentration” and “Chemical Warfare.” Cramer is the ranking reserve officer for chemical warfare in Arizona.
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M. H. Gidel, geologist for the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. has returned to Butte, after spending nearly five months at the Geisches Erben zinc mines, on the border between Germany and Poland. It is expected that Mr. Gidel will relate some of his experiences in foreign parts, at the May meeting, of the Montana Society of Engineers.
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J. J. Jakosky, research engineer for the Western Precipitation Co., recently returned to Los Angeles from an extended Eastern trip, in connection with studies on the elimination of radio interference. Radio interference-correction equipment was installed at the Alpha Portland Cement Co.’s plant, at Cementon, N. Y., which completely eliminates all local radio interference from the Cottrell precipitator installation.
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Dr. Ing. E. Münker, of the Board of Directors, of the Mansfeld A.-G. für Bergbau und Hűttenbetrieb, Eisleben, and Dr. Ing. Otto Barth, works superintendent of the Hettstedt plant of the same company, embarked last week for Germany after a four weeks’ inspection trip in the United States, in which they visited the smelters and refineries in the vicinity of New York, and some of the mines, mills, and smelters in Utah. They were tendered a farewell luncheon by a few members of the A.I.M.E. on the day they sailed.
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Obituary
Oliver Durant, a pioneer mining man in the Coeur D’Alene and Kootenay districts, died at Washington, D. C., on April 17, at the age of eighty. Mr. Durant developed the Centre Star mine, at Rossland, B. C., from a prospect, and sold it to Eastern Canadians for $2,000,000. He was associated with Senator W. A. Clark in several ventures in the Coeur d’Alene.
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I'm a dufus Wick Hall, of Salome, Ariz., died in Los Angeles on April 29. Hall had been a newspaper man, miner, and real-estate dealer in Arizona, for twenty-six years. He became well known some years ago through the publication of his humorous column, “The Salome Sun,” which had been started by him as a small mimeograph sheet to advertise a new Arizona highway. Hall was born in Creston, Iowa, March 20, 1877, and attended public schools and the University of Nebraska.

After leaving the university, he engaged in mining, farming, and the development of oil properties. He founded, in 1905, the settlement now known as Salome, choosing as its site, a fertile valley that he had discovered in Arizona. The town is well known to motorists traveling between Los Angeles and Pheonix. His column, “The Salome Sun,” has appeared in many magazines. He also wrote short stories in the same characteristic colloquialisms that first attracted attention to his writings. Mr. Hall was a brother of Ernst R. Hall, a former Secretary of State of Arizona.
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John Lawrence Maim, formerly of Cleveland, Ohio, died at Denver, Col., on April 25. He was born Oct. 2, 1875, at Titusville, Pa. Mr. Maim was a mining and metallurgical engineer, and received his education at Central High School, and Case School of Applied Science. His first engineering practice was with the Corrigan McKinney Co. in the Iron Belt district, Mlichigan, in the development of iron ore deposits. Later, he developed an improved process for the recovery of gold, and spent considerable time in the cyanidation of silver and gold ores at Zacatecas, Mexico, for Eastern interests.

During the last twenty years, his work was confined to the treatment of the zinciferous ores of the West, and the development of the Maim dry-chlorination process for the treatment of low-grade ores. He was prominent in the civic affairs of the City of Denver, and chairman of the Community Fund Campaign. Much of his time was spent in Boy Scout work, in which he was deeply interested. He is survived by his widow, a daughter and six sons.
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William Donald Burton, geologist, died in Samne, Peru, on March 16. Mr. Burton graduated from the University of British Columbia, in 1923, and shortly thereafter, was employed by the Premier Gold Mining Co., Ltd., as assistant geologist, under the direction of A. H. Means, and later became geologist. During the winter of 1924-1925, he pursued graduate studies with distinction at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving the degree of Master of Science, in Geology.

A part of the summer of 1925 was spent in fieldwork in eastern Canada, with the Canadian Geological Survey, and in the fall of the same year, he went to Peru as assistant geologist and scouting engineer for the Northern Peru Mining & Smelting Co.

It was on a field trip in Peru that he contracted the illness which proved fatal. His first and last contribution to geologic literature consists of a paper, describing the Premier ore deposits. This article is to appear in an early issue of Economic Geology. In Mr. Burton’s death, the mining industry loses a young man, who, at the outset of his career, showed great promise, and one who, had he lived, would have gone far.
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ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL Vol. 122, No. 17

OCTOBER 23 1926

People You Should Know About

R E. Hore, editor of the Canadian Mining Journal, has been in New York.
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Augustus Locke, mining geologist of San Francisco, was in New York recently.
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Senator Key Pittmnn, father of the Pittman Silver bill, is touring Montana.
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Bradley Stoughton was recently in Butte, Mont., as an expert witness in the Carson case.
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H. C. Wilmot has been in New Mexico on examination work. He expects to return to Los Angeles by Oct. 25.
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J. Ross Corbia, of the Pennsylvania Geological Survey, is on temporary leave of absence to do professional work in Canada.
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William B. Colby, mining lawyer of San Francisco, is in Butte, Mont., as attorney in a mining lawsuit for the Clark interests.
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W. V. De Camp, general superintendent for the United Verde Copper Co. in Arizona, has been in New York, on company business.
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Donald C. Barton, chief geologist for the Rycade Oil Corporation, has returned to his Houston headquarters, from a trip to New York.
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B. F. Burchard, of the U. S. Geological Survey, was in San Francisco recently. Mr. Burchard is collecting information on iron ore deposits.
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W. A. Brooks is now mine manager of the Berta Mining Co., with headquarters at Chihuahua, Mexico.
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B. B. Thayer, vice-president of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., is expected in Montana in a few days, to inspect the operations of the company.
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Professor George P. Schubert, of the Michigan College of Mines, is making an extended trip to the mines, mills and smelters, in Colorado, Utah, and Montana.
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W. Gemmill, general manager of the South African Chamber of Mines, recently returned to Johannesburg, from a tour of the Mozambique native recruiting stations.
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C. H. Mathews has been designated to have charge of subjects relating to mining engineering, in the Industrial Engineering Department of the Westinghouse Manufacturing Co.
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E. B. Dawson is now connected with the Industrial Engineering Department of the Westinghouse Manufacturing Co. as consultant on electrochemical and electrometallurgical subjects.
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L. S. Cates, vice-president and general manager of the Utah Copper Co., has arrived in Salt Lake, after a two months’ vacation trip through England, France, Holland, Germany, and Italy.
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Dr. A. L. Hall, Assistant Director of the Geological Survey of South Africa, has been selected by the Minister of Mines and Industries to give evidence before the Base Metals Commission, in London.
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B. J. Atchison, vice-president of the Southwestern Engineering Corporation, of Los Angeles, has returned from a trip to the Panhandle oil fields of Texas, and the lead-zinc mining districts of Missouri.
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Hal. M. Lewers, for many years Chief Metallurgist for the Tonopah Belmont Development Co., at Tonopah, Nov., has been transferred to the company’s new property at Wickenburg, Ariz., where he will be mill superintendent.
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Governor J. E. Erickson, of Montana, has appointed Mrs. Cornelius F. Kelley,
wife of the president of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., to represent Montana, officially, in welcoming to the United States, Queen Marie of Romania. Mrs. Kelley is in New York.
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M. H. Guise recently returned to his home in Seattle, after a summer, prospecting in the White River copper country, in the interior of Alaska. He reports that country has much in need of better transportation; dog teams and pack horses now being the only means of crossing the glaciers. Mr. Guise is the young mining man, who, last summer, ran out of supplies while prospecting in the Arctic mountains, and then, failing to find any game whatever, built a crude boat using willows, grass, and his clothing, and ran the swift waters of the Sneenjek River, 200 or 300 miles down to the Yukon.
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C. D. Pryor, engineer for John Taylor & Sons, Ltd., of London, will soon arrive in Canada, to make an examination of the property of the Central Manitoba Mines, Ltd., in which the Taylor firm is heavily interested, to ascertain the most suitable site for a mill.
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W. C. Mendenhall, of the Geologic Branch, of the U. S. Geological Survey, arrived in Honolulu on Oct. 8, on his way to the Pan Pacific Science Congress, which opens in Tokyo, Oct. 27. L. F. Noble, H. B. Gregory, T. W. Vaughan, and M. N. Fenneman will also attend the Congress.
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R. W. Handley, until recently, Superintendent of the flotation mill, of the International Smelting Co. at Tooele, Utah, has accepted a position at the new Panda concentrator of the Union Miniêre du Haut-Katanga, in the Belgian Congo. Mr. Handley is taking his
family with him, and expects to remain in Africa on professional business, for three years.
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S. Power Warren, consulting engineer, and D. C. Derringer, mill superintendent, for the Mazapil Copper Co., of Mexico, spent several days in Utah recently, visiting mills. They studied the operations at the Utah-Apex mill, the International S. & R. Co., at Tooele, the Combined Metals Co. mill at Bauer, and the new mill of the U. S. S. M. & H. Co., at Midvale.
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Albert Burch, of San Francisco, Professor A. W. Lawson, of Berkeley Calif., W. J. Mead, F. W. Ransome, of Tucson, Ariz., and William A. Simkins, of San Francisco, are in Butte as expert witnesses, on behalf of the Clark interests, in a pending apex suit.

On the Anaconda Copper Mining Co.’s side are W. Lindgren, of Boston, Mass., W. H. Wiley, Alan M. Bateman, New Haven, Conn., Sam Barker, and Richard Hunt.
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J. Dewey Soper, who was commissioned by the Canadian Department of Mines, to explore the interior of Baffln Island, previously unexplored, has returned after having been there two years, engaged in the work, in the course of which, he covered a distance of over 4,000 miles. He brought back sixty-six cases of geological and ethnological specimens, and many photographs, and other material and data, which are regarded by the department of great scientific importance.
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O. E. Keough, who has been at the International Smelting Co.’s concentrator, at Tooele, Utah, has been appointed Superintendent of the selective flotation mill, that the International company has equipped at Rico, Col. Mr. Keough, at Tooele, was assistant to Walter C. Page, Superintendent of Concentration, and was in charge of the concentration testing laboratory there.

W. A. Kaattari, also from the Tooele plant, has been appointed metallurgist at the Rico mill.
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Dorsey A. Lyon, Supervisor of experiment stations, for the U. S. Bureau of Mines, has returned from Michigan, where he conferred with W. R. Crane as to the studies that he will make in the copper region. Dr. Crane will have his offices at the Michigan School of Mines, but he expects to spend most of his time in the field, gathering data, for a study of subsidence and drainage. This is to be a study extending over two or three years, and will be somewhat similar to that conducted by Dr. Crane in Alabama mines.
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Obituary

Joseph Myers, president of the Bingo Gold Mines, Ltd., in northern Manitoba, died at the General Hospital, at Winnipeg on Oct. 11, at the age of fifty-two. He had come to Winnipeg on business, when he was suddenly taken ill. Mr. Myers represented several British financial interests in the Manitoba mining field, principally in connection with the Bingo. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Parliament, in the Conservative interests at the recent Dominion election.
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July 17, 1926

ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL
July 17, 1926 ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL

People You Should Know About

A. Werner Lawson of Washington, D. C., was in New York during the week of July 10.
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Dr. Kuno B. Heberlein has just returned from an extensive trip through Mexico, the Pacific Coast, and the Western States.
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Sam Hugh Brockunier is making examinations in Western Ontario, for a syndicate represented by Kirby Thomas, of New York.
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T. G. Otley, Chief mechanical engineer to the Victoria Falls and Transvaal Power Co., Ltd., returned to Johannesburg, from England, on June 1.
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Edwin A. Sperry, Professor of Metallurgy at Pei Yang University, Tientsin, China, is at Marysville, Calif., on his vacation, and will return to China in August.
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A. W. Newberry, mining engineer, is now in Southern Rhodesia, examining gold properties. Mrs. Newberry sailed from New York on July 8, to join her husband.
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F. L. Ransome, Professor of Economic Geology, at the University of Arizona, is conducting some geological work for the Ahumada Lead Co. at Los Lamentos, Mexico.
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Louis B. Reber, geologist at the United Verde mine, Jerome, Ariz., has resigned, to accept a position with an English mining syndicate, in Rhodesia, South Africa.
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George Mitchell, President of the Columbia River Gold & Copper Co., recently left Redondo Beach, Calif., for the State of Washington, and Canada, to examine copper properties.
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Arthur Curtis James, and Walter Douglas, Director and President,respectively, of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, are making an inspection of the company’s holdings in the Southwest.
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S. F. Shaw, mining engineer, will be engaged for the coming two months, by the Roxana Petroleum Corporation, in consultation work on designs of air lifts and gas lifts in Oklahoma oil wells.
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Dr. J. Yokobori, formerly president of the Akita Mining College, was recently in New York City. He will visit the Sesquicentennial Exposition at Philadelphia, at the beginning of August.
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Frank A. Bird, metallurgical engineer of Salt Lake City, has gone to Tlacotepec, Guerrero, Mexico, to erect the first unit of an amalgamation-concentration-cyanidation mill, for the Cia. Minera El Gigante.
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Frank Reeves, of the Geologic Branch, of the U. S. Geological Survey, is engaged in geologic mapping in the Highwood Mountains of Montana. He is assisted by R. H. Haseltine, and his headquarters are at Fort Benton.
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Allen H. Rogers, of Rogers, Mayer & Ball, left New York on July 3, for Peru, to be absent about two months, and Sydney H. Ball, of the same firm, recently returned to New York Rouyn, Quebec, and left on July 8, for Peru.
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R. V. Ageton, safety engineer for the Tri-State Zinc & Lead Ore Producers’ Association, attended the accident-prevention conference held in Washington on July 14 and 16. He also will attend a meeting of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, to be held at Blue Ridge, Va., Aug. 18 to 28.
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H. D. Hunt was recently appointed mill superintendent, of the Miami Copper Co., Miami, Arizona, to succeed F. W. Solomon, who resigned June 15. Mr. Hunt is a Colorado School of Mines graduate, and entered the employ of the Miami Copper Co. in March, 1911. He has served the company in the capacities of chief chemist, experimental engineer, metallurgist, and now becomes mill superintendent. Intensive study of the milling and metallurgical problems of the Miami Copper Co. has eminently fitted him for his new position.
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Obituary

Frederick C. Peters, manager of the du Pont company’s New York office, died on June 30. He was fifty-three years old.
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“Micky” Ronan, formerly connected with the Calumet & Arizona Mining Co. as an engineer, who left Arizona in 1922, to accept a similar position with a Belgian mining company on the West Coast of Africa, died recently of tropical fever.
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W. F. Wallers, elder brother of Sir Evelyn Wallers, died in Johannesburg, on June 2. He was born in England, sixty years ago, and was in business in Durban, until 1914, when he joined the co-operative exchange in Johannesburg. He leaves a widow and grownup children.
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N. L. Heinz, of River Forrest, Ill., died suddenly on June 17, from heart disease, while on his way to his summer home at Lake Geneva, Wis. Mr. Heinz was consulting engineer for the Donora Zinc Works of the American Steel & Wire Co., and had built roasters for the Mineral Point Zinc Co., at De Pue, Ill.; a sulphuric acid plant for the Ducktown Sulphur, Copper & Iron Co., Isabella, Tenn., and the Langeloth Plant of the American Zinc & Chemical Co. He was forty-nine years old.
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Alexander Del Mar, mining engineer, economist, and historian, died on July 1, at Little Falls, N. J. He was born in New York in 1886, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Del Mar. He studied at the Rev. Dr. Barry’s Polytechnic School, Maurice’s Military Academy, the Madrid School of Mines, and New York University. He was the author of the ‘History of the Precious Metals,” and had been editor of various financial magazines. He took part in the International Monetary Congress in Russia, in 1872, at the invitation of the Czar.
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George A. St. Clair, of Duluth, died on June 19. He was one of the last of the pioneers of the Lake Superior Iron region, and had been active in prospecting for iron ore, and in mining it, since boyhood. His early years were spent in the fields of northern Michigan, where he was engaged chiefly in the metropolitan district, and about Marquette, and in the first days of the Mesabi Range, he went to Duluth, on his way to the Far West, where he proposed to settle.

At Duluth he met John T. Jones, who was then developing the Biwabik mine, and was so enthusiastic over the possibilities of the Mesabi region that Mr. St. Clair decided to cast his lot in the new district. There he remained until his death, a loved and picturesque figure, a good citizen, and a compendium of information concerning the development of the entire Lake Superior country.

Mr. St. Clair was by nature, an optimist, and he kept his youthful spirit to the last; his vibrant hope, his unfailing courtesy, his delight in life remained with him, in spite of several years of serious ill-health. His optimistic spirit served him well in explorations for iron, and his success in that field was material. Of late years, he had withdrawn from active mining, and had contented himself with the care of his extensive iron land interests, in both Minnesota and Michigan.

Some years ago, sensing the possibilities for magnetic concentration, he and, associates purchased the land holdings of the original Mesabi Iron Company, which afterwards they turned over to Hayden, Stone & Co., and D. C. Jackling, who organized the Mesabi Iron Company. This is the large enterprise at Babbitt, Minn. For many years he was closely associated with the firm of Pickands, Mather & Co., and had been an intimate friend of the founders of that great concern.

Mr. St. Clair’s span of life was coincident with the history of iron mining on Lake Superior. He saw, and was a part of its marvelous growth. During his time, the region grew from the obscurity of a wilderness, to its present prominence, and in all this he had his full share. Such men as Whittelsey, Hill, Foster, Winchell, Pickands, Bacon, Mather, Sellwood, all now passed away, were his associates, and he was no less worthy of honored remembrance, than the greatest of them.

DWIGHT E. WOODBRIDGE.
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October 3, 1925
ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL-PRESS 549

Men You Should Know About

R. H. Malcolm, mine operator of Kingman, Ariz., is in New York.
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E. L. Oliver, of San Francisco, is in New York, for a brief visit.
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Seeley W. Mudd, mining engineer of Los Angeles, is in San Francisco on a short business trip.
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Wilbur Judson has returned to New York, from a visit of inspection at the Sulphur mines in Texas.
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S. H. Dolbear is in New York, from Thetford Mines, Quebec, on business connected with the asbestos industry.
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Charles Hardy, President of the Associated Metals & Minerals Corporation, has returned from a business trip to Mexico.
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Frederic R. Weekes is moving his office from Toronto, to 407 Canada Cement Co. Building, Phillips Square, Montreal.
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J. A. Naud, vice-president of the Argonaut, of the Kirkland Lake area, northern Ontario, has been appointed general manager.
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D. J. Moran, of Houston, Tex., Vice-president and General manager of production, of the Texas Company, was in New York recently.
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Dorsey A. Lyon, Acting Director of the Bureau of Mines, was recently in San Francisco, on a visit to the Coast offices of the Bureau.
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Arthur Jenks, of the Kay Copper Corporation, recently examined the Babine Bonanza Mine, Babine Range, in British Columbia.
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R. L. Agassiz, of Boston, President of Calumet & Hecla Consolidated, is visiting the properties of the company, in the Michigan district.
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William W. Elmer is examining the Black Butte silver mine, in Lane County, Ore., for the owners, with a view to re-opening that property.
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J. H. Rodgers, of the New York & St. Louis Lead Co., recently examined a number of lead-zinc properties in the Omineca mining division of British Columbia.
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W. Parsons Todd, President of the Quincy Mining Co., has returned to New York, after a visit to the properties of the company in the Michigan copper district.
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C. F. McGregor has been appointed Mining Recorder, of the Port Arthur Ont., District, in succession, to W. Morgan, who has been super-annuated after twenty years’ service.
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William Loeb, Jr., Vice-president of the American Smelting & Refining Co., has returned to New York, after visiting the plants of the company in the United States and Mexico.
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Arthur Crowfoot, Superintendent of the Concentrating Division of the Morenci Branch, Phelps Dodge Corporation, has returned to Morenci, Ariz., from a vacation spent in California.
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George H. Garrey, who recently completed detailed geological examinations of the Piermont, McCoy Creek, North Star, and New York Mining properties, near Ely, Nev., for the Ely Calumet Mining Corporation, and later went to Spokane, Wash., has returned to Salt Lake.
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Colonel Allan C. Howard, Vice-president of Minerals Separation, Ltd., of London, England, is making an inspection of the operations of Ontario Gold Veins, Ltd., which is working properties in Bernhardt and Bennett townships, in northern Ontario.
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Dr. William O. Hotchkiss, Chairman of the Wisconsin State Highway Commission, and engineer, geologist, and author, has accepted the presidency of the Michigan College of Mines, at Houghton, the position having been tendered him some weeks ago. He will assume his new duties before the opening of the fall term. Dr. Hotchkiss succeeds the late Dr. F. W. McNair, who was killed in a railroad accident in Illinois, a year ago.

Dr. Hotchkiss was born at Eau Claire, Wis., Sept. 17, 1878. He received his degree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering, at the University of Wisconsin, in 1903, and a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering in 1908. He was mining engineer for the Donora Mining Co., Duluth, Minn., in 1902, did exploration and geological work in Ontario, Canada, in 1903, was a consulting engineer at Madison, Wis., in 1904, and instructor in petrography and mineralogy at the University of Wisconsin, from 1904 to 1907, made a state geological survey of Wisconsin, from 1906 to 1908, and was state geologist in 1909.

Dr. Hotchkiss started highway work in Wisconsin, and succeeded in having the State Highway Commission formed. He is recognized as one of the leading highway engineers in America today, is a member of many of the foremost engineering and geological societies, and is the author of a number of books on the subject of highways, including “Rural Highways in Wisconsin” and “Limestone Road Materials of Wisconsin,” and also of “Mineral Lands in Northern Wisconsin.”
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Dwight E. Woodbridge has been designated a member of a General Committee on City Planning, for Duluth, Minn. The action was taken on the recommendation of American Engineering Council, and approved by the Board of Directors of the Duluth Engineers’ Club.
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H. Foster Bain, Secretary of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, was given a luncheon by the Engineers’ Club of San Francisco, on his recent visit to the Pacific Coast. Dr. Bain briefly recounted his impressions of Argentina, gained upon a trip, which he made to that country in the interest of the Argentine Government. He made an investigation of the possibilities of establishing an iron and steel industry in Argentina. Dr. Bain stated that a promising deposit of coking coal had been found, but that iron-ore deposits were lacking. He recommended the use of iron and steel scrap in initiating this industry.
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OBITUARY

David M. Hyman, long interested in the silver-mining industry, died suddenly at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., on Sept. 16.
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Joseph Trowbridge Bailey, a retired mining engineer, killed himself on Sept. 23, at his hotel in New York City. He was sixty-five years old, and had suffered from a nervous disorder for several years.
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Leo S. Blackman, a mining engineer employed by the American Smelting & Refining Co., died in New Brunswick, N. J., on Sept. 19, from a self-inflicted pistol wound.
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W. W. Webster, of the Minerals Separation Company, is dead. Mr. Webster was associated with Mr. MacArthur, in introducing to the Rand, the MacArthur-Forrest cyanide process, which created a revolution in the winning of gold in the Transvaal. He was a partner of the late John Ballot, and a director of the Rhodesia Minerals Concession, and the Rhodesia-Congo Border Concessions.
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Eugene J. “Bud” Gorman, junior engineer at the Braden Copper Co. mines at Rancagua, near Santiago, Chile, died on Sept. 15, from injuries received in an accident at the company’s plant. Mr. Gorman had been at Rancagua since last May, assuming his position immediately after his graduation from the School of Mines and Metallurgy, of the University of Missouri, at Rolla. He was twenty-two years old.
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James E. Walker, managing director of the Livingston Mines Corporation, died at Pocatello, Idaho, on Sept. 22. Burial was at Mackay, Idaho. Mr. Walker was manager of the company’s properties on the East Fork of the Salmon River, Custer County, and had had active charge of the development and construction work for the last five years, prior to which he had been manager and superintendent of the Pittsburgh-Idaho mine, at Gilmore, Idaho, for many years. His early training was received in the copper mines at Butte, Mont., where he had long been highly regarded, and where he leaves a host of friends.
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ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL-PRESS OCTOBER 17, 1925

Men You Should Know About

Charles A. Mitke is in California, on professional business.
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Rudolf Gahl, consulting metallurgist, has returned to his home in Berkeley, Calif., from a trip to Germany.
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H. J. Evans is now Superintendent of the Cia. Mira. Nazarino y Catasillas, in the Mazapil district, of Zacatecas, Mexico.
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Colonel John C. Greenway has re-established his residence at Ajo, Ariz., and has opened up offices in the Valley Bank Building.
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S. F. Shaw is returning to San Antonio, from an inspection of mines at Mazapil, Zacatecas, and Sierra Mojada, Coahuila, Mexico.
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Carl Lund, of Tonopah, Nev., has taken over the direction of a group of copper-silver claims, between Tucson and Florence, Ariz.
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E. E. McCarthy, resident manager of the Yukon Gold Co. in the Malay States, was recently in San Francisco, en route to New York.
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H. C. Carlisle, in charge of western operations for the Tonopah Mining Co., of Nevada, was recently in Reno and vicinity, from San Francisco.
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T. A. Rickard, contributing editor of Engineering and Mining Journal-Press, is President of the California branch, of the English Speaking Union of the United States.
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B. F. Edwards, manager for the Brougher interests in California and Nevada, has returned to Oakland, from a visit to Tonopah, Manhattan, and other Nevada points.
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Claude Allen has been promoted to the position of Superintendent of the Cabrestante group of mines, belonging to the Mazapil Copper Co., Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico.
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Charles W. Clark, son of the late Senator William A. Clark, and President of the United Verde Copper Co., was married in Paris recently, to Mrs. Elizabeth Judge, of San Francisco.
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A. H. Hubbell, managing editor of Mining -.Journal-Press, is making a field trip through the iron-mining regions of Michigan and Minnesota. He will return to New York, the first of next month.
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Olaf P. Jenkins, formerly with the Arizona Bureau of Mines, has resigned his position as Associate Professor of Economic Geology, at the State College of Washington, to accept a position in the Dutch East Indies.
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Professor Cane H. Hayward, of the Metallurgical Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been elected Chairman of the Boston Section, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.
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L. G. Trueheart, formerly connected with the Morenci branch of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, and now with the Ulen Corporation, is in Athens, Greece, on business for his company. Prior to his departure for Athens, Mr. Trueheart was located at La Paz, Bolivia.
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R. M. Wellington, General manager of the Wellington Mines Co., Breckenridge, Col., was recently in Tonopah, Nev., where he investigated sources of custom ore, for the Bethlehem company’s mill, which under present plans, is to be operated as a custom plant, if sufficient ore can be derived from the contiguous districts.
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Archer B. Wheeler has been retained by the Noranda Mines, Ltd., to investigate the ores of the Horne property, with a view to designing a smelter. Mr. Wheeler was formerly in charge of the Anaconda plant, at Great Falls, and has been consulting engineer for the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga.
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Wilbur A. Nelson is now at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, as Corcoran Professor of Geology; head of the Department of Geology, of the University of Virginia and Director of the Virginia Geological Survey.
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Wayne Darlington has just left New York, where he has been for a few days, on business connected with the Kay Development Co., Mackay, Idaho. Mr. Darlington is President and Manager of that company, which is developing a body of zinc-copper ore near Mackay.
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Irving C. Harris, Consulting hydroelectric engineer, of Los Angeles, W. C. Chitty, electrical engineer for Minas Pedrazzini, and Morton Webber, have been investigating the power problem of the Santiago y Anexas S. A., which owns a group of silver mines in Morelos, to which company Mr. Webber is consulting engineer.
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George Dawe, smelter superintendent of the Calumet & Arizona Mining Co., has made the announcement that H. L. Gooding has been promoted to the position of master mechanic, to succeed F. M. Stocker, resigned. The new master mechanic has been with the C. & A. since 1907, and until his new appointment, was chief electrician.
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Harold O. Davidson, Superintendent in charge of sinking the Geneva mine shaft for the Oliver Iron Mining Co., Ironwood, Mich., has resigned, to accept a position as mining engineer, with the Michigan Conservation Department, with headquarters at Lansing. He also will assist Engineer Barrett, of the Michigan Geological Department, in the appraisal of iron, copper, and other mines in the state. He will enter upon his new duties in November.
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William Baragwanath has held the position of Director of Geological Survey, & Chief Mining Surveyor, of Victoria, Australia, for the last five years, and was one of the representatives of that state, at a conference of Australian geologists, held in Melbourne last June. Born in 1878, Mr. Baragwanath was educated at Ballarat, one of the chief cities, and oldest mining centers of Victoria, and there, received his early training and practice in underground surveying. In 1898 and 1899, he obtained land surveyor’s, and mining surveyor’s certificates, and in 1909, the diploma of Geologist at the Ballarat School of Mines.

He had charge of the Walhalla underground surveys for the Victorian Geological Survey, and carried out the Castlemaine surveys, on which goldfield, he wrote a Memoir (No. 3 of the Victorian Geological Survey publications); and completed surveys of the Baw, and Mount Lookout regions, embracing an area of 300 square miles, of the rough mountainous country of Gippsland.

In 1907, he took charge of the Ballarat surveys, producing another geological publication on that historical gold field, with complete underground and surface plans and sections. In 1916, he was engaged in the opening of the Norwell brown coal field, an area now being developed by a State Electricity Commission, and in November, 1920, was appointed to the position he now holds as Director of Geological Surveys, in Victoria. Mr. Baragwanath is a member of the Institute of Surveyors, of the Australian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy, of the National Research Committee, and of the Royal Society of Victoria, as well as councillor of the Ballarat School of Mines, and examiner in surveying, for Victorian Technical Schools, being also on the Board of Examiners of mining surveyors for Victoria.
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John Dobler, well known in Yavapai mining circles, was instantly killed, recently, when he fell into the 300-ft. shaft at the Diamond Joe mine, near Wickenburg, Ariz.
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Charles H. Burlock, mining engineer of San Diego, died at his home on Sept. 12, from heart failure. Mr. Burlock had extensive mining and oil interests in Arizona, California and Mexico.
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Robert H. Engle, sixty-four years old, a prominent authority on zinc products, and President of the United Zinc Smelting Corporation, died recently at his home, at Trenton, N. J. Mr. Engle was also an inventor. He was a pioneer zinc manufacturer, and was the organizer of the Trenton Smelting & Refining Company, Trenton, N. J.

For twenty-five years he was President of the United Lead Co., of Philadelphia. At the time of his death, he was President of the United Zinc Smelting Corporation, and was a member of various chemical societies. He is survived by his widow, a son, and a daughter.
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ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL-PRESS January 30, 1926

Men You Should Know About

H. W. Edmondson is in New York on business, and will leave for Los Angeles on Feb. 1.
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S. B. Hunt has been re-elected treasurer of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey.
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G. A. Gow is leaving Sumatra, to join the staff of the Taio Gold Mining Co., in Japan.
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S. J. Kidder has left Mogollon, N. M., and has established temporary headquarters at El Paso, Tex.
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M. M. Duncan, Vice-president and General manager of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., is wintering in Charleston, S. C.
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L. D. Gordon, President and Manager for the Round Mountain Mining Co. at Round Mountain, Nev., is in San Francisco on a business visit.
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Heath Steele, Vice-president of the American Metal Co., has left New York, for a six weeks’ trip to the company’s properties in Mexico and the West.
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K. C. Laylander, who has been carrying on extensive magneto-metric surveys in the placer ground of British Columbia, is at the Hotel Aberdeen, in New York, for a few days.
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O. C. Thompson, Chief field engineer for the Porcupine Goldfields Development & Finance Co., in British Columbia, has moved his headquarters from Kimberly, to Vancouver.
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F. A. Olson, of the engineering force of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., will, on Feb. 1, go to Crosby, Minn., to take charge of safety work, and compensation, for the Inland Steel Co.
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A. S. Bailey, Assistant superintendent of the Texas Company’s oil refinery, at Port Arthur, Tex., has been promoted to Superintendent of the Casper (Wyo.), refinery, of the same company.
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W. H. Blackburn has returned to his San Francisco office, after un-watering and sampling the Two G, and other properties, at Tybo, 60 miles northeast from Tonopah, Nev., for F. W. Bradley interests.
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R. P. Raynolds, for many years, Superintendent of the Durango, Col., plant of the American Smelting & Refining Co., has been transferred to the Denver office. He is succeeded at Durango, by R. E. H. Pomeroy.
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C. J. A. Dunlop-Cunningham, formerly Field engineer for the Coniagas, of Cobalt, is in charge of a prospecting party, which is on the way from Haileybury, Ont., to the Red Lake camp, in the Patricia district of Ontario.
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Colonel Henry H. Armstead has recently purchased the Crown Point and Kootenay Belle mining claims, in the Ainsworth mining district of British Columbia. Messrs. Green Bros. and Burden, surveyors, of Nelson, B. C., are now taking the necessary steps toward securing Crown grants for them.
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Chester Washburn, a geologist from the United States, is in charge of prospecting operations for the Taranaki Oilfields, Ltd., in the Poverty Bay district, in New Zealand. The company hopes to make a start with the first bore during the coming summer.
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Albert O. Hayes, Ph.D., who has been for several years, with the Canadian Geological Survey, has been appointed Professor of Geology, at Lafayette College, Easton, Pa. Professor Hayes is a graduate of McGill University, Montreal, and has conducted extensive research in the Maritime Provinces, and Alberta.
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A. D. Hughes, who recently returned from an inspection trip, to the property of the Guatemala Gold Dredging Co., in Guatemala, Central America, is now with the Ludlum Engineering Co., at 2 Rector St., New York City. This company contemplates extending its activities in placer fields, and has placed Mr. Hughes in charge of this work.
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W. J. Loring has returned from Los Angeles, to San Francisco, to re-establish headquarters there.

Clyde H. Heller, President of the Tonopah-Belmont Development Co., recently went to British Columbia, to inspect mining properties, that the company’s engineers have examined. The ore reserve at the Surf Inlet mine, on Princess Royal Island, is practically exhausted, and for some time, the engineers of the company have been searching for a mine or promising prospect, on to which to move the Surf Inlet plant.
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E. Miles Sharp, who has been Resident General Manager of the new Modderfontein gold mine, since 1910, retired from that position at the end of December, 1925. Cornish by birth, he came to the Rand, in 1895. For five years, he was mine captain on the Nonose mines, then for eighteen months, was in charge of the Warren Hill. He has always been to the fore in organizing entertainment, and raising funds, for the sufferers from miners’ phthisis in the Springkell Sanatorium, in the Klerksdorp district A farewell social was held for him on Dec. 18, when he was presented with a handsome gold cigarette case, by the employees of the New Modder.
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Obituary

William H. Hayden, mining engineer, President of Hayden Gold Mines, Ltd., of Porcupine, Canada, died recently, in Batavia, N. Y. He was sixty-seven years old.
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C. P. Dodge, of Houston, Tex., Secretary and sales manager of The Texas Company, died in Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 13, as the result of injuries received in an automobile accident. Mr. Dodge had been with the Texas Company since 1903.
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Charles Adams Colton, who was founder and principal for many years, of the Newark Technical School, died recently in Morristown, N. J., at the age of seventy-three. He was graduated from Columbia School of Mines, in 1873, with the degree of Engineer of Mines. Though he never practiced mining engineering as a profession, he served a short apprenticeship in mines, and was a member of the A.I.M.E.
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Henry L. Hamilton, mining engineer and petroleum geologist, died at his home in San Antonio, Tex., on Dec. 29, 1925, at the age of forty-two. Mr. Hamilton was a graduate of Leland Stanford University, Class of 1904. For several years, he was connected with mining enterprises in California and Mexico. Later, he became interested in the oil industry, and was at different times, Superintendent of the Montebello Oil Co. of California, Superintendent of the Coastal Division of the Hamilton Oil Corporation, and Superintendent of the Oil Issues Co. During the last three years, he had devoted his entire attention to personal interests in the Somerset, and other Texas oil fields. He was a member of the A.I.M.E., and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Mr. Hamilton is survived by his widow, Mrs. Edna Durkee Hamilton, and one son, Lloyd Hamilton.
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Andrew Frederic Crosse died at Capetown, South Africa, on Dec. 8, 1925. He was seventy-six years old. Before coming to the Rand, Mr. Crosse was assayer in London, for Johnson, Matthey & Co. He came to Johannesburg in the early days, and was for many years, assayer to the Standard Bank of South Africa. When the Chemical and Metallurgical Society of South Africa, was started in May, 1894, Mr. Crosse was elected Vice-president, becoming President during the next year. About the year 1898, the use of flreclay liners, and a flux containing manganese dioxide, introduced by Mr. Crosse and E. H. Johnson, enabled cyanide managers to produce a gold bullion (from zinc precipitation), of a fineness up to .950.

After the South African War (1899-1902), Mr. Crosse was appointed Consulting metallurgist to the East Rand Proprietary Mines. Later, for some time, he was resident on the Lisbon-Berlin gold mine, near Pilgrims’ Rest, in the Transvaal. Returning to Johannesburg, he took over the laboratory of E. H. Croghan, and was for many years, in practice as a consulting chemist. About twelve years ago, Mr. Crosse was elected an honorary life member of the Chemical and Metallurgical Society.
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April 5, 1924 Engineering and Mining Journal-Press 583

Men You Should Know About

Sidney Paige has returned to Washington after a field trip.
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Glenville A. Collins, mining engineer of Vancouver, B. C., is in San Francisco.
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George F. Downs and J. E. McLurg, have been appointed directors of the British Empire Steel Corporation.
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F. W. Baker, Chairman of the National Mining Corporation, has returned to London, from a visit to New York.
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James J. Godfrey, President of the Mother Lode Mines Co. of Alaska, has been elected President of the Kay Copper Corporation.
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W. E. Simpson, Director of the Castle Cyanide Co. of Canada, Ltd., and representative of London interests looking for northern Ontario mining property, has sailed for England.
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E. W. Hopkins, of Ironwood, Mich., Manager of mines for Oglebay, Norton & Co., has returned from his winter home at New Smyrna, Florida.
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Gabriel Aarons was in San Francisco recently, en route to Fairbanks, Alaska, where he will inspect the properties of the Fairbanks Creek Gold Dredging Co.
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R. M. Henderson, Manager of the Wellington Mines Co., at Breckenridge, Col., has returned from a six weeks’ vacation in California, and the Hawaiian Islands.
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H. S. Montgomery, formerly with the New Cornelia Copper Co., is now in charge of the new plant of the American Grinding Co., at Vernon, Los Angeles.
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Edward K. Judd has joined the staff of the Union Carbide & Carbon Co., being engaged in that company’s research laboratory in Long Island City, N. Y.
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Dale L. Pitt, General Manager for the Premier Gold Mining Co., is in Vancouver, presumably for the general meeting of the company, which was held on April 1.
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Angus Davis has just completed an examination of the Indian mine, in the Salmon River district, of British Columbia, on behalf of the stockholders of the company.
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C. E. Porter, Convention Manager of the American Mining Congress, is in Sacramento, Calif., completing arrangements for the meeting of the American Mining Congress during the Fall.
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John Gillie, consulting engineer; C. L. Berrien, General Superintendent, and R. H. Sales, head of the Geological Department of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., are in New York on business.
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C. M. Weld, of Weld & Liddell, consulting engineers, has returned to New York after three weeks’ absence in West Virginia, and will soon leave for Michigan to inspect a group of iron mines.
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Dalziel Gordon-Smith, late of the Spassky Copper Co., Siberia, is now technical director for the Empreza Mineira do Sul de Angola, with headquarters at Mossamedes, Angola, West Africa.
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A. G. Burrows, Assistant Provincial Geologist, of the Ontario Department of Mines, will supervise the field work of the department, the coming season, in making surveys of districts adjacent to the Timiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway.
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A. W. Newberry, of New York, having completed his big game hunting expedition in Tanganyika Territory, Africa, spent a week in February, visiting reduction plants in the Belgian Congo. He is now in Australia, and expects to be in San Francisco, early in June.
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Van. H. Manning, formerly Director of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, and who, for the last few years, had been Director of the Division of Research, for the American Petroleum Institute, has recently resigned the latter position. Since March 10, he has been with the Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Co., his headquarters being in New York.
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Sir Archibald Mitchelson, representing the British shareholders of the Porcupine Davidson Co., is in Toronto. He says there is a growing interest in financial circles in London, in the gold fields of Ontario, and anticipates an increasing investment of British capital, in mining properties.
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Corrin Barnes, Consulting engineer, and Elmer Burt, Superintendent, of the Goldfield Deep Mines Co., have returned to Goldfield from a trip of inspection throughout Colorado, and other western mining camps, on which they went to better judge proper pumping installation, and equipment for the Goldfield Deep Mines shaft.
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E. C. Saint-Smith, of the Queensland Geological Survey staff, has been appointed general manager of a company, with a capital of £450,000, lately formed in Australia by W. H. Corbould, to acquire, and work several of the most important leases, on the big Mount Isa silver-lead field, in Cloncurry. Mr. Saint-Smith, who was graduated in mining, metallurgy and geology, at the Sydney Technical College, New South Wales, has had a wide experience in mineral fields throughout Australia.

Since joining the Mines Department of Queensland, he has written a large number of lucid and valuable reports, on the geology of different mineral fields, and on separate mines, including the Sardine, Canary, and others on the Kangaroo Hills fields. His latest were two reports on the Mount Isa field, and one report on the Nightflower field, in the Chillagoe district. He has been less conservative in his reports, than some other government geologists, but his predictions as to possibilities of the mines dealt with, have generally been verified. The government has granted Mr. Saint-Smith a twelve months’ leave of absence.

[REHAB notes: When Capt Cook sailed to Australia, one of the things he asked the local Aborigines (through an interpreter) was what did they call all ‘these’ huge hopping animals they saw all around. The answer was ‘Kangaroo’, Aborigine for “we don’t know what they’re called either”.]
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Hume M. Frost, a prominent mining operator of Silver City, N. M., was fatally injured on March 23, when he was struck by a speeding automobile, while removing a spare tire from the rear of his own machine, at the side of the road near Fort Bayard. Mr. Frost came to Silver City, from New York, about a year ago. He was one of the organizers of the New Mexico Operating Co., and was actively in charge of this company’s properties near Fierro, N. M. He was twenty-nine years old, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and unmarried.
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George Phillip (Sir George) Doolette, whose death occurred in London a short time ago, was an Australian gold-mining pioneer, of outstanding personality. He was closely associated with the Kalgoorlie gold field, in Western Australia, in its early days, and his interests in that famous mineral region were maintained to the end. He died in his eighty-fourth year. Mr. Doolette went to Australia in 1840, when only fifteen years old, and lived in Adelaide, South Australia, for more than forty years.

Following a report by some members of the South Australian branch of the Royal Geolographical Society, in 1893, on the auriferous belt at Dundas and Coolgardie, Western Australia, Mr. Doolette and a few friends formed a syndicate, which sent over a party to prospect and report upon the new fields. After undergoing fearful hardships and privations, and finding nothing encouraging at Coolgardie, the prospectors moved on to a new discovery known as Hannan’s Find, and pegged out the leases, which became the famous Ivanhoe and Great Boulder mines.

A larger company was then floated, and Mr. Doolette and his friends sent the same prospectors back to the field, where they pegged a square of forty acres, which became world-known as the “Golden Mile.” After forming the Lake View, and the Ivanhoe companies, in Melbourne, and Adelaide, Mr. Doolette went to London, early in 1894, at a time of great depression, to finance the Great Boulder property. He subsequently placed other properties on the London market, which soon figured among the principal dividend-paying mines of Kalgoorlie. Sir George, at the time of his death, was Chairman of Directors of the Great Boulder, Sons of Gwalia, and Bullfinch Proprietary mines.
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February 7, 1925
ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL-PRESS page 263

Men You Should Know About

James S. Douglas, of Douglas, Ariz., spent a few days at Los Angeles recently.
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L. F. Strobel, mining engineer of New York, has gone to Cripple Creek, Col., for a month.
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James L. Bruce, consulting engineer of Salt Lake City, has been in New York and Boston recently.
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Charles Bocking, general manager for the Butte & Superior Mining Co., was a recent visitor in New York.
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David R. Thomas, mining engineer, has been appointed manager of the Argonaut Gold, Ltd., at Dane, Ontario.
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Home Smith, of Toronto, has been elected president of the McKinley Darragh-Savage Mines, of Cobalt, Ont.
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Harry C. Dudley, mining engineer, of Duluth, has gone to Pasadena, Calif., where he will reside for the next four months.
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George R. McLaren has resigned from the management of the Argonaut Gold property, in the Larder Lake district of Ontario.
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H. A. Kee, of the McIntyre Porcupine Mines, Ltd., has been appointed consulting engineer of the Porcupine Davidson Gold Mines.
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H. R. Plate, consulting and mining engineer, announces the removal of his office headquarters, to the Halbrook Building, San Francisco.
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H. F. Marriott, of London, has gone to Paris, in connection with the nickel property in Greece, of which he is consulting engineer.
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J. Gordon Osler, of Toronto, has been elected a director of the Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. of Canada, Ltd., in succession to his father, the late Sir Edmund Osler.
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Cyril Parsons, mining engineer of London, is now on the Akim property (West Africa), making an investigation preliminary to a report.
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William J. Loring recently announced that he is no longer connected with the management of the Carson Hill mine, near Angels Camp, Calif.
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S. H. Brady has resigned as superintendent of the Rescue Eula mine, at Tonopah, Nev., and the mine has been shut down, pending the selection of his successor.
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Charles E. Knox, president of the Montana Tonopah Reorganized, has been in Tonopah to observe the new work being started by this company, from the Gipsy Queen shaft.
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Otto Wartenweiler, consulting engineer of Los Angeles, is now associated with the Smith-Emery Co. of Los Angeles, and is in charge of physical testing, and mechanical engineering.
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J. T. Terry, metallurgical engineer, of Los Angeles, Calif., is conducting roasting and acid leaching tests on copper ores, at the Cucharas property, 30 miles from Acaponeta, Nayarit, Mexico.
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L. D. Gordon, president and general manager for the Round Mountain Ming Co. and the New Candelaria Mines Co., in Nevada, has returned to the mines, from a business trip to San Francisco.
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Gerald M. Ponton has returned to Canada, from the Southern states, where he had been engaged for some years in oil and gas enterprises, and will practice as consulting engineer at Haileybury, Ont.
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Dr. T. C. Chamberlin, Emeritus Professor of Geology, at the University of Chicago, has been awarded a gold medal, by the Society of Economic Geologists, in recognition of his contributions to geology.
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Walter A. Rukeyser, mining engineer of New York City, recently completed a mine examination in the Sudbury district of Ontario, and sailed on Jan. 29, for South America, to examine several properties for a New York syndicate. He will return the latter part of March.
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B. J. Roberts, recently in charge of the reconstruction and operation of the coal preparation and coking plant, of the St. Bernard Mining Co., at Earlington, Ky., has joined the Deister Machine Co., as sales manager.
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Sidney H. Ball, mining engineer of New York, is in Butte, Mont., on a business trip, in the interest of the Jib Consolidated Mining Co., of Basin, Mont. It is understood that he will spend about a week in examining the property.
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Jules Labarthe, metallurgical and construction engineer, has opened engineering offices at 85 Second St., San Francisco. Herman A. Ruth, formerly with Bradley, Bruff & Labarthe, will continue with Mr. Labarthe as chief engineer.
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John J. Barry, Jr., mining engineer, a graduate of the Montana State School of Mines, and mine foreman for several years in the Butte district, has been assigned to the California properties of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., by which he has been employed.
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Charles L. Bradbury, mining engineer, has resigned his position with the Cia. de Real del Monte, at Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, to accept the superintendency of the Cobrestante group of mines, of the Mazapil Copper Co., Ltd., at Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico.
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J. Edgar Pew, of Dallas, Tex., vice-president of the Sun Oil Co., and president of the American Petroleum Institute, conferred with Secretary Work, at Washington, D. C., recently, in regard to the proposed inquiry into petroleum conditions, by the Federal oil conservation board.
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Professors Theodore J. Hoover and W. F. Dietrich, of the Stanford University mining and metallurgy department, have selected the Mammoth mine, at Jackson, Amador County, Calif., as the best site for the mine surveying and sampling course that is to be given during the Spring vacation.
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Charles Butters and R. S. Botsford, mining engineers, recently returned to the United States from Canada, and left on Feb. 4, for Vallecitos mine, Anori, Colombia, South America. After spending about two months in Colombia, they will proceed to Nicaragua, returning there from to New York City.
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John M. Sully, mining engineer, was married recently to Miss Marjorie Louise Bloom, of Los Angeles. Mr. Sully has been the general manager of the Chino mines, since the company was organized, and is a member of the board of directors of the Ray Consolidated Copper Co., which company now owns the Chino holdings in New Mexico.
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Alva H. Gunnell has resigned his position as resident engineer, for the Morrison Syndicate, of Los Angeles, operating the Atwood mine, at Lordsburg, N. M., and has removed to Vanadium, N. M., to give attention to his personal interests in the operation of the Ground Hog mine, near Santa Rita, being associated in this project with Fred W. Richard, mining engineer, formerly of Courtland, Ariz.
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Harold G. Moses, former shovel repair foreman, has been appointed general foreman at the Chino mines, of the Ray Consolidated Copper Co., in Santa Rita. He succeeds William Mudge, who has resigned the position because of ill health. Harvey A. Forsyth, who enjoys the distinction of being the oldest steam-shovel engineer at the mines, in point of seniority, succeeds Mr. Moses.
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John W. Newton, superintendent of the Commerce Mining & Royalty Co., for Oklahoma, was elected governor of the Tri-state chapter of the American Mining Congress, for 1925, at a recent meeting held in Picher, Okla. He succeeds T. E. Coyne, of Webb City, Mo.

P. B. Butler, manager for the BarnsdalI Zinc Co., was elected vice-governor for Missouri; J. H. Trewartha, superintendent of the Vinegar Hill Zinc Co., vice-governor for Kansas; and W. T. Landrum, manager for the Cortez Mining Co., vice-governor for Oklahoma.

C. F. Dike, P. W. George, Cham Rice, and Messrs. Newton and Landruin were re-elected as directors for a term of three years.
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January 12, 1924 EMJ

MEN YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

J. M. Callow is again in New York.
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A. L. Bell left England recently, for Mexico.
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Reginald KralI has left England, for the United States.
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Murry Guggenheim sailed on the “Aquitania” last Saturday.
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Dr. J. A. L. Henderson, who has been in Canada, has returned to England.
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Karl Eilers has returned to New York, from a visit in the middle West.
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W. A. Heywood, of England, is now in this country on professional business.
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W. Knox Paton is visiting Canada and the United States, on professional business.
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S. Daddow has returned to England, from Panama. He will later go to Australia.
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Samuel Newhouse has resigned as President, and Director, of Idaho Gold Corporation.
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Eugene B. Braden, Vice-president of the Selby Smelting & Lead Co., was in New York this week.
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W. J. Hamilton returned to New York this week, after a month’s stay at his old home in Montreal.
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Prof. Stephen Taber is now Acting State Geologist of South Carolina, with headquarters at Columbia.
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O. B. Hofstrand, metallurgical engineer, has returned to Salt Lake, after a year’s stay in New York City.
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A. J. McNab has been elected Director and Vice-president of the Magma Copper Co., succeeding Frank W. Holmes.
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Roscoe Teats is now acting as General Manager of the arsenic plant, at the Globe Smelter, at Globeville, near Denver, Col.
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John G. Kirchen, General Manager of the Tonopah Extension Mining Co., has returned to Tonopah, from a visit to San Francisco.
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John Briar, War Minerals Relief Commissioner, is in Denver, investigating certain claims which are before him for decision.
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W. R. Thomas, manager of the Tough Oakes mine, at Kirkland, Ontario, has resigned. He is being succeeded by B. W. MacDougall.
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J. E. Spurr has been named as arbitrator for the zinc industry, by the Zinc Institute, cooperating with the Arbitration Society of America.
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Albert H. Fay, of Washington, D. C., has just returned from the mid-continent oil fields, where he made detailed examinations of a number of properties.
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W. B. Cullison has resigned his position on the chemical staff of the Bureau of Mines, to accept a place with the Greasoe Chemical Co., of Cleveland, Ohio.
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N. M. Getchell, General manager, of the Betty O’Neal Company, operating near Battle Mountain, in Nevada, has returned to the mine from California points.
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Dr. C. H. Clapp, formerly Director of the State School of Mines and Metallurgy, of Montana, at Butte, Mont., is now President of the University of Montana, at Missoula.
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Leslie Urquhart has been, for some weeks, in South Africa, inspecting the Cam & Motor mine, in the Hartly mining district, Southern Rhodesia. Persistent reports of a renewal of Mr. Urquhart’s Russian concessions, so far lack official confirmation, but negotiations are continuing.
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S. J. Crooker, who has been engaged at the semi-commercial helium plant, of the Bureau of Mines, at Fort Worth, Tex., is conferring with officials of the Bureau, in Washington.
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Dr. D. C. Bardwell, a Bureau of Mines chemist, has been transferred from the experiment station at Reno, to Washington, to do special work on radium, and rare metals.
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R. R. Sayers, Chief surgeon of the Bureau of Mines, has returned from a trip around the world, during which he gathered first-hand impressions, as to health conditions in mines.
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Thomas F. Donnelly, mining engineer, of New York, has just returned from an inspection of the properties of the American Alum Corporation, at Alum Mountain, Grant County, N. M.
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Edward Mosehauer, sales manager of the Chile Exploration Co. sailed last Saturday for a two or three months’ stay in Europe, in connection with the affairs of the Copper Export Association.
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D. C. Jackling sailed from New York on Jan. 9, for Chile, where, as an official of the Kennecott Copper Corporation, he will inspect the mine and plants of the Braden Copper Co. He will be gone two months.
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Lucien Eaton, of Ishpeming, Mich, who is Superintendent of the Ishpeming district mines of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., on the Marquette iron range, has been spending the holiday season at Cambridge, Mass.
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James G. Scrugham, Governor of Nevada, and Emmet D. Boyle, his immediate predecessor in that office, are reported to be organizing a company to conduct placer operations at Round Mountain, Nye County, Nev.
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H. K. Masters, Manager of the Metal Department of the Wah Chang Trading Corporation, may now be addressed at 50 Church St., New York City, the address of the company having formerly been the Woolworth Building.
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L. K. Armstrong, a well-known mining engineer of the State of Washington, has been selected a candidate for the Office of Trustee, of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Armstrong has long been active in civic affairs in Spokane.
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Oliver Bowles, Superintendent of the Bureau of Mines Experiment Station at New Brunswick, N. J.; W. H. Coghill, and W. M. Weigel have returned from a field trip, in connection with their study of the possibility of applying metalliferous ore-dressing methods, to the non-metallics.
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Charles W. Tubby, who for many years, has been District Manager, in charge of sales and engineering for the Worthington Pump & Machinery Corporation, at the St. Paul office, and for the last four years, at the Seattle office, left the service of the Corporation on Dec. 31. After Feb. 1, he will again be active in similar work in Seattle.
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Ralph Baverstock has just made a partial survey of the Soledad mining district, Mojave, Calif., for the Doak Chambers Co., of Los Angeles, which is considering the operation of an up-to-date custom milling plant. Also inspecting the camp were J. R. Davis, of the Round Mountain mine, in Nevada, and F. Ish, a well-known Goldfield operator.
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OBITUARY

George Brimston, Sheriff of Yukon Territory, died in the Yukon Hospital, at Dawson, on Dec. 26. He was a pioneer of the Klondike gold rush, and was the first to discover gold on the noted Sulphur Creek.
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Robert L. McGee, one of the well-known “old-time” operators in the Missouri section of the Joplin-Miami field, died at his home at Duenweg, Mo., on Jan. 2. Mr. McGee was a firm believer in small concentrating plants for the Joplin-Miami field, and suited his practice to his theories, to such an extent, that his mills were locally famous. At one time, a few years ago, almost any small mill was referred to as a “McGee coffee mill.” Mr. McGee, however, made money in mining zinc and lead.
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ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL-PRESS Vol. 120, No. 15
OCTOBER 10, 1925

Men You Should Know About

Harry D. Griffiths will go to Burma in the near future, and expects to be absent, five or six months.
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H. T. Leslie, formerly of the Dome Mines staff, has been appointed Manager of the Goudreau Gold Mines.
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W. de L. Benedict, Consulting mining engineer, has returned to New York from California, after an absence of two months.
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C. D. Richards, of Frederickton, N. B., has been appointed Minister of Lands and Mines, in the new administration of New Brunswick.
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J. B. Tyrrell, of Toronto, Managing Director of the Kirkland Lake gold mine, is leaving shortly, for a visit to London, England.
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R. V. Hennen, Chief Geologist of the Transcontinental Oil Co., has returned to headquarters at Pittsburgh, from a field trip to California and Texas.
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W. Val De Camp, Mine Superintendent for the United Verde Copper Co., of Jerome, Ariz., was a recent visitor in the Globe-Miami district.
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Owen F. Brinton recently resigned as Manager of the Jib Consolidated Mining Co., of Basin, Mont., and has been succeeded by August Grunert, formerly mill superintendent.
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Charles T. Lupton, consulting geologist of Denver, Col., made a business trip to Houston, Tex., in September. Mr. Lupton is the discoverer of the Cat Creek, Montana, oil field.
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P. G. Beckett, General Manager of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, was recently in the Globe-Miami district, for the purpose of inspecting the properties in which the corporation is interested.
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W. R. Feldtmann, who has severed his connection with the Ashanti Goldfields, has been appointed General Manager of the South West Africa Co., and will proceed to the property, early in October.
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William P. Stein, for many years chemist, in the Research Department of the Timber Butte Milling Co. (W. A. Clark interests), has been appointed Chief Chemist, of the DuVal, Moore Co. plant, at Berkeley, Calif.
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F. O. D. Bourke, General manager of the Naraguta (Nigeria) Tin Mines, has returned to London, from a visit to the property, and it is understood that the Korot areas of the company, are to be transferred to a subsidiary undertaking.
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James W. Wade, Assistant Manager for the Tintic Standard Mining Co., has been named as a Regent, of the University of Utah by Governor George Dern. The Utah School of Mines, of which Mr. Wade is a graduate, is a part of the university.
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Alexander Gillies, a well-known prospector, who has returned from the Red Lake area, in the Patricia district, of Ontario, states that while the showings are interesting, there will not be much activity in that field before next summer. The distance of 140 miles by the winter trail will, he thinks, deter prospectors.
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L. L. Bolton, according to an announcement made on Sept. 8, by Charles Stewart, Minister of Mines, for Ontario, has been promoted by the Ontario Civil Service Commission, to the position of Assistant Deputy Minister. Mr. Bolton, who is an honor graduate in science, of Queens University, Kingston, entered the Department in 1915. Prior to that, he served on geological parties for the Ontario Bureau of Mines, and the Geological Survey of Canada, and for seven years was Geologist of the Mining Department of the Lake Superior Corporation, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

On entering the Mines Department, he was first on the staff of the Division of Mineral Resources and Statistics of the Mines Branch; from there, he was transferred, in 1916, to the position of private secretary to R. G. McConnell, then Deputy Minister of Mines. As the work of the department expanded, Mr. Bolton’s duties increased, with the result that he was designated as Secretary for the department, from 1919. Mr. Bolton’s present promotion is the result of the service he has, for several years, rendered in the conduct of the work of the department.
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Archibald Wheeler, has been engaged by Noranda Mines. Ltd., to design a smelter for the treatment of ore from the Horne mine, in Rouyn township, northwestern Quebec. Mr. Wheeler was formerly in charge of the Great Falls plant of the Anaconda Copper Co., and has also had experience in the Belgian Congo. He is now in Rouyn looking over the ground.
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Dr. Edward Sampson, associate geologist, U. S. Geological Survey, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Geology, at Princeton University. Dr. Sampson received the degree of Doctor of Science, at Princeton, in 1920, since which time, he has been on the staff of the Geological Survey, working on the geology of mineral deposits, and acting as a specialist on asbestos, talc, soapstone, and chromite.
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Major L. T. Burwash, formerly an official of the Canadian Department of the Interior, in the Yukon Territory, is exploring the northern coasts of the Dominion, to discover their natural resources. The first part of the trip from Aklavik, to Coronation Gulf, was made by boat, and the remainder of the journey eastward, will be made by Major Burwash on foot, by way of Queen Mab Gulf and the Gulf of Boothia, to Chesterfield Inlet, in the northwestern coast line of Hudson Bay, where he will await the arrival of a Hudson Bay Company steamer.
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Obituary

John J. Vandemoer, for many years representative of the Engineering and Mining Journal at Denver, Col., died there on Sept. 24, at the age of seventy six. He was a Hollander by birth, having been born at Amsterdam. At the age of twenty, he came to New York, where he found employment on the staff of the Brooklyn Eagle. In 1876, he moved to Denver. As early as 1900, he became agent for the Engineering and Mining Journal, retaining the connection, with characteristically enthusiastic and efficient service, until 1910, when he joined the Babson organization. Mr. Vandemoer was well known to, and much esteemed by the mining fraternity of Colorado, and his passing will arouse many sincere regrets, and many happy memories, among his old friends.
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Dr. John P. Reins, pioneer mining man of Montana, died in Butte on Sept. 27, at the age of 83. He was born in Virginia, in 1842, was graduated from Hillville Academy, and at the age of 19, joined Company H, Twenty-fourth Virginia Infantry, which was almost wholly made up of students of Hillvile. He saw service in many of the important battles of the Civil War, both in the infantry, and in the Eighth Cavalry, being wounded in a skirmish at Clinch River. He studied medicine for a year, but was forced to give that up owing to the loss of the sight of his right eye, and in 1867, he moved to a farm in Kansas.

Being a Disciple of Jason, he soon joined the ox-team trains crossing the plains and mountains, to Deer Lodge, Mont., engaging in stock raising, and in mining and prospecting, at Philipsburg. Until 1875, when he took up his residence in Butte. He took a prominent part in the development of that camp, not only from a mining standpoint, but from a civil standpoint as well, being prominent in Butte affairs until recent years.

He organized the Reins Copper Co., which carried on extensive operations in the Meaderville section, close to the workings of the Leonard mine, of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. A few years ago, Anaconda took over ‘the Reins property. Only a few weeks ago, Dr. Reins and associates sold controlling interest of the Robert E. Lee Mining Co., to the Butte-West Side Mines Co. He was married in 1884, to Mrs. Mary E. Rumann, of Missouri, and is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Mabel Media, and a stepson, Reins Rumann.
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[REHAB notes: "Disciple of Jason"- hard to find specific information on this. Perhaps an obscure Christian sect (ties to Thessalonians) or some other endeavor. Perhaps a mining-related group (golden fleece, as in the gold of the Western US and Canada). Web search may require hours of wading through pages, and even then, there are a few variables. Here’s a few easier ones:
http://www.missionstclare.com/english/people/apr28o.html
http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/ARGONAUTS.html ]

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