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THE MINING JOURNAL for MARCH 15, 1933

Mining Men and Their Activities

About men who are well known and prominent in the mining circles of the Western States.

Rodgers Peale, mining geologist, is located at Guanacevi, Durango, Mexico, with the Guanacevi Mining Company.
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C. H. Gilbert, of Ajo, Arizona, is spending some time at Navajoa, Sonora, Mexico, where he is operating a gold mine.
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Arthur E. Hepburn, Consulting engineer, Box 979, Santa Monica, California, expects to go to Sonora, Mexico, within the next two weeks.
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P. N. Petersen, of New York City, Vice-president of the Weepah Consolidated Mines Company, at Weepah, Nevada, visited the mine.
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Pat Leach, pioneer mine operator, is located at Grangeville, Idaho. “Pat” says he has leased on every hill in Cripple Creek, except on Raven Hill.
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J. J. Hoogstraat, is Chairman, and George H. West, Secretary-Treasurer, of the Grants Pass unit, of the Southern Oregon-Northern California Mining Association.
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E. E. Morrison, of Eugene, Oregon, has spent some time in Grants Pass, on matters relative to the Robert E. Gold Mine. He is a director of the company.
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A. E. Place, Mining engineer, 530 Bartlett Building, Los Angeles, California, has been examining gold mines in Pinal County, Arizona, for Los Angeles capital.
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Don Peaker, graduate of the Colorado School of Mines, Class of ‘31, has returned for a semester of advanced work in geology and geophysics. His Golden address is Box 336.
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T. J. Ryan, mining man, and diamond drill contractor, has returned to his headquarters at Superior, Arizona, after a business trip that took him to several points in Colorado.
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Frank W. Royer, Mining engineer, 606 South Hill Street, Los Angeles, made an examination of the Stone Cabin Consolidated Mines, Inc., property at Como, Lyon County, Nevada.
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Roy A. Hardy, and H. O. Hall, of Reno, Nevada, Manager and Vice-president, respectively, of the Halifax Tonopah Mining Company, have returned from a business trip to New York City.
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H. A. Houser, President of the Warrior Consolidated Gold, Inc., has returned to Los Angeles, 509 South Hobart Boulevard, after spending two months in New York, and other financial centers.
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Gustavus Sessinghaus, Metallurgist, 309 Engineers Building, Denver, Colorado, and Secretary of the Colorado Chapter of the A. I. M. E., represented Colorado at the national meeting, in New York City.
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A. L. Kelley is recuperating in Cuernavaca, after several weeks illness, in the American Hospital, at Mexico City. When fully recovered, he proposes to return to his mining properties at La Norm, Zacatecas.
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Frank T. Tatge,of Chicago, Egineer and Cpitalist, has been placed on the directorate of the Zuma Mining and Milling Company, succeeding Frank Cromar. The company’s holdings are in the East Tintic Dstrict, Utah.
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Dr. Warren D. Smith, head of the Department of Geology, at the University of Oregon, Eugene, has been appointed as a director of the Oregon State Mining Congress. He is also Vice-president of the Western Oregon Mining Association.
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TWO WESTERN MINING MEN RECEIVE FEDERAL APPOINTMENTS

Two men, intimately connected with the mining industry, are to hold key positions with the Roosevelt Administration. The first appointment was that of ex-Governor Darn, of Utah, as Secretary of War, and the second, that of Representative Lewis W. Douglas, of Arizona, as Director of the Federal Budget.

George H. Dern has been Governor of Utah, since 1925, serving for two four-year terms. He has been a true friend, and energetic champion, of the state’s best interests. It is sincerely believed that he will so serve as Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President Roosevelt. The secretary-ship will include new and important civil duties.

Born on a Nebraska farm, he went to the University of Nebraska, and played on its championship football team. Migrating to Utah, he got a job as bookkeeper, for the Mercur Gold Mining and Milling Company, learned engineering, and is the co-inventor of the Holt-Dern Ore Roaster.

A moneymaker, he bought into banks, power companies, canneries, and is today, one of Utah’s wealthier citizens. Of military experience, he has none. It is true he was Commander-in-Chief of the Utah National Guard, consisting of two regiments of field artillery, although not a member, and in University, played in the Cadet band.

His entry into higher political circles, was in 1913, when he was elected a member of the Utah Senate. In that capacity, he continued to serve until 1925, when he was chosen as Governor.

The appointment of Representative Douglas as Director of the Budget, has met with enthusiastic reception, in both Eastern and Western financial, and political circles, and occasioned much favorable editorial comment from the press. Because of the important and sweeping changes contemplated by the new administration, the budget directorship ranks with a cabinet seat.

Lewis W. Douglas has been Arizona’s Congressman, since 1927, serving his state with outstanding ability. Previous to his national office, he was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives, from 1923, to 1925, inclusive.

Douglas was born in 1894, a Westerner of Eastern antecedents. The name of Douglas has been intimately associated with Arizona’s mining history, for three generations. He received his education at Amherst College, graduating in 1916. He then studied geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, until he entered the service, in May, 1917. He was a first lieutenant, in the 91st Division, and served in the front line in France, participating in the Argonne Offensive, and in the drive in Flanders. General John J. Pershing cited him for bravery in action, and he was decorated by the King of Belgium.

For a short period following the war, he was an instructor in history at Amherst College, but in 1921, he returned to Arizona, and actively engaged in mining, and citrus raising, until his entrance in the national political field. He maintains his home at Phoenix, Arizona.
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Zygmunt Mitera, Transfer Graduate Student, from Krakow, Poland, has returned to the Colorado School of Mines, at Golden, to continue his work on a doctor’s degree. Mitera spent last fall, doing geophysical field work in Poland.
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James G. Parmelee, 1022 Crocker Building, San Francisco, retiring Secretary-Treasurer of the San Francisco Chapter of the A. I. M. E., represented the local section, at the annual meeting of the Institute, in New York City, February 20 to 23.
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Clarence William Poy, is leaving Russia, the early part of March, to return to this country, having completed his three-year contract with the Russian Government. He will be located temporarily at 945 North Ninety-Second Street, Seattle, Washington.
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Sydney Schoen, of New York City, Treasurer of the Monarch Gold Ledge Mines, Inc., at Eastgate, Nevada, arrived in Reno, to visit the mine. He was accompanied west, by Mrs. Schoen, and two children. They made the trip by boat, to San Francisco.
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E. J. Roberts, mining engineer and geologist, 744 Russ Building, San Francisco, recently spent two days on the Comstock Lode, examining the properties under development by the Consolidated Savage, Gould, and Chollar Company, at Gold Hill.
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S. H. Knight, Professor of Geology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, is Director of the special course in geology, to be given June 17, to July 22, 1933. The advanced field course is given in co-operation with the Department of Geology, of Columbia University.
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H. E. Winser has resumed the brokerage business, with offices in the U. S. National Bank Building, in Denver. The firm is known as H. E. Winser & Son, Inc. During the last ten years, Winser has been engaged in mining operations, with headquarters at Idaho Springs, Colorado.
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Two new engineers have been added to the staff of the Gnome Gold Mining Company, at Orogrande, Idaho. They are Reginald J. MeIIor, formerly with the Jack Waite Consolidated Mining Company, near Murray, Idaho, and W. H. North, formerly with the Standard Silver Lead Mining Company, at Silverton, B. C.
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Walter E. Burlingame, and Charles O. Parker, of Denver, Colorado, have dissolved partnership, and each is now conducting an assaying and chemical analysis business. Burlingame’ s new location is 2040 Broadway, while Parker continues to operate the laboratory formerly owned by the partnership, at 1901 Lawrence Street.
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An additional load has been thrown upon Dr. Dorsey A. Lyon, Director of the Utah Engineering Experiment Station, with his appointment as Secretary to President George Thomas, of the University of Utah. This is a part of a retrenchment policy to cut expenses, and Dr. Lyon will serve in the new capacity without remuneration. He is also Assistant Dean of Men, at the University.
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Theo. M. Martin Company, announces the opening of offices at 5905 Pacific Boulevard, Huntington Park, California, for the handling of industrial advertising. The company will be headed by Theo. M. Martin, formerly of Berry & Martin, Inc., and with him, will be associated Wallace A. Sawdon, and Lloyd C. Woods. Mr. Martin has been in the advertising business for many years, and was for two and one-half years, Advertising Manager, for the Oil Tool Division, of Byron Jackson Company.
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Howard W. Smith, of New York City, President of the Consolidated Coppermines Corporation, at Kimberly, Nevada, has been deposed, by a decision of the Delaware Court of Chancery, in a contest over the legality of the action of a group of stockholders, last May, when the Board of Directors was increased in number from 9, to 15 members, and R. W. Higgins, of Duluth, Minnesota, was elected President.
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W. B. Tucker, Engineer, State Division of Mines, 1206 Bankers Building, Los Angeles, and J. H. Hartley, mining engineer, 945 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, have returned from a trip to the old Duncan Mine, in the Pothole District, and the Laguna Placers, both in Imperial Valley. They also visited the Pinto Basin, in Riverside County, in the neighborhood of the Sunshine Mine. Tucker reports considerable placering on a small scale, in the latter district, and also around Eagle Mountain, and Placer Canyon.
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INVENTION FOR RECORDING AMOUNTS OF CARBON DIOXIDE

An automatic machine for determining the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, is the recent invention of Moyer D. Thomas, of Salt Lake City, employed by American Smelting and Refining Company, as chemistry expert in its Department of Agricultural Research. The invention is designed primarily for research work, and accurately measures the amount of respiration, and photosynthesis (building-up plant tissue under influence of light), and may be used for study of smoke, and breathing in overcrowded enclosed spaces. The American Smelting has applied for a patent on the machine.

This is the second invention perfected by Mr. Moyer. Two years ago, he invented an automatic apparatus, for determination of small concentrations of sulphur dioxide in the air. This invention is now in constant use by the American Smelting and Refining Company.

Mr. Moyer is convinced that his most recent invention will be of greatest value in determining the precise amount of harmful elements in the air. He states that the machine is capable of measuring to one part in one million. It records contenuously, and automatically, both in the open air, and in enclosed spaces.
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MISS ETHEL D. HOOK CLAIMS DISTINCTIVE TITLE

Miss E. D. “Ethel” Hook, of Sacramento, California, insofar as we know, enjoys the distinction of being the only woman in the United States, to purchase gold in commercial quantities. This blond, young woman, is employed by the California MacVan Company, and is given full authority by her employer, A. E. Vandercook, to buy gold in any quantity.

Grizzled old men who have aged in the hills hunting gold, young fellows getting their first callouses, and even women- turned miners to boost family finances— they’re all familiar to her. Sometimes they come with a great deal of gold, and go away with a great deal of money, sometimes they bring as little as 15 cents worth of gold.

Almost two years ago, Vandercook wanted a secretary, who could learn the buying end of the business, because he is away a great deal, attending to various mining properties. Miss Hook had finished a secretarial school course, and was chosen for the work. After three months of careful attention to what was going on, she bought her first gold.

Miss Hook will buy gold dust, nuggets, gold bars, dental, and jewelry gold, and pays for it at the mint rate for gold. Not many buyers do that, and, as a result, scores of miners make regular trips to Sacramento, to sell gold to her. Some days, after a heavy rain, there will be a long line waiting in the hall—then again, only a few stray customers drop in. All of the melting is done in the laboratory at Placerville, and the gold bricks are sent to the Mint, when about $1,000 worth has been accumulated. Sometimes it takes a week, sometimes two weeks, and during very bad weather, three weeks.

When the gold is brought to Miss Hook, she goes through it with a magnet, to clean out the black sand from the panned gold, and then weighs it. If there is a lot, she advances the miner $30 or $40, or whatever he needs, and when the gold is refined, she sends him a check for the balance. Not many nuggets come in, but “for variety we get gold teeth, watches, old bracelets and all sorts of things,” the ore buyer volunteered.

Miss Hook takes great pride in her distinctive calling, and says it is an education in itself to meet and talk with the men who have gold to sell. She says, “They are all dressed rough, but many are highly educated, highly trained, and they certainly are courteous to me.”

Satisfied customers have contributed to her popularity, and a reputation for square dealing. From her income, she supports her mother, and herself, as she has been doing for the last six years. She worked her way through secretarial school, and crowded two years’ study into one, and graduated with honors. She has a hobby —and literally rides it, because it is a horse.

So valuable are Miss Hook’s services, and particularly her exactness in the buying of gold, that her superior officer, President Vandercook, of the California MacVan Company, has insured her against marriage. So, gentlemen, come with your gold dust, but otherwise hesitate and exercise prudence—at least until the insurance policy expires.
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VIRGINIA CITY GOLD MINES PLANS EARLY PRODUCTION

The Virginia City Gold Mining Company expects to have its 60-ton Mill, at the Prospect Mine, near Virginia City, Montana, in operation, early this spring. Approximately 46,000 tons of ore is reported in sight, and its average value, as tests would indicate, is believed to be $14 per ton.

Remarkable progress has been made by this company, since it came into existence 18 months ago, and since incorporating little more than six months ago, this progress has been more marked than ever. In excess of $12,500 has been spent on re-timbering, prospecting, and development, on the repair of roads, and mine buildings, and on machinery. Besides, payrolls have been maintained.

Walter K. Mallette, of Spokane, is President and General Manager, but spends most of his time at Virginia City. His associates are all from that city, where offices are maintained at 515 Standard Stock Exchange Building. Bliss Moore is Vice-president, succeeding Fred W. Callaway, whose recent death was a severe blow.
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AMADOR STAR JOINS MOTHER LODE ACTIVITY

The Arthur Hamburger Mines Company, which owns the Amador Star Mine, on the Mother Lode, three miles north of Plymouth, California, has plans for extensive development work, to include the sinking, drifting, and crosscutting, to the hanging wall vein. It is expected that this program will develop sufficient ore, to place the mine on large-scale production.

The former workings extend to 500 feet, with milling ore being stoped from an oreshoot 350 feet in length, on the 300 and 500-foot levels. The 100-ton flotation plant is equipped with gyratory primary crushing, one 5x22, and two 4x17 Hardinge ball mills with screen classifiers, and a bank of six Kraut flotation cells. This plant makes a 94 percent extraction, and the concentrate is further reduced at Selby. Power for mining and milling, is supplied by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Arthur Hamburger is Resident Manager; P. G. Hotchkiss, Superintendent; R. D. McAfee, Jr., Engineer; and C. H.
Carmichael, Underground Superintendent.
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DECEASED

Mathew C. Gardner, prominent mining man, died in Lovelock, Nevada, of acute indigestion.
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Thomas A. Lister, well known mine owner and operator, of Southwestern New Mexico, died at his home, in Lordsburg, on February 23. He had lived in that region for more than 25 years, and was interested in many gold properties.
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John E. Havens, who has been connected with the powder industry in Denver, Colorado, for the last 40 years, died. He was 63 years of age, and was active, until a few days before his death. Influenza was given as the cause.
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Tom Sellars, President of the Arizona Mines Contracting Co., Inc., died at his home, in Wickenburg, Arizona, on February 26. He had resided in the Wickenburg District for five years, during which time he conducted his business as a mining contractor.
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Frank Schanuel, owner and operator of the Gold Coin Mine, near Dewey, Arizona, died from a heart attack, on February 25. He was 51 years old, and had spent all his life mining. He was born in Sioux City, Iowa, but at an early age, went to Colorado; later to Arizona and California. He again retraced his steps to Arizona, where death overtook him.
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Frank E. Vassar, 48-year old Los Angeles mining engineer, was fatally injured, six miles east of Yuma, Arizona, February 25, when the light roadster driven by his daughter, skidded on the wet highway, and overturned. He had been examining mining property near Ajo, Arizona, and was returning to his home.
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Robert H. Hawley, Engineer of Mines, was the victim of a speeding motorist, in Los Angeles. He was a native of St. Joseph, Missouri, and received his engineering training at the Colorado School of Mines. He was, for several years, with the Guggenheims, spending a part of the time at the Monterrey Smelter.

With the Nipissing Mines Company, Ltd., he divided his time between New York City, and Canada. With the Utah Copper Company, he was located at Magna, followed as Superintendent of concentration and flotation plants, with the Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, at Panda-Likaski, Belgian Congo, Africa. He returned to the United States, in April, 1931, and had been residing in Los Angeles, California.
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John C. Martin, newspaperman, and mining writer, of Tonopah, Nevada, died at his home, following a long illness. He was 75 years of age. With the exception of a short time when he was engaged in special work for the Land Department, of the Southern Pacific Railroad, he was active in newspaper work at Goldfield, and Tonopah, for 28 years, retiring only a few months before his death, because of ill health.
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Word has been received of the death of Harry T. Curran, for some time, a member of Coolidge & Curran Engineers, Inc., at Great Falls, Montana. Mr. Curran was a highly respected citizen, and at the time of his death, a member of the Masonic Lodge. He has had a long line of experience with mining companies in Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming, and at one time, was doing metallurgical work and ore testing, for the R. A. Perez Company, of Los Angeles.
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Joseph L. Phillips. Sr., retired mining engineer, passed away, March 3, at his home, at Claremont, California, following a heart attack. He had been interested in mining ventures for many years, in Mexico, Nicaragua, and the Southwest. Included in his mining connections, was the Superintendency of the famous Goldroads Mine, at Kingman, Arizona. He, also, was Construction Engineer for the Mexican Central Railroad, from El Paso, to Mexico City. Phillips was a native of Columbia, Missouri, and a graduate mining engineer, from the University of Missouri.
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George T. Jackson, mining engineer, succumbed to a brief illness in the Seattle General Hospital. He was 59 years of age. Mr. Jackson was born in England, and while he practiced his profession in California, South Africa, and other parts of the globe, most of his attention was given to Alaska mines. He was active at Juneau, and Chichagof; Superintendent of the Perseverance Mine; and General Manager of the Alaska Gastineau Mining Company, which attempted a 6,000-ton-a-day, low-grade proposition, at Thane. The last five years, he resided in Seattle, maintaining an office as Consulting engineer, in the Alaska Building. Last year, he was President of the Seattle Chapter of the A. I. M. E.
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rehab · Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 939 Location: NEVADA

THE MINING JOURNAL
for DECEMBER 15, 1933

Mining Men and Their Activities

About men who are well known and prominent in the mining circles of the Western States.

C. E. James, formerly of Phoenix, Arizona, is operating the Eberly Mine, at Mogollon, New Mexico.
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Frederick D. White, of Seattle, has joined the staff of the Cornucopia Gold Mines, Inc., at Cornucopia, Oregon.
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H. G. Poole, of Cleveland, Ohio, has joined the staff of the International Molybdenum Company, at Porthill, Idaho.
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Louis Ryn, is working on plans for a new type of mill, designed to treat the mill dumps in the vicinity of Searchlight, Nevada.
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Oscar V. Siefert, formerly located at Santa Maria del Oro, Durango, with Cia. Minera Mercuriocrom, is now at Sweetwater, Texas.
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Joseph L. Thomson, mining engineer, has just returned to his home in Phoenix, Arizona, 1153 Brill Street, following a three-month tour of Mexico.
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H. A. Davison is General Manager of a group of gold-silver mines, at Tamazula, Jalisco, Mexico. This group is owned by private Mexican syndicate.
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Joseph P. Klein, 1122-A Wilshire, Santa Monica, California, accompanied by L. E. Farnham, of Pasadena, is in Prescott, Arizona, looking after mining interests.
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C. N. Gerry and Paul Luff, from the Salt Lake City Office, of the United States Bureau of Mines, are making a trip through the mining districts of Arizona.
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Charles V. Harris, chemist and assayer who has been with the Sheeptanks Consolidated Mines Company, at Vicksburg, is now located at Bisbee, Arizona, Box 2241.
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O. B. Brown, mining engineer, of Wenatchee, Washington, is doing professional work in Stevens County, Washington. He has just returned from a trip into British Columbia.
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Gerald A. Waring, of the U. S. Geological Survey, expects to spend this winter in eastern Utah and Arizona, in charge of groundwater investigations in the high plateau region.
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William E. Crawford, for a number of years, Mill Superintendent for Cia. Beneficiadora de Pachuca, is now Mill Superintendent for The Fresnillo Company, at Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico.
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Walter M. Hoefelman of Cincinnati, Ohio, has returned to his home, after a visit to the Imperial Eagle Mining Company’s property, near Sumpter, Oregon. He is a director of the company.
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W. R. Crane has severed his connection with the United States Bureau of Mines, and has gone into consulting work in mining, at Berkeley, California. His address is 1820 San Pedro Avenue.
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Franklin W. Wakefield, engineer, formerly of San Francisco, California, is engaged in mining operations in Sonora, Mexico. He maintains headquarters at 632 South Fifth Avenue, Tucson, Arizona.
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Duncan Anderson McNaughton, of Los Angeles has joined the junior members of the A. I. M. E. He is connected with the Department of Geology, of the California Institute of Technology, at Pasadena.
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S. S. Dettman, mining engineer, has joined the staff of F. A. Crampton, at the Remington Hill Placers, near Nevada City, California. Dettman is a graduate engineer from Colorado School of Mines, Class of ‘31.
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James Bradley, formerly General Superintendent of Operations, at the Spanish Mine, at Washington, California, is in New York City. His address is the Park Central Hotel, Seventh Avenue and Fifty-fifth Street.
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Ned Creighton, President of Wenden Copper Mining Company, and W. A. Buchanan, Superintendent of Nellie Meda Gold Mines, have recently returned to Phoenix, and Aguila, Arizona, from a trip into Nevada.
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Roswell W. Prouty, mining geologist, and John Lea, mining engineer, with offices at 1206 Pacific National Bank Building, Los Angeles, California, are on their way to Honduras, Central America, on mining business.
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A. E. Hepburn, consulting geologist, Tremont Hotel, Denver, Colorado, is representing London interests in the examination of several mining properties in Sonora, Mexico, and in the vicinity of Phoenix, Arizona.
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Bern. H. Hopkins, formerly of Colorado Springs, has just returned from the goldfields of Western Canada, and has joined Theodore Zadra, of Denver, in the operations of the Isis Gold Mining Company, at Cripple Creek.
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Charles A. Ordway, engineer with Win. J. Howard, Inc., 10 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois, has been examining a gold property near Willcox, Arizona, for the purpose of security issuance, under the Illinois Security law.
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H. J. Evans has completed an extended placer examination on the San Miguel River, of Sonora, Mexico, and returned to 529 Daymon Street, Long Beach, California. During this work, Mr. Evans was stationed at Cucurpe, Sonora.
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Junior Associates, who have been raised to memberships in A. I. M. E., are Robert B. Dickson, of Ophir, Colorado, statistician, American Bureau of Metal Statistics; and John F. Shaw, Superintendent of the South Burns Mine, at Cripple Creek, Colorado.
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E. W. Liljegran, of Medford, Oregon, has resumed work in general assaying. His laboratory is at the corner of Sixth and Front Streets. Liljegran is well known in Oregon, and has been connected with a number of mining operations there.
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Henry Bradley, Superintendent of the Beebe Mill, at Georgetown, California, has gone to San Francisco, where he will work with R. G. Hall, on a cyanide problem. Erick Puschmann has been appointed as Acting Mill Man, during Bradley’s absence.
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William D. Mark is at Lima, Peru, on the Geological staff, of the Cerro de Pasco Copper Corporation. He was formerly with the Hercules Mining Company, of Wallace, Idaho, and on the geological staff, of the Anaconda Copper Company, at Butte, Montana.
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Thomas E. Campbell, former Governor of Arizona, spent the last ten days of November, in Sonora, Mexico, making an examination of gold property, in the Altar District. He states that he has acquired the property, and will begin operations at an early date.
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Frank W. Brown, President of Western States Gold Mining Company, 405 Pacific Southwest Building, Pasadena, California, is in Prescott, and Cherry, Arizona, on business connected with his property.
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Harry Land, veteran leaser of the El Paso and Beacon Hill sections of Cripple Creek, Colorado, is in charge of the reopening of the El Paso Mine, for the Hidalgo Gold Mines, Inc. It is probable that he will be retained as superintendent, after the job is finished.
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Arthur Swanson, General Manager of Los Lugos Gold Mines, has returned to the company’s property at Mezquital del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico, after a short visit in San Francisco and Seattle. Some changes in mine development, and the mill flowsheet are to be made.
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Among employees at the Cactus Mining Company, Duncan, Arizona, are the following Colorado School of Mines men: Lawrence Smith, Class of ‘31; George Setter, Class of ‘32; Vincent Burnhart, Class of‘32, and M. E. Volin, Class of ‘33. The Superintendent of Operations, is Henry P. Nagel, of Denver, class of ‘04.
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E. E. Whiteley, Consulting mining engineer, 614 East California Street, Pasadena, California, is at Valdez, Alaska. He is in charge of the installation of considerable new machinery, including two boilers, dynamo, and motor, at the Cliff Mine, lately taken over by Gen. A. D. McRae.
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E. P. Rankin, Jr., well known throughout the Southwest, and California, as a Structural Steel engineer, is now with the United States Bureau of Public Roads, engaged on the road project, from Kingman, to the Boulder Dam. His address is c/o U. S. Bureau of Public Roads, Bin 8, Kingman, Arizona.
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The nominating committee for the Arizona Section, A. I. M. E., announces the following nominations for officers for 1934: E. P. Mathewson, Chairman; F. W. Maclennan, First Vice-president; Clyde E. Weed, Second Vice-chairman; Henry F. Easter, G. H. Dowell, R. D. Leisk, Arthur Crowfoot, members of the Executive Committee.
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F. W. Libbey, who has been operating in the Globe-Miami District, for some months, has moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where he will make his home, and business headquarters. In addition to other matters to which he will devote his attention, Mr. Libbey will be associated with the Nellie Meda Gold Mines, in a consulting capacity.
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Stuart French, for many years, General Manager of the Copper Queen Mine, of Phelps Dodge Corporation, at Bisbee, Arizona, spent several days, early in December, renewing friendships in Phoenix, and the Salt River Valley. For several years, Mr. French has lived on the Pacific Coast, his home being 501 Bellefontaine, Pasadena, California.
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G. A. Franz, mining man, of Ouray, Colorado, and President of the Banner American Mining Company, has been chosen as head of a new organization in that state, to work in the interest of the re-monetization of silver. The organization includes the president and the secretary, of each Chamber of Commerce on the Western Slope of Colorado.
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C. W. Plumb, for a number of years, General Superintendent of the Mason Valley Mines, in Nevada, has assumed charge of operations for the Sliger Gold Mining Company, at Georgetown, California. Plumb returned only a few weeks ago, from Quebec, Canada, where he had been with the Consolidated Copper and Sulphur Company, at Eustis. His address is 3405 T Street, Sacramento.
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John E. Penberthy, who has been associated with Union Miniere du Haut Katatnga, for the last six years, is leaving the Belgian Congo, for the United States, on January 1. Before joining the staff of the African company, Penberthy was, for a number of years, connected with the Phelps Dodge Corporation, and was Assistant General Manager at Moctezuma Copper Company.
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Edmund Conrad Bitzer, mill shift foreman, Balatoc Mining Company, Baguio, Phillipine Islands, has changed his status from junior associate, to member of the A. I. M. E. Bitzer is a Colorado man, and was at one time, in the Research Department of the Mine and Smelter Supply Company, at Denver. He went to the Philippines, as Assistant engineer for the Itogon Mining Company, also at Baguio.
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On Tuesday, November 7, W. F. Durfee, gold buyer at Auburn, California, shipped more than 350 ounces of gold, approximately $10,500 worth, as a pool, contributed by prospectors and operators from the district. Two weeks earlier, he made a similar shipment, that was worth around $8,000. Durfee states that this is more gold than has been shipped from the district, in more than 50 years.
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D. C. Sharpstone is in charge of drill prospecting, at Mountain City, Nevada, on ground adjacent to that owned by the Mountain City Copper Company, for Edward C. Congdon, of Duluth, Minnesota. Sharpstone was at one time, on the geological staff of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, and more recently, Chief Geologist and Chief Engineer, at the Roan Antelope Mine, in South Africa.
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George F. Stott, mining engineer of Lark, Utah, and for a number of years, Superintendent of the Bingham Prospect, in Bingham Canyon, has been engaged as Superintendent of the Development Campaign, now getting under way at the Tintic Gold Mining Company’s property, at Mammoth, Utah. New equipment, including a compressor, hoist, and transformer, has been provided to carry on the work.
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Ben Wilson, who has been in Phoenix, Arizona, for some time, has left for London, where he will rejoin the staff of A. G. McGregor, metallurgical designer. It is presumed that he has been recalled to work on extensions for the Roan Antelope plants, in Northern Rhodesia. Mr. Wilson was a member of the staff, which McGregor took with him to London, in 1927, and was engaged in the actual construction of the Roan Antelope plants.
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P. G. Spilsbury, Consulting and Research engineer for Anaconda Copper Mining Company, American Brass Company, and Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company, is making a brief visit in Phoenix, Arizona, his former home. Mr. Spilsbury was former President of the Arizona Industrial Congress. At present, Mr. Spilsbury is devoting his energies to the increasing of copper consumption, and promoting the many new uses which have been found for the metal.
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W. Taylor Graham, mining engineer of Oregon and Colorado, has gone to the Philippines, where he has received an appointment as Mine Superintendent for the Baguio Gold Mining Company, at Baguio. Mrs. Graham and their two daughters are temporarily remaining at Forest Grove, Oregon. Graham has spent a number of years in Colorado, where he has been Superintendent for the Rawley Mines, and later, leasing on the Cresson Mine, at Cripple Creek.
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W. H. Eardley, Assistant Manager of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company, Newhouse Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, has returned from the Rico District, in Colorado, where he contracted for the shipment of considerable lead-zinc ore, to the Midvale plant. The Baer Bros. have contracted to sell their lead-zinc ore, that has been in storage four years. There are about 15 carloads to be shipped. The zinc is what the smelter wants most.
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H. L. Burmeister, of the Bradley Engineering Staff, has been transferred from the Beebe Mine at Georgetown, California, to the Big Blue Mine at Kernville. The property has lately come under this management, and will be operated as a unit of the Pacific Mines Company. Burmeister will be in charge of the work. The vacancy of the Beebe staff has been filled by Roger Dennis, who has been transferred from the company’s Pine Tree Mine, in Mariposa County.
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To the A. I. M. E. members in the Pacific Coast and Mountain States territory are added the names of: J. C. Brumblay, of Winnemucca, Nevada, since 1929, field representative of the International Smelting Company, and manager of the Copper Canyon Mining Company;
Cecil Earl Shoenfelt, of Denver, Colorado, president of the Petroleum Information, Inc., and Howard W. Squires, of Virginia City Nevada, since 1931, general manager of the Arizona Comstock Corporation.
These junior associate members have become junior members of the A. I. M. E.:
John Francis Callahan, assistant geologist, Warhorse Exploration Company, at Mountain City, Nevada;
Francis Xavier Cappa, of Portland, Oregon;
Franklin Coolbaugh, of Leadville, Colorado, at present, mucker for Climax Molybdenum at Climax;
Junius Foutz, of Salt Lake City, working underground in the United States Mine, at Bingham Canyon;
Charles Kenneth Rose, of Moneta, California,
and Reinhardt Schuhmann, Jr., of Gunnison, Colorado.
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Ira D. Travis has been elected as President of the Tintic Standard Mining Company, one of Utah’s leading producers. He was formerly Vice-president, and had been with the company practically since its organization. James W. Wade, formerly Assistant Manager, has been promoted as Vice-president and General Manager, and Harold E. Raddatz, son of the late President E. J. Raddatz, was elected as Treasurer. C. C. Henry, of Salt Lake, and Long Beach, California, was added to the Board of Directors, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Raddatz.
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Arthur Notman, mining engineer, formerly of Bisbee, Arizona, and more recently, of New York, has resigned as adviser to NRA, on codes for the non-ferrous metal industries. He has been serving on this work since last August. Mr. Notman, trade reports state, has not been a believer in “price fixing.” The copper codes submitted by producers, all contain a price-fixing provision, and it has been the opposition to this provisions, as well as to others, that has thus far delayed any agreement on a code. Also, Notman has been strong in opposition to a tariff on copper.
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Morton D. Lindley of Oakland, California, chemical engineer for the Lindley Reduction Corporation, of Keyport, New Jersey, is in charge of exploration work, and the installation of machinery, on a large placer deposit in southern Oregon. This deposit, in early years, produced millions from the surface. Mrs. M. B. Lindley, widely known research chemist and metallurgist, has been conducting special scientific investigations and tests on the auriferous sands and gravels of this placer. The ground is also rich in base metal values. Mr. Lindley’s Oakland address is 2939 East Sixteenth Street.
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Roger T. Pelton, Box 937, Bisbee, Arizona, has been appointed State Civil Works Engineer, for Arizona. Pelton’s appointment was made by the Arizona Civil Works Board. A graduate of Columbia University School of Mines, in 1903, Pelton came to Arizona, the following year, to join the staff of Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company, at Bisbee. He served as mining engineer with that organization until 1907. From 1907, until 1919, he acted as Chief Mining Engineer for Phelps Dodge Corporation, Copper Queen Branch. Since 1919, he has maintained offices as a consulting and leasing engineer.
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Applications for membership in the A. I. M. E. have been made by Edward Wesley Ames, Consulting geologist, of San Antonio, Texas, and Ciryl Chalfant Doyle, who is attending the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, taking the special course offered in mine administration. Doyle was former Chief engineer for the Avalos Unit, Cia. Minera de Penoles.
Applicants for change in membership from Junior Associate to Junior Member include:
Fred W. Bates, Jasper, Texas, recording helper and alternate computer with Geophysical Research Corporation of Tulsa, Oklahoma; George Daniel Roberts, La Luz, New Mexico, and Raymond F. Treybig of La Grande, Texas.
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A. J. WEINIG MAKES IMPORTANT GOLD RECOVERY ANNOUNCEMENT

A new method of recovering gold by “mathematical analysis” has been announced by Arthur J. Weinig, Director of the Experimental Plant, of the Colorado School of Mines, at Golden, Colorado. It consists of a mathematical analysis, which reveals the characteristics of finely ground material, so that ore crushers will be able to tell just how fine to crush the ore, in order to get the gold out.

It is possible that by the new process, low-grade ore, which heretofore has not been considered worth working, may be treated, and its gold recovered at a profit.

Mr. Weinig has been Director of the Experimental Plant, since 1923, climaxing a successful career in engineering work, with some of the largest operators of the state. In January, 1930, he won the recognition of the Colorado Engineering Council, for meritorious engineering service to the state, and was presented with a medal. It was the first gold medal award made by the Council.
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OREGON MINING CONGRESS FORMS OPERATING COMPANY

The Oregon Mining Congress is working on an idea, to develop the resources of its state, through public subscription, and in order to comply with the law, has organized a private company. It is known as the Oregon Mines Development Company, and plans are to carry on business as any other mining company, with the exception that there is no promotion stock, and the commission paid for the sale of the stock, is 6 percent. Robert M. Betts, Chairman of the State Mining Board, is President; E. G. Harlan, Secretary to the Eugene Chamber of Commerce, is Secretary, and B. K. Lawson, of Portland, is Treasurer.

The service clubs, American Legion, and the various chambers of commerce throughout the state, hope to be of assistance in disposing of some of the stock, and all funds collected, are to be spent only in Oregon. No compensation has been charged or received in the organization and preliminary work of the company, but a reasonable salary will probably be paid to the men actually engaged in carrying on the business of the company, for the examination of properties, and their operation. It is hoped to give assistance to mines that have just fallen short of the production stage; work will be done on likely prospects, and every effort put forth to stimulate the production of gold.
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COLORADO MINING MEN FORM MINES SERVICE COMPANY

A service, for mining men and mine operators, has been organized at Denver, Colorado, with such reputable engineers as R. P. Akins, Alfred Tellam, and Robert E. Landon, on its technical staff. It is known as the Mines Service Company, and headquarters are 2301 Fifteenth Street. Frank Briscoe, of the Fairplay Gold Mines, Inc., at Alma, is President, and C. T. Chenvert, is Secretary-Treasurer.

The engineers are prepared to render such service as the examination of mining property and prospects, geology, mine mapping, ore testing, metallurgy, mill practice, and operation, design and construction of mills and mill equipment, management of large or small operations in prospecting, mining, or milling.

Mr. Akins is widely recognized as an authority on mill design. He has designed and constructed many mills and reduction plants in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and is the inventor of the Akins classifier, Portland filter, and the Impact screen.

Mr. Tellam, metallurgist, has successfully handled such responsible positions as Chief Experimental Chemist for Phelps-Dodge, Chief Metallurgist and Mill Manager for the Russo-Asiatic Corporation, in Russia, and for the Vanadium Corporation of America, in Peru and Bolivia.

Mr. Landon, geologist and mineralogist, has his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has taught on the staff of that institution, and of the Colorado College, at Colorado Springs, and has had practical experience on the geological staff of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, and others.
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DECEASED

Walter S. Hobart, 60 years of age, heir to the Nevada mine holdings of his father, the late W. S. Hobart, died in San Diego, California.
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M. H. McGlynn, old-time Goldfield resident, passed away. He was a mine contractor, and spent many years in mining. Among other notable ventures, he is credited with the sinking of the Clearmont Shaft.
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Grant Gardner, for many years an employee of United Verde Copper Company, at Jerome, Arizona, died on November 27, from a heart attack. He joined United Verde as one of the steam shovel crew, but was later assigned to the Timber Department.
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Charles Butters, Berkeley mining engineer, passed away, November 27. He is credited with originating the chlorination process of gold ore treatment. He was awarded the medal of the Mining and Metallurgical Society, of Freiburg, Germany, in 1931.
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Abe Shellenberger, pioneer miner of Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada, died at his home in Ely, Nevada. He was a native of Pennsylvania, and with an elder brother, came to Nebraska, in 1858. At 16 years of age, he drove an ox team on a freight line, from Omaha, to Salt Lake. Later, he joined the gold rush to Alder Gulch, Montana, and was among the first locators of the famed Alice and Rainbow mines.
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Roy Buhler was killed instantly, when he drilled into a missed hole, in the Combined Metals Mine, at Pioche, Nevada. He was a former resident of Midway, Utah, and his body was taken there for burial.
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George Bernard, for 50 years, one of the leading business men of Cripple Creek-Colorado Springs, died at his home in Colorado Springs, November 24. He was one of the developers of the Elkton Mine, and President of that company. Later, he turned his attention to the El Paso, and other mines at Cripple Creek.
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David W. Terwilliger, well known in the Northwest, and in Alaska, died at Berne, North Carolina, where he had been visiting since last spring. The remains were brought back to Dayton, Washington, for burial. Mr. Terwilliger was born, and grew to manhood, in the State of Kentucky. He came west as far as New Orleans, then to Portland, and to Walla Walla, Washington. In 1901, he went into Alaska, and remained there until 1920, when he went with the Pacific Steamship Company, continuing in their service, until he went to the Carolinas.
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Samuel I. Silverman of Los Angeles, whose mining operations carried him all over the world, died at Ely, Nevada. He is credited with the building of the first gold reduction plant at Butte, Montana, and has built and operated a smelter in Alaska. With John Hays Hammond, he was once associated in a mining enterprise in South Africa. A recent venture was with the American Smelting and Refining Company, in Utah. Mr. Silverman was a Shriner; a charter member of the A. I. M. E., and one of the organizers of the Rocky Mountain Club.
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THE MINING JOURNAL for March 30, 1934

Mining Men and Their Activities

About men who are well known and prominent in the mining circles of the Western States.

James Clamp, is in charge of the rehabilitating of the Revenue Mine, in the Ouray District, in Colorado.
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George B. Stone, formerly on the staff at the Betty O’Neal Mine, is engaged in mining, south of Valmy, Nevada.
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Arthur Jansen, is Superintendent of the Snowflake Mining Company, operating at Gold Springs, near Caliente, Nevada (actually Fay area, almost 30 miles due east of Pioche, NV).
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Carl Gall, is manager of the Monterrey Refinery, of American Smelting and Refining Company, at Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
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F. W. Bewley, formerly in charge of the Tropico Mil, at Rosamond, California, for the Burton Bros., has gone to Republic, Washington.
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Inginiero (Engineer) Santiago Soto, formerly of Mexico City, is located at Santa Ana, Sonora, as Director of Compradora de Minerales y Pastas (Buyer of minerals and grain), S. A.
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Kurt A. Stolberg, recently of Filer, Idaho, has been engaged as assayer, for the Beebe Gold Mining Company, Inc., at Georgetown, California.
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C. W. Gabrielson, president of Consolidated Gold Mines Company, Bisbee, Arizona, has just returned from a two-weeks’ business trip to New York.
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W. J. Helm, metallurgist, has returned to 1420 1/2 South Mariposa Avenue, Los Angeles, California. He had recently been at Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico.
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Nick Kohanowski, returned to Colorado, from New York City, and has taken a position as geologist, with the Colorado International Mining Company, at Victor.
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Charles Cater, of New York City, President of the Como Mines Company, at Dayton, Nevada, is making the Riverside Hotel in Reno, his headquarters these days.
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Dr. Henry Mace Payne, made an examination of the Powers Gold Mine, near Safford, Arizona, the middle of March. Dr. Payne is at present, located at Taos, New Mexico.
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A. G. Setter, 901 Adams Street, Denver, Colorado, has been in Silver City, New Mexico, closing legal details for a lease on mining property in the Wilcox District of Catron County.
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L. E. Foster, mining engineer of Silver City, New Mexico, is now working with the Field Engineering Corps, of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, in Grant
County, New Mexico.
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W. E. Scott, Jr., mining engineer, and at one time, Engineer in Charge, for the Talache Mines, Inc., at Quartzburg, Idaho, is now with the Aspen Development Company, at Aspen, Colorado.
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George Nordenholt, formerly Superintendent of the Trinity Placers, Inc., at Junction City, California, has been appointed State Director of Natural Resources, by Governor Rolph, of California.
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T. H. Oxnam, Metallurgical engineer, of Tujunga, California, went to Silverpeak, Nevada, on March 19, to take charge of mine development, and mill test work, for the Crater View Mining Company.
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Tacoma, Washington’s favorite flying son, Lt. Harold Bromley, and who engaged in several ill-starred attempts to fly the Pacific, from Tacoma to Tokyo, is now flying gold from isolated mines in Mexico.
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A. W. ALLEN LOCATES AT PLACERVILLE, CALIF.

A. W. Allen, internationally known mining man, writer, author, and practical miner, is engaged in research work, in association with George L. H. Loram, in the Loram Laboratory at Placerville, California. Together they will complete a series of experiments in which both are interested.

Mr. Allen has travelled extensively, and his work has taken him to many of the leading mining countries of the world. He will be remembered, too, through his connection with the Engineering and Mining Journal. He was Editor of the publication, from 1927 to 1933, and as early as 1918, was Metallurgical Editor.

Mr. Allen is English by birth, and was educated in English schools. In 1902, he was granted his B. A. from the St. Johns College, at Cambridge, England, and in 1910, his M. A., from the same school. In 1902, he joined Sir Henry Wickham, “Father” of the plantation rubber industry, in biological research in British New Guinea. In 1904, he was made cyanide manager for the British Exploration of Australasia.

In 1907, Mr. Allen went into Mexico, and for three years, was employed consecutively as Metallurgist for the Paomarejo & Mexican Goldfields; Consulting Metallurgist, and later, Cyanide Superintendent for the Rio Plata Mining Company; and Consulting Engineer for the Torres Mines. In 1912, he went to Rhodesia, South Africa, where, for two years, he was Manager of the Lonely Reef Gold Mining Company, and Consulting Metallurgist for the Rhodesia Mining and Investment Company.

In 1915, he accepted a position as General Manager of the San Juan Mines, in Argentina, South America. While in that country, he did a great deal of work on the application of hydrometallurgical methods of nitrate recovery. Returning to New York City, he engaged in private consulting work for the Penyon Syndicate, duPont interests, and others.

Mr. Allen is the author of, “Mill and Cyanide Handbook,” “Handbook of Ore
Dressing,” “Recovery of Nitrate from Chilean Caliche,” and others.
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Lieut. Charles W. Ambler, Jr., former Assistant Testing Engineer, for the smelter of United Verde Extension Mining Company, at Clemenceau, Arizona, is at Silver City, New Mexico, in charge of the CCC Camp there.
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E. R. Stanley, of Reno, Nevada, Engineer in Charge, for the Apex Mining Company, Ltd., at Yerington, Nevada, has joined the Apex Petroleum Company, Ltd. His new address is P. O. Box 339, Long Beach, California.
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D. C. Sharpstone, until March 1, in charge of extensive diamond drill prospecting at Mountain City, Nevada, for large Minnesota interests, is now at Auburn, California. He may be reached at the Freeman Hotel.
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E. F. Knotts, of El Paso, Texas, has made application for associate membership in the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. He is the owner and proprietor of the Anita Custom Mill, at Guanacevi, Durango.
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F. W. Bailey, of El Paso, Texas, is employed at the Angangueo Unit, American Smelting and Refining Company, Angangueo, Michoacan, Mexico. Bailey was formerly Mine Superintendent for El Tigre Mining Company, both in Mexico, and in Arizona.
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Thomas S. Carnahan, for many years Consulting Mining Engineer, Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, Brussels, Belgium, has returned to the United States, following the death of Mrs. Carnahan. He is located at 287 South Citrus Avenue, Los Angeles, California.
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George Fansett, mining engineer of the Arizona Bureau of Mines, University of Arizona, Tucson, is being assisted in the classes, in gold mining, which he is giving all over the state, by Nels Anderson, Tucson gold miner, and John Fulton, placer miner, of Prescott.
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Junior membership in A.I.M.E. is requested by Joe Friedkin, Teacher of chemistry, El Paso High School, El Paso, Texas; Edwin E. Hamlyn, Draftsman, El Paso, and by Robert C. Meaders, student Fellow, United States Bureau of Mines, University of Arizona, Tucson.
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D. W. Schmitt, of the Schmitt Bros., who three years ago operated the Emancipation,, and adjacent mines, in Boulder County, Colorado, has returned to Boulder. He may be reached at 1026 Pine Street. Mr. Schmitt has, for the last year, been at Pretty Prairie, Kansas.
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Alfred Tellam has been made President of the Mines Service Company, 2301 Fifteenth Street, Denver, Colorado. This company is in the business of helping the miner to get the most for his money, in mine operation, geology, mill designing, ore testing, and assaying.
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John J. Curzon, formerly Superintendent of the Blame-Republic Mine, at Republic, Washington, has joined the staff of the Jack Waite Mining Company, operating at Duthie, out from Murray, Idaho. Mr. Curzon was, for two years, on the staff at the Premier Mine, in British Columbia.
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G. A. Joslin, mining engineer, 1200 Rives Strong Building, Los Angeles, California, has been in Northern California, since early in March, on consulting work. During the entire month of Februar, he was busy with consulting work in Nevada, and in the northern California field.
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W. B. Mershon, Sr., of Saginaw, Michigan, has been visiting in Douglas and Bisbee, Arizona. Mr. Mershon served for several years as a member of the Board of Directors, of Calumet and Arizona Mining Company, and at present, retains a substantial interest in Phelps Dodge Corporation.
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J. R. Brown, recently with Fresnillo Company, at Zacatecas, Mexico, has accepted the position of Superintendent of Construction, for San Francisco Mines of Mexico, Ltd., San Francisco del Oro, Chihuahua. Mr. Brown previously was Superintendent of the Clarines Unit, for this company.
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Fred C. Conrath, of Los Angeles, will represent the Mine Equipment and Engineering Company, in Arizona, under the name Arizona Mine Equipment and Engineering Company, and will have the exclusive agency for the Spiro concentrator, in the state. He will probably make Prescott his headquarters.
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Charles E. Stewart, oil operator of Texas and Oklahoma, has recently become interested in mining, in Arizona. Years ago, Mr. Stewart was connected with mining in the Western States, and is returning due to attractive new prices for precious metals. His address is 2213 Ramsey Tower, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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Tasker L. Oddie, former United States Senator, from Nevada, has accepted the presidency of the Gold Mining Association of America. The association was formed at San Francisco October 24, 1933. George W. Starr, the first president of the Association, has resigned to devote his full time to private business.
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W. W. Gibson, manufacturer of mining machinery, at 112 Market Street, San Francisco, California, has received a fourth repeat order from the Bulolo Gold Dredging Co., Ltd., New Guinea, for 20 Gibson Impact Amalgamators. Mr. Gibson has just returned from a trip covering Arizona, Nevada, and California, during which he visited the Boulder Dam.
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Charles D. Stark, Jr., is Superintendent of the 60-ton amalgamation-concentration mill, at the New York Mine, at Greenville, California. The mill is one of the projects being carried on by the Yellow Jacket Consolidated Gold Mines, Ltd. Mr. Stark was formerly Manager of the Plumas Eureka Mine, at Johnsville, California, and more recently, of Grass Valley.
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William M. Morrison, for the past two years Superintendent of the Tacoma Smelter, of the American Smelting and Refining Company, has been transferred by that organization, to Baltimore. Morrison is a graduate of Queens College, at Toronto, Canada; a World War veteran, and in his new capacity, will be Superintendent of one of the largest refining plants in the world.
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Edward K. Pryor, metallurgist, formerly on the staff of Miami Copper Company, is now Mill Superintendent for the Humbug Gold Mines, Inc., at Hot Spring, Arizona. Mr. Pryor is a graduate of the University of Arizona, and was a Fellow at the United States Bureau of Mines, University of Arizona, making a special study of the oxidation of iron solutions in open drainage, and in percolation leaching.
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The Mineralogical Society of Southern California, met at the Pasadena Public Library, on March 12, at 7.30 p. m. Dr. Frederick C. Leonard, Chairman of the Department of Astronomy, of the University of California at Los Angeles, was the speaker of the evening. His subject was, “Visitors from Cosmic Space.” Dr. Leonard is President of the Society for Research on Meteorites.
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Luis R. Avitia, of Calle Serdan No. 85, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, is now living on his ranch, at Rebeico, Sonora, in order to direct his mining activities in that district. He is the owner of La Dicha Mine, which he is planning to explore. This mine is situated in a very picturesque section of the state, with abundant timber and water. Senor Avitia also owns the San Timoteo Mine, at Uruachic, Chihuahua, a gold-silver property, and the Santa Edwiges graphite mine.
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Charles Carlson, and Robert Banovich, won the hard rock drilling contest at Idaho, California, March 18. The problem was to drill through five and a half feet of solid granite, in the shortest time, which they accomplished in five minutes and 38 seconds. Samuel Vaughn, and P. F. Milendere, won second place, in five minutes and 42 seconds. O. C. Peterson, and George Bynum, won third place, in five minutes and 53 seconds. Prizes were $500, $300 and $200, respectively.
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W. R. Swicegood, mine operator, is returning to his home at Challis, Idaho, from San Jose, California, where he has spent the winter. Accompanying him, is W. B. Swigert, another Challis man, who has spent the winter with Swicegood, in the southern city. With C. E. Boge, these men are associated in a lease on the Ramshorn Mine, at Bayhorse, and have had men blocking out ore all winter. Milling is to begin as soon as the snow is off the ground. The ore is lead-copper, and runs very high in silver.
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H. L. Tedrow, mining engineer, has become Superintendent of the London Gold Mine, at Alma, Colorado. He will succeed S. J. Gateley, who resigned because of other business connections. The appointment is effective April 1. From 1928 to 1929, Mr. Tedrow supervised the production of big gold, silver, lead, and zinc mines, at Breckenridge, and later directed work in mines at Silverton, Colorado. In 1930, he went to Russia as consultant for the Soviet Government, and supervised operations of large copper, gold, silver, and lead mines, in the Ural Mountains. He has also spent some time in mining in Arizona, New Mexico, California, and Old Mexico.
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The following have become members of the A. I. M. E.:
Gilbert Erby Campbell, of Southgate, California, assistant to S. E. Chaney, Glen Feliz, Los Angeles, on mine examinations, for Colnevar Mining Corporation of Los Angeles.
J. A. Herdlick, General Superintendent, for the Cornucopia Gold Mines.
H. E. Lee, Research Metallurgist, Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company, at Kellogg, Idaho.
Arthur B. Campbell, General Manager, and member of the Board of Directors of the Keystone Divide Mining Co., Grass Valley, California.
Oscar Arthur Glaeser, Safety Engineer, for the State Compensation Insurance Fund, San Francisco, California.
Charles A. R. Lambly, since 1930, General Superintendent of the Pend Oreille Mines and Metals Company, at Metaline Falls, Washington.
Clyde H. Wilson, mining engineer for the International Geophysical Co., Ltd., 3520 Shaefer Street, Culver City, California.
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ENGINEER RECEIVES PATENT ON NEW TYPE OF DAM DESIGN

Charles C. Tillotson, engineer of Phoenix, Arizona, has been granted a patent, by the United States Government, for a new type of arched dam, which he has designed. He claims this construction will eliminate cracking, caused by drying out of concrete, from low temperature, or from expansion due to heat or moisture, or from compression of the dam by the load of water above it.

Officially the invention is described as follows:
“In an arched dam, a series of spaced abutments, each having a cylindrical socket in its upstream end, arches spanning adjacent abutments having cylindrical sockets in their ends and cylindrical hinge elements engaging the adjacent sockets of the abutments and arches.”

According to Mr. Tillotson, the safety of dams can be materially increased by prevention of cracking, and the cost of construction can be greatly reduced by more scientific use of materials.

Tillotson has many friends among the mining fraternity, due to his long connection with United Verde Copper Company, as Electrical Engineer for the smelter, at Clarkdale, Arizona, and with Phelps Dodge Corporation, in charge of electrical design, at the Warren Concentrator. He also served for eight years in the Engineering Department, of Montana Power Company, at Butte, Montana. He is a graduate of the University of Kansas, a member of the American Association of Engineers, and of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
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CALIFORNIA GOLD PRODUCERS DRAW UP CODE UNDER NRA

A meeting of the Gold Producers of California, was held in San Francisco, Friday, March 16, under the direction of the California Metal and Mineral Producers Association, to consider a code for the gold mining industry. It was called as a result of a telegram from K. M. Simpson, Division Administrator, of the National Recovery Administration, asking for a code for the gold-producing industry, by a substantial majority of the producers.

In attendance at the meeting, were representatives of the leading gold operations of the country, including Alaska-Juneau, Empire Star, and others. The code drawn up is expected to form the basis for drafting a national code at the New York City meeting of the country’s gold producers, on or about April 16. Members of the California committee to meet with representatives of gold producers from other states and territories at the New York meeting are: F. C. Van Deines, Vice-President of Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields; E. C. Hutchinson, President, Kennedy Mining and Milling Company; J. T. Smith, President of the Argonaut Mining Company; Errol MacBoyle, Manager of the Idaho-Maryland Mines Company, and Charles Segerstrom, of the Carson Hill Gold Mining Company.

Briefly, the proposed code asks for the employment of additional labor in the search for new deposits, and the extensions of existing deposits, and the mining of so-called “marginal” ores; a 48-hour week for mine labor, as essential to co-ordinated maintenance and production, in view of the number of men who must be continuously at work in keeping the mines unwatered, repairing timbers, operating dredges, mills, cyanide plants, etc.; minimum wages for surface and underground labor, for mills and other reduction plants, office and salaried employees.
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COLORADO MINING MEN STRESS NEED OF FEDERAL HELP

Colorado metal mine operators, and kindred state and district organizations, have joined in a formal request that the federal government loan the petitioning interests approximately $4,000,000, to finance the driving of a deep drainage tunnel in the Cripple Creek District, and a similar tunnel in the Leadville District. The proposed Cripple Creek Tunnel, according to survey, would be five miles long, and cost approximately $1,500,000. The length of the Leadville Tunnel would be seven miles, and cost an estimated $2,500,000.

Reporting on the present status of these major projects, Robert S. Palmer, Secretary of the Colorado Mining Association, and of the Colorado Metal Mining Fund, stated, “The Colorado Mining Association and subsidiary agencies have unanimously endorsed the Cripple Creek and Leadville drainage tunnel projects. These should not be construed as strictly mining projects, as they will be supported by a levy on the property of the district, and the indebtedness will be paid in the form of a tax, as well as a royalty, on ore produced below the present water level.

“The first ruling from Washington was slightly misunderstood and was quickly corrected by Vincent Miles, Regional Director, who stated that mining projects, properly secured, would be given the same consideration as other projects of a public nature. The state legislature endorsed these projects, and in vested mining, with a ‘public interest.’

“This attitude has been confirmed by the supreme courts of the Western States, as well as the U. S. Supreme Court itself. At the instance of the mining men of Colorado, the Governor has asked a direct ruling relative to aid for mining from PWA. Before the appeal was sent, however, Secretary Ickes advised Senator Costigan that if the mine drainage district law was valid there would be no doubt as to the two projects coming within the scope of the act. Thus, as soon as the legality is determined, the exact status of the two projects will be decided.”

John T. Joyce, Commissioner of Mines, for Colorado, and who is making a careful study of proposed aid for various mining projects, when interviewed said, “I note that the Gold Mining Association of America, now headed by Tasker L. Oddie, is urging the federal government to allocate $100,000,000 to promote rehabilitation of the nation’s metal mining industry; also, that the Mining Association of the Southwest, at Los Angeles, has made a similar plea. Both propositions are logically sound and the requested appropriation should be made without unnecessary delay, and I believe will be.

“Assuming that any agency of the government supplies $100,000,000 to aid the metal mining industry of 12 Western states, based largely upon the expansion of gold-silver operations, Colorado occupies a most favorable position. Briefly, Colorado can use to economic advantage $10,000,000 of federal funds, to further its output of the two money metals, divided thus: $4,000,000 for drainage tunnels, $4,000,000 for modern reduction plants, $1,500,000 for retaining dams, and $500,000 for placer mining projects.

“Colorado placer mines have yielded more than $30,000,000, and with proper equipment to work thousands of acres of practically virgin placer ground, the total yield of former years would be far exceeded.

“All operators admit that the state lacks facilities to cheaply treat its millions of tons of medium and low-grade complex ores, hence the urgent need of, say two, up-to-date smelters, and a number of strictly modern concentrating mills.”
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SAN DIEGO COUNTY GOLD MINES JOIN GOLD MINING REVIVAL

A decided revival of interest in gold mining is manifesting itself in the Banner-Julian District, of San Diego County, California. E. P. Barclay, mining engineer, associated with Keith Scott and Ray Campbell, of Los Angeles, has consolidated the North and South Hubbard Mines, Ready Relief, Redman, and Hidden Treasure Mines, at Banner. At present, 25 men are employed, and regular shipments of gold are being sent to the mill, and of concentrates to the smelter. A winze is being sunk through ore, and the ore hauled out through drifts and tunnels, and railed along the mountainside, to the mill. There it is put through a simple concentration, and amalgamation process. Thus, development is self-sustaining. A new camp and mill are being planned.

Sidney Dodge, of Julian, has leased the Eagle Mine, from A. P. Frary, and his flotation plant is under construction. Five stamps have been installed.

South of Julian, the old Harper property is being reopened. It is said that a two-stamp mill paid for all development work that has been done on this mine. It is at present owned by Sarah Harper.

High-grade ore is being milled on the Quayle property in the Laguna District, and owned by the Quayle Bros., with offices in the Spreckles Theatre Building, in the city of San Diego. Two shifts are employed. Some of the ore is said to run as high as $5,000 a ton.

The Noble mines, also in the Laguna District, are said to have been taken over by Colorado men. Several men are working on the old Ellis Mine, in the Laguna District, getting milling machinery in condition. Ore running as high as $75 a ton, is reported being mined from the 300-foot Level.

According to J. B Current, 4802 Utah Street, San Diego, this summer will see a mill built on the Melba Mining Company’s property in the Laguna District. Mr. Current is Manager of Operations. The property includes ten claims, of which a portion is patented.

Charles Keiser, 431 Twelfth Street, San Diego, is arranging for the development of his extensive holdings in the Laguna District. He is one of the largest single mine owners on the Pacific Coast, and has properties in both the U. S., and in Mexico.
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WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE BROUGHT BY HAAS TO NEW MILL POSITION

With the re-opening of the Presidio Mine, of American Metal Company, after a shutdown of more than three years, a number of new men have joined the company’s organization. Among them is M. C. Haas, who will serve as Mill Superintendent. He brings to his position a wealth of experience, gained in four different countries.

Immediately upon his graduation, in 1924, from the South Dakota State School of Mines, with a B. S. degree in metallurgy, he joined the International Smelting Company,at its Tooele, Utah, Division. There, he served as Junior Metallurgist working in the ore-dressing laboratory, where all research work problems were handled. This included gravity and flotation concentration, and cyanidation testing. At the end of one year, he was promoted to assist the Superintendent of Concentration, having charge of the Ore Dressing Laboratory. The following year, he acted as Concentrator Metallurgist, with full responsibility for metallurgical results from the company’s 1,000-ton selective lead-zinc-iron custom flotation mill.

In 1927, he joined the Spokane Silver and Lead Company, at Custer, South Dakota, as Mill Superintendent, for a 100-ton lead-silver flotation mill, leaving there, to accept a position as Flotation Superintendent, with the Treadwell Yukon Company, Bradley, Ontario. During this period, there was constructed a 250-ton mill to serve as a pilot mill, to develop a treatment method, and to determine the type of equipment that could be adapted to best advantage, in a subsequent large tonnage plant. This ore was a low-grade copper-lead-zinc, of a highly complex character, from which were produced selective concentrates of each of the minerals mentioned.

The next year and one-half, were spent with the American Smelting and Refining Company, in Mexico. His first work was at the company Angangueo Unit, in Michoacan, where he supervised the construction work necessary for the revision of the existing gravity mill, into a selective flotation concentrator. After the completion of this, he took up the duties of Concentrator Metallurgist, and had charge of all testing work for the Southern Mexico Division. This necessitated extensive research along the lines of roasting, followed by cyanidation of the calcines, as a method of recovering the silver from its concentrates, in an attempt to eliminate freight, and smelter charges.

For two years, May 1930 to May 1932, Haas acted as Consultant for the Soviet Government, in the revision and operation of two gravity concentrators, treating tungsten ore, did consulting work on copper-zinc properties, and had personal charge of a 600-ton cyanide plant treating gold ore. His duties included the instruction of the workers and mechanics, as to the proper operation and maintenance of all milling equipment (all of which was modern American equipment), and the instruction of the technical staff as to their duties in the operation of such a plant.

Because of the possible advantages offered by introducing flotation, as a method of increasing the ratio of concentration of the material to be treated by cyanidation, and the results of preliminary test work on a number of local ores, he was given a special commission to go to the government laboratories, at Moscow, to continue work along that line. He later returned to the property, and installed a 75-ton pilot mill, to serve as a test unit for treatment of the different ores from that district, to determine their amenability to the amalgamation-flotation process, followed by the cyanidation of flotation concentrates. As a result of the successful completion of this work, plans were made to introduce that method of treatment.

Haas returned to the United States, in 1932, and since that time, has been located at Whitewood, South Dakota, until taking over his new duties at the Presidio Mine, Shafter, Texas.
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WESTERN GOVERNORS PASS RESOLUTION ON COPPER

Although the primary object and thought of the Conference of Western Governors, held in Salt Lake City, on March 12 and 13, was to consider, and make recommendations to Congress, on the silver question, Governor B. B. Moeur, of Arizona, presented a resolution on copper which was unanimously endorsed by the eleven governors in attendance.
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MINING ASSOCIATION HEARS NORRIS OF CORPORATION DEPT.

At the March meeting, of the Mining Association of the Southwest, Byron Norris, Engineer of the California Department of Corporations, assured members that the department does encourage the development of mines. He further stated that of recent mining permits issued over 80 percent were for the purpose of procuring capital for prospecting, or developing, mines.

Norris described in detail, the engineering requirements for qualifying mining enterprises, before the department. The chief essential, he said, is a report from a mining engineer who has visited the property for which the capital is sought. Reports should be accompanied by location maps, details of geology, lists of samples and assays, assay maps, particulars of purchase contracts, and measurements of any development work done. All of these particulars are not required from mere prospects or surface showings, for which a limited amount of development capital is sought. When permission is sought for raising capital to erect a mill, the amount of ore developed, its value and an estimate of working costs must be given.

The Association discussed the possibility of holding a mining exposition in August, in connection with Los Angeles Market Week. Announcement was also made of a series of new classes in mine administration, and elementary gold mining, to be started at the University of Southern California, April 2, 1934.
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DECEASED

Lee Burklin, old time mining man and prospector, died at the Martin Nursing Home at Caliente, Nevada, following a prolonged attack of stomach trouble. He was born at New Windsor, Illinois.
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P. T. Vail, Chief Chemist, for the Hayden Smelter, American Smelting and Refining Company, Hayden, Arizona, died on March 5, after an illness of two weeks. Vail joined the Hayden staff,16 years ago, coming from Kansas City.
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George MacBoyle, passed away at the home of his son, Errol, at Grass Valley, California, the morning of February 28. Errol MacBoyle is General Manager, of the Idaho-Maryland Mines Company, at Grass Valley. Another son, Joseph, resides at Banning, California.
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George J. Carr, for many years, prominent in dredging operations in the Western States, passed away, at Avon, Montana. Mr. Carr was native of Oroville, California, but for several months had been Superintending the construction of a large dredge, for the Yuba Gold Fields, at Avon. He was 60 years of age.
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Edward M. Sparhawk, since 1901, Manager of Sales, for the United States Steel Corporation, at Denver, Colorado, passed away. He was a native of Philadelphia, coming to Denver, with the Carnegie Steel Company, about 44 years ago. Mr. Sparhawk was an Episcopalian, Rotarian, and member of the Denver Athletic Club.
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Augustine M. Starrett died at his home in Seattle, Washington. Mr. Starrett went to Alaska in 1896, and played an important part in the Gold Rush. He was one of the very first to fight his way over Chllkoot Pass, between Skagway and Dyea. He has been a resident of Seattle, since 1900, and at the time of his death, he was Treasurer of the Alaska-Yukon Pioneers.
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Harry L. McCarn died at the home of his mother, in San Diego, California, on March 14. He had been ill the greater part of the last year. McCarn came to Arizona, from Denver, a number of years ago, operating the Planet Mine, and later the Rainbow and Dardanelles Amalgamated. During that period, he maintained his headquarters at Chloride, and Kingman, Arizona.

[Rehab notes: The Rainbow Mine is situated high on the side of a mountain, probably 3 miles straight line East of Chloride. Easiest modern access is by way of Windy Point Campground, via the Old road to Chloride. As the road forks continuously, just keep to the right, and you eventually wind up at the site of a massive ruin with old mine timbers typically 10-12 inches square and some to 16-18 inches square.

There is extensive high grade (by modern standards) on the dump, though a lot of the ore has a sulphide streak throughout, yet the gold and silver combination is brassy looking, lending one to mistake it for fool’s gold. On one hike to the site with a church group, I found a nice boulder and broke it up so that everyone could have a piece; some of which kept theirs; others, not. In the small fragment (about 3-4 inches in diameter) that I kept, I got out over 1 ounce of gold after crushing it and panning it out. I took it to church and showed it to the brethren; some who were happy they kept their piece; other dismayed they did not.

This isn’t a place to go without a good 4x4, as the road is best taken from top to bottom, instead of the other way around. Scenic, lots of old mines, Chloride produced a wide variety of minerals (specific in one mine, different in another), and specimen crystals and such.

It’s a wonder the Canadians haven’t arrived there, being some of the most tenacious mine developers on the planet (given as a positive compliment).]
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Richard L. Colburn, mining broker, of San Francisco, and widely known in mining circles in the west, died at his home in Los Altos, California. Mr. Colburn was a charter member of the Salt Lake Stock Exchange, and since 1910, a member of the San Francisco Mining Exchange. He was a pioneer of the Goldfield District in Nevada, and at one time, a partner in the famed Gold Top Mine.
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Carl F. Schader, graduate mining engineer, and member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, met his death in an auto accident, at Palo Verde, Arizona, on March 8. Schader was returning to his Phoenix headquarters from California, when the accident occurred. For the last few years, he has engaged in real estate activities.
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One of Grant County’s best known pioneer mining men, Robert Lafranz, died at his home, in Central, New Mexico, March 16, following a long illness. He mined at Leadville and Cripple Creek, during the boom days, later going to Humboldt County, California. In 1894, he located at Central, as Superintendent of the old Texas Mine. He also had charge of the Philadelphia Mining Company, and the development of the San Jose.
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Frank P. Cavanah, mining man of Boise, Idaho, died in a local hospital. He was born in the South, came to Idaho in his youth, and entered mining. His work took him to most of the leading mining fields in the Western States, and into Mexico. Mr. Cavanah was, for a number of years, employed in the U. S. Assay Office, at Boise, and for a number of years, was Engineer for the Delamar Mining Company, and others, in Idaho. During recent years, his work brought him in contact with some of the large copper interests of Arizona.
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Homer O’Connell, for 30 years, a resident of Tonopah, Nevada, and active in mining there, was shot to death in a Reno barroom. Gerald Casey, a prospector, shot him on an old grudge. Mr. O’Connell was born in Nebraska. He came to Tonopah when the camp was booming, and got work as a Shift Boss at the Tonopah Mining Company’s Mizpah Mine. Later, he became Foreman of the West End Mine, and later, of the company’s Mabel Mine, at Garfield. Just before his death, he had arranged for a lease in the West End Mine, and was preparing to start work.
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DR. THOMAS B. BRIGHTON

Dr. Thomas B. Brighton, Professor of Metallurgy, at the University of Utah, passed away, March 5. He had been ill with pneumonia, less than a week.

Dr. Brighton was born in Salt Lake City, in 1887. He received his B. S. from the University of Utah, in 1918, and his M. S. and Ph. D. degrees, from the University of California, in 1916 and 1917, respectively. He began work as a weigher, in the Highland Boy Smelter, at Murray, and in three years, worked up to the position as Chief Chemist. For one year, he was in charge of the chemical laboratories of the Utah Copper Company.

Dr. Brighton was a member of the American Chemical Society, the A. A. A. S., Utah Academy of Science, and the A. I. M. E. He was a member of many honorary
fraternities.
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FRANK J. McGANNEY

Frank J. McGanney, former Manager of the Salt Lake territory of the Hercules Powder Company, died suddenly of heart failure, at Salt Lake City, Utah, on March 12. He had been associated with the explosives industry from March 1, 1897, until his retirement from business, in March, 1931.

Mr. McGanney was born in Yuba County, California. He studied at the Sacramento Institute, and at St. Mary’s College in Oakland. His first business venture was hydraulic mining.

In 1897, he became a salesman for the California Powder Company, and later represented the duPont Company, in Mexico City, Japan, China, and Manila. When the Hercules Powder Company was organized, he was placed in charge of sales, in the Salt Lake District.
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THE MINING JOURNAL for APRIL 30, 1935

Mining Men and Their Activities

About men who are well known and prominent in the mining circles of the Western States.

H. O. Howard, Auburn mine operator, has been examining gravel properties in the vicinity of Redding, California.
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Tom Burke has been promoted as Mill Superintendent, for the Beebe Gold Mining Company, at Georgetown, California.
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Milner Hawkins, engineer and geologist, has moved to Redondo Beach, California. He had been at San Dimas, California.
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Charles A. Rose has returned from a trip ‘round the world. He is making headquarters at Hotel Embassy, San Diego, California.
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Guy H. Hague, for some time active in Southwest mining, has gone to the Philippines. He is with the Suyoc Consolidated Mining Company at Baguio.
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Milburn R. Gregory, of Tonopah, Nevada, is stated to have good showings in his claims at Sand Springs, about 18 miles southwest of Goldpoint, Nevada.
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Winton C. Clark, and Albert C. Clark, began shipments of ore to the Ohio Mill, from their property at Gold Mountain, in Esmeralda County, Nevada.
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L. S. Overpeck, mining engineer, has returned to his home at 340 Carroll Park Street, Long Beach. He had been at the Bellview Mine, at Sonora, California.
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Roswell Prouty, mining engineer and geologist, has moved from 907 National City Bank Building, Los Angeles, California, to 1205 Pacific National Building.
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Miles S. Milward, until recently with the Milkmaid Mine, at French Gulch, California, has joined the staff of Cia. Minera Los Reyes, Nacozari, Sonora, Mexico.
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Geo. A. Brigge, former Mine Foreman, for Tajo Mines, Rosario, Sinaloa, is a patient at the Helen Lee Sanatorium, 2725 East Thomas Road, Phoenix, Arizona.
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H. W. Evans, General Superintendent of the Balatoc and Benguet Consolidated mining companies, in the Philippine Islands, has been visiting friends in El Paso, Texas.
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Philip E. Doerr, a graduate of Colorado School of Mines, Class of 1927, has joined the Smelter Department staff, of Asarco Mining Co., Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico.
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Cecil R. Walbridge, 1515 Baseline, Boulder, Colorado, is assayer for the Slide Mines, Inc. Walbridge was graduated from the Colorado School of Mines with the Class of ‘29.
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W. A. Wilson, University Club, 136 East South Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, recently returned from the East, where he stopped at New York, Washington, and St. Louis.
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F. H. “Bert” Walker, for several years, active in affairs of the San Francisco Mining Exchange, has been elected to the presidency. He succeeds the late A. F. Coffin.
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G. Townsend Harley, geologist with New Mexico Bureau of Mines, Socorro, New Mexico, has been elected to membership in the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America.
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Silas M. Kobey has accepted the position of Mill Metallurgist, for American Smelting and Refining Company, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico. His address is Apartado 63.
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FRANK M. SMITH RETIRES AS BUNKER HILL SMELTER DIRECTOR

Frank M. Smith, for many years, Smelter Director of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining & Concentrating Company, has announced his retirement from that position. Smith became Assistant Smelter Director for this concern, in 1919, and the following year, was made Director. Prior to this, he had been connected in the same capacity with the American Smelting & Refining Company, at East Helena.

After Smith had been graduated from the Columbia School of Mines, in 1889, and had served a year with the U. S. Geological Survey, he went to Pueblo, Colorado, where he was employed as Assayer, and Assistant Superintendent of the Colorado Smelting Company, until 1893, when he joined the staff of the U. S. Smelting, Refining & Mining, at Great Falls, Montana. In 1901, he became Assistant Manager, Utah Department, American Smelting & Refining Company; being made Smelter Director of the East Helena plant, in 1905.

Smith was Vice-President of the Northwest Lead Company, in Seattle, from 1920, to 1930, at which time he was elected President, an office he has held since. It was also in 1930, that he was madeMmetallurgical Engineer for the Treadwell Yukon Company, of San Francisco.

He is a member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, Northwest Mining Association, and numerous other clubs and associations.

It is understood that the Bunker Hill Company has decided not to fill the position of Smelter Director at this time, due to the conditions of the lead industry. Smith, however, will be retained by the company in an advisory capacity, and will continue his residence in Spokane.
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Henry McCarthy, of Pueblo, Colorado, was elected President of the Big Ten Mines, Inc., which owns the Corsair, and other claims, in the Creede Mining District of Colorado.
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Amado Chapa, former engineer for Cia. Minera y Molinera de la Baja California at Ensenada, is now a member of the staff of Cia. de Real del Monte y Pachuca, Pachuca, Hidalgo.
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Morton Macartney, of Washington, D. C., Chief Engineer, of the Division of self-liquidating loans, on gold and silver mines, being made by the RFC, was in San Francisco recently.
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Virgil E. Reedy, is in charge of mining at the Big Gold property, at Randsburg, California. The mine is being operated under a 20-year lease, to Patrick Spillane, veteran mine operator.
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C. W. Fleming, of Silverton, Colorado, is in charge of operations, at the Pride of the West Mine, an old time producer, which is now being operated by A. W. Harrison and associates.
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I. M. Charles, formerly an officer in the firm of Douglass, Corey & Fisk, Inc., at Trinidad, Colorado, has moved to Walsenburg, and established the engineering offices of Fisk & Charles.
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O. W. Willey, of Georgetown, Colorado, has taken a lease on the Blair Mine, on Leavenworth Mountain, Clear Creek County, Colorado, and is said to be putting the mine in shape for operation.
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J. L. Cadogan, General Manager of Compania Minera El Potrero, S. A., has returned to Mocorito, Sinaloa, Mexico, to resume his duties, following an extended stay in a Los Angeles hospital.
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Harley A. Sill, consulting engineer of 1011 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, has just completed an examination of the Kane Mine, near Chloride, Arizona, and outlined a development program.
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A. Lee Almy is employed as Chief Chemist and Metallurgist, at the mill of Peru Mining Company, Deming, New Mexico. Almy was a graduate of the New Mexico School of Mines, Class of ‘29.
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Fred B. Wilder, mining engineer with the Arnold Exploration Company, Ltd., 812 Subway Terminal Building, Los Angeles, has made a trip to the old town of Harrington, in Yavapai County, Arizona.
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A. W. Fahrenwald, Professor of Metallurgy and Ore Dressing, at the School of Mines, University of Idaho, Moscow, has been appointed permanent Dean, of the School of Mines, succeeding Dr. Finch.
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W. H. Rowe, who, with H. F. Halley, worked out a gold recovery device, which has been patented, is now in Ashland, Oregon, supervising the manufacture of the machine at the Ashland Iron Works.
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Robert Lenon has rejoined the staff of Phelps Dodge Corporation, at Bisbee, Arizona. Recently he has been Assistant Engineer with the government forces, of the All American Canal, at Yuma, Arizona.
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Robert Hendricks, Superintendent of the Empire Mine, of the Newmont Mining Corporation, at Empire, Ontario, Canada, has spent some time in the Grass Valley-Nevada City area of California, recently.
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S. H. Brady, Reno, Nevada, mining engineer, is the engineer for the newly-incorporated Silver State Mines Company of Nevada. C. D. Terwilliger, of Loyalton, California, is also connected with the company.
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H. J. Horsewill, of Oakland, formerly Research Chemist, for Oliver Filters, has taken a position with the Idaho-Maryland Mines Company, at Grass Valley, California. He will work in the Flotation-Cyanide Division.
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John H. Eggers, mining engineer, 2086 San Jose Street, Alameda, California, has been inspecting the Hanchette Securities properties, in the Silverpeak District, in Nevada. He made the trip with Lewis Hanchette.
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Earl S. Hastings, Jr., has assumed charge of the Pioneer Gold Mining Company, Kingman, Arizona, succeeding J. Carton Bray, General Manager. M. C. Richardson remains as Mine Superintendent, at Chloride.
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Charles B. Kirch, geologist for the Imperial Development Company, operating the Railroad Springs properties, 45 miles south of Goldfield, Nevada is now being addressed at Box 455 Goldfield, instead of Silverpeak.
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V. V. Clark has returned from a placer mine examination, on the Rio Bayano, Republic of Panama. His address is 108 East St. Vram St., Colorado Springs, Colorado. Clark was accompanied to Panama, by C. C. Coulter.
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BALLMER LEAVES NEVADA CONS. TO OPEN CONSULTING OFFICE

Gerald Jacob Ballmer, since 1929, geologist for the China Division, Nevada Consolidated Copper Corporation, at Santa Rita, has opened offices at Bayard, New Mexico, and will engage in the consulting practice. Since his graduation from New Mexico School of Mines, in 1925, with a B. S. degree in geological engineering, Ballmer has been steadily employed at the China Mines, first as engineers helper, then as Assistant Mine Engineer, and finally, as geologist.

His duties with Nevada Consolidated have consisted in general geological work, surface mapping, both topographic and geological. He has been especially interested in petrography and metamorphism.
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Glenn L. Allen, for the last three years, Acting Manager of Peru Mining Company, at Deming, New Mexico, has resigned, to accept a position with Cia. Huanchaca de Bolivia, at Potosi, Bolivia. He sailed from New York, on March 16.
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N. P. Grenfell, who has been associated with a number of mining companies in Mexico, and most recently with Cia. Minera y Beneficiadora de Inde, Cieneguilla, Durango, is now located at 597 Black Street, Silver City, New Mexico.
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J. W. McDonald, is Superintendent of the Slide Mines, Inc., which is developing the Slide and Horsfal properties at Goldhill, Colorado. Joseph H. Rodgers, 1781 Holly Street, Denver, has been Manager of the property, since last spring.
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J. W. Wade, of Salt Lake City, Utah, Vice-President, and General Manager of the Tintic Standard Mining Company, recently inspected the Blue Point Gold Mine, at Smartville, California, which his company has been working the last two years.
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R. W. Senger, Superintendent of the Garfield plant, of A. S. & R., at Garfield, Utah, flew to Chile, in the middle of March, to attend to some business connected with his company. He returned the middle of April, via New York.
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Andy Ruf, of Goldfield, and his partner, Gustav Hailin, report high-grade values in their Santa Fe claims, at Goldpoint. The claims, which adjoin the Ohio Mines Company holdings, will be developed further before true values can be determined.
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W. M. Benham, of Mina, Nevada, recently completed an examination of the old Rileyville Mine, near Unionville, in Pershing County, Nevada, now under lease to Gossi & Hunter, of Rochester. Benham was accompanied by his associate R. E. Reed.
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T. H. Oxnam, of the Southwestern Engineering Company, in Los Angeles, is at Deer Lodge, Montana, where he is supervising the installation of a 100-ton mill at the Emery Mine, which is being operated by George Tweedy, of Deer Lodge, and associates.
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Philip ArgalI, since 1928, Manager of Peru Mining Company, Deming, New Mexico, has resumed active duties after a two-year sickening

leave. During his illness, company activities were directed by Glenn L. Allen, who is now in Bolivia, with Cia. Huanchaca de Bolivia.
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Robert K. Miller, Chief Chemist at the Shenandoah-Dives Mining Company, at Silverton, Colorado, is now with the Santa Barbara Unit, of the American Smelting & Refining Company. He may be addressed c/o Cia. Minera Asarco, Santa Barbara, Chihuahua, Mexico.
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W. M. Plummer has been elected President of Scott Lode Mines, Inc., succeeding G. W. McMillan, who has sold his interest in the company. The Scott Lode claims are located near Quartzsite, Arizona, while company offices are maintained at Blythe, California.
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E. A. Julian, of San Francisco, has been appointed agent for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and will pass on all claims for loans on mining property. Mr. Julian is a widely known mining engineer. At the present time, he is receiver for the Wingfield properties, in Nevada.
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Alan Kissock, mining engineer and Vice-president of Climax Molybdenum Company, 500 Fifth Avenue, New York City, spent several days recently, in Virginia making examination of mineral property. Accompanying him was Marshall Haney, mining engineer of Geer, Virginia.
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Henry M. Thronclsan, well-known mill builder, and operator, of the Northwest, will take charge of milling operations at the Idaho Motherlode Gold Mines, Inc., operating near Murray, Idaho. The company recently announced plans to increase the capacity of the 100-ton mill.
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W. F. Garner, General Manager, Sunset Gold Fields, Inc., Box 561, Silver City, New Mexico, has just made a trip to Prescott, Arizona, investigating the general possibilities of placering there, with an outfit similar to that in use by his company, near Lordsburg, New Mexico.
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Robert W. Olinger, consulting engineer, is directing the development of the Zavaleta Gold Mine, near the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, new financial interests backing the project. Olinger maintains his home at Calle Prado Sur No. 820, Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico, D. F., Mexico.
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W. E. Scott, Jr., is General Superintendent, of the Russell Gulch Mining Company, at Central City, Colorado, which operates the Pittsburgh-Notaway, and other claims. The company’s 200-ton mill, is treating both dump, and newly-mined ore, concentrates going to the Leadville Smelter.
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Leslie K. Goforth, assayer and surveyor, of Silver City, New Mexico, has announced that he will open a branch assay office, at Lordsburg, New Mexico. J. J. Jones, former Chief Chemist, with Chino Mines, Nevada Consolidated Copper Corporation, at Hurley, will be in charge of the branch office.
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Alberto Terrones Benitez, who served one term as Governor of Durango, and who has held important offices with the Federal Government in Mexico City, has opened offices at Calle Tacuba No. 92, Mexico City, for legal consultations and representations, specializing in mining matters.
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Cornelius Murphy, of Reno, Nevada, has leased mining property in the Jamestown District, of Nevada, 85 miles southeast of Goldfield, in Nye County, from Carl Fuetsch, of Reno, and Joe Fuetsch, Goldfield. The ground is said to be opened by a 22-foot shaft, which will be un-watered by the new operator.
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Robert Lora, Metallurgist for the Southwestern Engineering Company, 4800 Santa Fe Avenue, Los Angeles, is at the Eagle Shawmut Mine, at Chinese Camp, California, putting the cyanide plant installed by the lessees, in operation. The plant will treat tailings, accumulated there many years ago.
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S. Power Warren, metallurgical engineer, and for more than ten years, on the staff of the Colorado School of Mines, at Golden, is now associated with the Hughes-Mitchell Processes, Inc., 20201 South Normandie Avenue, Los Angeles, California. His personal address is 209 Gaylord Apts., Torrance, California.
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Hugh R. Van Wagenen, Van Nuys Building, Los Angeles, is in charge of work as consulting engineer, at the Matt Kane Mine and mill, at Manhattan, Nevada, which were recently taken over by a Los Angeles group. Development work is going forward under the superintendence of Harold W. Stotesbury.
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David McMiIlan, of Colville, Washington, was elected President of the newly formed Northeastern Washington Mining Development League, at a recent meeting at Marcus, where 800 leading mining men of the region, participated. The association is attempting to bring about a better understanding, between mine owners and mine operators.
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R. S. Baverstock, chemist and assayer, of 552 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, California, has returned from an extensive professional trip. It included mines at Caborca, Sonora, Mexico; and mines in the Beowawe-Winnemucca District of Nevada. On the latter, he accompanied Canadian capitalists, and Engineer C. M. Hauselman.
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Alfred B. Sabin recently joined Gold-acres, Inc., as Manager, and is now at Beowawe, Nevada. Sabin was formerly Superintendent of the Yellow Aster Mill, at Randsburg, California. At one time, he was Mill Superintendent of the El Tigre Mining Company, in Mexico, and later practiced consulting engineering, with offices at Lander, Wyoming.
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L. T. Gaines, of Los Angeles, California, has joined the staff of the Mountaineer Mining Company, at Vidal, California, as Mill Superintendent, where he will have charge of the new flotation mill. Mr. Gaines is well known through the Southwest. He was formerly flotation man with the Old Dominion, Shattuck Denn, Chino Copper, and the Cananea Consolidated.
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Announcement is made of the resignation of Webb Smith, for 25 years Superintendent for the Kennedy Mining and Milling Company. Ill health was given as the reason for his action. Mr. Smith was a prominent figure in the mining world. He is largely responsible for the Kennedy Mine being one of the leading gold producers in the state. William Sinclair, formerly Foreman at the Kennedy Mine, has been promoted as general superintendent.
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Walter J. Heim, metallurgical chemist and assayer, is now with the Elephant Eagle Mining Company at Mojave, California. Mr. Heim is a graduate of the Lane Technical School of Chicago, and has had many years’ experience in mining in Arizona, Mexico, Nevada and California. He has specialized on cyanidation and flotation problems, and has done some experimental work in the field of hydrometallurgy. His home address is 1420 ½ Mariposa Avenue, Los Angeles.
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Charles Lintecum, Box 405, Tonopah, Nevada, is said to be planning a leaching plant in which to treat the old mill tailings from the Bonanza King Mine, at Lovelock. Lintecum has been milling dump ores from the Coalition, Kindergarten, Fairview, and Florence mines, of the Nevada State Metals, Ltd., and also newly-mined ore from the Signal Peak Mine, under lease to Lester Munn and L. E. Mann. Lintecum’s lease on the mill and dumps expired January 1, 1935.
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C. H. Carmichael, former operator of the Plymouth Mine, in California, and for years, engineer with the Phelps-Dodge Corporation, has been appointed Engineer for the Gold Exploration Mining Company, operating the Blue Point Gold Mine, at Smartville, California. Recently, Mr. Carmichael has been at Grass Valley, associated with C. I. Cook, E. W. Ellis, and A. B. Campbell, in the treatment of the McDonald tailings, on the North Star Mine. He succeeds L. J. Sundeen, who has gone to the Philippines.
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Alexander S. Wyner has accepted the management of the San Juan Ramsey Company operations, at Incline, California. During recent months, he has been touring Nevada, California, and Mexico. The San Juan Ramsey is operating the Ferguson, and Original Mines, owned by the Original Mining and Milling Company. Its home office is Suite 430, 50 Congress Street, Boston. Mr. Wyner is a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines, a member of the American Institute, and in 1928, was Research Metallurgist, for the American Smelting and Refining Company, at its Globe Plant, in Denver.
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A number of important announcements have been made in connection with the Big Horn Mining Company, at Valyermo, California.

David D. Baker, Mining Engineer, for the company, has been appointed Consulting Engineer for the company, and will make his headquarters at 912 Quinby Building, Los Angeles.

George W. Worthington, formerly General Superintendent of the Yellow Pine Company’s operations, at Stibnite, Idaho, has been appointed Superintendent, of the Big Horn.

Oscar H. Hershey, geologist, 924 Crocker Building, San Francisco, has recently made a geologi