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553 October 6, 1928— Engineering and Mining Journal

ABBOT A. HANKS, of San Francisco, has returned from a vacation in Europe.
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FREDERICK G. CLAPP, who has been engaged in professional work in Persia, is in Paris, on his way back to New York.
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FOSTER S. NAETHING, consulting rnining engineer, has moved from Joplin, Mo., to St. Louis, where his address is 709 Skinker Road.
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L. P. van ZYL HAM, formerly Secretary of the South African Public Service Commission, has been appointed Secretary for Mines and Industries of the Union.
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LEON GABRIEL has been appointed manager of the South American Manganese Company, an English company, that will develop properties in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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FREDERICK LAIST, General Metallurgical Manager of Anaconda Copper Mining, is on his way to Kattowitz, Poland, to spend several weeks at the company’s mines there.
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S. L. MCDONALD, formerly with Hollinger Consolidated, has been appointed consulting engineer to the Night Hawk, which operates in the Porcupine area of northern Ontario.
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F. E. MATTHES, of the U. S. Geological Survey, is to undertake a study of the geologic history of the Mississippi River, and its tributaries, with particular regard to the problem of flood control.
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Prof. and Mrs. MARK EHLE have returned to Tucson, Ariz., after a six-month tour through Europe. Professor Ehle will resume his duties at the School of Mines, of the University of Arizona.
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A. J. REEF, mining engineer of the Compañia Real del Monte y Pachuca, at Pachuca, State of Hidalgo, Mexico, was recently in Denver, on his return to Pachuca, from Hawaii, where he spent his vacation.
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MANUAL VILLAFANA, engineer for the Compañia del Boleo, of Santa Rosalía, Lower (Baja) California, Mexico, recently made an examination of the Foster Mines, at Shadow Mountain, San Bernardino County, Calif.
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ARTHUR CROWFOOT, Superintendent of the Concentrating Division, of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, at Morenci, Ariz., was in New York this week, for the meeting of the Safety Congress, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
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MAJOR MAASDORP, formerly with Nourse Mines, is in charge of development at the Forbes Reef, and Ivanhoe mines, in Swaziland. These mines are included in the mineral rights owned by the Swaziland Corporation, Ltd.
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H. SAUNDERS, mine superintendent of the Broken Hills Mine, in Northern Rhodesia, visited the mining districts of Arizona, in the latter part of September. He will leave for Rhodesia, from New York, in the near future.
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S. R. CAPS, GERALD FITZGERALD, P. S. SMITH, and R. H. SARGENT, are among the members of the U. S. Geological Survey who are returning to Washington, after conducting geologic work in Alaska, during the summer.
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ARTHUR B. PARSONS, recently resigned as associate editor of E. & M.J., to become vice-president of the Mineral Research Corporation, 120 Broadway, New York City.
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T. J. GRUPPING arrived in South Africa recently, to take charge of the new diamond-cutting plant which will be built at Kimberley. Mr. Grupping was formerly manager of the Van Dam Plant, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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WILL IRWIN will speak on Oct. 8, at a meeting of all engineering societies, at the auditorium of Engineering Societies Building, in New York City. His address will be followed by a motion picture film, “The Master of Emergencies.”
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Major-General Sir FREDERICK LOOMIS, President of Power & Mines Corporation, Ltd., and R. A. DARWIN, a director of the same company, recently inspected the Grace Mine, in the Michipicoten District, of northern Ontario.
W. E. SIMPSON is consulting engineer of the property.
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B. DUNSTAN, Chief Government Geologist, of Queensland, Australia, is being dispatched by the government of that state, to Germany, to inquire into, and report on geophysical research, generally.

Mr. Dunstan, who is making a special study of this science, has lately accompanied BROUGHTON EDGE, Director of the Imperial Geophysical Experimental Survey, over several parts of Queensland, which is now operating in Australia.
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CURTIS L. WILSON, formerly Associate Professor of Metallurgy, at the Montana State School of Mines, who has been studying in Europe for the last two years, and who received his doctorate at Gottingen, last spring, has returned to the School of Mines, and has been made head of the Department of Metallurgy. Professor Wilson will speak on “Educational and Research Methods in European Universities” on Oct. 8, before the Montana Society of Engineers, at Butte.
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TORGUS H. OAAS, foreman of the Belmont Mine, of Anaconda Copper, has been made Assistant General Superintendent of Mines, for the company, and placed in charge of the Belmont, Anaconda, and St. Lawrence mines.
JOHN NORTON, formerly foreman of the Diamond mine, and recently in charge of the Orphan Girl, has been put in charge of the Belmont.
JOHN DUGAN succeeds Mr. Norton as foreman of the Orphan Girl. All three of these men started with Anaconda as miners.
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OBITUARY

THOMAS N. STANTON died in Oruro, Bolivia, on Aug. 4, after a sudden illness. Mr. Stanton, who was 58 years old, had been Mine Superintendent at Cananea, and Parral, before going to Bolivia about fifteen years ago.
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THEODORE CHARLES ROBERTS died in New York on Sept. 20 at the age of 52. Mr. Roberts was for a time, associated in a consulting capacity with the Guggenheim interests, in Colorado, and the Clark interests, in Arizona. During the World War, he manufactured dye-stuffs and chemicals, and thereafter turned his interests to fields outside of mining.
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LYMAN McEWEN, mill superintendent of the O’Brien Silver Mine, in the Cobalt District of Ontario, died on Sept. 23. Mr. McEwen, who was 41 years old, was a graduate of Queens University, Kingston, Ont. He became associated with the O’Brien interests in 1912. During the war, he served with the Canadian forces overseas. In 1920, he was appointed mill superintendent.
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ROBERT P. ROBERTS, Chief Metallurgist for the Mount Lyell Mining & Railway Company, Queenstown, Tasmania, died suddenly of cerebral hemorrhage, on Tuesday, Sept. 11. Mr. Roberts graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about 1901. He accepted a position in Tasmania twelve years later, resigning from the staff of Anaconda Copper where he was employed as general smelter foreman, at Great Falls, Mont. For 25 years, he had been a member of the A.I.M.E. A widow and five children survive him.
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For FEBRUARY 15, 1931

KIESSLING APPOINTED ECONOMIST UNITED STATE BUREAU OF MINES

Announcement of the appointment of Dr. O. F. Kiessling, as Chief Economist of the Mineral Statistics Division, and of W. W. Adams, as Chief Statistician of the newly created Demographical Division, in the United States Bureau of Mines, is made by Scott Turter, Director of the Bureau.

Dr. Kiessling succeeds Frank J. Katz, deceased, who served as Chief Economist of the Mineral Statistics Division Economics Branch, for many years. Dr. Kiessling is from Jefferson, Wisconsin. Since 1927, he has been a member of the staff of the Economic Branch of the Bureau. He is the author, or joint author, of numerous bureau reports on the economic phases of the mineral industry, and has contributed many articles to the technical and trade press.

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THE MINING JOURNAL 2 28 1931

TWO ARIZONA MINE LEADERS, HONORED BY A. I. M. E. MINING EXCHANGE, ANNOUNCED

In the election of Robert E. Tally as President of the American Institute of
Mining & Metallurgical Engineers, for the year 1931-1932, and, the awarding of the William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal, to F. W. MacLennan, at the 140th meeting of the American Institute, held in New York City, this month, two of Arizona’s outstanding mine leaders were given further national recognition in the mining industry.

Mr. Tally, who succeeds William H. Bassett, the retiring President of the Institute, is Vice-president in Charge of Mining and Metallurgical Operations, of United Verde Copper Company, of Jerome, and Clarkdale, Arizona. Announcement of his nomination for President of the Institute, was made at the El Paso Joint Mining Convention, held in that city, in October. No other nomination was offered.

Mr. Tally has, for many years, been a prominent figure in both national, and state mining organizations, but is probably best known for his long and active association with United Verde, which organization he has served all the way from Timberman, to General Manager, and President, previous to his present position in the company. He has been President of the American Mining Congress since 1928.

H. A. Guess, Vice-president of the American Smelting & Refining Company, New York City, and Howard N. Eavenson, Consulting Mining Engineer, of Pittsburgh, were elected Vice-presidents of the American Institute, at this meeting. Louis S. Cates, President of Phelps Dodge Corporation; Karl Eilers, Metallurgist, A. S. and R., of New York City; S. R. Elliott, General Superintendent of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, Ishpeming, Michigan; H. G. Moulton, Consulting Mining Engineer, of New York; and William Wraith of Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company, New York, were elected Directors of the organization.

It was in recognition of Mr. MacLennan’s most remarkable and outstanding service to the mining industry, in the establishment of a record for profitable production in the low-grade copper fields, that he was awarded the William Lawrence Saunders Medal. By successful mining of the low-grade ore body, of Miami Copper Company, of which he is General Manager at Miami, Arizona, Mr. MacLennan brought the lowest grade ore heretofore mined, to production on a commercial basis. The selection of Mr. MacLennan as the 1931 recipient of the Saunders Medal, was made by the unanimous choice of the Mining Medal Committee of 15 members. Last year, the institute presented the Saunders Medal to D. C. Jackling, and in 1929, to John Hays Hammond. The award was made to Herbert Hoover, in 1928, and to David William Brunton, in 1927.

Also, at this meeting of the institute, William H. Peirce, President of the Baltimore Copper Smelting & Rolling Co., of Baltimore, was presented with the James Douglas Medal, for his numerous improvements in devices for smelting, refining, and rolling copper. Mr. Peirce is also President of the Peirce-Smith Converter Company, and a Vice-president of the American Smelting & Refining Company.

Studies in cast iron, tungsten, thorium and transformation of austenite, brought to Edmund S. Davenport, of Kearney, New Jersey, the Robert W. Hunt Award. Mr. Davenport is Metallurgist in the Research Laboratory of the United States Steel Corporation.
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MINING EXCHANGE ANNOUNCED WITH OFFICES AT ALBUQUERQUE

Announcement, has been made of the organization of the International Mining Exchange, with headquarters in the Occidental Building, Albuquerque, New Mexico. This new organization is stated to be the direct southwestern representative of the New York Mining Exchange, and has connections with certain responsible distributing houses, which will make an outlet for southwestern mining securities.

The new organization has been formed under the direction of Raymond A. Chase, of the Chase Mines, Inc., Prescott, Arizona, who has had extensive experience in this type of work, and splendid Eastern contacts. Associated with him, is J. E. Russell, corporation attorney, who has spent some thirty years in mining corporation legal practice.

The function of the new organization is to bring the mine owner in contact with capital, yet to provide a sifting process, whereby the organization can back every company, which they are willing to have underwritten by their eastern connections.

The new organization is planned to consist of a group of experts [:anyone from out of town], geologists, mining engineers, geophysicists, attorney, operating experts, and others, who will be able to present to Eastern clients, any proposition in full detail, and backed by expert opinion.
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MINES CLEARING HOUSE ESTABLISHED AT BOISE

A mines clearing house has been opened in Boise, Idaho, by F. E. Johnesse, a former U. S. Mineral Examiner, and W. G. Huseman, a mining engineer from the Couer d’Alenes. The purpose of the clearing house is to act as exchanging agent for those having properties to sell, and those wishing to buy properties. The name of the concern is the Western Mines Agency, and they will do general mining engineering, in connection with the clearing business. No charge is made for properties accepted for listing. In the event of a sale on that property, a commission is deducted from the purchase price. Each week or ten days a mimeographed sheet of the listed properties is sent to prospective buyers.
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744 ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL Vol.123, No.18

PEOPLE YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

R. D. Leisk has returned to New York from Bolivia.
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Charles A. Mitke is in Pennsylvania on professional business.
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J. Allen Woodburn, mining engineer, with Mrs. Woodburn, left South Africa, on March 15, for England.
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Carl O. Lindberg sailed from New York, on April 30, for Buenos Aires, to remain two or three months.
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Carl Knutson has returned to Douglas, Ariz., after six months in various South American countries.
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George W. Lambourne- president and general manager of the Park Utah Consolidated Mines Co., is in California.
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Dr. J. Mackintosh Bell, managing director of the Vipond Consolidated, of Porcupine [CANADA], has returned from a visit to Europe.
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James W. Wade, assistant general manager of the Tintic Standard Mining Co., at Eureka, Utah, visited Washington, D. C., recently on business.
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J. C. Jensen, a director of the Continental Divide Development Co., of Denver, has left Salt Lake City, to take charge of operations at Aspen, Colo.
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E. J. Raddatz, president and general manager of the Tintic Standard Mining Co., has returned to Salt Lake City, from a month’s vacation at La Jolla, Calif.
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Van Court Warren, consulting geologist and valuation engineer, has established his office at 1025 Los Angeles Stock Exchange Building, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Philip Lawrence Foster, not “Philip Lawrence,” as announced, was recently appointed a director of the board of the Exploration Company Limited, of London.
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W. R. Knox has been appointed to take charge of operations at Atlas, Churchill, and Algonquin properties, in the West Shining Tree area, of northern Ontario.
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H. W. Hardinge, president of the Hardinge Company, sailed from New York April 16 for Europe. He will be absent some six or eight weeks on foreign business.
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Hamilton M. Brush, vice-president and sales manager of the American Smelting & Refining Co., sailed for Italy on April 15. He is expected to return in June.
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Lucien Eaton, manager of the mining department of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., visited the Utah Copper mine, at Bingham, Utah, recently to study. steam-shovel methods.
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Louis Hirshler, president of the Hirshler Metals Co., and consulting engineer for the S. A. de la Vieille Montagne, Chénée, Belgium, sailed for Europe with Mrs. Hirshler on April 30.
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Fred Marston sailed from New York, on April 20 for London and Greece. He has formed a connection with the Campagne Francaise des Mines du Laurium, Laurium, Ergasteria, Greece.
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William Allen Smith, who is installing a refining plant for the National Lead Co. at its smelter in Buenos Aires, and who has been in the United States for a brief visit, sailed again for South America, on April 21. Mr. Smith expects to be in Buenos Aires until the middle of August, when he will go to England for the month of September, returning to New York in the fall. Mr. Smith was formerly manager of the smelting department of the St. Joseph Lead Co. and has done extensive metallurgical work for the Metallurgical and Chemical Corporation (the Harris process) at Matawan, N. J., for the Balbach Smelting & Refining Co. at Newark, N. J., and at other plants.

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N. A. Dunyon, of Salt Lake City, consulting engineer and manager of the Park King and the Park Standard mines, spent the first week of April at the Park City, Utah, properties.
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Prof. Alfred H. White, head of the Research department of the University of Michigan, addressed the senior class of the Michigan College of Mining and Technology at the annual class day exercises at Houghton on April 21.
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Alberta Terrones Benitez, of Mexico City, has been officially notified by the Secretary of Industry, Commerce and Labor of the Mexican Government, of his appointment as a mining expert under the regulations provided in the Law of Mineral Industries.
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Frank Harris McLearn, Dr. Eugene Poitevin, and Thomas Leslie Tanton, all of the Geological Survey of Canada, and Bruce Rose, of Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, have been nominated for election to the Geological Section of the Royal Society of Canada.
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Ernest Clayton Andrews, government geologist of New South Wales, will deliver seven Silliman lectures at Yale University, on “Some Problems in General Geology,” in Sterling Chemical Laboratory at 3:15 o’clock in the afternoon, on May 2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13 and 16.
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W. A. RuKeyser, consulting mining engineer, with offices at 342 Madison Ave., New York City, has recently returned from a two months’ trip abroad, where he was engaged primarily in professional business in London. He is leaving immediately for Ontario, where he will be engaged for some time in examining properties in company with a group of Montreal capitalists.
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Obituary

LeRoy Clark, mining engineer and former president of the Safety Cable Co., died at Falmouth, Mass., on April 18. He was fifty-five years old.
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Mrs. Alice Ring Van Hise, widow of Dr. Charles R. Van Hise, geologist, and president of the University of Wisconsin, from 1903 –1918, died in Madison, Wis., on April 10.
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Sir Frederick Moor, last Prime Minister of Natal, died on March 18, at Greystones, near Estcourt, in the Natal. He was born in 1853, near Greytown, and went to Kimberley, and began as a digger there in 1872. He married Miss Moody, a grandaughter of the first Colonial Secretary of Natal. He is survived by Lady Moor, three sons, and three daughters.
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Douglas Lorne McGibbon, a prominent financier and promotor of Montreal, died on April 20, of heart disease, at the age of fifty-seven years. He was closely associated with a number of industrial and commercial enterprises, and had been president of the La Rose Consolidated Mines Co., and a director of the Nipissing Mines Co. Mr. McGibbon took a keen interest in philanthropic and social welfare work. He leaves a widow.
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James Carroll, one of the best-known mine managers of Charters Towers, once the premier gold field of Queensland, Australia, died at that place recently, at the age of seventy years. Mr. Carroll arrived at Charters Towers when only eighteen years old. In mining activities, his principal association was with the Brilliant & St. George United Co., which owned one of the richest gold mines ever worked on the field, and of which he was manager from its inception, till the affairs of the company were liquidated some years ago. During its existence this mine produced 370,0O0 tons of ore, which yielded gold to the value of £1,750,000, and paid dividends amounting to £740,000.
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W. C. Botsford, a well-known geologist of Inspiration, Ariz., met an accidental death on April 10. He was found lying near the front door of his home with his neck broken. It is supposed that he fainted and fell against the door in such a way as to cause the fatal injury. Mr. Botsford was in his fiftieth year. He was a graduate of the Michigan School of Mines in the class of 1900, and was a member of the A.I.M.E. He was at one time manager of the Guanajuato Mining Co., in Mexico, and was driven out during the revolution against Diaz. He later took up geological work and was sent to Chile by the Chile Copper Co. On his return to the United States, he joined the Anaconda geological staff. He came to Miami in 1922, and since then had been with the Inspiration Copper Co. He is survived by his widow.
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November 7, 1925

ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL-PRESS

Men You Should Know About

E. J. Schrader has returned to Reno, from an examination trip into various parts of Idaho.
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George H. Garrey, who has been in San Francisco and Los Angeles, is now in Salt Lake City.
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W. A. Clark, 3d, left Butte a short time ago, to examine mining property in the Belgian Congo.
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Melville Fuller Coolbaugh was inaugurated President of the Colorado School of Mines, on Oct. 31.
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W. C. Mansfield, of the U. S. Geological Survey, is engaged in fieldwork on the Upper Miocene of Florida.
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W. Fairburn has been placed in charge of operations at the Hillcrest silver mine, of Gowganda, northern Ontario.
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F. K. Brunton has been appointed mill superintendent, to the Julieta Gold Mines Ltd., S. A., Troya, Chihuahua, Mexico.
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John G. Kirchen, general manager for the Tonopah Extension Mining Co., has returned to Tonopah, from San Francisco.
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W. W. Fondren, of Houston, Tex., vice-president of the Humble Oil & Refining Co., has returned from a two-months’ vacation in Europe.
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Charles W. Clark, president of the United Verde Copper Co., is in Butte inspecting workings of the W. A. Clark estate property in that vicinity.
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H. B. Simcox, of Denver, Colo., general production superintendent of the Continental Oil Co., has inspected that company’s properties in north Texas.
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C. S. Barns, of Monte Vista; Thomas S. Welborn, of Hesperus, and C. A. Stokes, of Mancas, all of Colorado, are at Tierra Blanca, near Lake Valley, N. M., on mining business, preparatory to reopening the famous old Log Cabin mine, which they have acquired.
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Scott Turner has been appointed Director of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, which, for a number of years, has acted as a consulting engineer. A biographical sketch of Mr. Turner’s career and achievements will appear in an early issue of Mining Journal-Press.
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Charles Butters left New York for San Francisco, on Nov. 1, and will sail from the last-named city on Dec. 3 for Nicaragua, en route to the San Albine Gold Mines, at Jicarb, Segovia, where he will complete, and start the new mill, now under construction.
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Charles R. Miller has been elected chairman of the board of the Tonopah Mining Co., Walter L. Haehnlen, president, and George W. McDougal, a director. The changes were to fill vacancies caused by resignation of J. H. Whiteman as chairman of the board, and a director.
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Captain A. M. Yonge has just returned to Havana, Cuba, from a trip to New York, where he was called as consulting mining engineer for the Keith-Marshall interests, in a lawsuit tried before the Supreme Court of New York, brought by Puerto Rican mine owners against the above-mentioned interests, for a very large but fictitious tonnage of commercial manganese ores, claimed to have been contracted for by a representative of the Keith-Marshall interests in 1918. The amount of the claim was close to a half million dollars. The trial was complicated but interesting, and was finally settled through the efforts and recommendation of the Court, by payment of $20,000 to the mine owners.
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M. H. Guise, of Seattle, recently returned from a prospecting trip, which took him into the Arctic Divide Mountains, in Alaska. He traveled alone or with Indians of the Chandalar tribe, meeting no other white men. Mr. Guise courteously placed at the disposal of Mining & Journal-Press, the accompanying interesting snapshot.

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Obituary
Hugh L. Guinn, representative in eastern California, and western Nevada, for the Ingersoll Rand Co., passed away in Reno, after a short illness on Oct. 18.
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Dr. Frederick B. Peck, professor of mineralogy and geology at Lafayette College, died at Easton, Pa., on Nov. 2, of heart disease. He was sixty-five years old. He was graduated from Amherst College in 1886, and had been at Lafayette since 1901. His wife and one daughter survive.
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Albert E. Lowe, long engaged in metal mining in Nevada and Colorado, of which last named state he was a native, is dead. He was a son of Theodore Lowe, one of the pioneer miners of Colorado, and a brother of Henry P. Lowe, also well known to Colorado mining men.
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Wilford A. Cameron, of New Denver, B. C., lessee of the Rambler-Cariboo, and Mollie Gibson mines, was accidentally killed recently through the overturning of an auto. Mr. Cameron was on the staff of the Consolidated Mining & Smelting Company of Canada for many years, being superintendent of the St. Eugene mine at Moyie; the Ottawa, at Slocan City; the Richmond-Eureka, at Sandon, and the Lucky Thought, at Silverton. He was forty-four years old.
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Captain Warrington Pritchard, pioneer, sailor, miner, soldier, died in Fort William, Ontario, on Oct. 24. He was 100 years and 44 days old. Captain Pritchard was of English-French stock, and was born in a log hut on the banks of Otter Creek, near St. Thomas, Elgin County, Ontario. In his young manhood, he came to the United States to learn the rudiments of engineering, later becoming a pilot and vessel owner. In his later years, Captain Pritchard acquired an interest in several mining locations, among them the Heron Bay mine, the Pie Island silver mine, and Princess Bay mine. He is survived by four sons and two daughters.
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George F. McMillan, for over forty years a resident of Grant County, and Vanadium, N. M., died on Oct. 10 at the Santa Rita Hospital. Mr. McMillan was widely known as a mine owner and mine operator, in southern New Mexico. For many years he had been the owner and operator of the well-known San Jose mine, near the Chino Copper Co. property at Santa Rita. Under his ownership and direction, this mine has been in almost continual and productive operation for more than thirty-five years, producing copper and lead ores. While supervising operations in this mine Mr. McMillan met the accident that caused his death. He was eighty years old, and did not long survive the shock of a comparatively short fall from a ladder. He was born in Nova Scotia, and had been in Grant County since 1882. Widely and favorably known, many, especially of that generation of miners of the booming 80’s, and since, will learn of his passing with profound regret.
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Thomas J. Phillips, formerly for many years with the American Smelting & Refining Co., died on Oct. 23, 1925. Mr. Phillips was prominently identified with the sales of metals from some time in the 70’s of the last century. He was located in St. Louis for many years, and in the 90’s, when the National Lead Co. was organized, he was called there as that company’s purchasing agent of metals. From the National Lead Co. he was called to M. Guggenheim Sons, as their sales manager—for a time, he was located in London as their representative, returning later to New York.

In 1901, when M. Guggenheim Sons amalgamated with the American Smelting & Refining Co., Mr. Phillips became sales manager of the American Smelting & Refining Co., with whom he remained until 1908, when he retired. For a few years thereafter, he was special partner in a brokerage house. About 1910, he made his home in Southold, L. I., generally spending his winters in the South. Mr. Phillips was seventy-six years old at the time of his death. He was one of the best-known figures in the metal world for a great many years, being prominently connected with the largest metal-consuming and metal-selling companies in the United States.
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April 30, 1927 ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL 745

A. R. Wilfley a Mechanical Genius

An Intimate Friend Recalls Interesting Facts of His Character and Life

By Victor G. Hills

Arthur Redman Wilfley was generally known to the world as the inventor of the ore-concentrating table which bears his name; but it is not so generally known that he was possessed of remarkable native mechanical genius, and that the production of this invention was not, as one of our mining editors referred to it, a mere outgrowth of necessity for the economic concentration of certain mixed sulphide ores. The remark was doubtless true in a limited sense; but if that editor had known something of the personality of the inventor he would have chosen some other case to illustrate his point.

Edison is quoted as saying that in the receipt for genius is 75 percent is good hard work; and Carlyle has put it that “Genius consists of an infinite capacity for taking pains.” Both of these definitions fit the genius of A. H. Wilfley; but there was the animating spark to start with. He was a born inventor of the most pronounced type. His method of perfecting a device was the same as that ascribed to Edison.

LEARNING SURVEYING AND ASSAYING

In the year 1882, Wilfiey came to my office at Kokomo, Colo., to assist in mineral surveying work. The rapidity with which he mastered every detail of the work was such that it was difficult to realize that he had only a common country-school education. Without ever before having looked in a book on geometry or trigonometry, he proceeded to go through those books as though reading a fascinating romance.

He never hesitated or even asked a question until he encountered some algebraic formulas. As he had never studied algebra he had to call for some explanation. To learn to use a transit with skill, accuracy, and efficiency required only a single day.

In 1882, when S. F. Emmons was doing the Ten Mile folio of the U. S. Geological Survey, he came to my office to have some extra surveying done to complete the topographical map. Wilfiey was assigned to this work, which consisted of stadia surveying. He had never used a stadia rod with the transit, before the morning when I went out with him to start the work. This work lasted about two weeks and involved running long closed circuits. He and the government assistant geologist worked together in putting the work on the map, and not a single circuit needed material correction.

From J. C. Staats, assayer at the old Kokomo smelter, which was then in operation, Wilfley learned assaying.

When I left Kokomo for Pueblo, Colo., Wilfley became a partner at Kokomo for one year, but as the mine surveying business was then rapidly declining, he began leasing in the closed Elk Mountain mines. He would spend his days crawling through abandoned stopes and contact drifts, gathering samples, and then spend most of the night assaying them. He would not take time to cook himself proper food. He was possessed of a strong physical constitution, inherited from both father and mother, but his continual robbing himself of sleep and proper nourishment began to break his health in early manhood.

Several Elk Mountain mines were readily leased and purchased, because they were considered practically exhausted. There was no more oxidized or other smelting ores. The great bodies of mixed sulphides would not pay to ship without concentration. Yet by Wilfiey’s skillful sampling, and his persistence, he found enough overlooked ore to pay for the several old mines, and acquire adjoining ground into which the shoots extended. During this period he began the concentration of these ores with jigs and old-style tables.

About the year 1891, A. H. Wilfley, D. D. Byron, and Thomas F. Walsh formed a partnership to erect an Austin Process smelter at Kokomo. Wilfley and Byron, between them, had become owners of a large portion of the area covering the contact deposits of Elk Mountain, and Walsh furnished some smelting experience, and probably the greater portion of the cash. The smelter was just starting with its first run when the silver crash came, and all three of them were left flat broke. Walsh later recovered, and made his fortune from the famous Camp Bird Mine, and Wilfley, by the invention of his table, but Byron died possessed of only his interest in the mining ground, which was of modest value.

THE CONCENTRATING TABLE

It was during Wilfley’s operations of handling the Elk Mountain mixed sulphide ores, and while continuing to make some small shipments of smelting ore, and to concentrate by the old methods, that he began his intense and persistent experimenting which resulted in the invention of the table which bears his name. That this invention revolutionized the mining industry of the whole world has been fully recognized. In common with every invention of great commercial value it was quickly followed by a flood of imitations, infringements, improvements and other patents designed to avoid the patent, or secure an interest in it.

I recall that there were two hundred and thirty-odd patents of this class, and there were a number of hard-fought lawsuits. Wilfley was the winner in all of the more important of these suits. Professor Richards, of ore dressing fame, as an expert witness in one of these cases, characterized the Wilfley as a positive basic invention, and this view was generally sustained by the courts as well as recognized by the mining world. Wilfley’s concentrating table made his name and fortune. He was justly gratified when Webster’s International Dictionary took the name and thus perpetuated it in the English language and internationally.

However, the table was not Wilfley’s only contribution to mining, milling, and practical mechanics. It would be quite impossible to enumerate his many devices for improving and expediting work about a mill or machine shop. Many of these were unimportant commercially, or considered not worth patenting. He never attempted to patent small things—such things as have often proven the best moneymakers for the inventor.

And some really important inventions were regarded as not patentable. His wet gravity slime table was probably the best ever devised, but it was given to a mining-supply company to manufacture, and the company attempted to sell it on the name without following up and correcting minor details of construction; and soon flotation developed, with the result of rendering all gravity slime concentration obsolete.

Wilfley’s roasting furnace I believe, insures the most delicate and perfectly controllable means of ore roasting ever devised, and is without a peer for the purpose of a laboratory, or an ore-testing plant; but it is not economical of fuel, and, like the slime table, was sold to a mining-supply company, which depended on its name and made no effort to perfect it for commercial use.

HIS LAST INVENTION

Wilfley’s latest production, the centrifugal pump, operating with a centrifugal seal and without any gland water, and thus without the necessity of diluting heavy sand pulps, is positively unique in its essential features and, it seems to me, involved deeper thought and ingenuity than the famous table. It has thoroughly proven itself most practical and economical.

WILFLEY’S PERSONAL CHARACTER

Wilfley’s bashfulness and retiring disposition were most pronounced, and not of the sort which disappeared after childhood; yet this was scarcely discovered by those who met him in later business life. In this extreme retiring disposition, he differed greatly from father, mother, brothers, and sisters. He could never be induced to procure a dress suit, and would avoid any meeting or company where he might be asked a question, or attract attention.

He was an honorary fellow of the Colorado Scientific Society. He had been a member some thirty years because he wanted to read the Proceedings; but he never attended a meeting. He never joined a secret society, never drank alcoholic liquors, did not smoke, dance, or play cards. This was not from any moral propensity, but simply because he looked upon all such things as a pure waste of time. Although he became wealthy far beyond independence, yet he was far from being a moneymaker. In business deals, the other fellow was likely to get the better of the bargain.

Wilfley survived four years after being told by Dr. Mayo that he had probably less than a year to live. During all of this time he worked continually, as far as possible, to perfect the porcelain acid pumping form of his latest patents, and barely lived to see it working and declared a success under commercial working conditions.

JESSE C. SCOBEY, b Greensburgh, IN July 14, 1873, married Oct. 15, 1895 in Kansas City to LOLA MYRTLE WILFLEY, born at Sedalia, MO Mar 9, 1873, daughter of REDMAN WILFLEY and MARIA LOUISA BAKER. Died 1895 Kansas City, born in Kentucky. COLONEL REDMAN WILFLEY b April 30, 1825 in Calloway Co., MO. Enlisted with Col. Doniphan in 1847 as interpreter in the Mexican War. Married in 1848, he was in the "gold Rush" to California in 1849. He joined the Confederate Army under Gen. Price and commanded at the Battle of Pea Ridge. In 1864 established home in Kansas City, MO and was a pioneer in Colorado silver mining at Kokomo, where his son, A.R. Wilfley, invented the well known "Wilfley Concentrator".

Died 1910 Kansas City. Jesse C. Scobee, C.E. Degree from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute of ChiPhi Fraternity, Class of 1895; made home at
Denver Co from 1897 to 1913. Partnership with A.R. WILFLEY in plant at
Cripple Creek, CO. dressing gold ore tailings. Member American Institute
of Mining Engineers, 1904-1924. General Manager Pride of the West M&M
Co. at Washington, Arizona. General Manager Colorado Zinc Co. Denver Co.

Invented the "Scobey Tailings Sampler". Vice President Virginia & Mexico
Mine and Smelter Corp at Cabrera, Mexico. Vice President henry E. Wood
Ore Testing Co. at Denver, CO. Moved to Pittsburgh in 1913 as Cons.
Engineer and Assist to the president of La Luz y Los Angeles Mining Co.
operating in Nicaragua. Home in New York City 1916-1925. Moved to
Elmira, NY 1926, Eclipse Machine Co. Division Bendix Aviation Co. One
surviving son, Wilfley Scobey.

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rehab notes: Utah history, and Mormons, in general, probably share quite a few links with Canadiens and the Northern part of the USA, for a result of conversion to the LDS Church, meant for many people, a migration to the US West, and to Utah. Many immigrants of French, Scandinavian, German, British Empire, and others seemed to re-establish roots in Utah and its territories.

While Brigham Young shunned mining camps and the life or industry that mining brought, mining in utah, arizona, nevada, california brought in another wave of immigrants that later defined the West, and many of these cousin jacks (wisconsin) all served to allow the anglo development of profitable mining.

Mining vocabulary is roughly 2/3 Cornish terminology, and Mexican/Spanish terminology comprises the other third. somewhere among that lies german technological terms as well.

Mormons sailing to California from New York, as well as members of the Mormon Battalion marching to fight and overthrow Mexicans in California, being generally friendly with all Native Americans, as part of friendships or rewards, learned of mineral locales through the Indians, and such is the mining history. Whether the Gold Rush in California, gold mines in southern california, silver outcrops in az and nv, or ancient spanish mines and caches in ut, id, co, nm, az, all became part of the immigrant legacy, of and in which many of yours and my ancestors participated.

The information gleaned from the pages of old mining magazines generally lack all the details we could desire, but it's a start in finding one's roots and a personal connection with the pioneers whose own lives and struggles represent our own.
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14 Engineering and Mining Journal -Press Vol. 114, No. 18 10 28 1922

VERNE LEROY HAVENS

Editor of Ingeniería Internacional

An Engineer
An Economist
Mr. Havens has been editor-in-chief of “Ingeniería Internacional” since its inception nearly four years ago. He has made many important market investigations for the U. S. Department of Commerce, and is well known in South American financial and engineering circles.

Highlights of his South American experiences are:
1905—Div. Eng., heavy mountain construction, Mexican Central R. R.
1906—Asst. Eng., Mexican Light & Power Co.
1907—Reconstructed downtown section of Havana Electric Railway.
1908-11—Chief Eng., Mexico Light & Power Co., Mexico Tramways Co., Mexico Steel & Chemical Co., Pachuca Irrigation & Power Co.
1913-14-—General consultation work; reports for financing railways in South America; investigations of economic conditions. 1915-17—Commercial Attaché to American Embassy, Santiago, Chile.

[Ingeniería Internacional is a Spanish language counterpart of McGraw-Hill’s Engineering & Mining Journal]

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• 756 Engineering and Mining Journal-Press VoL 114, No. 18

Metallurgists of Note

WILLIAM E. GREENAWALT

ALL METALLURGICAL ENGINEERS who read English have heard of William E. Greenawalt. But there are many who have read his numerous articles in the technical press, and who have pored over his “Hydrometallurgy of Copper,” who have no further knowledge of the man— of his appearance, or personality. Under his name, on his letterhead, are the words “Engineer, Metallurgist,” with’ no mention at all made of his ability as an architect.

And yet, when he came to New York City, after a six-year course at Cornell, he expected to make architecture his profession, and spent nine years at the work, even winning a $1,000 prize in a competition. However, his eyes were not equal to the detail work required, and he decided to go west, and take up the profession in which his brother, John E. Greenawalt, was engaged. For several years, the two brothers had adjoining laboratories in Denver, and William closely followed the important work in updraft, and down-draft blast roasting, originated by his brother, which culminated so successfully in the many prosperous plants of this type scattered about the world today, and which are licensed under the Greenawalt patents.

But William Greenawalt was attracted more to the subject of hydrometallurgy, the future of which he believed to be most attractive. He was the first to apply electrolytic chlorine to the treatment of Cripple Creek ores. He was for some time foreman, and afterward, research metallurgist, at the Portland Gold Mining Co.’s mill at Colorado Springs. This mill had four 100-ton roasting furnaces, and twelve large chlorination barrels. One of these barrel units was used for the experimental work on electrolytic chlorine generated from salt, in three 1,000-amp. cells designed by Mr. Greenawalt.

During the early research work on the chlorination of gold and silver ores, the subject of leaching and electrolysis of copper ores and solutions, attracted his attention, and he carried on a great deal of research work in this field. In 1910, he patented a chloride process for the extraction of copper. Since 1914, Mr. Greenawalt has been the metallurgist of the National Mines & Smelters Co., in Mexico, and devised the metallurgical treatment for that company’s ore. A small mill and sintering plant, and a smelter of 250 tons’ daily capacity, were installed and operated, preparatory to a larger installation.

Tests were also made on leaching low-grade matte for the production of electrolytic copper and metallic gold. The work proceeded favorably until the revolutionists blew up the large power plant, flooded the mine, and put an end to all activities [damn terrorists put a crimp on everything!]. As a result of his years of research and practical work, Mr Greenawalt is a strong advocate of leaching and electrolysis in the treatment of copper ores, irrespective of whether the ore is of high or low grade, and whether oxide or sulphide.

Since the publication of his book on the hydrometallurgy of copper in 1912, he has devoted most of his time to the development of the electrolytic sulphate copper leaching process described in the last issue of the Engineering and Mining Journal -Press. The metallurgical success of this process seems well assured. Last year he spent six months with the Mountain Copper Co. in California, adapting the process to that company’s ores and conditions, and fairly large-scale tests were made.

How to obtain a patent is no secret to Mr. Greenawalt. He has taken out possibly fifty United States patents, mostly on hydrometallurgical processes and equipment. The Denver Engineering Works Co. has recently taken over the manufacturing rights for a flotation machine which he developed as a side issue, resulting from other research.

In 1892, Mr. Greenawalt was married to Cora M. Cornell, of Ithaca, N. Y. They have four children.

In a wordly way, Mr. Greenawalt is not a rich man. He earned all of his expenses while at Cornell, and has invested most of his savings since that time in developing the electrolytic process bearing his name. Now, at the age of fifty-six, the hydrometallurgical treatment of ore, particularly of copper ores, is becoming more popular, and Mr. Greenawalt has good reason for thinking that there will be a wide field for the processes on which he has put nearly thirty years of study.

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October 28, 1922 Engineering and Mining Journal-Press 777

MEN YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

Fred S. Norcross, Jr., is in New York.
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S. F. Shaw is inspecting the Sultana mine, near Viesca, Coahuila, Mexico.
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John Wellington Finch will spend the winter in New York.
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G. W. Stose, of the U. S. Geological Survey, is doing fieldwork in Pennsylvania.
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Sidney Paige, of the U. S. Geological Survey, is continuing his work in the Homestead region, of the Black Hills.
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Frederic R. Weekes has returned from the Northwest, and has left New York, for California, on professional business.
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S. G. Taylor, formerly secretary and treasurer of the Judge Mining & Smelting Co., has been visiting in Salt Lake City.
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Charles Stutts, of the U. S. Geological Survey, is doing cooperative work with the Alabama and Tennessee surveys.
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Cleveland Dodge, Jr., is making an official visit to the Phelps Dodge properties in Mexico, Arizona, and New Mexico.
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Samuel Shapira, mining engineer of New York, is spending two weeks at Regina, Saskatchewan, on professional business.
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F. G. Stevens has been appointed consulting engineer, for the Consolidated West Dome Lake Co., of Porcupine, Ontario.
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Walter A. Rukeyser, mining engineer, is making a trip through the Southwest, and Mexico, on professional business.
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E. J. Atchison, of the Southwestern Engineering Co., of Los Angeles, will spend the next few months in New York, on professional business.
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P. F. Walch, general manager of the White Syndicate Special, owners of the Last Chance Mine, at Lordsburg, N. M., is in Denver, on company business.
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Dorsey A. Lyon, chief metallurgist of the Bureau of Mines, is at the Minneapolis experiment station, supervising test runs on the new blast furnace.
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D. C. Jackling and Horace V. Winchell, president, and director, respectively, of the Mesabi Iron Co., recently visited the company’s plant at Babbitt, Minn.
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J. Gordon Hardy, former consulting engineer for the American Smelting & Refining Co., has been making an investigation of the Kirkland Lake gold field.
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Captain Samuel Jewell, in charge of underground operations for the Wharton Steel Co., at Dover, N. J., is in the Lake Superior region on business.
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George S. Rice, chief mining engineer of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, is in California, conferring with the special state committee which is investigating the Argonaut disaster.
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C. J. Stover was recently appointed president and managing director, of the Consolidated Asbestos Limited, at Montreal. Mr. Stover was formerly editor and publisher of Asbestos. He entered the asbestos business in 1906, as bookkeeper for the Keasbey & Mattison Co., at Ambler, Pa., and became successively accountant, sub-branch manager, department head, and vice-president. In 1917, he went to Philadelphia, as secretary for the Allied Asbestos Trade Associations, and served during the war as a medium between the asbestos magnesia industry, and the War Industries Board. In 1919, he began publishing Asbestos. Mr. Stover is a member of several Pennsylvania clubs and fraternal orders.
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Dr. F. W. McNair, president of the Michigan College of Mines, of Houghton, is in New York to attend important meetings in the interest of the advancement of engineering education.
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J. C. Greenway, general manager of the Calumet & Arizona Mining Co., and the New Cornelia Copper Co., has returned to Warren, Ariz., from a visit to the Clifton-Morenci district, and to the 85 Mine, at Lordsburg, N. M.
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William A. Kerr, and S. A. Holman, vice-president, and manager, respectively, of the Balaklala Consolidated Copper Co., recently visited the properties of this company, at Republic, Wash.
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J. A. Ackroyd, of Boston, assistant secretary, and assistant treasurer of the Copper Range Co., and Copper Range R.R. Co., is in the Michigan copper district, on a visit to the companies’ properties.
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D. E. Woodbridge, of Duluth, and F. W. McKelip, of Faribault, Minn., were visitors recently in Chicago, where they attended the annual meeting of the Council of State Boards of Engineering Examiners, as representatives of the State of Minnesota.
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E. S. Boalich, who has served as chief mining engineer of the California State Mining Bureau, at San Francisco, for the last five years, has taken the position of valuation engineer, in the Income Tax Unit, of the Treasury Department, at Washington, D. C.
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J. W. Furness, mining engineer, of Philadelphia, has been appointed consulting engineer in the Bureau of Mines, and will work largely in co-operation with the newly organized War Minerals Supply Division, of the Bureau, in making studies of certain strategic minerals, especially manganese, on which he is an authority.
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Dr. Bruce Rose, a graduate of Queens and Yale Universities, has been appointed to the mineralogy and geology department of Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont. He was for six years, a member of the staff of the Canadian Geological Survey, and latterly has carried on investigations for the Whitehall Petroleum Co., of London.
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Alfred D. Flinn has been elected a director of the Engineering Foundation. Mr. Flinn is the first incumbent of the new post, created by the foundation’s governing board, composed of the Four Founder Societies of civil, mining, mechanical, and electrical engineers, to meet the expanding activities of the foundation.

Mr. Flinn will retire as chairman of the engineering division of the National Research Council, a position which he has held since October, 1921, but will continue as secretary of the United Engineering Society, in order that the foundation may continue intimate relations with the Founder Societies. Mr. Flinn has been secretary of this society, and of the foundation, since January, 1918.

Mr. Flinn, a resident of Yonkers, is a native of New Berlin, Pa., and a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in 1893. He has been identified with municipal engineering enterprises in New York and Boston, and was formerly a lecturer in the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard. He has been associated as editor with technical
journalism and as the author of numerous books and articles on engineering, and science. At Worcester he was the Salisbury prize winner.
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Mining and metallurgical engineers visiting New York City last week, included: Walter X. Osborn, of Gila Bend, Ariz.; Harry P. Hill, of Austin, Tex.; James A. Smail, of Youngstown, Ohio; and William Kelly, of Vulcan, Mich.
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OBITUARY

Herbert S. King, superintendent of the North Chandler Mining Co., at Ely, Minn., was accidently shot and killed when hunting, on Oct. 15.
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Sir John W. Carson, president and managing director of the Crown Reserve and Porcupine Crown mining companies, died at Montreal on Oct. 18.
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MINING & SCIENTIFIC PRESS MAY 1 1920

MINING MEN YOU SHOULD KNOW

The Editor invites members of the profession to send particulars of their
work and appointments. The information is interesting to our readers.

Obituary

George Schroter Patterson was accidently killed on April 14, at the zinc mine of the Northern Ore Co., at Edwards, New York. He was born at Denver, Colorado, on October 9, 1892, and graduated from the Denver High-School, and from Columbia University School of Mines, in the Class of 1914, receiving the degree of Engineer of Mines. For two years, he was at the Franklin Furnace Mines, of the New Jersey Zinc Co., in the capacity of surveyor, shift-boss, etc. In 1916, he was appointed Mine Superintendent, for the Northern Ore Co. and General Manager for the same company, just previous to his death.
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Charles Butters is at Mazatlan.
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Arthur W. Jenks has returned from New York.
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James S. Douglas has returned from New York, to Bisbee.
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Walter Fitch, Jr., mining contractor of Eureka, Utah, is in Pennsylvania.
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W. S. Van Dyck has moved from San Jose, California, to Unionville, Nevada.
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A. W. Allen left New York, for Chile, on April 21, expecting to be away for six months.
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J. H. Wolf has returned from Korea, where he was in the service of the Seoul Mining Co.
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James C. Ray has returned to Palo Alto, from the old silver district south of Austin, Nevada.
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O. M. Kuchs, General Manager for the International Smelting Co., of Salt Lake City, is in New York.
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R. A. Brown has been appointed consulting engineer, for the Michigan Utah Consolidated Mines Co., at Alta, Utah.
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Karl Kithil has returned to Denver, after investigating the new radium discovery in Grant County, New Mexico.
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J. Power Hutchins arrived in New York, on March 12, and sailed again for London, on his way to Italy, on April 24.
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Jules Labarthe has resigned as a Director of the Bunker Hill Company, his place being taken by Frank M. Smith.
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A. E. Robinson has left the Utah Consolidated Mining Co., to take charge of the Hidden Treasure Mine, at Lake City, Colorado.
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H. C. Goodrich, Chief engineer of the Utah Copper Co., has returned to Salt Lake City, after a trip to Duluth and Chicago.
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R. K. Neill has resigned as Manager of the Premier Mine, in the Salmon River district, B. C., and is succeeded by Dale L. Pitt, his assistant.
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H. V. Winchell was in Salt Lake City recently. On April 26, he addressed the ‘Hoover for President’ Club, at a luncheon given at the Newhouse Hotel.
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Albert Burch has been appointed Manager, for the Simon Silver-Lead Mines Co., at Mina, Nevada. Previously he was Consulting engineer to this company.
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John Hay, Jr., has been appointed Consulting engineer, to the Pioche Mines Co., having assumed the position made vacant by the death of Oscar A. Knox.
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Norman W. Haire has resigned as General manager for the
Michigan Utah Consolidated Mines Co., at Alta, Utah. Nicholas A. Robertson has been chosen to succeed him.
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H. G. S. Anderson, Assistant General Manager, for the China Copper Co. at Hurley, New Mexico, was married on April 8, to Miss Mary McCrae, at Rolla, Missouri.
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John V. Richards, of Spokane, Washington, having resigned his commission as Major, in the United States Army, is Manager, for the Wilshire Bishop Creek Mine, at Bishop, California.
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D. W. Leeke, on his return from the West Coast of Mexico, sailed, on April 23, for the Philippines, having accepted an appointment as engineer, on the staff of the Benguet Consolidated Mining Co.
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H. Trenear Thomas, Metallurgical Engineer to the Ooregum Gold Mining Co. of India, has been visiting our Western mining districts, and left San Francisco on his return to London, on April 28.
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Victor C. Alderson, President of the Colorado School of Mines, will sail on May 19, from New York, to England. While abroad, he will visit the shale districts in Scotland and France, inspecting recent discoveries and methods of extraction.
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