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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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