The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-18
LEAVES THE UTAH
CONSOLIDATED MINE
General Manager Charming Re-
signs to Assume Response
Bile Post in Peru.
MADE PRESIDENT OF
THE CERR0 DE PASC0
Splendid Career Results From
Opening One of States
Greatest Mines.

The announcement made Monday "a
the effect that Il. II. Claiming. the gen.
eTal manager of the Utah Consolidated
company, had forwarded his resignation
10 the company, came as II genuine sur
prise 20 his many friends in Salt Lake
CITY. The successes with which Mr..
Claiming has been rewarded since com.
ing Ia Utah have placed him in the
very first ranks of mining and smelling
authorities. and ii was this fact that
has opened for him the presidency of
the Cerro De Pasco Mining company
and the Cerro De Pasco Railway com
pany, which position he has accepted.
Mr. Claiming has been the manager
of the Utah Consolidated company ever
since the company was organized, or
since 1899. During this time he has
brought the mining properties and the
smelter OF the company up TO high
standard of proficiency, and aside from
building one smelter he has provided
the funds to erect still another upon
site TO be selected soon, the removal
OF the present plant being necessary
owing 10 the recent decision of the
United States courts in the smelter-
smoke eases. In the time that Mr.
Claiming has been at the wheel of the
Utah Consolidated. the company has
mined and smeltcd 800, 900 tons Of ore
The Utah Consolidated during this
period has produced 90,000,000 pounds
of copper bullion, and has distributed
to the stockholders something over So.
100000 in the shape of dividends. 1t
Is the sterling ability of Mr.. Chaunlug,
so efficiently schoocd in the mines of
Utah, that has created for him this
opening in Peru. and from all indica-
tions nc will find proposition in the
Cerro De Pasco property worthy of his
steel. y. w. McCune of this city, who
has been identified with this company
for some time, will give up further
activity in this connection on account
OF the necessity of devoting his entire
time and attention to his personal IN
1erests.
Little has been known in Salt Lake
regarding the company or property 10
which Mr.. Charming is about 10 trans
fer his allegiance. The Cerro De Pasco
copper properties are controlled by j.
Il. Haggin, j, Pierpont Morgan. II. Nc
Kay Twombley and other wealthy resi-,
dents of New York. 1t has been called
one of if not the most expensive propo.
sitIons ever developed in the copper
field, for the company, which was or
ganlzed in 1902 with capital OF $l0,-
100000, has spent something like Sl1,-
100000 without the return of single
dollar 10 the company. The mines nave
been worked for years by the natives,
and the tonnage now known 10 exist
is varlously estimated at from 100000
to $4,000 900 tons. A fine smelter was
erected by the company at su altitude
of $1,000 feet, but il is stated that this
altitude is entirely too severe. and the
removal of the plant is mentioned as a
possibility Of the near future.
In the process of spending more mil
lions. in order 10 correct such mistakes
and in placing the company upon a
paying basis, no better man than r. h,
Claiming could have been chosen, and
his course in Peru will be watched with
interest in Utah mining circles. When
asked Monday when he intended 70
leave for his new duties, Mr.. Claiming
stated that he would not leave until
the question of q site for the new Utah
Consolidated smelter had been deter
mined upon. and that he would leave as
soon after the first of January MS pos
sihle