Bisbee daily review., 1906-01-28
REASONS GIVEN
 FOR CHANCE
Louis W. PowelI's Coming to
 BiSbee, as Seen by Our Michigan Correspondent.
(By Homer A. Guck.)

! (By Homer A. GuckD
 Houghton, Mich, Jan. 25.-Lou.s W.
 Powelfs appointment as third vice | president and general manager of the
 Calumet & Arizona. the Lake Superior
 & Pittsburg and the other mines of | that group in the Bisbee camp. is sim ply another illustration of the fact l that the day when the active man on the ground must necessarily be a min
 ing man Of experience and knowledge has passed completely. Time was
 when an appointment of a businesss
 man like MT. Powell for such a posi- l ton as he goes to take, would have re- suited in laughter throughout the min ing world. Those were days of small CT enterprises, when a man to man.
 age mine found it necessary to know everything about the business from
 running drill 10 figuring up the cost
 sheets.
 However, mining, hke everything else has come under the modern busi-
 ness influence of consolidation and ex-
 pansion. With consolidation came the
 necessity for finding men who com
 nined mining knowledge with business
 acumen. Such combinations were and
 are hard to find. Expert mining men
 are oftentimes very poor business men.
 The first people to break from the old established custom were the AmaI-
 gamated. They took a business mar. John D. Ryan, and made him a director
 in practically all of their big com
 panies in the Montana camp. Then
 they made his authority practically
 absolute by giving him authority as managing director, promotion he
 won by his careful attention to busi-
 ness detail and his way of taking hold
 of big things and handling them sue cessfmly. Ryan has brought the Anal gamated through the dark days of financial depression to the present Yaunted position the property holds in the stock market estimate. of course Mr. Ryan has mining men un- der him. They include the best that can be had. He himself has a good working knowledge of mines and min ing. but his business training is his ! strong point
 When the Bigelow people sought a ! successor to William E. Parnall as manager of their various mining, mill ing and smelting interests in the To- cal field they picked out Judge Nor man w. Haire, man with absolutely no mining knowledge and a man who never pretended to have any. Judge Haire was selected because he had proven himself a man capable of di- recting large affairs with a business sasacity that is necessary to success. He took charge as general manager of the Tamarack. OsceoIa Consolidated, the Isle Royale, the Ahmeek and divers other large interests of the Bigelow Hyams group of eastern financiers. And the change in system is al- ready proving advantageous Judgelt Haire is, of course, one of the best mln- Ing men. technically and practically, ofthat can be found anywhere
 These are but two instances. Tne , Calumet & Hecla has a rare man in the person of James MacNaughton, l -heir general manager. He combines ( mining knowledge with great execu- T i've ability and is yet man of the t younger school. But the task of look t ng after the large interests of this big corporation is 50 great that Mir. Mac ' Saughton has found 1t necessary to l ievote the major port on of his time to T matters of the company and T o trust to the competent mining men T 'nder him for that part of the work. q
 So when the Calumet & Arizona peo- 6 ,le sought a man to take complete ,harge of the entire business inter- ? sts of their various companies in Bis h lee they sought man who could han il He big things, man with rare exec s tive ability, man who could be de- o 'ended upon to act with business in- ? diligence at every emergency and in n rhom the stockholders and directors Il ould place implicit faith and every n Mir. Powell was picked st s that man He has not. to be sure,
 ny extensive working knowledge of e he practical side of copper ore min a ng. but he has some valuable expers- n nee in other mining fields and Is fl
 tried and proven business man. The h alumet & Arizona and allied proper
 es have become big industries. which equire the best executive ability 'hich money can buy, To guide their lture successfully is no easy task.
 he companies, the Calumet & Arizona al articularly, has been wonderfully sue c, essful for such young property. It ', as many problems before it. Things al appen with rapidity la the copper 37