White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-07

Talk about the wise men OF the
east! They are said TO make mango
trees grow out of a little pot OF earth
while you wait, and produce boys
from empty baskets. But there is a
wise man in the west who conjures
shining copper-the real thing that
they make telephone wires and door
knobs of-out of common lava rock.
His faith-supplemented by a few
steam shovels-moves mountains.
The west is full of men who have
discovered mines, this man makes
them In spots where there was no
suspicion of a mine before.
By all the traditions, Daniel c.
Jackling should be poor. At bottom
he Is a scientist. Students who learn
things by burning midnight oil are
always Electrically speaking, the
victim of the low-browed. unimagi-
native man in the fur-trimmed over
coat who has the gold.
lacking is a student of science,
and once on a time used to teach a
class in chemistry, metallurgy, or
some other useful thing, at the Mis-
souri, School of Mines, where he took
his degree; but with the personality
of the student he unites the eharac-
teristics of the fur-trimmed overcoat
man. 1t is an unusual combination.
and Mr.. Jackling is IN unusual man
one of whom much more will be
heard II he lives out his allotted
span.
To look at him as he %saunters
around the Utah Copper works" at
Bingham, Utah, or walks down
Broadway, one would say that there
Is not much doubt as to his longevity.
A fine figure of a man is he, more
than six feet tall, with an axe-handle
breadth of shoulder and a color of
face that bespeaks a vigorous diges-
ton and perfect blood circulation.
The biographical sketches give
Salt Lake City, UtaL. as his place of
residence. In reality he is Mr.. Jack
ling of Everywhere. Industrialy, he
is at home at Bingham and Garfield
Utah; at Ely. Nevada. at Kelvin,
Arizona, and at Santa Rita, New
Mexico. Socially he hangs his hat at
the Ala or Commercial club in Salt
Lake, the Rocky Mountain club in
New York, and the Ell Paso club in
Colorado Springs. Hymeneally, he
shares a home on East South Temple
In Salt Lake, with a very
wife, and throughout a
large part of the year he occupies a
rolling house on the western rail-
roads-one of the handsomest pri-
vate cars in service.
Uncertain as is his home, there is
not the least n of doubt as to
the place of Mr.. Jackling's nativity.
He is a Missourian. There are many
Missourians by birth who are not
Missourians by nature. Jackling is
both. When he formed the opinion
that the porphyry mountain at Bin
CHAM could be made to yield copper
at a profit, the experts and the min
Ing journals declared that 1t could
not be done. Jackling insisted that
they show him why it couldn't be
lone. AS they did not show him he
to his opinion. That p%orphyry
mountain now is producing more cop
Ter than n other single property
n the world, and the experts have
lot yet made ii clear to Jackling that
is idea was all wrong. :
When he first went to Utah, in
January. 1896, from his laboratory
n a Colorado City milling plant, he
lid not know much or care much
about copper. His experiments had
had to do chiefly with the tellurium
gold ores of Cripple Creek in which
he red metal vas a negligible guam
Lity. Capt. DeLamar took him to
Mercur, Utah. to see about squeezing
he sparse gold contents from the low
grade ores of that camp.
History does not record any re-
volutionary changes at Mercur as a