White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-09-17

ing them to spread over all the coun-
tryside and produce a crop of law
suits from farmers around. There
was a time when the Tennessee Cop
per company was involved in litiga-
ton with the farmers of Georgia and
Tennessee. Just like the First Ma
tionaI Copper company has been en-
Joined and embroiled BY Shasta agri-
culturists, resulting IN the mining in
~terests losing out. Tennessee Cop
per has no such problem and is max
ing more money out of fumes than IL
Is out of ores. Its sulpuric acid is
contracted for several years ahead,
and is a source of such profit TO the
company that the making of copper is
a secondary matter. Such a unique
proposition is Tennessee Copper,
the only Upper mine of any con
sequence east of the Mississippi. that
Standard Oil interests are said TO be
looking on it with rolling and cove
tous eyes, and are already somewhat
e~ntrenched In its control.
Mr.. Charming is a technical man
in the final sense of the word. He
is technical and practical in all that
he undertakes. He had advanced
mining and metallurgy as sciences
and in lectures and articles has
championed the mining industry and
investments properly based thereon
as deserving OF more esteem among
thoughtful people. He is one man
who is not an apologist in his cham
pionship of it.
Mr.. Claiming is contributing
editor of that well-known technical
periodical the Mining and Scientific
Press of San Francisco, which is
published in connection with a min
ing periodical in London, by the same
house. His contributions to that
periodical touch on such subjects as
Copper Smelling in Tennessee"
Metal Losses in Copper Stag"
Steam Shovel Mining" etc, etc, on
all of which subjects he is past mas
ter, not surpassed by any authority
in the world. His word on all such
matters carries weight with that of
any contemporary mining man.
Early in the year Nh. Charming.
who is as familiar with the congom-
crates and other lodes of Lake Super
ior as he is with the blanket deposits
of Arizona. Utah and Nevada, was
retained by the Calumet & Hecla in
terests at a reputed fee Of $25 600 to
aiming and apraising the various
mining properties of the Peninsula
district. which were scheduled for in
clusion in the Calumet & Hecla So
600. 900 consolidation under the laws
of Michigan. This was a very big
fee for a brief employment, but the
character of the work involved and
the magnitude of the interests con-
eerned made 1t impossible TO say that
1t was excessive. On the basis of the
actual and relative values submitted
by Mr.. Claiming, a number of Lake
companies, with their stockholders.
were to be brought into the merger
fold on terms of harmony, and
benefit to all. Mr.. Claiming sub
mitted his findings and while a great
hue and cry have arisen oyer the
merger negotiations, no one has been
heard TO question the disinterested-
ness and ability of Mr.. Channing's
report. Probably no mar could
have been secured for this arduous
undertaking who would have come
nearer commanding the conidene of
all concerned and arranging a fair
basis of agreement than did Mr..
Charming.
This sketch confessedly leaves
large gaps in any ambitious attempt
at a biography of Mr.. Charming. II
simply throws a few lights on a career
which stands out in the boldest pos
sible relief in his line. Mr.. Chan
ming appeals to us in his achieve
ments in his profession of engineer
ing and metallurgy. rather than in
the triiing accidents of birth and
other minutiae and ephemera which
We are without in making up this
hurried and hating tribute to his
transcendent worth and work.
Might not Kipling say of him al
most as appropriately as he said of
that other great mining man, Cecil
Rhodes:
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