Arizona republican., 1912-03-25
VISIT
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President of Old Dominion Copper Co. and Chief En- gineer of New York Wa ter Supply Here for Few Hours Yesterday

Suppose one had d hole ten or fifteen feet in diameter and seventeen ana d half miles long and jabbed it through the sotid rock hundreds of feet below the surfac" of the ground It would be the longest tunnel in the world and worth while for one to be able tO boast of such an achievement. The only man in the world who can do so is J. WalJo smith and he spent yesterday in Phoc- nix and is now rolling a,ong toward los Angeles.
 Suppose one were president of a hig mining company that had been selling it's copper stocks way up in the pie tureS and declaring dividends right along for years. Suppose the mine was producing as usual with no bad luck and copper lowering around fifteen cents with the prospect of staying there awhile It would be worth while for a man to have such position and if the mining company in the hypO- thetical case were the old Dominion of Globe. there is only one man in the world who can lay claim to that hon or. That man is Charles :. Smith, a brother Of J. Waldo Smith. and he also spent yesterday in Phoenix anu is now rolling away toward his home in Bos- ton.
 It might also be regarded as worth while to De the superintendent of such mine which G. H. Dowcll. of Globe. happens l. be. IL is also no idle re- sponsibility to hold tn" receivership of such a valuable property as the Ari- Zona Commercial. in the Globe district position now filled by Charles l.. Rawlins, d Globe lawyer. and both the Globe gentlemen were here yesterday with the smith brothers and are here yet They will be welcome as long as they stay but the whole party came down yesterday by automobile from Globe. via Roosevelt. the Smiths have already gone and the other men plan to go back home with .he machine to- day.
 The reader might further suppos" himself to be a newspaper reporter who sought to interview the mining president and was greeted with the greatest cordialiiy but was told that 1t was the presidents rule of life not to talk shop to a newspaper man and that he had been able to make the rule work in New York where they have the only best newspaper men in the world: that anyway there was nothing he cOuld say about the mine or the company or even the price uG copper except that il was satisfactory. that in his opinion would interest anybody; and moreover that he was going to leave town in two hours and just at that moment had an impOr .ant con ference on with q gentleman in his private office. In that event how would the reader go about il ,o secure answers to q lot Of leading questions about the c. D. company. not that he had any special reason for knowing but just so he could 20 and blab II to the whole world for the edifiCation o1 his subscribers? If the proper instruc- tions are left at The Republican of flee. President Smith will be inter viewed at greater length next ,ime ! he comes to Phoenix.
 But with Engineer smith it wa. quite different. He k also director of the O. D. Company but he ayers that he is in no sense it's mouthpiecc, and besides there are other things he | can talk about even more entertain ingly He just drifts out this way oc- casiOnally to see that the O. D. mine | is still there and that Superintendent Doweli is not padding his returns when | he tells him how much copper ore he | k digging. MT. Smith is chief en- gineer of ;hc municipal board known | as the New York Water Supply. He is at the head ot probably the most not