The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-02-11
Houghton Department
WEED SUCCESSOR
To H. ]. STEVENS
Eminent Mining Engineer Takes
Option on Copper Handbook

Walter Harvey Weed. of New York.
eminent mining engineer and geologist
Yesterday afternoon took an option on
tic publishing rights Of the Copper
Handbook. the yearly copper publlca-
t.on established here "a number Of years
ago by the late Horace J. stevens and
published Dy him until his death las,
year In accepting the option and in
announcing the fact Mr. Weed prac-
ti,auy closes a deal that viii assure
Houghtons retaining the publication
that has been linked with her name for
number of years
should Mr. Weed finally decide {"
close the deal and take over the COP
per Handbook, he viii make Hough-
ton his headquarters if not his home
"a fact which win please Houghton
people.
The Copper Handbook was cstab-
lshtd here eleven years ago by Mr.
Stevens ANA had reached the eleventh
number when Mr.. Stevens died last
April. Mr.. Stevens made the book the
worlds greatest statistical authority
uu copp,~ mining. and through the
publication Huughtou attained posi-
ton IN tac mining world that il ls
very doubtful IL would have eyer
reached otherwise Mir. Weeds ability
and reputation are So well known that
b. is doubtful If better qualified man
L. take over the publication could be
found
r. n. Mdurer, for a number of years
Air. stevens business manager, has
been going ahead with the plans for
The publication of the handbook, and
81 will be issued next July. likely un-
der the personal direction of Air
Weed. Mr.. Manner will be- continued
as business manager under Mr.. Weed.
Mr.. Weed left yesterday afternoon
for New York and from there will go
TO Mexico. lie is expected 10 return
10 Houghton in about two weeks.
Mr. Weed was born May ], 1862, at
ST. Louis. No. He was graduated
with the degree of f. NJ. from the COL
umbia School Of Mines i'm 1888. and
until 1889 he was ON the geological
survey of the Yellowstone National
park While employed on this survey
ne discovered that the colors OF hot
springs and gcyser deposits are due 10
aiEae living i'm the hot water and that
the deposits are formed by algac life.
lie discovered Death Gulch in Vel
lowstone Park where animals were
Killed by carbon dioXide gas from an
extinct hot spring. lie also made a
number of valuable discoveries while /
engaged in general geological eXplora- !
lions i'm Montana from 1889 until 1895, |
mapping over $4,000 square miles the |
results appearing i'm the United States |
geological survey maps.
In recent years Mr. Weed has de- |
voted his time mainly to economic |
geology visiting The leading mining |
,entcrs of the world He was the first /
e. publish the theory of the secondary !
enrichment Of ore deposits on which |
subject he gave AN address before the /
copper country NJ. g. NJ club las, sat I
urday evening.
MIR. Weed made a special study and !
geological examination OF parts of
british Columbia during 1906 ana 1907. /
lie was with the general Development
company In am advisory capaeit, from
1906 10 1903 and since that time has
been i'm private practice as mining
cu-luccr.
Mr. Weed was "a gcologisl Of the
United States Geological survey from