White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-29

where. Many big things have been
done and many engineers have had
big pay; but this happens to be the
story of Yeatman.
The ore deposits began about a
hundred feet below the surface at
Ely. To get rid of the over-burden.
Yeatman adopted a system of huge
steam shovels that ate out the earth
In an amazing way. This waste was
hauled off in cars and dumped; and
then the steam shovels began eating
out the ore.
Today these mines resemble the
Culebra Cut at Panama. The benches
like a lot of terraces, wind
hundreds of feet down into the earth
with railroad tracks dipping into the
pit.
The Guggenheims spent 100000
600 or more on the Nevada plant;
but this plant in 1912 earned a net
profit of $3,281,919. Perhaps this
answers the question. us any man
worth a salary higher than $4,000
a year,"
But, of course. Pope Yeatman did
not do all this alone. Probably he
would tell you that he did very little
of 1t.
A young man named c. B. Lake
nan went to Nevada from California
and got a job as a junior engineer.
twenties. hired out as a concrete
mixer, he was a graduate engineer.
A third, Edwin S. Berry, a graduate
from the Columbia School of Mines
went out there. willing to take .
subordinate position. Today Lake.
nan is general manager of the mines
and smelters out there, and gets a
salary of $4,000 a year. Marsh is
In South America, and gets a good
many thousands a year. Berry is Mr..
Yeatman's chief assistant. He too is
In South America at present. His
salary is not a public matter. but it il
high. judged by the average mans
standard.
In the presence of the Guggen-
helms I once heard Yeatman compli-
mented for a specific piece of techni-
cal work at Ely" said an executive OF
one of the corporations.
81 had nothing whatever to dc
with it, he returned. That was So
and-So's achievement absolutely.
Give him the credit for it,
"Yeatman attracts the best talent
and gets the best out Of his men be-
cause he is just to them. That Is the
secret of what has been called his
knack for organization There isn't
any mystery to II. They have the in
centive."
And then. Yeatman works. said
an engineer In Nevada. You will
find him in the dirtiest places. look
Ing like a laborer. A lot OF dude en-
gineers have Office jobs, but they
don't get a hundred thousand a year.
Yeatman goes down into a mine or a
pit and calls the turn on the fellows
there. When he is in his Office. he
sends for foremen and others. and
finds out what they know. or don't
know.
I'm the early days of Ely. when he
had a shack for an Office, l often saw
him there at eleven or twelve O'Clock
Sunday night. among his blue-prints
and often he had some of us with
him. When he wanted a change
made In a plan. 1t had TO be done
right then. not later. That is Yeat-
mans way.
In travelling to and from New
York he always took a stenographer
He dictated a steady stream all the
way, with just a few scant hours of
for sleep. When New York or Ely
was reached. enough work was thus
mapped our to keep the whole force
on the jump. We all liked to jump
for Yeatman. for he made every mar
feel that the whole works depended
upon himself.
Down in Chile today. Yeatman
works the same way. He makes all
sorts of shortcuts in time. II was
necessary to have some of his dicta.
ton translated into Spanish; but the
delay annoyed him, so he found a
man stenographer who could take the
English dictation and write IL In
Spanish shorthand.
"Yeatman's chief amusement is
routing folks out of bed before day.
light. His stenographers turn out at
six o'clock and get busy on the cables
before breakfast. He has a memory
like a don't forget professor, and