The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-28
HOPPER FROM PERU AND CHILE WILL BE SENT ID AMERICA Large Quantities Also Will
 Go to Europe When the War Is Ended MUCH OF ROMANCE IN COPPER MINING
 lacking, One of the Copper Kings, Was Receiving Only Laborer's Wages During McKinley's Administration
By HOLLAND

New York, October 21.-(Special )--From Peru and from Chilli are soon to be brought copper in vast amounts to the United States, and after the war is ended a considerable part of the copper output of these South American states will be exported to Europe. Early in November several of those who are leaders in the development of the copper industry in the United States will be in New York, some of them being chiefly occupied in the development of the copper industry in Utah and Montana. Conspicuous among them is MT. JacSling, whose career con- tains as romantic story as is told of any of those who beginning in obscurity afterward gain influence and wealth through the development by them of min ing property.
 When Mckinley was President MT. Jackling was paid wages, and he was em- ployed in the mines as many other day laborers were. He was not occupied, however with labor questions or with organizations, but he took up the study of chemistry and geology, and having re- vealed unusual executive ability and con
 
 In the far west one of his achievements deemed worthy to rank with any of the others with which his name is identified was his solution of a problem which others before his day had declared was not to be solved The great Utah noun tain long ago was known to contain vast amounts of copper, but it was ore of low grade and none of the engineers was able to say how it could be utilized for commercial purposes. MT. Jackling showed how this could be done, and the property Is now one of the largest copper mining properties of the United States. He is understood to have discovered the way in which 70 per cent of this low grade copper can be released and made marketable and has been for some time occupied with the problem whose solution will show how the remaining part of the ore can be obtained.
 MT. JaclSling is to be in New York the first week in November, and several others who are identified in a large way with the copper industry will also be for a few days in New York.
 Naturally, the pending large, possibly enormous. development of the copper in dustry in South America will concern these leaders in the western copper in dustry, not anxiously, perhaps, but as a Ol iitcIcSI dsSoCidtcu With thc steady development in large measure of the worlds copper industry.
 One difference between the Cerro de Pasco mines in northern Peru and the mines in Chili which the Guggenheims have begun to operate upon large scale lies in the fact that the Peruvian mine is very old It's history goes back al- most to the conquest of South America by the Spaniards, whereas the mines of (fbili have in a baan 6pVelODed only within comparatively short time. Probably the Chili mines have larger deposits of copper than the Peruvian mine, but both are very rich in this ore. The Guggenheims have invested capital amounting to millions in perfecting the Chii property, having obtained, upon ex- cellent terms. concessions from Chill for opening and operating. Both mines must depend upon railway transporta tion for taking the ore from the mines to the sea- ports. The Guggenheims with their Chill copper mines did not have the advantage in proximity to the seacoast which Charles NJ. Schwab's investment in Chil- ian iron properties possessed. It was nee essary for the Guggenheins to build a railroad in order to perfect their plant and make transportation to the seaport, but it is short road. comparatively speaking. but Mir. Schwab can transport his ore to the steamers by gravity rail- road.
 The Cerro- de Pasco uhe Spaniards called it the Cerro da Pasco mine) was one of the objects Peru had in mind when it entered into contract with Henry Meiggs to build a railroad from Callao, Iima's seaport. up and over the Andes. The mine is situated upon the eastern slope of the Andes. It was worked by tho Spaniards. who had no regard for the copper but were intent upon securing the ,,i,tz .,ilx. flnx- bod fh.axy pro esuined. exhausted the silver they anna ndoned the mine and for 200 years it was unthought of After Peru-in part under the stimulus of the late William R. Grace-began to awaken from the lethargy which had for years character ized her and her leading men had gained some understanding of the magnif1cence of the natural riches of Peru, in addi- tion to the recognized riches of her ni- trate deposits investigation of the aban- doned mine was made. The experts re- rorted that 1t was loaded down with copper ore, and that 1t could be worked for years to great commercial advan- tage, provided some other transportation than that furnished by the backs of the liamas could be secured Under the Grace regime. in association with Eng fish capital, the railroad was completed to the summit of the Andes, and about that time J. P. Haggin and others secured concessions for operating the mine. It was necessary to extend the railroad from it's terminel at the summit of the Andes to the mine. and MT. Haggin assisted greatly in this construction work. He also planned the construction of another railroad from the mines to a seaport on the northern coast of Peru
 What Is now under way with the Cerro de Pascb Mining company Is n reorgan- iza tion, presumably for the sake of se- crring adequate financing of the prop erty. It Is observed that the reorgan- izcis have adopted the plan so warmly advocated by Francis Lynde Stetson of issuing stock which is without nominal par value. These two mines upon the western slope of the Andes, one in north- ern Peru and the other in Chilli, perhaps 1900 miles south. will considerably inf1u- ence the copper markets of the world after normal conditions are restored. In aGditiou there ahould be resumed heavy