The weekly Alaska citizen., 1917-11-19

. th'hl 'AAtioHS oI the bureau Oi Mines
 During this trip he also visited
 number of plants where low-grad, coals were in use, 10 study th. methods and equipment for the uti
 lization of such fuels in order tc apply them to the Nenana iignites
 Early last spring he proceeded tc
 Seattle, where he perfected tn,
 plans for the Station and purcha sed machinery and equipment
 Mir Davis is the author of numer
 ous articles, technical bulletins and
 books on mining subjects. including
 tunnel work, coal fields. and radium ores.
 , John Gross, the Metallurgist oi
 the Station was born in Burlington ! Iowa, but early removed to Colorado i where he attended the public schools
 and later the Colorado School of | M IlIlfS at bOIutI | pOH SI IduudlIDIl
 he spent short time at Florence i Colorado, upon the treatment of Grip ! pie Creek gold ores, from which l place he went to Sombrerete, MeXi-
 co, and spent four and half years on the hyposulphite Urea tment and concentration of heavy sulphide ores.
 At different times six years were spent in the operation of cyanide
 plants in the Black Hills in South
 Dakota, in Nicaragua. Colorado and | Nevada He has also had several ! years experience in the cOncentra- 1 ton of copper, lead zinc, iron and tungsten ores In Mexico, Wyoming and Colorado. At various times he 1 has been connected with and erect ed plants for the treatment of ores | by conCentra ton, Cyanidation and smelling. One year was spent in Guatemala developing zinc proper
 ties for the United Fruit Company interests. He has maintained con sulting engineers office In Denver for the last fifteen years, which he has definitely given up to join the Fairbanks Station. Just prior to coming to Fairbanks he conducted extensive testing work on the silver lead-zinc ores of the Colorado Cen tral Mine at Georgetown, Colorado. He is also the author of a number of articles on metallurgical subjects in the technical press
 Paul Hopkins, Chemist of the Sta ton, was born in Chicago, moving to Seattle at an early age. After graduating from the University of Washington he remained there as as sistant in chemistry until 1905. In June, 1905, he came to Fairbanks as assayer for the Fairbanks Bank ing Company and has remained here as bank assayer until the present time, with the exception of a short time as chemist of the Puget Sound Navy Yard. He resigned the latter position to enter the employ of the American Bank of Alaska In addi- ton, he has carried on quite an eX
 tensive amount of custom work in assaying, analysis and ore sampling.
 E. H. Purdy, the Chief Clerk of the Station, was born in Washing ton, D. C., where he first became associated with the Bureau Last November he moved to Tucson with the establishment there of the Sta ton of the Bureau of Mines, where he remained about eight months When the Alaska Station was estab lished he was transferred to Fair banks. In addition to being the off cial secretary for the Station, MT. Purdy has charge of the library, mineral collection and reading room. He has arranged the mineral col lection and made study of the specimens and Is also familiarizing himself with local ores.
 George M. Landerking, the Machin- ist, was born In Clinton County, Iowa, but when he was two years of age his parents moved to Cali fornia by way of the Isthmus. When twelve years old he started work in the Marine Iron Works at San Francisco but shortly afterwards he went to sea, and a great part of his life since then has been spent on the sea between California and the Arctic. Several years before the Klondike excitement he made trip down the Yukon as official photogra- pher with a Census expedition. He was in Dawson four years during the boom days, later going to the Nome country. From there he came to Fairbanks in 1905 and has spent his time since then in prospecting and steamboating. or working at his trade