The Washington herald., 1918-05-06
COPPER KINGS
TO SERVE U. S.
Holland Reviews Careers Of
Three Western Indus
trial Leaders.


II figures were to be used to convey
some idea Of their constructive
achievements then the figures would
range up in the billions. They are
esteemed among the ablest and great
est OF American industrial forces.
and yet very small in comparison with
the new wealth which has been Great
cd for the United States by means OF
their energy, foresight and construc-
tive ability.
Today these three men have been
brought into the service OF the gov
ernment. Mr.. Ryan recently, Mr..
lakeland a little earlier, and Mr..
Thompson, who has been an officer
of the government since the organiza-
ton of the Federal Reserve system
and has also donated several months
and utilized large amount of money
in developing to the highest degree
possible Red Cross work in Russia.
Although these three men have in
the aggregate of their achievements
ing capacity in the Far West, never
theIess each one differs from the
other two in certain temperamental
and personal characteristics al
though in many respects their in
tsllectual power, executive ability
and their dominating energy and
patience are similar. 1t is an in
teresting and possibly significant
fact that all of them were born in
the West. one. Mr.. Thompson, in
the remote West, Montana, while
Mr.. Jackland's birthplace was Mis-
souri, and Mr.. Ryan's Michigan.
others who have developed large
copper properties in the United
States-as, for instance. the Calumet
. and HecIa group and the Phelps
dodge 6 Company group-are East
Iern men. and their properties have
been exclusively developed with
Eastern capital. Upon neither of
1.-THE groups has the government
up to this time called for such aid
demanded of Mr.. Thompson, Mr.
lakeland and Mr.. Ryan. All three
began life amid humble environ
ments and all three received such
education as they secured chiefly by
their own efforts. Each one is in
full maturity of his intellectual and
physical Vigor. One of them Is
spoken of in the financial district
OF New York as having accumulated
[ in absolutely honorable ways one
fof the largest American fortunes,
although less than thirty years ago
he was, b. such employment as he
could secure, working his way through
q preparatory school and also the
Columbia School of Mines.
Mr.. Thompson's Career.
Mr.. Thompson is a native of vir-
sinia City. Mont. In his early boy
hood he was brought into close asso-
ciation with the pioneers in the min
ling and other developments which had
at that time Just begun in Montana.
[He made his way East while still in
his teens and found opportunity while
at st. Paul School at Exeter, n. H.,
to earn enough to pay his way.
While there he made acquaintance
with a lad who, like himself, sought
and obtained employment whereby he
too could pay for his board and tut
ton Twenty years later these two
men were brought into close associa-
ton in the financial world for both
had achieved greatly. The companion
whom young Thompson found at Exc
ter in a situation similar to his own
was Thomas W. Lamont, now
partner in the house of j. P. Morgan
and Company. Having finished his ca
reer at Exeter, Thompson studied at
Columbia, gaining AZ the School of
Mines the technical and scientific
knowledge which, experimenting his
energy, judgment and intellectual
and develop one of the great copper
properties of Arizona, now widely
known as the Inspiration. With the
history of this corporation Mr..
Thompson's name will always be
identified. Later he became director
in the Rock Island Railroad and in
other companies and when the Fed
eral Reserve Bank system was or
sanized and the Bank of New York
established he was named as one Of
the directors Mr.. Thompson does
things easily because his mind works
that way. His services in Russia were
so great that 1t was officially report-
ed few days ago that the American
Red Cross in Russia is the only Or
ganlzation which the Soviet govern
ment recognizes and appreciates.
Mr.. JaekIand's Career.
Daniel c. Jackland was born in a
<ittle town in Missouri amid sur-
roundings which would not tn
ESouth of average ability, have at
tracted him to the world OF science
and afterwards to applied science
BY mis- own efforts he secured a scien-
tihc education in Missouri and for a
time became teacher in one of the
missouri colleges. But the call of
the West reached him and was an
swered. He went to Cripple Creek.
where he is still remembered as an
empioye who was not only willing
put eager to begin at the bottom.
learning thereby every detail of min
ing operations. So in a little while
he was called to the Mercury gold
mines OF Utah. lakeland will aIwavs.
however. be associated with the won
derful development of the Utah con-
per company, having had the COURAGE
and judgment to ventura upon the
development of the copper known IN
oe IN a great mountain west of Salt
Lake City which the experts had pro-
nounced impracticable to exploit on
account of the high cost which wouId
De entailed. Jackland, however.
found the way to exploit these mines
and the wonderful resources of that
mountain have yielded to his COM
mand to come forth. Many have been
his other activities, among them the
development Of gold properties in
Alaska So also he has been ASSOCIATE
I'D with the management of railroad
companies, banks and was not long
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