The Arizona copper camp., 1918-02-02

AIdue INNING engineering one OF the
learned professions. 1t wasn't luck
that made Cecil Rhodes, the Empire
Builder" pay Mr.. Hammond $1OO, 900
a year to help develop the gold mines
of the Rand, and when he recon-
mended the expenditure of millions
of dollars in developing the deep levels
there was no dependence upon luck
for returns. He knew-and the gold
mines of South Africa are now turn
ing out almost OO,0OO,00O a year.
A hundred other stories of the vic
tory of accurate knowledge could
quickly be recited, but the experience
of D. G. Jackling, the man who has
almost doubled the worlds supply of
available copper-the man who made
the biggest copper mine in the world
out of mountain of worthless por-
phyry-the man who gets a pound OF
copper from ore so lean that the ribs
stick out" for two whole cents less
than it costs the fellows with the high
cient evidence to convince even the
most doubtful that mining is a scie
science conducted on business meth
DDS.
Walter V. Woehlke writes of D. C.
Jackling, in the American magazine,
in part as follows:
In the second year of his life he
was orphaned At 1S he was farm
laborer. At 20 he was working his
way through college. At 80 he had
risen to mine superintendent at $4,000
year.
At 35 he was vice-president and gen
eral manager of a struggling mining
company, predestined accotding to
expert opinion, to complete and costly
failure. This mine was opened only
IL years ago.
At 40 he was a millionaire. At As
he rounded the Horn in his own steam
yacht. He is AZ today and a million
aire. He controls four mines, all less
than II years old, which annually pro-
duce twice as much copper as the
mines of Michigan put together. He
acquired an improbable zinc property
four years ago, lifted it's output until
it approached production of all the
mines in Missouri, and made it pay
$15.000,000 in dividends the last two
years.
Today he figures in gold mines in
Alaska, iron ore in Minnesota, the
largest fleet on the Pacific coast He
is heavily interested in beet sugar
factories, rice mills, railroads, trust
companies. His career seems to have
just begun.
1t was in Salt Lake City four or
five years ago, that l first heard OF
Jackling. "You don't want to leave
Utah without seeing Bingham" my
mining friend urged. "The trip over
Garfield and Bingham railroad alone
is worth the time. It's the most ex-
pensive railroad in the world. Cost
100000 a mile and is all tunnels and
trestles. Jackling built it just to haul
this ore. Bingham is a sight; it's six
miles long and sixty feet wide. Last
spring a locomotive fell through the
roof of the bank. And don't miss
Utah Copper. It's the biggest thing
this side of the Panama Canal They
are getting out 10000 tons day and
the stuff runs less than 2 per cent
copper. Jackling's made the biggest
copper mine in the world out of d
mountain of worthless porphyry. He
has added half billion pounds of
cheap copper to the worlds annual
supply. He gets a pound of copper
from ore so lean that the ribs stick
out, for two whole cents less than it
costs the fellows with the high-grade
smelling ore in Butte and Jerome"
How did he do it? l asked him. His
answer flashed back: Work, work,
more work. For ten years l averaged
fifteen hours day. I've worked per-
sistently since l was old enough to
know what work was
ITO repeat mechanically the same
task is not work; that is labor. The
work l mean is continuous, purpose
full, constructive effort followed by
accomplishment Effort alone won't
do 1t must produce results. When
ever l found my best efforts failed to
produce expected results, l chose an
other road"
He had determined to become q
civil engineer, to take course at Mis-
souri, School of Mines. This was in
1889 Jackling was 20. He burned
the midnight candle at both ends,
gained admission, and threw himself
into the work of acquiring engineer
ing education He concentrated upon
metallurgy.
In 1888 he was driving a team of
mules; toward the end of 1891 he was
appointed assistant professor of metal
lurgy. The classroom did not satisfy
his ambition Professor Jackling re-
signed, went to Kansas City and asked
a position in lead smelter When
he found only day laborer's job open
he invested the remnants of his funds