Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-24

James Douglas, engineer. admin,
 trator, publicist, philanthropist an
 philosopher died at his home at Spuy
 ten DuyTll, on June 25. aged S1 years
 Alter a life of extraordinary activity
 which activity continued unabated uu
 til two or three years ago. failure O
 his strength finally compelling him tt
 retire, and in view of his advance,
 years his death was not unexpected
 The funeral services were held in tn,
 Church of the Mediator. on June 26
 after which the body was taken t,
 Quebec, the old home, for burial in tn,
 family plot.
 James Douglas was born at Quebec
 Canada, on Nov. 4, 1887 He was the
 son of Dr. James Douglas, a prominent
 surgeon in the Dominion, who intro
 duced the modern treatment of insani
 ty into Canada when he founded the
 Quebec Lunatic Asylum, in the man.
 agement of which for some time his
 son James participated.
 Young Douglas followed in the foot
 steps of his father and studied medi-
 cine in Canada and abroad, partly in
 Scotland and partly in Germany. He was graduated from Queens University Tn Canada, studied medicine at Laval
 University, Quebec, and later was pro- lessor of chemistry at Morrin College. Quebec. After studying medicine for some years, young Douglas decided that he was not enthralled with the profession and began the study of the ology, going to the University of Edin- burgh, Scotland. In 1875 Doctor Doug las, who received his license to preach, but was not ordained, returned to Can ada to assist his father, who had been unfortunate in his investments. For time he managed the lunatic asylum in Quebec which was founded by his father.
 These were the years of finding himself. He had tried the professions of medicine and theology and had near ly reached the age of 40 without be- coming really established or contented. What directed him into his proper field was a misguided investment that his father had made in the Harvey Hill copper mines in Quebec. His father continued to have faith in them. and the son, becoming interested, set cut to retrieve what had been lost fin them. Those mines were not of a character to afford a great financial success to anybody, but they are his tOric, owing to their influence upon Doctor Douglas, and through him upon 1 the mining industry of the world.
 It was at this time that Doctor Doug | las became associated with that bril- | liant scientist, Dr. T. Sterry Hunt. ! Together they worked out the beauti- | ful Hunt & Douglas process of copper | extraction, which was founded upon the sOlubility of cupric oxide in fer rcus chloride, the original process be ing notably modified, however. in later years. This process obtained consid- erable, although not general, use in the United States and elsewhere. While speaking of Doctor Douglas as a metallurgical inventor, reference may appropriately be made here to his very ingenious revolving muffle fur mace for ore roasting. These side lights illuminate the versatility of this great man
 After a brief experience at the Har- Vey Hill mines, Doctor Douglas went To PhOenixville, Penn, to take charge of the copper extraction plant of the Chemical Copper CO., which was ob- , -aining ore from some small and more :; 2r less uncertain mines. In the course [ )f time, however, some parcels of cu- lriferoUs material came to the works , rom Arizona, which directed thither l, he attention of Doctor Douglas and , ed him to pay visit in 1880 to that i newly developing region, through , which the transcOntinental railways q lad but barely been built, and most t 'f which was still infested by Apache q ndians- The Copper Queen mine, at f 3isbee, had been opened in 1880 by l. Martin, Ballard & Reilly, and the first ' copper furnace had been blown in on { Aug 20 of that year. Doctor Douglas, N yho, up to this time, had gained more o xperience than money, was attracted i y the possibilities of this property f md succeeded in interesting some of c he partners of Phelps, Dodge & Co.,. f m old firm of metal merchants in Jew York The story of the Copper Queen mine V s romance in itself, the telling of d lhich would be beyond the scope of a his sketch, and it is unnecessary, for If has been told at length in technical t teratuTe. Suffice it to say that the F rst orebOdy, after yielding 20,000,000 @ )s. of copper, was exhausted in 1884. P he earliest months of that year were A he glcomiest in the history of the dis a rict, of the mine, of it's owners, and il Doctor Douglas. With only three Ia lonths of ore supply in sight, the bandonment of the mine was in pros tC pcf The Ar1oufa HTfnfnr Cg orr- in - Ia, djcining property, was in a similar IT redicament Ii was wholly due 10 \
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