The Washington herald., 1918-07-01
|UNIQUECAREER
| OF DR.. DOUGLAS
Holland Tells Of Man Of
Science and Business Who
Died Last Week.


Dougies, who died af his home In
New York on Tuesday o. last week.
came TO the United States, where he
achieved wonderful things. and back
10 Quebec his body was taken for in-
terment because for Year, the family
plot IN the oenetery has there been
maintained
DR.. Douglas was Of worid-wids rep
utation, although possfbiy hks name
was not as familiar 10 the public -
his achievements would have JUSTIFIED.
He cana TO the United States quail
ifed a. q mining engineer. but he had
already received his degree as doctor
Of medicine and after q biref practice
Of that profession he turned b the
ology and was licensed 10 preach. al
though never going 20 far - 70 Be
actually ordained as Clergyman
His career had many elements Of
romance IN It Physician. clergyman.
mining engineer. the disooverer of Q
remarkably successful process Tor az
tracing copper ores. the true pro-
moter Of vast copper developmeut IN
Arizona and the far Southwest. q
builder Of railroads, q writer of books
that were esteemed highly. the wonder
was how he achieved 20 much along
different lines, although he lived ten
years beyond the seripturel hndt of
age
Psonssr IN Eleetrelysa..
About the time when there came
the dawn Of what proved 70 Be the
marvellous i:saustrial era for the
United States DR.. Douglas IN q com
paratiyely limited copper refining or
smelling plant IN Pennsylvania taught
the world how 30 utilize the some
what mystic and today not fully un-
derstood law of eelctrolysis. % that
in that way he was able to secure
from copper ore not only such
precious metals ~ were embedded IN
it, for often gold and silver are found
in association with copper ore. but
also how 10 obtain By this process
substantially pure copper from the
ore. This was In fact one Of the
earliest Of the Developments Of cleo
tro-chemistry, q science which q few
years later was to be so wonderfully
advanced that at last it pointed the
way whereby new minerals. unknown
thirty years earlier, could be manu-
how to produce car
duce bakelite. and Hall how TO secure
aluminium at low cost
More Than q Man Of seienee.
The copper plant m Pennsylvania
was given up principally because the
supply of copper was not sufficient
Already Boston capital and Boston
ability had begun 10 exploit with
gratifying results the copper deposits
Of northern Michigan, but not yet had
Thompson and lacking. Daily. Clark,
and others found themselves on The
highroad to the stupendous copper
production which. when this at last
was accomplished. made the United
States the greatest copper-productng
country In the world
The late william Earl Dodge I'M as-
sociation with the late d. willts
James and others maintained tn New
York for many years an important
mercantile house, principally occupied
with importing copper and other
metals and marketing them. Mr..
Dodge and his partners until they
were brought into association win
DR.. Douglas had no thought of enter
ing the field Of copper production.
Their attention was brought to this
opportunity by . man who came from
Arizona to New York and who un-
dertook to interest them IN copper
properties ir Arizona which he said
were inexahustible and very rich II
Is Q long story which tells fully OF
the manner IN which this mercantile
house became interested In copper
production. It ID enough to say that
Dr.. Douglas. who visited Arizona and
the copper regions, reported fayora-
bly, and Phelps, Dodge q 90. were
persuaded to invest some capital In
the venture. The results were amaz-
ing to them. The house became one
OF the greatest copper-producing or
ganizations of the world. following.
in that respect, in point OF time the
great copper development in northern
Michigan.
Baflt aiIroads.
Or. Douglas judgments were IN
erring. His business acumen was
spoken of as unusual. When one OF
the railroads which was under con-
struction from the Pacific to the
Mississippi River was laying out its
survey DR.. Douglas approached the
executive head urging that the sur
vey be 90 changed as 10 bring the