The Arizona copper camp., 1918-02-02
NOT LUCK, BUT INTELLIGENCE,
SECRET Of JACKDNC'S SUCCESS

ore of the Mercur mine. Samples had
been sent to scores of experts in Am
erica and Europe, but none of their
suggestion proved practical After a
thorough analysis Jackling announced
his intention of roasting this ore be-
fore putting it through cyanide tanks
Orthodox metallurgists emitted a
loud cackle of derision. "Why not boil
ice cream with live Goals? 1t can't
be done"
Jackling did it. In his laboratory
he demonstrated it could be done,
built a big plant along the lines he
devised, and extracted the gold at a
big profit. When ]. R. DeLamar, the
copper refner and owner of the Mer-
cur mine, was offered a quarter in
terest in a low-grade copper property
at Bingham, Utah, in return for speci-
fed development work, he sent Jack
ling to examine the ground. That was
in 1899. Jackling was 30
TackIing the Porphyry Mountain
The veins and seams of rich cop
per ore had been scraped clean years
ago. Only the shell remained And
this consisted of country rock-por-
phyry peppered with small particles
of copper. The property had been on
the market for years, but potential
buyers merely snickered. Nor did
Captain DeLamar have strong faith.
But for the great speculative copper
boom that eliminated in 1899, he
might not have risked his money even
for experimental development
Jackling drove tunnels, drilled holes,
took endless samples, and proved the
existence of nine million tons aver
aging 2 per cent metallic copper, with
probability of at last 25,00O,OOO tons
probability of at least 25,000,000 tons
of the low grade deposit contained
more than billion pounds of copper
He acquired an ancient stamp mill,
crushed hundreds of tons, worked out
the exact cost of mining, hauling,
milling and smelling, tested the fig
ures by running more ore through,
went over his computations again and
again and reported that the property
could be worked at a profit on large
scale.
Captain DeLamar praised his work,
but declined to sink more money.
That was in 1900.
Did Jackling give up? He had every
reason to quit. His employer had
spent a hundred thousand dollars ex-
perimenting and had abandoned his
investment. For four years Jackling
tried every avenue of approach to
the lords of many millions, and found
corporations in America and Europe
had his plans, and sent them back.
Yet, though he did not own one ounce
of the porphyry mountain he never
gave up.
/ Early in 1903 he succeeded in OBJ
tanning, indirectly through third par
ties, an option on the porphyry
ground. But no one would listen to
him-until he came to G. M. MacNeil.
MacNeil was neither a practical
miner nor mining engineer. He
had entered the Cripple Creek dis
trict as business manager with vi.
sion beyond rows. of ledger figures.
He had become keen judge of men.
MacNeil was willing to listen, even
though a strike was on and his life
was in constant danger.
Taking MacNeil and associates to
Bingham, Jackling conducted them
through the workings, showed them
everything. They agreed to supply
money to develop the property on a
scale large enough to feed mill with
a capacity of 300 tons a day.
Jackling made good. The first year
proved his contentious. The lean
porphyry ore actually produced cop
per at a profit larger than the gain
of most of the famous old copper
mines Jackling produced copper for
! ten cents a pound most mines in
Michigan, Montana and Arizona could
not do it for less than eleven.
Jackling's keen insight revealed
such enormous possibilities that the
size of his project scared his associ-
ates. Costs must be reduced, guam
titles increased. He must have mil
lions.
/ He got them. He went to the Gug-
genheims. He was SO, practically un-
known. But he had proved his theory.
+ And the Guggenheims were big
enough, had vision and foresight
enough. They loaned three million,
taking convertible bonds in return.
Now Jackling tackled the mountain
in earnest. He ate and slept only
when physical necessity compelled,
He bought steam shovels and set to
stripping the mountain until they
reached the ore At times his shov-
els moved as much yardage as Goe-
thals did at Panama. He built a mill
with a capacity of 5000 tons a day
He built a power plant with a capa-