Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-26
.DR. JAMES DOUGLAS
 PASSES TO UNKOWN
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 company, then copper brokers, sug l gested that this Canadian engineer | should go out into the southwest ana ] look at the country with view tC
 development of copper mines. He wa. ] glad to go. He came first to Clifton
 where they were hauling copper ore 1 1900 miles to a railroad. Then he went to Globe where he took more
 than a passing interest in the copper 1 prospects and possibilities of that
 day.
 1 It may be remarked here that most | of the first metal discoveries in the mountains of Arizona were first made | by soldiers hunting Apache Indians on | the war trail.
 Dr. Douglas then went down to tke ! Warren district where he found men at work mining copper. His trained eye and gifted understanding at once told him that here was the most promising field in Arizona for copper. He had often since told friends that he FELT that the Warren district was the best, and that this instinctive feel ing, as much as his knowledge and experience as a mining engineer had influenced him when he recommended tc the Phelps Dodge company to make their investments and stake their all on this field.
 It is well known how the company sent men here and took claims and risked everything, down to their last $5O,0O0 dollars on the word and faith of Dr. Douglas.
 But Dr. Douglas did not stop with his recommendations as an engineer He was a scientist as we'll as an engi- neer. His advisory work on treatment of low grade ores revolutionized this phase of the copper industry. He was instrumental in placing Arizona low grade ore first in the crusher He introduced the water jacket furnace. He was pioneer in the field of treat ing ores, before shipment. even in a crude manner. And most of the i'm provements in this process, step by step, were due largely to the discover ies of Dr. Douglas.
 Again, he did not confine his ac- tivities to the Warren district or where his own interests lay. He ad- vised and aided many camps with their many problems of the early days of the industry in this new country. It was Dr. Douglas who first discover ed the merit of the Nacozari ores and he had much to do with their develop ment. He also helped in the develop ment of the Cananea field, and at Jerome and Morenci and Globe. His advice was asked for and given as late as the development of the Ajo field
 And in all that wonderful progress of the development of converters up to the final triumph of 99 per cent pure copper he had hand. His great knowledge and wide experience; his marvellous sight in the darkness of new channels of scientific discovery, he used to the uttermost in the in tricate problems that blocked the way of the mine owner, the shelter man and the broker in placing pure copper on the market in its most useful form in the greatest quantity at the lowest price.
 The city of Douglas was named aft CT Dr. James Douglas. And it was Dr. Douglas who planned the building of the Fl Paso & Southwestern railway and was the roads first president Nearly all of the more distinguished and successful of the copper operators and managers of Arizona were trained and helped in their earlier days by Dr. Douglas, and notable among these are two sons, James S and Walter. the latter now himself president of the great mining company of which his father was at one time the head.
 Dr. Douglas was a philanthropist> and upon no small scale, although he was inclined to conceal rather than to advertise this fact His benefactions to colleges, hospitals and charities to- tailed very large sums, the most mo- table of these doubtless being for the General Memorial hospital in New York City. He was especially interest ed in this hospitals treatment of can cer by radium and extended aid more than once to advance this most eX- pensive of all treatments of disease. Among the institutions of learning that he has endowed is the University of Arizona.
 But after all, it was not of these great successes and achievements and benefits that men who knew him talk ed of yesterday in the district when the news of his death came. but rather of the man himself and his qualities of heart and net of his qualities of mind.
 These things Have mostly to do with Dr. James Douglas. the great en- gineer and scientist: the successful or ganizer: the pioneer in new fields: the builder of railroads and director of large enterprises. There is anoth- CT side. and one which many people will call the finer and the greater side. He had, at one time, it is declared by old residents here. a speaking ac- quaintance all over Arizona. He was, in the days of his residence here, in close touch with the business and so- cial life of the community. He loved the southwest where he had wrestled nightly with great problems and done great things. He saw a mining camp become a large and prosperous indus trial center, largely as a result of his discoveries and appliances. And so it was that his voice, his influence and his purse were at the service of ev- arv oanca that u-oo ruorfhu apI very