Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-10

600 tons of copper rock still remain to
be milIed.
Terraces have been cut on the sides
of the mountain. rising in tiers, and on
them railway tracks have been laid.
Earth. reaching, at times. to depth of
ninety feet, has been stripped from the
rock beneath The rock is blasted
with powder, and is then scooped up in
steam shovels and loaoed into the rail-
road cars. SO much powder was used
that the du Points of Wilmington built
a mill not far distant from Bingham
mountain. that it could be manufac-
tured on the spot Mr.. Jackling then,
also knows something about powder.
The smelter was increased in size I'M
III 1t now covers more than seven acres.
frequently 1900 tons of rock is ground
about thirty pounds of copper to the
ton, and no more than 20 per cent or
t"enty-one pounds. can be extracted
by the most modern of methods.
MI Jackling. however. is now per
fectins machinery SO that the greater
part OF the wastage can be prevented.
ne plans to reWork the tailings also
and recover six of the nine pounds of
copper .Sp they contain If this is done:
then bingham mountain, or so much of
II as has been blown down. will have
gone through the smelter twice.
thirteen million dollars was spent on
the mountain, the railroad and the
smeIter before the owners of the prop
erty received any personal return. Mr..
lacking having proved his case, was
compelled to turn orator and prove his
usual success Men listened and gave
him their cash.
Among the early shareholders was
Spencer Penrose, brother of BoieS Pen
rase. the Pennsylvania senator. and
himself a mining engineer. and grad
uate of Harvard, as were all the PEN
roses. four in number. He was elected
secretary and treasurer of the corpora
liam Il. Thompson. born in Montana a
graduate of Columbia School of Mines
and a director of the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York. who recently gave
the Russian holsheviki million dol
lars, was another of the pioneer stock
owners. In his hunt. for money Mr.
Jackling went TO the Gugger helms and
obtained SO 900 .0OQ. They seasoned men
in metals, heard and were persuaded
but large as their investment was, they.
so the writer is informed have never
been in control of the mine.
The thirteen million dollars expended
did nor represent cash out of the pock-
ct entirely. After millions had been
spent the mine began earning money.
and il was this money in large part
that completed the development of the
property. The other Jacklng copper
mines are owned by separate groups
of men and each is operated indie
pendently of the others
At the time that lacking got his OPP
ton for the purchase of Bingham
mountain he was worth about $500. But
he had a job. Copper, when he began
to crush his first rock, was selling at
II cents a pound 1t advanced to 20
cents four years later but went back to
II cents in 1911. Last year it rose to
81 cents. The value of the American
product was S510,000,00O.
'Jackling is this kind of man.
quoting again the language of his as
sociate; IF he has an enemy and the
enemy has ability, he says so. He
that he leans the other way. He over
looks the defects in an enemy-provid-
ed, always, that the enemy is a man of
brains-and rather exagserates his
good qualities.
another thing, we have no relatives
looking for jobs-that is, no relatives
looking for jobs with any of our COM
panies. Jackling says to his managers:
Hire your own men. Run your own
business. If you fail. out you go. If you
succeed, no one can hurt you at head
quarters.
The powder mills that the government
means to build will be located at
Nashville. Tenn, and Charleston, w. Va.
Each of them. when in operation, will
give employment to 10000 men. Pow
der, in this instance. means explosives
smokeless. chemical and so forth.
The daily capacity of the mills, it is
said. will be a million pounds. They will
be run by practical powder men. but Mr.
Jackling will act for the government in
the management of both plants.
Copyright. 1918. by James 3. Morrow.)