The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-08-31
HANLEY PROMOTED
SUPT. HECLA NINE
LONG WITH COMPANY
Expansion of Hecla Opera
tons Makes Position Nee
essary--Hanley's Record
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ness Office and purchasing
agent of the Hecla Mining COM
pany. has been advanced to the
position of general superintendent of
the mine and mill and he will take up
the duties OF the new position within
the next three months. IL has been
known for the past few weeks that
this change was contemplated, and
yesterday the information was Off
cially confirmed by James f. McCar-
thy, president and general manager OF
the Hecla company. The position of
general superintendent is a new one
in the Hecla organization, the gap
between the general manager and the
foremen of the several operating de
partments being filled by Mr. McCar-
thy But the steady expansion of the
company's operations, and especially
the acquisition and development of
the star in conjunction with the Bun
ker Hin & Sullivan company, have
alike introduced new and larger prob
lens of management and made neces-
sary closer attention to supervision of
operations. To meet this situation
and relieve the manager of much de-
tail that conflicted with his wider dut-
les the directors of the company es-
tablished the position of general sup
erintendent and Mr. Hanley was nat
urally the man selected to fill the
place. A modern cottage is being
built by the company at the mine and
when this is completed Mr. Hanley
will move to Burke and take up the
duties of the position, for which he is
eminently qualified. He will be sue
ceeded by Leo Hoban as chief in
charge of the Office of the company
here.
Nineteen Years With Hecla.
The success that has been won by
Mr.. Hanley contains all the elements
of a human interest story as we'll as
a moral that might well he considered
by the youth of today. In the late COS
he was a pupil in the Wallace high
school, anxious to follow up his high
school course with college educa-
ton. but uncertain regarding his abi-
ity to do So About that time the late
A. b. Campbell, one of the prominent
popular and successful mine operators
of the district, offered a scholarship
in the state university to the student
in Mr. Hanleys class who graduated
with the highest rating together with
other specified conditions This was
his opportunity and he went after the
Campbell scholarship and won it. At
the university Mr.. Hanley entered the
school of mines and took up mining
engineering and metalurgy. Follow
ing graduation Mr. Hanley returned
to Wallace and soon thereafter took
a dual position with the Hecla Mining
that of assayer and book
keeper He did the assaying in the
forenoon and the bookkeeping In the
afternoon. This was nineteen years
ago. AS Hecla grew Mr.. Hanley grew
with it, The books and accounting
soon required his entire time then Of
fee assistants were added. Ten years
ago he was elected secretary of the
Hecla company a position which he
still holds. From a small mine Hecla
has become one of the great mines or
the district, and likewise Mr.. Hanley
has grown in his capacity to deal with
the larger problems involved in the
operation of a great mine. He has
earned the advancement that has come
to him and his success is a matter Of
qualification to a host of friends