The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-10-26
The TRIBUNE PRESENTS EXCLuS i've INTERVIEW WITH MAN
WHO ROUChED II WITH h00V ER IN GOLD FIELDS
Was Regular Human Being
Doing Thing. = Big Way,
ReuuDlican Nominee Liked 10
Read Detective Stories in
Bed


Hoover, . remarkably clever young
mining engineer, tramping through
/. mountainous regions miles from CIV
ilization, and descending deep into
the ground to examine ore veins.
That chapter Of the Republican
presidential nominees life, which
heretofore has remained practically
hidden, was revealed today by w. j.
Lorin9 in IN exclusive interview with
NEA Service and The Tribune. Lor-
Ing, who has spent AZ years in the
mining business, was formerly presi-
dent Of the American Mining Con-
gress and is today one Of the out
standing figures in the mining IN
dustry, worked with Hoover for
many years in Australian and Kew
Zealand gold fields.
Prior to that association the two
men worked for the same concern.
the Utica Mining Company. but did
not know each other. Loring was
stationed 1t the Angels camp mine
in California, while Hoover was
pushing . car in the Mayflower mine
some miles distant. It was the pres
idential candidates first job after
his graduation from Stanford Uni
Nersity.
Began 1t "a
"Hoover went to work for the
Bewick Moreing Company, q Lon
don mining concern, in 1898, at the
age Of "a" Loring relates. HE had
been working for Louis Janin, San
Francisco mining engineer, having
gone there from the Utica company.
Janin gave him desk room in his
office and occasionally sent him out
on examination work. However, the
lob was not very lucrative.
"Then the West Australian gold
boom started and the Bewick More
ing Company cabled Janin asking
him to send two American engineers
to Australia. Hoover was one Of the
men whom Janin selected.
ION Feb. l, 1902, after Hoover
had become q partner in the firm,
he offered me . job as field engineer
looking for new properties. That
was the beginning of the most pleas
ant association have ever known
an association which continued un-
til July l, 1908, when ! bought his
interest in the firm.
/ During those years ! learned to
know Hoover even better than he
knew himself. In those days he was
a tall, thin, good looking fellow who
did things in = big way-just as he
does now. During my stay in Aus
tralia, Hoover maintained his head
quarters in London. But he made
yearly visits to all Of the Bewick
Moreing mines throughout Aus
tralia and New Zealand. accom-
panied him on all of these trips,
which always required three or four
months"
According to Loring, Hoover in
those days possessed most OF the
traits which today are still part Of
his makeup. He was just regular
human being-kind to everyone,
quiet and of serious nature. He
never talked unless he had some
thing to say, absolutely stunning
anything in the way Of small chatter.
And he scarcely ever told story
although he did possess q sense OF
humor. His mind was constantly
on his business which he viewed in
broad way. Details didn't interest
him q particle.
Detective Story Fan
"Hoover had only one recreation"
continued Loring. AFTER retiring,
he would lie in bed and read detcc-
tive stories. He needed something
to take his mind off his work before
going to sleep and they served that
purpose. But even in his reading,
he practiced his economical, time
saving methods.
I'm those days we had only candles
for lights in the mining camps.
H. Gas we called him-would
place the candles on the bed by his
pillow. When he finished reading,
candle and book would both go to
the floor with one movement. He
never wasted time on anything.
I'VE lived in rough mining shacks
under the boiling sun in . country
where the heat was almost unbear-
able and rain seldom fell.
"Another Of Hoover's outstanding
traits was that he never complained
about anything. During the time
that was working for him as gen.
eral manager Of the mines in both
J Australia. and New Zealand, he wrote
me hundreds Of letters. Every one
of them contained words OF encour-
agement-never . single complaint.
And he certainly had plenty Of |
grounds for finding fault since was
handling large sums Of money and
thousands of men.
Could Choose Men
HE always took broader view
of situation than most men. And
in conferences he would invariably |
be thinking way ahead Of all the
other men put together. Hoover
knew how to select men and when
he got good one he merely mapped
ont his plan and then. let the man
alone carry it out IS best he could.
II. G., was not afraid to let the
other fellow make money either-he
didn't try to hog It all for himself,
. trait which won the implicit con-
fidence Of AL his friends. There was
not one Of them who wouldn't put
money into his enterprises without
even asking any question:"
One Of Hoover's hobbies, accord
Ing to his former associate, was to
pick up concerns which were just
about on the rocks and build them up
again. As soon o they were oper-
ating successfully, he would eave
them and look for another failure
20 build up. He took great delight
Ia making something out Of prac-
tically nothing.
God deliver me from a fool
would rather do business with .
rogue any day II he has BRAINS,
Hoover told me one day." says Lor-
Ing. THAT statement is typical Of
hia entire makeup. An intensely
brilliant and fast thinking man him
self, he prefers to deal with men Of
intelligence"
Loring now operates q copper