Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1933-03-02
Officers
Prominent In
Mining World
Men at Head of Libby Mine
Have Successful
Record.
HAVE DEVELOPED
LARGE PROPERTIES

Recently this newspaper has had
frequent items telling of plans to re-
sumo operations at the Midas mine
south of Libby, where the mine.
equipped with a modern mill, has been
closed down for the past several years.
A circular, just issued by the company
owning the Midas, has the following to
say about Rowland King, who has re-
Gently assumed the position of man
ager at the mine:
Mr. Rowland King, a graduate Of
the Michigan School of Mines, was for
many years in charge of the assay and
chemical department Of the British
Columbia Copper Company, at Green
wood. He afterward superintendent the
construction and operation of mills in
British Columbia and Washington. Fol
lowing this, he was for several years
partner in the firm of G. NJ Fasset
& Company, the well-known chemists
and assayers of Spokane. Of late years
he has followed his profession of min
ing engineer with offices in Spokane,
and is highly regarded in his home city
as an able engineer
The circular says the following re-
garding the officers Of the company:
THE president, Mr.. Jay T. Graves
has had years of experience in the
purchase of mining properties, the or
ganization of corporations for the oper-
ations of these properties, the selection
Of engineers, biologists, chemists and
other operators competent to carry
forward to success mining properties Of
merit. His outstanding success was the
Grandby Consolidated Mining & Smelt-
ing Company. The mines that went to
make that company were first pur-
chased by him, and the company or
ganized, financed, and operated by him
for period Of Is years successful OPP
erations. The story of its development
from an immense low grade deposit,
carrying less than 1l2% copper per ton,
into the largest producer of copper in
the British Empire, ttr1der- his manage
ment, is an epic in itself. Everyone,
at that time, believed it preposterous
to treat copper ore, of less than 2l2%,
commercially. However, the success OF
the venture and the merits of the man
speak for themselves
1.-THE vice president, Mr. Paul II.
Graves is of the well-known law firm
of Graves, Kizer and Graves, and in
his hands will rest such legal ques-
tons as pertain to the companys OPP
erations, assuring thereby that this
branch of the company's affairs will
receive competent attention.
THE engineer and secretary treas
urer, Mr.. Frederic Keffer, a graduate
Of the Mining School Of Ohio State
University, has been following his pro-
fession in the West since 1892, at first
in Wyoming, Mexico and Arizona. In
1896 he began the development of min
ing properties in British Columbia and
Washington, the successful outcome OF
which work resulted in the formation
of British Columbia Copper Company
for which company he was general
manager until 1907, and afterward- in
charge of its many producing mines
and the exploration and development
of new properties, notably among these
the vast copper deposits Of Copper
Mountain at Princeton. British Column
bia, where some twelve or more mil
lions of tons of copper ore were found
The smelter at Greenwood, British
Columbia, treated around six million
tons of copper-gold ores during hi
connection with the company. Remov-
ing to Spokane in 1915. he has sinct