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Stewart Campbell
to Alaska, with side stopa In most of th~
land~grant states. He holds a prominent
position in the American Legion, VeteraM
of Foreign Wars, and the Forty-and-Eight.
With this background he Is especially interested
in the search for strategic minerals
which the war department pronounce es·
sential to 8 successful defense program. He
is tall, with thinning hair, sharp blue eyes,
a typical Scottish nose, the frame of a
stevedore, capable of a hard day's work.
His speech is quiet, but forceful when
necessary. Mining men proclaim his safety
record to be exceptional. Looking at Art
Campbell, one would immediately identify
him as a hardrock miner; listening to him,
one would recognize the sound education
and intelligence underlying his words.
Stewart Campbell,
mine inspector for
12 years, also is D.
graduate of the University
of Idaho, receiving
his B.S. in
mining engineering
in 1907. Until1910
he worked for various
concerns,
mostly mining companies,
and then he
opened a private office
at Hailey. Always
an exponent of
f air dealings, his
tenure of office was highlighted by the
exposure of eastern fraudulent interests.
It is to him principally that thanks are
due for the present form of the state mine
inspector's report, which is outstanding in
the clarity, brevity, and thoroughness, with
which the mining activities of the year are
reviewed. His long record of re-election
testifies to his ability and the people's confidence
in him.
The race between the two men is expected
to be interesting, especially so since
the primary elections resulted in 29,556
votes for Stewart Campbell and 29,977
, votes for Arthur Campbell.
OREGON MINES EXPECT
50 PER CENT INCREASE
THE State Department of Geology and
Mineral Industries of Oregon estimates
that during the current year the
mineral production of the state will be
increased by 50 per cent over the 1939 figures.
In 1939 the state showed an increase
in production of metallic minerals
and ores of 16.6 per cent over the 1938
figures. The actual value of gold, quicksilver,
lead, and copper produced in 1939 in
Oregon was $3,828,243, against $3,282,970
for the previous year.
The rapid advance has been due mainly
to the greatly increased production of
quicksilver and to the increased number
of gold dredges operating in the state.
Oregon now has one of the largest producing
quicksilver mines in the United
States, the Bonanza mine near Sutherlin.
In 1939 there were 116 undergroun,)
gold quartz producers j 15 gold dredges;
13 non-floating washing plants; 76 hydraulic
gold producers, and 13 underground
drift placers and miscellaneous operations.
NEW JERSEY ZINC REPORTS
INCREASED PROFIT IN 1940
THE New Jersey Zinc Company reports
for the quarter ended June 30, 194il,
a net profit of $1,553,156, equal to 79
cents a share, which compares with $971,-
382 or 49 cents a share in the June quarter
of 1939. A report for the March quarter
of the current year showed a net profit
of $.1,765,112 or 90 cents a share.
For the six months ended June 30 the
company showed a net profit of $3,318,268,
or $1.69 a share, against $2,047,648 or
$1.04 a share in the 1939 period.
In the western states the company's
activities are under the Empire Zinc Company,
which operates at Gilman, Colorado,
and Hanover, New Mexico.
A.I.M.E. HOLDS SUCCESSFUL
MEETING AT SALT LAKE CITY
ORE than a thousand members of the
M American Institute of Mining and
Metallurgical Engineers-the men who.
know where the strategic and useful min~
erals are and how to win them from the
earth's secret hiding places--assembled in
Salt Lake City, Utah, for the 153rd meeting
of the Institute, September 10-13, to
discuss--on the record-the latest methods
of mining and treating ores; andmore
or less behihd the scenes--the sources
and availability of the strategic minerals
needed for defense purposes.
The Utah Section of the Institute was
host at the 163rd meeting, which was the
first to be held there since 1927, and D.
D. Moffat, vice-president of the Utah
Copper Company, whose world-famous
mine is located in Bingham Canyon, right
outside of Salt Lake City, was general
chairman. D. C. Jackling, president 01
Utah Copper Company-the man whose
genius for mass production mining methods
made it possible to mine profitably the 1
per cent porphyry copper ores-predicted
that the Salt Lake meeting would eclipse
all previous meetings held in the west and
he was right.
The first official meeting was a luncheon
at Hotel Utah, at which Henry H. Blood,
governor of Utah, and Ab Jenkins, mayor
of Salt Lake City, welcomed members of
the A.I.M.E. to Utah and Salt Lake City.
Herbert G. Moulton, president of the Institute,
responded.
A feature of the meeting was a number
of air""Yiew reconnaissance trips over the
Utah mining districts, personally conducted
by leading mining geologists who practice
this method of prospecting for new mining
fields. The United Air Lines' 21-passenger
I'Mainliner" planes were used, and
the flights were made over Bingham, Midvale,
Park City, Tooele, Ironton, and Tintic
mining districts. In recent years aerial
geologizing has developed rapidly through
the aid of color photography. Maps made
by this method show various ore outcrops
in regions devoid of vegetation, and even
where the vegetation is heavy, as in the
tropics, the differences in color revealed by
the photographs indicate the presence of'
petroleum and various minerals.
On the technical program were outstanding
papers on the Climax-Molybdenum
field-the newest large mlDmg enterprise
in the Colorado area. Molybdenum is an
essential war metal for every country in
the world and the United States, producing
95 per cent of the world's supply, is fortunately
situated. The metal is a necessity
for high-quality steel. Another paper, on
the UFuture of the Lead-Zinc Industry,"
by 'Clinton H. Crane, president of the St.
Joseph Lead Company, pointed out the sig~
nificance of that industry in our defense
and industrial economy.
On Thursday evening the visiting mining
engineers were taken to Bingham Canyon,
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THE MINING JOURNAL for SEPTEMBER 15, 1940
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