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Show I, ' POPE YEATMAN", mining engi- ! neer of international reputation, i who has directed the development of jj some of the world's largest prophyry i ; copper mines. He is visiting in Salt: Lake on a pleasure trip. j SEES MENACE IN DELAYJF PEACE Pope Yeatman, Mining Engineer, En-gineer, Says Bickering Aggravates Ag-gravates Unrest in U. S. Salt Lake Visitor Formerly Consulting Expert of Utah Copper. i Pope Vcatrnaii, mining engineer of international in-ternational reputation, is visiting in Halt Lake. Mr. Yeatman, accompanied by his daughter, Miss Georgiana, and his son, J'ope, junior, is on his way to New York after a pleasure trip, which included a visit to Y'ullowstone park. "Economic conditions can hardly bo expected to improve until the peace treaty has been ratified," said Mr. Y'eatman at the Hotel Utah yesterday. "Although I am a Republican in polities, poli-ties, 1 am for the league of nations in its present form without reservations. Unrest prevails, industry is hampered, and reconstruction is retarded whilo ratification of the treaty is delaved. Kvery (lav of delay and useless bickering bicker-ing aggravates conditions. The whole world is waiting for the United States to decide. . Favors Covenant. "The covenant in its present form is not wholly satisfactory, suppose, to the president himself, but it is the best that we can get at present. There were thirty-two nations, more or less, to plenso. To think that a peace treaty could be framed to please all parties is folly. Talk of reservations, before sign-ing'the sign-ing'the treaty, is making a mountain of a mole hill, tor the treaty, I firmly believe be-lieve is elastic enough in its provisions to admit of modification to suit conditions condi-tions after signing. "The world needs some basis for action ac-tion while going on with the process of reconstruction. Until there is some basts such as the league of nations, progress will bo impeded. We assumed grave responsibilities with our entrance into hostilities and we must continue to shoulder these responsibilities. Profiteering Attacked. " A great deal of the present cost of living is due to the vicious system of profiteering which has arisen. We aro no longer content with the per cent of profit wc were' accustomed to make. The whole mental fabric of society is warped with the get-rich-quick craze. This condition must be remedied, and people become imbued with higher ideals of service to society. We are living in times which call for great care in our methods of thinking and living. Only careful thought and right living on the part of the majority of us, no matter what our financial status, will effect n solution of the many ominous problems which are the heritage of the uge. ' ' Record Is Remarkable. The career of Mr. Yentman is an unbroken un-broken record of achievement, not only in the United States, but in South Africa. South America, Mexico and Alnska. Ho was born in St. Louis in .1801. In lS8n he was graduated an engineer from Washington university in St. Louis. During tho years that followed fol-lowed he operated mines in Missouri, Colorado and Mexico. About ten years after his graduation from the university, univer-sity, John Hays Hammond, who in 1893 hail gone to South Africa to operate gold mines for the Bornato brothers, made. Mr. Y'eatman his assistant. For a period of ten years Mr. Y'eatman operated mines in the South African gold field, which included the Consolidated Con-solidated gold fields, tho Robinson Deep mine and Kandfnntein estates. Up to 190.1, Mr. Yeatman was not .as well known in American as in Knglish and South African mining circles. About this time he resigned his position po-sition in South Africa anil came to America, in order that his children might receive their education in the United States. In 1906 he was named successor to John Hays Hammond as consulting engineer to the Guggen-heims. Guggen-heims. Developes Chilean Mines. While in the employ of tho Guggen-heims, Guggen-heims, Mr. Y'eatman developed the immense im-mense deposits of low-grade copper ore t Chiquicamata, Chile. Supplies had to be shipped from New Y'ork; the nature na-ture of the country was hostile; the deposits de-posits were situated inland eighty-five miles from the coast port of Antofa-gasta, Antofa-gasta, Chile, at an altitude of 9500 Veet, in a country where rain does not fall for years at 'a stretch. Under Mr. Yeatman 's leadership this mine be-eame be-eame one of the world 's largest copper properties, and its era of production will continue undiminished for years. More than 200,000,000 tons of copper, averaging approximately 2 per cent, were proved to exist by drilling. Engineer for Utah Copper. Xot content with this achievement, The Guggenheim interests sent Mr. Y'eatman to develop the Braden copper mines, in the province of O'Higgins, in the vicinity of Chiquicamata. Chile. Later he was sent to develop the porphyry por-phyry copper deposits at Elv, Nev. As a result of his executive ability, a railroad rail-road was built over the desert a distance dis-tance of almost 150 miles, a great amount of overburden stripped off the ore deposits, mills and a smelter built and the property put on a productive basis. Mr. Y'eatman 's services as consulting engineer of the X'tah Copper company plaved an important part, it is said, in the successful development of the copper cop-per deposits at Bingham. At present Mr. Y'eatman is practicing practic-ing as consulting engineer, with Cap-rain Cap-rain Edwin S. Berry as associate. During Dur-ing the war Mr. Yeatman was in charge of the nonferrous section of the war ind-ic-tr;.-.- board. |