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Show Much 16. 1956 The Western Mineral Survey, Salt Lake City. Utah Faye Five Rags To Riches' Theme of D. C. Jackling's Rise To Fame (Continued from page 1) souri, he was a son of Daniel and Lydia Jane Dunn Jackling. Orphaned at the age of two, he .spent his boyhood on the farms of relatives. As a boy, he walked long distances to school. Severe Missouri winters made his attendance intermittent. However, by the time he was 16, he had completed the eighth grade and hired out as a teamster with an uncle in the contracting business. Later, as a farm hand, he earned $14 per month, the most of which he saved. His ambition was to own farm land. In order to prepare himself for a teaching job to save enough to purchase land, he enrolled at the State Normal School at Warrensburg, Bingham Copper Pit honor, explaining he believed a general should be qualified to lead troops in combat and he did not feel he had the qualifications. Living Monument Government Post Later, Mr. Jackling served as wartime assistant to the Army Director of Purchases, Storage and Traffic. For his outstanding wartime efforts, President Woodrow Wilson awarded Mr. Jackling the Distinguished Service Medal. In other public work, Mr. Jackling served as an officer of the Colorado National Guard in 1903 and 1904 in active service on the staff of the then governor, J. H. Peabody. It was from this assignment and a similar assignment from Governor William Spry, of his Utah, that he obtained colonelcy, a title that pleased him and clung to him for years. Extensive Education Mo. Drops Teacher Goal But he became dissatisfied at the end of the first term with the prospects of teaching as a career. During the summer vacation, his imagination was captivated by the work of a civil engineer who permitted him to look through the telescope of his transit. He then and there decided to become an engineer. In September, 1889, he entered the Missouri School of Mines at Rolla. A brilliant scholar, he was to the appointed student-assistaprofessor of chemistry and metallury. he finished Teaching part-tim- Although he held doctors degrees from three universities, he never permitted anyone to address him as Dr. Jackling. He insisted on Mr. Jackling, Col. Jackling, or Jack. He was awarded a doctor of laws degree from the University of California in 1940, a doctor of engineering degree that same year from the University of Southern California, and a doctor of science degree from the Uni- nt e, the four-yea- r course in three years, graduating with a B. S. degree In 1892. He then continued at the school for another year as assistant professor of chemistry and metallurgy. Borrowed Funds After a brief period of pushing slag pots at the Argentine smelter at Kansas City, he went to CripBorple Creek, Colo., in 1893.a seconrowing enough money for d-class railroad ticket, he rode as far as Divide, end of the line, and found himself without stage fare to Cripple Creek, then a boom town. He persuaded a fellow passenger who was going through to take his baggage. Mr. Jackling then walked 18 miles through the snow and ice, arriving at the ramp with but $3 in his pocket.a Several days later he obtained job in an assayers office. Cripple Creek Days In Cripple Creek; he met Charles M. MacNeill and Spencer Penrose, whom, some 10 years later with Spencers brother, R. A. F. Penrose, he was to persuade to furnish funds for him to organize the Utah Copper Co. Following work at various camps as miner, assay er, mill hand, metallurgist, Jackling camee to Mercur, Utah, where he construction and metallur gical superintendent of the Gold en Gate mill. The operator. Captain Joseph R. DeLamar, held an option on the original group of Utah Copsent per claims. Captain DeLamar C. Mr. Jackling and Robert to make an examination of the copper property at Bingham. Mr. Gemmell directed the samp-plinand geological work, Jackling the assaying and concentrating tests, which were made in the Old Rogers mill at Bingham. Their report recommended that the option be exercised, and proposed an innovation: mass mining and milling. But the captain turned the property down, claiming that the ore was too be-cam- Gem-Twp- il g low-grad- e. report, dated Sept. 18, 1898, is notable in that it marks the first proposal for the volume iwlng and treatment of ore containing as little as 2 per cent eopper. Mining methods were to strip the overburden, or waste, with steam shovels, load it into cars, The Jackllng-Gemme- ll com-prehensi- ve PEOPLE SCOFFED IN LATE 1800s But Dan. tel C. Jackling convinced enough financial backers that Bingham Copper pits of today could be a reality. The famous open pit, largest in the world, is now a monument to the early mining pioneer. haul it to adjacent canyons for offered without success to the dumping. principal sources of capital, one as far away as Glascow, it also was to land. - Organizing As to the ore, be mined by steam shovels, loaded into cars and transported to a concentrating plant to be built near Garfield Beach. They estimated that 12,385,000 tons of ore averaging 2 per cent were blocked out. They calculated that copper could be produced for six cents a pound. The accuracy of their forecast as to costs later was realized fully in the operations of the yet to be organized Utah Copper Co. The following year, Mr. Jackling resigned his position with Captain DeLamar and went to Republic, Washington, to design and build a mill for a Canadian mining group. He returned to Colorado in 1901 to become consulting engineer for the United States Reduction and Refining Company controlled by Mr. MacNeill and Mr. Penrose. But the Bingham Copper deposit was his dream and it haunted him. His faith in the property prompted him to keep at the employers until they came to Utah for an inspection. Following a hillside conference, the Colorado men agreed to finance the mine. Thus informally, in 1903, began Utahs greatest enterprise, which later was to revolutionize copper mining everywhere. Greatest Opportunity In Mr. Jacklings own words, attributed to him by a friend,- are revealed the faith and persistence that finally won through: I told Charles (MacNeill) that I had, without exception, the greatest opportunity in the world and that he just had to get in on it. By the way of celebration, Jackling is said to have spent his last $100 on a dinner at Salt Lake City's old Knutsford Hotel. But even after the initial operating capital was available, the obtaining of additional funds became exceedingly difficult. At that time, the claims that made up the Utah Copper company were considered worthless in mining circles. To quote one prominent engineer of that day: The ore contains less copper than the tailings of the Parrot mill at Butte, Montana. The properties had been - Scot- Leadership Shines It was then that Jacklings inspirational leadership and ability again came to the fore. He induced the Daniel Guggenheim interests to make an examination which turned out to be one of the most expensive ever undertaken. Overall cost: $150,-00But the exhaustive survey confirmed Mr. Jacklings figures and further financing was obtained. Construction of a 6000-to- n mill near Garfield, later known as the Magna plant, was begun early ... 0. in 1906. Mr. Jacklings mill was to serve as a testing process to demonstrate that large tonnage could be commercially treated, and to try out various types of equipment for the plant at Garfield. Sparked by Mr. Jacklings pioneering ,the Boston Consolidated Co., which then controlled the upper part of what is now Utah Copper hill, built a large concentrator about one mile west of the Magna mill. Merger Viewed Management of Utah Copper realized immediately that it would be highly advantageous to both companies if the properties could be consolidated and operated as a unit under common ownership. But it was Mr. Jackling who fully appreciated the untenable position of Utah Copper if a merger should not be effected. He summed up the situation this way: Sooner or later, I knew that we would have to take them, or they would have to take us. In 1910, with Mr. Jackling taking the initiative, Utah Copper took over the holdings of versity of Utah in 1942. In addition to pioneering in the e handling of copper ore, Mr. Jackling more than 40 years In fact, during the period 1904 ago worked out a technique for e to 1942, Mr. Jackling served iron ores of handling the Mesabi as director andor genRange that is being eral manager, managing director, used today. Mr. Jackling began work on vice president and, for about 20 the problem in 1914, and two years, as president of the follow-minin- g and metallurgical corpor- years later, a pilot plant was erected at Duluth, Minn. In 1922, ations: Utah Copper Co., Nevada Con- production was started on a large solidated Copper Co., Ray Con- scale, but the price of iron ore solidated Copper Co., Chino Cop- dropped sharply in 1924 and the per Co., Nevada Consolidated plant was closed. In 1953, the Copper Corp., Gallup American plant reopened after a lapse of Coal Co., and the corporate sub- 29 years. The first few months sidiaries of these, including the of operation, treating the ore Nevada Northern Railway co., from Mr. Jacklings original open Bingham and Garfield Railway pit, were so successful that a Co. and Ray & Gilla Valley Rail- much larger plant was constructed. It, too, follows Mr. Jacklings. road Co. He held similar offices also original design. Four of the worlds highest with the Butte & Superior Minever accorded an Individawards ing Co., Alaska Gold Mines Co., ual engineer were given Gen. Granby Consolidated Mining Co., American Zinc, Lead & Smelting Jackling. In 1926, he received the Gold Co., Mesabi Iron Co., and numerous other industrial corpora- Medal award of the Mining and tions of lesser importance. Metallurgical Society of America Mr. Jackling also served as a for distinguished service in the e mines. Director of Braden Copper Co. development of The American Institute of and Director of Mining OperaMining tions of the Kennecott Copper and Metallurgical Engineers honored him in 1930 with the WilCorp. liam Lawrence Saunders Gold dias an officer and lie retired rector of all the foregoing indus- Medal for achievement in min, trial corporations during or be- ing. He was presented, In 1933, with fore 1942, except the Mesabi Iron the John Fritz Medal of the New Co., of which he remained presiYork dent and director. lie also served Engineering Societies for as a director of the Chase Na- notable industrial achievement tional Bank from 1916 to 1924. in initiating mass production of e ore During World War I, his com- copper from of through application engineerpanies contributed heavily to the armament program. With metal ing principles. Only two others production at a peak, Bernard M. have ever been awarded this covBaruch, then head of the War In- eted medal. dustries Board, appointed Gen. At Chicago, 1940, he was given Jackling as Director of Govern- the Washington Award of the Western Society of Engineers for ment Explosives Plants. Aids War Efforts pioneering in large-scal- e mining e In this capacity, and with the and treatment of copgovernment facing an acute pow- per ores, releasing vast resources der shortage, Mr. Jackling pushed from formerly worthless to completion, with phenomenal speed and economy, two powder low-grad- low-grad- suc-cesive- ly Boston Consolidated on a cash plus stock basis. plants. Fit Opens Mr, Baruch said of this feat: Due to the success of Utah Cop- Of the many difficult industrial per and, more directly, to Mr. problems that our country faced, e there was Jacklings pioneering in nothing superior to the other ores, porphyry major solving by Mr. Jackling of this copper deposits of the West were one. At the time the plants were opened up for production. An opheaded as he genius well, erating completed, S e c r e t a ry of War, the Nevada Consolidated Copper Newton D. Baker, and General company, the Ray Consolidated Payton March, Army Chief of Copper company of Arizona, and Staff, offered Mr. Jackling a comthe Chino Copper company of mission in the Army as a genNew Mexico. eral. Mr. Jackling declined the low-grad- low-grad- low-grad- low-grad- Memberships In technical societies, Mr. Jackling held the following memberships: American Institute of Min, ing and Metallurgical Engineers (director for six years and president in 1938); Mining and Metallurgical Society of America (councillor for five years); Missouri School of Mines Alumni Association (president 11 years).. American Chemical Society; Western Society of Engineers; fellow in the American Society of |