Show NEW MANAGER FOR UTAH COPPER INDICATES BIG EXPANSION MOVE announcement was formally made about the middle of the month by managing b director D C jackling of the utah copper company that louis S cates had been appointed general manager of the companas comp anys properties R C gemmell who has been filling that position for several years past at the same time becomes assistant managing b director of the jackling group of porphyry copper mines including the ray chino utah copper and nevada consolidated the changes became effective as of or may alst 1st in addition to his promotion to the general mana gersh p mr cates also continues as a director and assistant secretary of the utah copper company for the past several years mr cates has served as assistant general manager of the utah copper and as consulting director of the ray consolidated with which he first became identified in 1910 as general beneral 6 man LOUIS S CATES ager and director previous to the purchase of the boston consolidated property at bingham by the utah copper company mr cates was in charge of that property and upon which he had inaugurated steam shovel operations thus the new general manager of utah copper assumes duties that carry him back to 0 the very spot where he started to carve out a reputation as an initiator of a system of mining which has since proven so highly successful and remunerative to the gigantic concern which closed the career of the boston consolidated locally the impression has gathered momentum momentum that utah copper is planning a campaign of broad expansion that much greater ore treating facilities are to be provided through the rebuilding and re equipping of the old magna mill with machinery and processes that will be the ithe last word in treating the character of ores which are produced at the companas comp anys mines and which it is believed managing director jackling and the executive committee has planned to produce in much greater tonnage than has heretofore been attained or largely in excess of tons daily which was the normal output when going at capacity heretofore in other words word s it is believed that utah copper contemplates so perfecting its system of mining and reduction of ores that it will be possible to eclipse all past achievements notwithstanding the records made have been the wonder of the mining milling and metallurgical world it is therefore not surprising that louis S cates has been selected as the man to manage and carry into effect the campaign believed to have been decided upon he has trained with the jackling organizations in capacities that have given him opportunity to establish his fitness to handle the big problems in hand and his hosts of friends in the mining world have bave no misgivings misgiving s concerning his ability to meet all expectations mr cates was born in boston mass december 20 1881 and in 1902 graduated as a mining engineer from the massachusetts chu institute of technology ay when he went to mexico to operate mining property later he became assistant to the president of the national steel wire company of new york in 1904 lie he went to the boston consolidated mining company and took charge of its bingham mines mines and held that position until the companas comp anys properties were sold to the utah copper in 1910 he became identified with the ray consolidated as as a director in the company and general manager of the properties it was at that property that he developed a system of underground mining that made it economically possible to mine low grade copper ores at a profit and which elicited much favorable mention by technical mining men men besides rankin ranking hi high h in the engineering profession mr cates is recognized as a man of outstanding business accomplishments and mana managerial arial attainments at the present time he is consulting director of the ray consolidated copper company director gallup american coal company director gibson stores company gibson N M director intermountain m electric company bankers trust company and national copper bank salt lake city assistant general manager bingham garfield railroad company secretary treas aurer and director garfield water company and also the garfield improvement company president of the garfield banking in company president of the bin binham bingham ham state bank and director of the utah fire clay company |