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Show TLw' Will iBe a r Series bF : SLort Stetclies of Men Pictures of UtaV- Big Men ; . V WKoBuilt Up the State - -, f V -- - ; ' ' . V .... " v , - v ' : - V X r OTTO STALMA'NN ' Foremost among the many mining corporation managers who b.v concentrated effort and fareeeing judgment have attained marked auecess may be named Otto Stalmann, the subject of this sketch. He was born in Germany, 'in"183o. He received his pri- v mary education in the common schools and gymnasiums gymnasi-ums of hia native town, and afterward took the advanced ad-vanced course' of mining and metallurgy in the University Uni-versity of Berlin. He studied for a Government mining mi-ning career,, and after he passed the examinations he emigrated to this country in 1878. He went direct to the iron mines of Michigan, took employment first as a common miner, and afterward as engineer, assayer and surveyor. He next went to the famous Calumet' & Hecla mine as assistant superintendent. From this position he went to the Anaconda Copper company as general manager, which position he filled for about six years with characteristic ability: and success. While in the West he also built a smelter at-'Durango, Colo., a plant with a capacity of smelting 250 tons a day. His next move was to go to Australia and Tasmania as general consulting engineer for the London Lon-don Exploration company. In 1892 he came to Salt Lake City and organized the Glasgow and Western Exploration companv, a close corporation interested in mines in Australia, Africa and South America. The corporation also has mines in Humboldt, White Pine and Lander counties, Nev.; the Montreal copper cop-per mines at Milford, this State; and a copper prop erty in the Blackbird district in Idaho. The proper- . ties are all being worked and the company owns its own smelters ana railroads. Mr. Stalmann is now general gen-eral manager of - all these interests. A course in electricity which' he took from the Masachusetts Institute In-stitute of Technology and the Johns Hopkins Jnsti- tute of Maryland formed another chapter in Mr. Stalmann Stal-mann 's career, and this study has been of invaluable assistance in refining and in the installation of the manv requisite devices used in the mining business of toda;r. Mr. Stalmann is a member of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy of London. England, of the Society of Chemical Industry of London, the Naturn, Verein, Maja, Germany, and . the Geographical Society So-ciety of America. He is also a member of the "Alta nd Elks' clubs" of -this citv, a thirty escond degree Mason, and a Knight Templar. He is a man of unusual un-usual personal force and initiative. This, combined with a sound-and clear judgment, together with a really remarkable memory, has riven him special distinction dis-tinction in the mining world. His success is directly attributed to his -unremitting devotion to his business busi-ness and the conscientiousness and untiring manner "in which he has borne his responsibilities. In person Mr. Stalmann is robust, powerful, and shows- plenty of physical energy. His manner is a blending of outspoken out-spoken frankness with a native courtesy arising from a seemingly intuitive understanding and sympathy with those about, him. t |