Show I I GEOlOGISTS GEOlOGIST'S SIS SI'S TOYS MS MOST USEFUL IN liTIGATION Linforth's Hobby Develops Models in Demand AllOver All AllOver AllOver Over World By Associated Press BUTTE HUTTE Mont May Slay 13 To ro To have hap this the joys which ho started making makins a as AM a n means of diversion erslon during Ills hla o hot hours hOt rs conic come Into demand Iemand In re remote mo I or cor- j of the earth ant and to have them figure fig fig- Iture It- It ure In inthe the Iho courts In Important litigation Is the tho experience of or K P. A. A Linforth a t geologist and nOlI mining engineer In a little engineering mining shop In Ina Inn ina a n corner of oC Ills his home hoim- Mr Ir Linforth a n graduate of oC the University of California ten years year ago hc began an molding or folding Jo to o b e morn more exact miniature models modele of mine plans and mining machinery out o of f various kinds of paper and c cardboard it became a R. hobby with him and he lJ became camo so NO proficient that he Was was able to re reproduce ro- ro produce on almost a watch charm scale tho the vast and complicated Inner works of ot mining plants lie Ile made glade models of ot th the s lar largest st mines of Butte so 80 precisely th that t miners could point out the various arlous slopes or raises r. in which they worked I MODEL IS PERFECT I I A An n exploration comi company II Is bullet bullet- In Ing a larj lar large f i smelter III In Chile ChUo recently r re- re I I Mr Linforth In to make a paper paper per i l m relief map mal of the location o of the tho I 1 proposed plant and to lo to build on It the smelter Without even having hl seen acen the ground Mr Linforth by hy means meatus or of surveys I sent him made a reproduction bf br the tho site aile hundreds of acres In extent and built on onIt onit It the miniature smelter on which the I company Since has actually bc begun un construction construction con con- 8 work on Its Ill South Routh American property This model was ma made do on ascale a u scale of or 00 feet lo to the Inch Miniature duplications of ot mines have havo been ordered b by mining men mon to be be- e sent Bent to lo New York and other large Arge cities In order to Interest financiers In properties for which capital was sought The mooch model of a smelter found Its VA way to tho the University lint Uni t of Santiago Chile with the result that a communication came cam from thin hla school asking Mr Ir Lanford to reproduce for 01 It models of certain mines mimics and ami HOI mH- mH tern of the United S States Aa As a a. result South American mining students at this cr university have before them In their classrooms among her models the Great Falls lIs Mont smelter In detail with every cry I piece of machinery In place and the reproduction re- re re reproduction production faithful to tho ho minutest detail I USEfUL IN COURT Inn Ir m the Montana federal court a lawsuit law law- suit sult involving In millions of dollars Is III at Issue Isue and Mr Ir Linforth's services ser ha have been sought to lo reproduce for or examination examina- examina t lon Ion In the courtroom small models of two Vo wo of the largest mines mine In the Butte dis- dis When lIen the tho cn case e comes cornes to trial the court ourt will follow the argument which involves In title to various veins by having bavins the he points mentioned In the testimony pointed out My Iy hobby never ever can become a a. busi buel- ness neM salt said Mr 1 rr tar There is not enough mine construction to make It tt a a. commercial proposition because e In a R. few weeks I 1 Ca can n reproduce the tho miniature of ot a plant coaling coating millions of f cJ dollars dollars- S P fOr I of or Mr Jr Linforth's associates d Voik olk ork Yo with Kith Ith him rich each evening In has hi home factory which IB is known n In Ih most of I l I Ih tho th UM universities of Am America and to the th majority of the mining men of or the I country countr |