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Show GEORGE C. EARL TO BERETIRED Retirement of George C. Earl as chief engineer, Utah Copper Division, Kennecott Copper Corporation, Cor-poration, and appointment of L. C. Jones to succeed him effective effec-tive March 1, is announced by J. P. Caulfield, general manager. Previously assistant chief engineer, en-gineer, Mr. Jones, who is a native na-tive of Salt Lake City, was first employed in the Utah Copper engineering department in 1908 and worked his way up from the ranks. From 1910 to 1914 he worked as chainman, rodman and instrumentman. He left Utah Copper in May 1914, and worked on railroad bridge and construction construc-tion work for the Oregon, Washington Wash-ington Railroad and Navigation company. He returned to Utah Copper in June 1915, as an instrumentman. in-strumentman. In May 1917 he was advanced to assistant mine engineer in which capacity he remained until January 1937, when he was promoted to mine engineer. From August 1917 to August 1919, he was with the U. S. Army in France. On January Janu-ary 15, 1950 Mr. Jones was advanced ad-vanced to assistant chief engineer engi-neer in which capacity he has continued until the present time. After retirement, Mr. Earl will serve Utah Copper Division as consulting engineer, according to company officials. He is a native of Salt Lake City, a graduate of the University of Utah, and was first employed in 1907 at Utah Copper as a rodman at the mine in Bingham Canyon. In November Novem-ber 1907 he left Utah Copper to accept employment at the Brit-, ish Columbia Coal company, but returned in January 1909, subsequently sub-sequently working as rodman and labor foreman. He was promoted pro-moted in 1910 to assistant mine engineer and in 1912 was named mine engineer. From 1930 to 1936 he was engineer of mines, in 1936 he was promoted to assistant as-sistant chief engineer and in 1938 he was made chief engineer. Mr. Earl is well known in engineering en-gineering circles throughout the western states and is highly regarded re-garded among professional and operating associates. |