Show grant appointed director of the mint min t robert J grant superintendent of the denver mint has been appoint appo appointed ini by president cooledge to bo be director of the mint he will succeed ip E H scobey who resigned recently mr grants name had not been prominently mentioned among the more than halt half a dozen candi candidates daies for the place FF he was recommended by secretary mellon and also bad the indorsement endorsement Indor of secretary work mr grant was born in pictou county nova scotia canada nov 12 1802 ile he was educated educate in the on canadian andl A public schools coming to the united states when a young man in the lie was a mining engineer in colorado Z in the aspen leadville and ana cripple creek districts and later in mexico in 1004 1904 tin and 1905 he be was a bustness associate of herbert ll hoover sec detary of commerce and represented hoover in australla australia as manager of the cosmopolitan mine there at the time one of the richest properties in the world during tile the war when herbert hoover was national food administrator mr air grant served as executive manager of the Ob colorado lorado food board under thomas B stearns steams food director for colorado it la is understood that the influence of secretary hoover had much to do with mr grants grant 9 pre present ent appointment |