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Show PROGRAM G VEN FOR UNVEILING Portrait of La(e J. D. Shilling to Be Unveiled at Gemmell Memorial Club Saturday, May 23. The unveiling of the portrait of the late J. D. Shilling, superintendent of the Utah Copper, will take place at the Gemmell Memorial Clifb House, Saturday evening, May 23, starting at 8 sharp, with General Manager L. S. Cates, acting as master of ceremonies, according to M. L. Jones, chairman of the J. D. Shilling Memorial committee. com-mittee. . D. G. Lucas and the Rev. Simp-kins Simp-kins of San Diego, California, will be the principal speakers. The portrait is by Lee Greene Richards, famous artist of Salt Lake City, who has made a national as well as foreign reputation as a painter paint-er of portraits, and according to reports re-ports the portrait of the late J. D. Shilling is a speaking likeness of the beloved superintendent, whose acts of kindness made him so popular with the workers of the great Utah Copper Cop-per company. Mr. Cates will introduce Mr. R. G. Lucas, who in turn will introduce Rev. Simpkins. Mrs. J. D. Shilling, the widow of the late superintendent, will unveil the portrait after which it will be hung in its place in the Recreation Recrea-tion Room of the club. ' A dance will follow the ceremonies. The late superintendent started his career as a mining man, when a young boy, having worked in coal mines as early as 1869. Here he remained re-mained until . 1879,' having - worked (Coutinued on Page 4) 7 Canyon onMaf -23, 192A-- He was buried itjfrn Diego Clifc:' '. 5 . 'Ji ; T Program Given V (Continued from Page 1) himself up through all the different departments, being made superintendent superinten-dent of the McCardy Coal Company in that year. He held this position for two years and was then put in : charge of some limestone quarries belonging be-longing to the Brier Hill Iron & Coal Company, which position he held until un-til 1885. From 1885 until 1887, he was superintendent of the Hem rod Iron Furnaces at Youngstown, Ohio. From 1887 until 1893 he was superintendent super-intendent of some limestone quarries for the Bessemer Limestone Company. Com-pany. From 1893 to 1895 he was superintendent sup-erintendent of the Port Royal Coal and Cuke Company at Port Royal, Pa. From 1895 until 1902 he was superintendent sup-erintendent of the Biwabik Mining Company on the Mesabi Iron Range at Biwabik, Minnesota, in charge of all steam shovel work in that company's com-pany's iron mines. While holding this position he was also general manager of the Swansea Iron mine in Michigan, an underground under-ground proposition belonging to the Biwabik company. At the same time he also was in general charge of the Shores mine in Wisconsin, belonging I th the Biwabik company. From 1902 (0 1905 he was general superintendent superinten-dent of the Cornwall Ore Banks company at Cornwall, Pa., in charge of that company's iron mine, f i ni which ore was mined with steam shovels. From the summer of 1906 until 1919, he acted as superintendent of the Utah Copper Mines, and in this year, in recognition of long, faithful faith-ful and satisfactory service, he was promoted to general superintendent of mines of the Utah Copper company, com-pany, holding this position until bis death, which occurred in Bingham |