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Show imay in has won high place H Salt Lake, Jan. 2. Tho career of 1 Arthur Hold Oberlander, a young man B reared and educated in Murray, Utah, 1 and Salt Lake, is an exemplification j of the fact that aulllty, to which Is added a generous measure of courtesy, H is tho heat recipe for success, in spitp H of numerous cases in evidence v. here H the hattlo has been won. by pcrsever- H an co and ability, vlth no particular H display of good nature. H Mr. Oberlandcr's opportunity came H-' a little moro than five years ago, Hf while ho was occupying the position B of assistant superintendent at tho B' American Smelting & Heflning com- B pany's plant at Murray, Utah. Though H a young man of but "25 at the time, H he was remarkably well posted in all HB departments of his work and when H Dr Moyor, a noted German chemist H and metallurgist, who came from HL'B, abroad to inspect and mako Irnprovc- H;B' ments in tho company's smelters, vls- .K fted tlio Murray plant he was greatly jB." tileased and impressed with tho young BB pan's courtesy and knowledge of his BB ?ork, BH Dr. Meyer returned to Europe- and while in London consulted with tho directors of the Bewick-Morlng Mining Min-ing & Smelting compauy. one of tho largest concerns In tho world, regarding regard-ing work to bo dono in tho B4st Indian field This company had under consideration con-sideration tho erection of smelters for tho purposo of reducing tho immonso amount of ore which had accumulated on the dumps of tho old Chinoso mines In Burma, from which only gold and silver hai been taken. A man was needed In that field to direct operations, opera-tions, and Dr. Meor took pains to strongly recommond Arthur Ober-landor Ober-landor of Utah for tho position of superintendent su-perintendent In Bui ma. Shortly attcrwnrds It became necessary neces-sary for threo directors of tho Bowlck-Moring Bowlck-Moring company to tako a trip to Sun Francisco, and "on tho wuy they purposely pur-posely stopped off in Salt Iiko to sco Mr. Obcrlandor. IIo was sent for and they, too, were impressed, villi his technical knowledso and personal disposition. dis-position. The result was that ho was given the position of superintendent of tho Burma Minos Railway & Smoltin? company at a salary of $700 per month. Tho following October ho left Salt Lake, starting "on tho road to Man-dalay," Man-dalay," arrhlng In tho famous Burmese Bur-mese capital forty-threo days later. His first duty was tho orecllon of a smeltor, and he accordingly built the first modern plnnt of tho kind In India In-dia at Mandalay, Upper Burma The company had long tried to lo-calo lo-calo Irou ore In quantity In India, but had been unsuccessful. Mr. Obor-lander Obor-lander undertook lhl6 task and accompanied accom-panied by a Burraeso guide, prospected prospect-ed for threo months In mountainous India and finally. 101 miles northeast of Mandalny, found Iron. To him, therefore, there-fore, belongs tho honor of opening up this mineral resource In tho Indian empire. IIo Immediately began construction con-struction and rapidly pushed to completion com-pletion a railway from Mandalay to tho claim. Another achievement to Mr Oberlandcr's Ober-landcr's credit was tho construction of tho first American steel bridge- over tho Irrawaddy rlvor, over which runs one of tho railways of tho smelter company. Since ho has been in charge of tho company's projects, several of the old Chinese mines have been acquired and opened up. |