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Show UTAH MINING ENGINEER OSES R. C. Gemmell, Assistant Manager of Jackling Interests Inter-ests Passes Away I SALT LAKE, Oct. 26 En route from the t.'hino chopper company's property at Elurley, N. M , to Ios An-preif-H. Calif., Robert Campbell Gemmell, Gem-mell, assistant managing director of the Jur-kling allied porphyry mlnlnp interests in rtah, Xew Mexico. Arizona Arizo-na and Nevada. di-d suddenly yesterday yester-day afternoon of heart trouble. With him at the time was Douglas Moffatt. (consulting engineer of the inllls of tho company. The body was t iken to Loa Angeles Mrs. Belle Anderson Gemmell, the widow, is at San Diego, Cal. .Mr. Gemmell left Salt Lske apparently ap-parently In the best of health two weeks ago and the news of his death came as a shock to his many friends. One of the foremost mining nfl-ncors nfl-ncors in the I'nited States, he has been since August I, 119, assistant managing director of the Utah Cop-Iper. Cop-Iper. Nevada Consolidated, Chlno Copper Cop-per and Ray Consolidated Copper companies. Mr Gemmell was born at Port Matilda Ma-tilda I'a. July E 1S63 a son of Ro:.-ert Ro:.-ert Beowd and Anna Eliza Campbell Gemmell. He entered the University of Michigan for a course In civil en-K-enng and won his bachelor of science degree in lSS-5 his degree of Civil engineer In IS'...", and his degree of master 0 ('engineering in 1 1 3 Ho was engineer on surveys and construction con-struction with the Atchison, Topeka a: Santa Fe railroad from 1SS4 until 1S90. and through the BUCCeedlng six years was active as a civil and mining engineer en-gineer of Utah. .Nevada. Idaho and California. lie was engineer of De Lamar mines from 1SHG to 1H01 In the latter years he was appointed manager of the M-.'ean .Mining Syndicate Syn-dicate of Mexico. hlch position he I uciu iiiiui i.iuo, w lieu ne was inaue i superintendent of mines ior the Gug-Igenheim Gug-Igenheim Exploration company in i Mexico, occupying that position until 1906 Inning thai year he made an examination of mines In Spain. Mexico Mex-ico anil the fsjted States and In 1906 he l am.' i. ii ral mi p-n nl . n.l.iu of ,the U.tah Copper company, which po-iSltloh po-iSltloh ho fliled until 1909. He was jthen advanced to the position of assistant as-sistant general manager, and on May J. 1918, was made general manager, ! I ii August. 1919. he was made assistant assist-ant managing director of the Jackling I porphyry mines, lb- was also general manager of the Bingham & Garfield railroad. on October IT. 18S8. Mr. Gemmell was married to Miss Belle E. Ander-;son Ander-;son of Salt Hake City. They made their home .it ", M Hast South Tempi Btre'et. |