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Show ! : ! FoofrT1iomM A Missouri Farm Boy Did This In Utah r - K J' . i A portion of the giant mills at Magna through which (together with Arthur) flows the largest stream of copper from any single mine in the world. During the past 35 years, Daniel C. Jackling as directing head of various copper companies has been indirectly responsible for the production pro-duction of more than 10,000,000,000 pounds of copper. This has involved in-volved the mining of 1,000,000,000 tons of material, of which more than 500,000,000 tons was ore. Jackling was the first man to apply large scale operations to the low grade porphyry mines, and as the result of his efforts the United Nations have the world's greatest copper mines from which to draw during the current war in which resources are playing such a vital part. A native of Missouri, where he was born in 1869, Jackling was educated at the State Normal School and the Missouri School of Mines. He taught chemistry and metallurgy at the latter institution from 1891 to 1893, and then entered upon his mining career as a chemist and metallurgist at Crip ple Creek, Colo. From 1896 to 1900 he was in charge of the construction construc-tion and operation of metallurgical works for the Consolidated Mercur Gold Mines at Mercur, Utah. In 1903 he organized the Utah Copper Company, which is renowned for the magnitude of its open-pit operations. oper-ations. In 1915, William H. Taft, then president of the United States, was traveling across Utah with Jackling and Tasker L. Oddie, Nevada mining min-ing engineer who afterward became be-came United States senator from "his state. Taft spoke of the Panama Pan-ama Canal construction and mentioned men-tioned the great cuts it required. Thereupon Jackling produced figures fig-ures showing that the excavating operations in his mines exceeded those of the canal. This man's vision and enterprise has created an enterprise which is currently employing 4800 men in Utah with an annual payroll of $10,000,000. |
