Word: hecla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Circle, is also just 150 miles north of the North Magnetic Pole-so close that ships' compasses are useless. Explorers have known that if it were used it would cut 100 mi. from the Baffin Bay-Barrow Strait passage, save 400 miles if the still untraversed Fury and Hecla Strait were navigable. In 1858, after his fifth attempt, Captain Leopold McClintock claimed that he "steamed through the clear water of Bellot Strait this morning and made fast to the ice across its western outlet." Though many small trade-ships may have used its 30 tortuous miles in the past...
...copper. Not an envelope came in. Again it invited bids, again there was nothing to open. Since copper would not go to the Navy, the Navy last week went to copper, ordering 400,000 lb. at better than 12? per lb. from Kennecott in Manhattan and Calumet & Hecla Consolidated in Boston...
...estimated at $32,000,000, about one-half as much money as the railroads lost during the first nine months of the year. ¶ Homestake Mining (which, at $420, is the highest priced common stock on the New York Exchange) gave each employe a $100 Christmas bonus. ¶ Calumet & Hecla (Michigan copper...
Last week the William Lawrence Saunders gold medal for distinguished service in mining* was awarded to James MacNaughton, president and general manager of Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper Co. of Michigan. Presentation was made by President Cornelius Francis Kelley of huge Anaconda Copper (no corporate kin to Calumet & Hecla) at the annual dinner of the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers, convened in Manhattan to discuss mines, metals, men & methods...
Calumet & Hecla history goes back to a day before the Civil War when a surveyor named Edwin James Hulbert found a rich vein of copper lode called "conglomerate" because the ore was a cemented mass of pebbles containing pure copper. Hulbert recalled that Boston's famed Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz had visited the district, showed interest in scattered pieces of conglomerate. Hulbert hastened to Boston, enlisted such glittering names-Higginson, Hunnewell, Livermore, Agassiz, Quincy Adams Shaw, Horatio Bigelow-that his venture became known as the copper company with a Harvard accent. The first shaft was sunk...