Word: nacozari
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...restless drive that has kept him chugging like a jackhammer for 53 years. Lew was born in the little Arizona town of Bisbee, soon moved to Douglas, which his father had named in "the professor's" honor. When Lew was six, the family pushed on again to the Nacozari mine in Mexico, where his father got the nickname of "Rawhide Jim" because of his practice of repairing mine machinery with rawhide. As superintendent of the mine, Rawhide Jim cut wages, drove his men hard, and contemptuously ignored threats of death, kidnaping and dynamiting...
...grew up in the big house on the hill at Nacozari, playing baseball with the Mexican kids, learning to ride and rope. Rawhide Jim was a stern father who trained Lew to independence and hard work. Once, to discipline him, his father sent him over to a wrecked schoolhouse and ordered him to "take every last nail out of every last board...
...Geological Conference, "Some Aspects of the Problem of Copper Deposition in the Lake Superior Mines." Professor Palache. "Mining Geology at Los Pilares de Nacozari, Sonora, Mexico." Dr. Wandke Mineralogical Lecture Room, University Museum...
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