Word: ores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MacNaughton's achievement was to mine at a profit 3,000,000 tons annually of low-grade ore, averaging less than 1% copper, from the deepest mine in North America, the famed Conglomerate shaft which has passed a vertical depth of 5,000 ft. Such lean ore had never before been mined so far down. In open-pit mining, which means simply shoveling away a hill of exposed ore (as at Bingham, Utah), lodes down to 8/10 of 1% can be handled profitably. Deep-vein mining entails the cost of tunneling, drilling, blasting, hoisting, ventilating. Mining engineers consider...
...brought up the rich copper lodes from the earth's depths. Agriculture is stagnant, and the mining towns of Calumet, Houghton, Hubbell, Lake Linden, studded with company-built houses, have the melancholy look of semi-depopulation. But the streams near the stamping mills still run red with crushed ore rock...
George Haven Scholarships: Arthur L. Abrams, Roxbury, Mass; Fred H. Allen, Jr., Holyoke, Mass.; William S. Fields, New York. N.Y.; Charles W. Hayden, Kansas City, Mo.; Gordon E. Jones, Oak Park, III.; Calvin T. Klopp, Reading, Pa.; Stuart M. Lancefield, Amity, Ore.; Frank J. Lepreau, Jr., Hasting-on-Hudson, N.Y.; Robert E. Mabon, Niagara Falls, N.Y.; John Maier, Royersford, Pa; Robert S. Thomson Milton, Mass...
Editor-in-Chief Oregonian Portland, Ore...
Violinists. Jascha Heifetz flew from St. Louis last week to keep engagements in Salt Lake City, Helena. Mont., Seattle, Eugene, Ore. Fritz Kreisler, now touring England, gave his 39 U. S. concerts early in the season. Efrem Zimbalist jumped from Florida to Canada last week. Mischa Elman was due to arrive from Europe. Sleek Albert Spalding was in New England. After 25 concerts Bronislaw Hubermann sailed to play in London but he will return in February for a General Motors' broadcast and an engagement with the Philadelphia orchestra. Yehudi Menuhin's dates cram sheets of paper. He played...