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...loan on a Colorado silver mine. Shrewdly, Meyer said he would rather be a partner. When the mine did not pay, he went west and supervised it. Soon the whole family was dabbling in many metals, and in 1901 their interests helped form the American Smelting & Refining Co., "The Smelter Trust...
...Howard M. Butter field, '26, and Roger Peale, '21, initiated the embryo geologists into the pleasures and dangers of life far underground in a comparatively deep mine. Saturday morning was occupied in a study of the surface geology of the Noranda district, and an inspection of the mill and smelter of the Horne Corporation...
...Largest British tin smelter is Williams, Harvey & Co., controlled by the Patino Mines and Enterprises, Consolidated (TIME, Dec. 16). Last week Williams, Harvey & Co. joined with three other large British tin smelters in a provisional plan to form the largest tin smelting organization in the world. Behind the consolidation is seen the influence of Patino, the Anglo-Oriental tin interests, and the new Tin Producers' Association. From this merger which affects about half the world's tin supply, is expected to come the long-awaited stabilization of tin production and price, one of the purposes...
Daniel Guggenheim is getting old-72. His name is still synonymous with gold, silver, copper and nitrate mining from Alaska to Chile. That synonymity developed a half century ago when the late Meyer Guggenheim started a smelter in Colorado for his seven sons. In the last three and a half years, however, Daniel Guggenheim has made his name consonant with aeronautical promotion. First he gave $500,000 to New York University for a college of aeronautics.† His good friend Alexander Klemin is its active head. Next he gave $2,500,000 for a Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion...
...Meyer Guggenheim. He is the second of seven brothers: Isaac, Daniel, Murry, Solomon, Simon, Benjamin, William. Many years ago their father called them together, told them the parable of seven sticks which separately could be broken, but together were unbreakable. He started them in the mining business with a smelter in Colorado. They prospered, engaged the best brains in the mining business, gained control of vast copper mining properties which produced two-fifths of the world's copper supply. When they sold control of Chile Copper to Montana's Anaconda, in 1923, their Chilean investments alone were estimated...