Let's get acquainted by L.M. Robinson

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English

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The Marsman Magazine Volume II (No. 6) December 1937

Year

1937

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In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

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LET'S GET ACQUAINTED l\1r. ROBINSON The general superintendents of the two oldest properties under the management of Marsman and Company, ltogon and Suyoc Consolidated, are both exceptionally well fitted for their positions of responsibility as operating executives. Both are graduates of the same class, 1923, but of different mining school. Both learned their profession by doing it, and their experiences carried them to various mining camps of the Western United States and of Mexico. Lewis M. Robinson, head of the Suyoc Consolidated operating staff, is a native of Jacksonville, Florida. An early interest in mining took him to Texas, where he enrolled in the Texas School of Mines in 1919. On his graduation in 1923, after having worked during his last year in college as student assistant in geology and mining, he spent two years THE MARSMAN MAGAZINE for December, J.937 Mr. GILKISON with the Old Dominion ·company. In January, 1925 he took charge of the un..; watering development of the Zarraboa Antiguas mine near Bomao, Sinaloa, Mexico. This work completed, he joined the Inspiration Copper Company as sampler and assistant chief engineer. From September, 1925, to December, 1928, Mr. Robinson was emoloyed by the Dolores Mining Co., Chihuahua, Mexico, during which time he was advanced from mine shift boss to assistant mine superintendent. He was transferred to the Concheiio Mining Co., under lease to the Dolores Co., and worked there until April, 1929. He then joined the Christmas Copper Co. For three years he was mine foreman and then assistant-mine superintendent, working in underground development, stoping, (Continued on page 19) 21 NORTHERN MINING AGREEMENT A contract was arranged during November by the Northern Mining & Development Company with Benj. S. Ohnick and associates for the operation of the Tuba and Mapulot groups of that company in Camarines Norte. The agreement, which was ratified by Northern Mining stockholders at a meeting held November 23 calls for the development of the property and the construction and installation of a milling plant, if ore found warrants such a move, to be financed by Mr. Ohnick and his associates. Marsman and Company will be technical managers of the property. John Canson, president of Northern Mining, told the stockholders that the company was in a precarious financial condition, and that the offer of Mr. Ohnick and his associates was the best one obtainable. The Rocky Mountain Fraction of Northern Mining is being operated by United Paracale Mining Company, and a small gold production is obtained each month. LET'S GET ACQUAINTED (Continued from page 21) shaft sinking, and the instaJlation and successful operation of electric ore haulage to the mill. He came to the Philippines in June, 1933 as shift boss for the Itogon Mining Company. In January, 1934, he was transferred to Suyoc Consolidated and placed in charge of underground operations. He was made general superintendent January 1, 1937, and has had he went to Mexico as division engineer for the Nocozare Copper Co., at Sonora. Later in 1926 he joined the Cia. de Real de Montey y Pachuca, and worked in various capacities at the Rosario, Camelia, and Arevelo units of that organization. On October, 1928 he was made assistant superintendent of the Arevelo unit, and superintendent in 1929. Mr. Gilkison was transferred to the much to do with the success of the Su- Sefior San Jose unit of the same comyoc and of the Palidan Suyoc Drain. pany in 1931 as superintendent, and Tunnel operations. Mr. Robinson is served in that capacity until 1933. He married, and has one child, Geraldine. Warren Gilkison, Itogon's general superintendent, was born at La Porte, Colorado, and had his early education there. He was graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1923, and then took a similar position for the Dolores-Sta. Margareta unit, in which capacity he served until the latter part of 1935. He came to the Philippines in April, started his mining experience ijmme- .. 1936 as mine superintendent, and was diately as miner, assistant engineer, and ·shift boss at Utah Apex. In 1925 he was made superintendent of the Unity Gold Mines, in Warren, Idaho. The next year THE MARSMAN MAGAZINE for December, .1937 promoted to the position of general superintendent in November, 1936. Mr. Gilkison is married, and has two children· 19

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