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POSITIONS VACANT (Under this heading will be published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute by members or other persons.) Opening for man as head of laboratory of large brass manufacturing plant in Ohio; must also be competent to manage foundry making brass castings, following practice of malleable iron castings and insulating materials. Good opportunity for right man. No. 36. Professorship in Mining at a Western university; requires man competent to give instruction in ore dressing, in metal and coal mining, and in zinc smelting, and capable of gaining confidence of mining interests. Salary $2,200 to $3,000. No. 37. ENGINEERS AVAILABLE (Under this heading will be published notes sent to the Secretary of - the Institute by members or other persons introduced by members.) Member, graduate engineer, aged 44, with over 20 years' experience in connection with large coal and coke operations in different parts of the country, desires position as general superintendent of large coal company, or will take an interest with the management in a smaller company. No. 206.

Jan 6, 1915

(Under this heading will be published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute by members or other persons.) Mine and mill accountant for Mexico. Knowledge of Spanish desirable. Salary $150 to $200 gold per month with living quarters. No. 60. Master mechanic familiar with mine and cyanide plant machinery for Mexico; $200 gold per month and living quarters. No. 61. Electro-metallurgist for production of ferro-alloys, salary $200 to $400 depending on experience. No. 62. Man familiar with ferro-tungsten products of electric furnaces to draw up specifications for machine tools, to watch these tools in service and revise specifications accordingly. Salary $150 to $200 per month. No. 63. Engineers under 35 years of age for placer mining work in Belgian Congo; $1,500 to $1,700 plus traveling and living expenses, two years' contract. No. 67.

Jan 2, 1916

ENGINEERS AVAILABLE (Under this heading will be published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute by members or other persons introduced by members.) Member, technical graduate, aged 36. Experienced copper metallurgist and mining geologist. Familiar also, through 15 years' broad practical experience, with mining, cyanidation, concentration (including oil flotation), metallurgical accounting, and mine and plant management. Best references. No. 237. Member, graduate engineer with 10 years' experience in malleable, gray -Iron, and steel, as chemist., metallographist, and metallurgist. Researches and investigations by laboratory methods and under works conditions. No objection to some routine. No. 243. Member, technical graduate, broad experience in coal, oil, and clay. Will go anywhere as mining geologist after Sept. 1, 1915. No. 244. Member, technical graduate, aged 30, married, with over 10 years' experience as chemist, engineer on construction, superintendent and general superintendent of bituminous coal and coke plants. SpeaksSpanish. References. No. 245. Member, open for engagement as mine safety inspector or as superintendent of bituminous coal mine. No. 246. Member, graduate mining engineer, with five years' experience in coal mining as mining engineer, construction engineer, pit boss, and superintendent, open for engagement. Best references. No. 247.

Jan 9, 1915

ENGINEERS AVAILABLE (Under this heading will be published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute by members or other persons introduced by members.) A member of the Institute who has had many years' experience in office management for prominent mining engineering and metallurgical companies, and who is now located in the West, would like to secure an executive position with a firm or company engaged in mining or metallurgy, located in the East, and preferably in New York. No. 139. Member, aged 36, married, graduate mining engineer, 14 years' active experience as engineer, superintendent, and manager of large coal-mining operations. Wide experience in development and operation of

Jan 10, 1914

POSITIONS VACANT (Under this heading will be published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute by members or other persons.) Metallurgist wanted for research in iron and steel. Man with experience in mills preferred. Salary $4,000. No. 13. Opening for a few technical graduates to act as instructors in mining to men at the mines under the supervision of the State mine inspector. Salary $1,800 per year. No. 14. ENGINEERS AVAILABLE (Under this heading will be published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute by members or other persons.) Mining engineer and metallurgist open for engagement, as superintendent of mines or constructing engineer. Technically educated, with 14 years' experience in United States and Latin America in concentration, amalgamation, cyaniding, constructing. Just finished building large modern all-sliming cyanide mill in Central America. No. 18.

Jan 4, 1914

POSITIONS VACANT (Under this heading will be published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute by members or other persons.) Junior and assistant engineers at $100 to $125 per month; assistant foremen and underground shift bosses at $150 per month; wanted for a large copper company in the West. Good opportunity for advancement. No. 77. ENGINEERS AVAILABLE (Under this heading will be published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute by members or other persons introduced by members.) Member, graduate engineer, aged 44, with over 22 years' experience in connection with the development of large coal and coke properties in different parts of the country, desires position as general manager or general superintendent of large bituminous coal producer, or will take an interest and the management of a smaller operation. No. 258.

Jan 4, 1916

(Under this heading will be published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute by members or other persons. ) An experienced gold and silver metallurgist specializing in cyaniding is desirous of obtaining a position in 'America. Speaks, Mexican Spanish fluently. A member, a. technical graduate, with four years' experience in railroad work and-general construction, two years' on mine examination and geological reconnaissance, and two a half years' drilling exploration in placer work and petroleum, together with prospecting and geological interpolation, desires a position as a mining engineer or mining geologist. An experienced mine superintendent, manager, or field engineer, is open for engagement. He has had 12 years' experience as superintendent and manager of large mines in the United States and Mexico, and experience in mine examination. A member of the Institute with several years' experience in mining in the Lake Superior copper district, is open for engagement.

Jan 7, 1913

ENGINEERS AVAILABLE (Under this heading will be published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute by members or other persons introduced by members.) Technical graduate, aged-31, with experience as surveyor, chemist with a sulphur company, practical miner, and as chief engineer of an iron mining company, desires a position as mining engineer or superintendent. Speaks French and German. No. 165. Member, aged 31, married, graduate Yale and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, six years' experience in coal and iron mining, from engineer to general superintendent, desires position with large coal or iron company. Will go anywhere. References. . No. 167. Member, technical graduate, with experience as machinist, chemist, construction engineer, and manager-of mines in the United States and Mexico, desires position .as mine superintendent or manager. Speaks Spanish. No. 168. Member, technical graduate, aged 26, with experience as engineer, mine foreman, assistant superintendent for a pyrite mining company. Experience includes diamond drilling, shaft sinking, underground work, milling of pyrites, and mine accounting. No. 169.

Jan 12, 1914

ENGINEERS AVAILABLE (Under this heading will be published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute by members or other persons introduced by members) Graduate mining and metallurgical engineer now open for engagement. Member, 38 years old, married, 19 years' experience in United States, Europe, South America, Africa, in exploration work, surveying, assaying, mining, milling, ore-dressing, construction and management. Four languages mastered. No. 355. Member, aged 35, technical graduate, desires position -as superintendent or assistant superintendent of spelter or zinc oxide furnaces, or both. Gas producer experience, zinc metallurgical and laboratory experience. Can handle men. No. 356. Member, also Assoc. Mem. Am. Soc. of C. E.; excellent technical education, and best of references covering twelve years in responsible charge of work; experienced in surveys, construction, prospecting, mine examination and development and irrigation work; speak Spanish fluently, and can write a good report. Good executive. Available during June. Age 34; married. No. 357.

Jan 6, 1917

(Under this heading will be published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute by members or other persons. ) The governing body of the Imperial College of Technology, London, S. W. (Royal School of Mines), will shortly proceed to the appointment of a Professor of Metallurgy. This important Chair has been filled in the past by such eminent metallurgists as John Percy, Sir William C. Roberts-Austen, and others. A large manufacturing company having two iron foundries, blast furnace, etc., requires the services of a chemist, metallographist, and metallurgical engineer qualified to give advice on cast iron practice, and to prescribe remedies for difficulties often met with in the usual iron foundry. The position of converter blower at a side-blow Bessemer steel casting plant is vacant.

Jan 5, 1913

POSITIONS VACANT The National Bureau of Standards needs men to fill metallurgical positions with salaries varying from $1200 to $2000, depending upon the training and experience of the candidate. Experience either in ferrous. or, non-ferrous metallurgy. Duties will be almost entirely of an investigational nature, in connection with problems of military importance. Qualified men are urged to send to the Bureau of Standards at once a statement of training and experience, names of references, acid minimum salary that would be accepted, so that they may he advised of appropriate civil service examination for which to file papers. Until further notice, such papers are received by the Civil Service Commission at any time and ratted promptly.

Jan 10, 1917

ENGINEERS AVAILABLE (Under this heading will be published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute by members or other persons introduced by members.) Member, technical graduate, aged 40, member Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 16 years, with varied experience. Actual underground work,. foreman, surveying, milling, mine examination, superintendent, manager, and other positions of trust. Several years' European practice. Familiar with flotation process. Desires responsible position. References furnished. No. 172. Member, aged 40, graduate Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Twenty years' successful experience as blast-furnace superintendent (merchant and steel works), covering operating, remodeling and? building. General superintendent and general manager of proposition comprising blast furnaces, coal and coke, and iron-ore operation, etc. Good organizer and handler of men. Desires position in above line anywhere. No. 173. Member, technical graduate, aged 43, with 20 years' experience in management of gold, silver, and copper properties and also coal and smelting properties in United States, Canada and Mexico. Owing to illness compelled to resign. Now open for engagement. No. 174. Member, technical graduate, with many years' experience with large smelting and refining companies as chemist, metallurgist, and superintendent desires position. No. 175.

Jan 1, 1915

ENGINEERS AVAILABLE (Under this heading will be published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute by members or other persons introduced by members.) Member, Cornell M. E., graduate, aged 31, married. Will soon complete 2 years' engagement in the Russian oil fields. Eight years' practical experience in drilling for and producing oil. Can speak Russian fluently and some French and German. Open for engagement. Interview after August 15, in the United States. No. 299. Member, graduate mining engineer. Married. Aged 38. For past 6 years, general superintendent of large silver mine in. Mexico. Desires connection with responsible mining company, preferably in the United States. Has had 15 years' experience in the United States and Mexico, including mine engineering, sampling, examinations,' milling and mine superintendence. No. 312. Metallurgist, 4 years' experience in electric furnace operation on steel, ferro-alloys and smelting of ores, both practical and research, desires position as metallurgist or superintendent. No. 314. Member, technical mining graduate. 5 years' experience in coal and metal mines and construction work. Married. Aged 27. Employed at present. Interview in Salt Lake City or Denver. No. 316.

Jan 10, 1916

POSITIONS VACANT (Under this heading will be published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute by members or other persons.) General manager .for a pyrite mine in Virginia, with experience in the mining and particularly in the washing of pyrite, required. Salary at start, $250 per month with perquisites. No. 28. Assayer and cyanide man for a Costa Rica plant. Salary $100. No. 29. Mine manager to develop gold-mining property in Witwatersrand, Transvaal. Salary £2,000 to £4,000, according to the experience and ability of the engineer. No. 31. Mine superintendent for a mine in Arizona containing copper, gold, silver ore. Will have entire charge of operation and development. Salary to start, $200 per month with perquisites. No. 32. .Mining engineer to make complete report and suggest necessary machinery for development and operation of a placer property; also to examine a copper property. Both properties in Peru, South America. No. 34.

Jan 4, 1915

ENGINEERS AVAILABLE (Under this heading will be published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute of members or other persons introduced by members.) Member, Cornell M. E., graduate, aged 31, married. Will soon complete 2 years' engagement in the Russian oil fields. Eight years' practical experience in drilling for and producing oil. Can speak Russian fluently and some French and German. Open for engagement. Interview after August 15, in the United States. No. 299. Metallurgist, four years' experience in electric furnace operation on steel, ferro-alloys and smelting of ores, both practical and research, desires position as metallurgist or superintendent. No. 314. Member, technical mining graduate. 5 years' experience in coal and metal mines and construction work. Married. Aged 27. Employed at present. Interview in Salt Lake City or Denver. No. 316. Member, American, aged 39, married, desires position as superintendent or mine superintendent. 14 years' experience in opencut and underground work. 12 years' Spanish, Portugese, Cuban and Mexican labor. Fluent Spanish. Good training in first aid and safety first. Specialty of high explosives and steam-shovel work. Good costs. Go anywhere, but tropics preferred. References. Interview, New York or Philadelphia, No. 318.

Jan 10, 1916

POSITIONS VACANT (Under this heading will be published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute by members or other persons.) Superintendent for iron mine operated on the sub-level and caving system. Small output, moderate salary. Location, Southern State. No. 45. Chemist to sample and analyze iron ore. Experience in other branches not essential. Location, Southern State. No. 46. ENGINEERS AVAILABLE (Under this heading will be published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute by members or other persons introducd by members.) Experienced mine superintendent desires position. Several years' experience in practical management of mining and development work. Has also practiced ass consulting engineer and is thoroughly experienced in the examination and development of mining properties. Mexican experience. Will go anywhere for reliable concern. Salary moderate. References. No. 254. Member, mechanical superintendent, wants position. Has had 12 years' experience as master mechanic of smelting plants in United States and Mexico. Also superintendent of shops doing marine, mining, and general contracting work. . Experienced in manufacture of mining tools and equipment. Up to the minute in copper, lead, and zinc smelting. Has learned a learned a great deal, can forget much, and has the inclination and ability to learn more. Best of references. No. 255.

Jan 10, 1915

ENGINEERS AVAILABLE (Under this heading will be published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute by members or other persons.) Recent graduate desires position as surveyor or assistant to mining geologist. No. 112. Member, technical graduate with varied experience covering milling, cyaniding, plant design, mill and dam construction, underground work, and executive, examination and reporting on mining properties, desires position as superintendent of gold and silver property in United States or Latin America. No. 113.

Jan 7, 1914

ENGINEERS AVAILABLE (Under this heading mill be published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute by members or other persons introduced by members.) Member, technical graduate, aged 35, with experience as surveyor, sampler, assayer, and cyanide superintendent, desires position as engineer or cyanide operator.. No. 157. Member, technical graduate, aged 34, with 12 years' experience, including engineering, construction, and management of gold, silver, copper, and quicksilver mines, desires position of 'superintendent of gold or silver property. No. 158. Technical graduate, aged 24, with experience as mine surveyor and instructor in chemistry, desires position as instructor in mining. No. 159. Member, aged 29, technical graduate, with experience in exploration, prospecting, mining, concentration, smelting, and as assayer and chemist, engineer, and draftsman (smelter) in United States, Canada, Africa, South America., and Australia, desires to become connected with a firm of consulting engineers. Speaks Spanish. No. 1130.

Jan 11, 1914

(Under this heading will be published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute by members or other persons. ) An experienced gold and silver metallurgist. specializing in cyaniding is desirous of obtaining a position in America. Speaks Me icon Spanish fluently. A member, a technical graduate, with four years' experience in railroad work and general construction, two years' on mine examination and geological reconnaissance, and two a half years' drilling exploration in placer work and petroleum, together with prospecting and geological interlope-tion, desires a position as a mining engineer or mining geologist. An experienced mine superintendent, manager, or field engineer, is open for engagement. Ire has had 12 years' experience as superintendent and manager of large mines in the United States and Mexico, and experience in mine examination. A member of the Institute with several years? experience in mining in the Lake Superior copper district, is open for engagement. A member, at present in the Southeast, desires a position as assistant superintendent or assistant. manager with a mining company operating in Washington or Alaska. Experienced assayer and engineer.

Jan 7, 1913

POSITIONS VACANT Engineer to take charge of construction of smelter and mill. Experience with blast furnaces, roasters, belt-conveying systems and general machinery, essential. Salary $250 per month up according to experience. No. 129. Mine Engineer.-Man with experience, ability and initiative wanted to handle an organization, direct sampling, surveying, mapping and record keeping.. Experience in laying out development work, haulage-ways, shaft pockets and ore-handling systems, particularly desired. No. 130. Recent technical graduate for experimental work with a metal refining company. Laboratory work first to acquaint worker with methods, then research work. Good opportunity for advancement. Beginning salary $100 a month. No. 132. Mine superintendent. Man of experience and energy wanted in mine being developed to produce 5,000 tons of iron-ore per day from open-cut and underground. About to start underground operations. Expect to follow methods of low-grade copper mines of Southwest. No. 133.

Jan 9, 1916