Career
The incorporation included the Sterling Borax Company and the Suckow Property which is now operated as the Rio Tinto Borax Mine, the largest open pit mine in California and the largest borax mine in the world where almost half of the world"s borates are now produced. After Smith"s bankruptcy in 1913, Baker took control of the company, and he remained president until his death in 1937. In 1908, Baker, California, which at that time was a stop on the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, was named for him.
The mineral bakerite is also named after him.
