Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains: Being the 1St-8Th Annual Report of Rossiter W. Raymond, U.S. Commissioner of Mining Statistics
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Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains (Classic Reprint)
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Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting the report of R. W. Raymond on the statistics of mines and mining west of the Rocky Mountains.
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Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains: For the Year 1870 (Classic Reprint)
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The Territory Of Utah has witnessed a sudden and rapid development of silver mining, facilitated by the railroad connections, which permit the Shipments of ores and low-grade bullion. The comparative cheap ness of wages, the comparatively populous settlements of the region, the advanced condition of agriculture, and the now not unfavorable attitude of the Mormon authorities toward mining, combine to relieve this young industry in Utah from many of the disabilities which have attended its introduction elsewhere in the West.
In Colorado the principal novelty of the year was the development Of the Silver mines in the Caribou or Grand Island district. What will be the future importance and extent Of this group of mines is at present uncertain. Two or three undeniably valuable and productive lodes have been opened.
For further particulars as to all these mining fields, together with others Of greater age and more familiar fame, I respectfully refer you to the accompanying report.
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Rossiter Worthington Raymond was an American mining engineer, legal scholar and author.
Background
Rossiter Worthington Raymond was born on April 27, 1840 in Cincinnati of English stock, the eldest of seven children. Charles Walker Raymond was his brother. His father, Robert Raikes Raymond, was successively newspaper editor, professor of English at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and principal of the Boston School of oratory.
Raymond's mother, Mary Anna (Pratt) Raymond, came from Providence, was highly educated, and possessed qualities of quiet steadfastness. The son spent an imaginative boyhood in the cultivated atmosphere of their home in the several cities to which they moved.
Education
He had studied law, and had spent some time preparing for the Baptist ministry.
In 1858 he was graduated at the head of his class from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, in which his father was teaching and of which his uncle, John H. Raymond, was president.
In Brooklyn he joined Plymouth Church (Congregational), of which Henry Ward Beecher was pastor. The three years following his graduation were spent in Germany, as a student at the universities of Heidelberg and Munich and at the Royal Mining Academy of Freiberg, Saxony.
In his late fifties he studied law.
Career
Returning home in 1861, he served as aide-decamp on the staff of Maj. -Gen. John C. Frémont, attaining the rank of captain.
In 1864 he resigned from the army and was taken into partnership by Dr. Justus Adelberg, a consulting mining engineer of New York.
In 1867 he became editor of the American Journal of Mining, the name of which was later changed to Engineering & Mining Journal. He was joint editor with Richard P. Rothwell from 1874 until 1890, when they had a friendly disagreement over the coinage of silver, Raymond being for a gold standard; he then became a special contributor. Some of the early articles which he wrote for the American Journal of Mining on the relation of government to mining attracted attention in Washington, and in 1868 he was appointed United States commissioner of mining statistics, a position which he held until 1876.
The work required long trips in the Far West and voluminous annual reports, which his ability at writing made models of clarity and technical excellence. Along with these two engagements, he served as lecturer on mining geology at Lafayette College from 1870 until 1882, and from 1875 to 1895 he was consulting engineer for Cooper, Hewitt & Company, operators of iron works and of iron and coal mines. This connection brought him into contact with labor problems which produced in him an antagonism against the tyranny of labor unions and brought him an occasional threatening letter when he wrote editorially about such savage strikes as that of Homestead, Pennsylvania. While attached to Cooper, Hewitt & Company, he assisted Abram S. Hewitt in the management of Cooper Union, where he often lectured.
He served from 1885 to 1889 as one of the three state commissioners of electric subways for Brooklyn; his report on municipal engineering problems attracted deserved attention. Later he was consulting engineer for the New York & New Jersey Telephone Company. In 1898 was admitted to the bar for the practice of mining and patent law.
His writings on mining law were lucidly phrased, and his expert testimony at suits over mining rights helped to clarify a tangled subject; he lectured on mining law at Columbia University and elsewhere. The rôle in which he achieved his greatest eminence and rendered his chief service was that of secretary of the American Institute of Mining Engineers.
He held this post from 1884 to 1911; he had been one of the founders of the Institute in 1871, and had been president from 1872 to 1875.
During his long service as secretary he elevated ideals for technical and professional societies in America. His influence as editor of the Institute's publications was marked throughout the engineering profession, and he helped many struggling young men to express their ideas.
He introduced European writings on geology to American readers; translated several of them, and conducted discussion and continuation studies which his encyclopedic grasp and editorial skill made of particular value. Among his writings were a notable address on Alexander L. Holley, published in Memorial of Alexander Lyman Holley (1884); Peter Cooper (1901); almost innumerable obituary appreciations of his associates, compilations of technical terms and statistics, imaginative sketches, children's stories, poems, and a novel.
For fifty consecutive years he composed Christmas stories for Plymouth Sunday school. He taught a Bible class for years and for nearly a generation served as superintendent. At Beecher's death in 1887 he was asked to accept the pastorate of Plymouth Church - a remarkable compliment to a mining engineer - but declined the offer.
In 1910, at a dinner in honor of his seventieth birthday, attended by many members of his profession, he was presented with a handsome silver service and awarded the gold medal of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy of London.
He died suddenly, of heart disease, at his home in Brooklyn.
He was a man of great charm and talent. In temperament he combined enthusiasm with dignity; possibly his only fault was dislike of opposition and criticism, which he usually overwhelmed with arguments.
Connections
On March 3, 1863, he married Sarah Mellen Dwight of Brooklyn.