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Interview with William Durbrow, Irrigation Leader (1958) (233 pages)

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Durbrow: Baum: Durbrow: Baum? Well, for some years. I don't know how long...I left the company a little time leter. The trip did some good for my employers. It was e very interesting trip. While I was there I became very friendly with the head of the railroad that went up from Callas to the summit of the Andes, where it goes through the Galere Tunnel. I made two trips with him and on the second trip I was asked to look at a mine near the summit. I didn't know much about mining, but had been studying smelting and I had intended to stay in that business... Is that what you were doing for the Mountain Copper Company? Smelting, yes. At that time the people who owned the mine engaged me to buy a smelter in California and to ship it to South America and to install it down there, which I considereé myself capable of doing. But I didn't know anything about the mine. In other words, I hadn't been in mining enough to expertly say whether a mine is a good mine or not. So TI said I would hire a men to go Gown and tell them about the-mine and about the development of the mine. They thought enough of the mine to put up the money to buy a smelter. They had no engineers down there?