Daniel Cowan JACKLIN

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Daniel Cowan Jackling was founder of the Utah Copper Company and is credited with pioneering and developing the method of processing of low-grade porphyry copper ores. His ore-processing methods have been particularly associated with the development of the Bingham Canyon open-pit copper mine. Jackling was born on 14 August 1869 near Appleton, Bates County, Missouri. He was orphaned by age two, and spent much of his childhood living with different relatives on Missouri farms. Jackling was educated at the State Normal School at Warrensburg, Missouri, and at the Missouri School of Mines at Rolla. He graduated from the latter institution in 1892 with a B.S. degree, and he spent the next year at his alma mater as assistant professor of chemistry and metallurgy.

During the next three years (1893-96), Jackling became involved with mining on a firsthand basis, particularly at Cripple Creek, Colorado. During this period, he worked as a miner, an assayer, a mill hand, and a metallurgist. In 1896 he moved to Mercur, Utah, where he became construction and metallurgical superintendent of the Golden Gate mill, which was owned and operated by Joseph R. DeLamar and Enos Wall. Wall had claims to extensive mining property in Bingham Canyon, and in 1898 DeLamar asked Jackling and Robert C. Gemmell to make an extensive examination of the Wall copper property at Bingham. Gemmell directed the sampling and geological work while Jackling directed the assaying and mill tests in the old Rogers Mill at Bingham. The Jackling-Gemmell report was dated 18 September 1898 and urged mass mining and milling of the low-grade copper ore found at Bingham. DeLamar opted not to be involved, but in 1903 the Utah Copper Company was organized with Charles MacNeill, one of Jackling's former Colorado mining associates, as president, Enos Wall as vice-president, and Jackling as general manager.

The Jackling-Gremmell plan, which was put into operation by both the Utah Copper Company and the Boston Consolidated Company at Bingham, included stripping the overburden or waste, then in open-pit mining fashion loading the low-grade ore (often less than 2 percent copper) into railroad cars with steam shovels, and transporting the ore to concentrating mills built on the north slope of the Oquirrh Mountains. One of Jackling's first responsibilities was to oversee the construction of a mill at Copperton, which was used to demonstrate the validity of his copper-mining theories, and later he directed the building of the Magna concentrator, which was begun early in 1906. He also was successful in obtaining additional financial backing for Utah Copper from the Guggenheim family. In 1910, at Jackling's urging, the Boston Consolidated Company with its mining interests at Bingham and its Arthur milling facilities located west of the Magna Mill merged with and became part of the Utah Copper Company. By midway through the twentieth century, more than 60 percent of the world's copper production resulted from Jackling's development of low-grade ore processing.

During the first four decades of the twentieth century, Jackling had his hand in most copper companies in the American West as a manager and/or director. During World War I, Jackling served as director of government explosives plants, and for his outstanding wartime efforts he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by President Woodrow Wilson. In 1926 Jackling was awarded the Gold Medal Award of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, and in 1930 the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers honored him with the William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal of "achievement in initiating mass production of copper from low-grade ore through application of engineering principles." In 1940 Jackling was given the Washington Award of the Western Society of engineers for "pioneering in large-scale mining and treatment of low-grade copper ores, releasing vast resources from formerly worthless despots."

Jackling moved from Salt Lake City to San Francisco in 1915, but continued to travel to his many areas of mining interest in private railroad car or in his yacht, the Cyprus. A larger than life copper statue of Jackling sculpted by Avard Fairbanks honors the copper giant and has stood in the rotunda of the Utah State Capitol Building since 1954. Jackling married Jeanne Beatrice Sullivan in Cripple Creek during his mining activities there and, following her death in 1914, he married Virginia Jolliff of San Francisco. He died on 13 March 1956 at his home at Woodside, California.

1892 B.S. from Missouri School of Mines, Rolla, Missouri.
1892-3 Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Metallurgy, Missouri School of Mines.
1894-5 Employed at Cripple Creek, Colorado.
1896 Employed at Mercur, Utah.
1900 Met.E. from Missouri School of Mines
1900 Employed at Republic, Washington.
1903 Employed at Colorado City, Colorado.
1904 Instrumental in the establishment of Utah Copper Co. with mine at Bingham, Utah. In later years, successively Managing Director, Vice President and President of Utah Copper.
1905-7 Consulting Engineer in the development of Nevada Mines at Ely, Nevada. Successively Managing Director, Vice President and President of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Corporation.
1907-9 Developed mines at Ray, Arizona. Successively General Manager, Managing Director, Vice President and President of Ray Consolidated Copper Company.
1909 Similar development of Chino Copper Company.
1910-11 Participated in the organization, development and equipment of the Butte and Superior Mining Company properties at Butte, Montane. Later President of that Company.
1912 President of Utah Power and Light Company.
1912 Developed and equipped the properties of the Alaska Gold Mines at Juneau, Alaska.
1915 Developed low-grade magnetite iron ores of Mesabi range. President of the Mesabi Iron Company.
1917 Associated with Callup American Coal Company, Callup, New Mexico.
1918 Assistant to the U. S. Director of Purchases, Storage and Traffic, on the U.S. Army General Staff
1919 Married Virginia Jolliffe of San Francisco.
1926 Awarded the Cold Medal of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America.
1930 Awarded William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.
1933 Awarded the John Fritz Medal of the Engineering Societies of New York.
1933 D. Eng. from Missouri School of Mines, Honorary.
1940 Honorary LL.D. University of California.
Honorary Dr. of Eng. University of Southern California.
1942 Honorary Sc.D. University of Utah.
Retired from Kennecott Copper positions.
1954 Statue placed in rotunda of Utah Capitol Building.


In the Redwood City Standard of 22nd September 1921, it was reported that: "Daniel C. Jackling, millionaire copper man, purchased last Saturday the beautiful W.C. Talbot estate at Woodside, consisting of a magnificent residence and 140 acres of choice land. The purchase price of $225,000 is said to be the largest ever paid for a country home in San Mateo County."

Weather Vane/Model of a Cadillac V-16 Sport Phaeton, 1931
molded copper, bronze, and glass
153.6 x 246.4 x 78.1 cm (60 1/2 x 97 x 30 3/4 in.)

The weather vane as a wind indicator is most closely associated with rural nineteenth-century America, yet it is as old as its origin in medieval Europe and as current as examples still made by hand or mass-produced today. This vane clearly reflects the heyday of the American automobile.

In 1930, the powerful V-16 Cadillac made its debut at the New York Auto Show to great acclaim. The following year Daniel Cowan Jackling, founder of the Utah Copper Company, ordered one of these custom-made cars, choosing a Sport Phaeton body style for a four-door touring car. Its specifications became the basis for this weather vane, commissioned by executives of the Utah Copper Company and made by the company's metalworking staff to mark Jackling's retirement in 1931. The encircled "K" insignia refers to Kennecott Copper, a company that had evolved from Jackling's.

Top down, windshields raised, hood ornament in fluid Art Deco style, this miniature version captures the V-16 Cadillac's streamlined elegance. The accuracy of this highly detailed scale model is no more evident than in the underbody, readily seen from below while installed on the garage tower on Jackling's estate in Woodside, California. The much less detailed interior sports only a steering wheel and divisions between the front and rear seating, undoubtedly because the object would seldom be seen from above.

Cadillac V-16 Sport Phaeton

One of the most popular Cadillac V-16 body styles of the 1930s was the Sport Phaeton, an elegant stretch of open car with dual cockpits and a retractable rear windshield mounted in the front seatback. The Sport Phaeton gave rear seat passengers more to look at than a seatback. The stylish Cadillac featured a Jaeger chronometer and a speedometer built into an attractive dash fascia in the front seatback. The Sport Phaeton has become one of the most prized of all sixteen-cylinder models. With a cataloged price of $6,500, a total of 85 Model 4260 Dual Windshield Sport Phaetons were produced.


San Mateo County Times
February 2001

The Copper Tycoon and the Bungled Kidnapping
By June Morrall

The chilling 1925 ransom note received by Colonel Daniel C. Jackling

"Your wife, by the time you read this, will have been kidnapped. If you do not follow instructions as hereafter outlined to the letter, your wife will be tortured. She will be inoculated with the germs of loathsome diseases..."

The ransom note was supposed to be a hoax--or so claimed the young "students of criminology" who allegedly set out to hatch the perfect kidnapping.

But they underestimated the fighting spirit of their immensely wealthy target, 56-year-old Colonel Daniel Cowan Jackling, one of the most powerful and influential men in the United States in 1925.

A quarter century earlier Jackling had revolutionized the mining industry by introducing new processes of extracting copper profitably on a large scale using steam shovels and other mass production equipment.

As a result of Jackling's amazing mining breakthrough, the Utah Copper Co. was founded in 1903. The new company flourished, and the metal magnate made millions becoming equally famous for his "free spending" lifestyle.

Colonel Jackling and wife, Virginia, a sportsman active in charity affairs, spent the summers at their exclusive 90-acre Woodside estate. On the spectacular property stood a 21-room mansion, several smaller homes, servant's quarters, stables and an Olympic-sized swimming pool.

When the Jacklings weren't sailing 'round the globe aboard the Cyprus, their 267-foot, ten-bedroom "palatial steam yacht" manned by a crew of 50, the couple resided in San Francisco within walking distance of the Colonel's office. True to his reputation for "free spending", Jackling had leased an entire floor of the St. Francis Hotel, converting the sprawling space into a luxurious apartment.

In June 1925 the Jacklings were preparing for their summer move from the St. Francis Hotel to their Woodside estate. While the maid helped Virginia Jackling pack, the Colonel was getting ready for his short trip to the office.

The phone rang and Mrs. Jackling answered.

"Your sister, Mrs. Rudolph Spreckles," said an unfamiliar voice, "has been seriously injured. She is at the Red Cross Hospital in San Mateo. Come at once, she wants you."

Sick with fear, Virginia Jackling summoned the chauffeur. A few minutes later the limousine picked her up at the Post Street entrance of the hotel and they sped to the hospital in San Mateo.

Before leaving, Virginia assured the worried Colonel she would keep him informed of developments on the Peninsula.

When Colonel Jackling arrived at his office, his secretary handed him a letter that had been delivered by special messenger. Jackling quickly slit open the envelope, and read the harrowing ransom note claiming his wife had been kidnapped and demanding $50,000 for her safe release.

The typewritten threat instructed Jackling to get $50,000 in cash, and give it to the driver of a specific taxi cab who would be parked at the curb outside the Colonel's office building.

But Jackling was not about to comply. It all seemed fishy to him. He alerted police, and detectives were dispatched immediately to investigate the strange sequence of events.

As the minutes ticked by, Jackling became a bundle of nervous energy. Where were the police? Had Virginia arrived in San Mateo? He called Mills Hospital, and to his great relief, she was there, unharmed.

"But," she told her husband, "my sister isn't here!" She attempted to contact her sister at home in Burlingame but that phone appeared to be out of order.

Now Jackling's suspicions mounted. He was convinced the whole business was a scam.

From that point, the police authorities of three different jurisdictions took over, collaborating on a methodical investigation.

Hillsborough's police chief went to Mrs. Rudolph Spreckels home and found her safe, but that the telephone wires had been cut.

San Francisco's detectives, heading up the investigation, advised Colonel Jackling to act as if he were meeting the kidnapper's demands. Jackling sent his office manager to the bank to pick-up a specially prepared "dummy package" that appeared to be bulging with cash. Following the instructions of the ransom note, the office manager located the taxi parked in front of the building just where they said it would be.

"Are you waiting for someone?", the office manager asked the cab driver.

"Yes," the fellow answered. "Have you a package for me?"

As soon as the dummy package exchanged hands, police appeared and took the terrified taxicab driver into custody for questioning.

The frightened cabby told police a young man had hired him to pick up a package. He was then to drive south to the historic Uncle Tom's Cabin in San Bruno where someone would be waiting at the side of the road with arms crossed. This individual would give him further directions.

The police instructed the taxi driver to do exactly as he had been instructed, but that they would shadow him all the way.

Near Uncle Tom's Cabin, as predicted, a man with crossed arms was standing by the roadside. The cab-driver stopped and the cross-armed man inquired about the package. When assured it was there, he slid into the front seat of the taxi, and directed the driver to another location further south.

Unfortunately, the well-thought out police plan disintegrated as their vehicle broke down. The scene that followed was reminiscent of the Keystone Kops, so popular in the silent films of the day. The detectives, saving the day, commandeered a stunned private citizen's car and resumed the chase.

Good fortune returned as the taxi was still within sight and quickly overtaken by the police in the citizen's car. The detectives swooped down on the cab and seized the cross-armed man. Expecting a hardened criminal, they were surprised to discover they had collared a young college student shaking with fear.

He told a rambling story: No actual kidnapping was intended, he claimed. He and his co-conspirator, a book agent, were students of criminology who planned the perfect crime, selecting as their victim one of the richest men in the City. It was a hoax, they were only bluffing, the student insisted.

But who had clipped the telephone wires at Mrs. Rudolph Spreckles' Burlingame home? San Mateo Sheriff T.C. McGovern sought a third man seen climbing a telephone pole.

Was the student's story the true version of what had happened? Later, Virginia Jackling told police she had noticed a rough looking character who appeared to be following the limousine as her chauffeur pulled away from the curb at the St. Francis Hotel. He remained on their trail tracking them on their journey south. Virginia instructed the chauffeur to evade the suspicious car by changing direction, and she believed they lost him in traffic.

It had been a horrible day for the Jacklings. But, on the positive side, Virginia's sister was not injured, there was no kidnapping, no ransom was paid, and the culprits were apprehended.

Some time later, and most likely with the intention of erasing memories of those unpleasant events, the Jacklings moved out of the St. Francis Hotel. In the late 1920s they commissioned a new, magnificent penthouse apartment covering the entire top floor of the Mark Hopkins Hotel featuring panoramic views of San Francisco Bay.

At the time, the elegant, wood paneled apartment, with 20-foot ceilings to showcase a collection of ancient Persian tapestries, was one of the more dramatic residences in the West.

In addition to his remarkable engineering skills, Daniel Jackling had an astute eye for recognizing choice properties. His residences in San Francisco were in the best locations. He purchased 28 acres in Hillsborough's desirable Easton section, but the Jacklings would spend the rest of their lives at the spectacular Woodside estate on Mountain Home Road.

When Colonel Jackling retired in 1942 he was in charge of all western holdings of the vast Kennecott copper mining interests. He had been awarded a Distinguished Service Medal during WWI and received countless awards in the field of mining engineering.

In 1956 86-year-old Colonel Daniel Cowan Jackling died in Woodside, leaving the bulk of his $9 million estate to universities, churches and charitable organizations.

As part of the estate was Jackling's treasure, a 1931 V16 four-door Cadillac touring car he had personally custom-ordered. It was a classic car collector's dream.

One year after the Colonel's death, Virginia, his wife for over forty years, passed away at the Woodside mansion on Mountain Home Road.

Cypress (steam Yacht)
The large ocean-going steam yacht Cypress was built by the Seattle Construction & Drydock Co. for Col. D. C. Jackling of Seattle. She was found to have insufficient stability for offshore cruising, but following extensive alterations proved an excellent sea boat, making a voyage to the East Coast via Magellan Straits. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1913, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p224.
The ocean steam yacht Cypress of 1913 was sold by Col. Jackling to John N. Willys of the Willys -Overland Co., having made a cruise to New York via Magellan Straits. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1916, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966., p. 265.

JOURNALISM IN CALIFORNIA

BY JOHN P. YOUNG

Pacific Coast and Exposition Biographies

CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY
San Francisco, California
1915

Page 227

Great Men and Great Men's Achievements
Form the Background for
California's Progress

Page 282

Colonel D. C. Jackling

Colonel Daniel Cowan Jackling, whose business career is well enough known not to need further exploitation, occupies the unusual position in respect to San Francisco of putting something into the city without taking anything out.
In other words Colonel Jackling, as the general public probably does not realize, has not a single business interest in San Francisco, despite the fact that he maintains headquarters here in order that his various mining and other properties maybe easily accessible to him. He spends annually great sums of money in San Francisco in maintaining his offices and his home but neither asks nor receives anything in the monetary line in return.
None of Colonel Jackling's interests is exploited to the general public, nor are his operations carried on by the public's aid. Yet he is one of the biggest and most influential business men in the West.
Among others, Colonel Jackling is interested in one way or another in the following corporations: Utah Copper Company, Ray Consolidated Copper Company, Alaska Gold Mines Company, Bingham & Garfield Railway, Ray & Gila Valley Railroad, Utah Power & Light Company, Nevada, Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, Nevada Northern Railroad, Chino Copper Company, Butte &
Superior Copper Company, Utah State National Bank, McCornick Company of Salt Lake City, Garfield (Utah) Banking Company, Salt Lake Security & Trust Company, Utah Hotel Company and Utah Hotel Operating Company, Utah Fire Clay Company, Pacific-Alaska Navigation Company, First National Bank of Denver, Garden City Sugar & Land Company of Garden City, Kansas, United Iron Works of
Oakland and Kansas City Structural Iron Company.


Bingham & Garfield Railway

Organized: July 1, 1908

Filed: July 8, 1908 - with Secretary of State

Utah index number: 7037

Dissolved: September 8, 1948 (voluntary, by Affidavit of Intent, acknowledged by court June 30, 1951)

Capital stock: $1,000,000 (10,000 shares @ $100.00)

Purpose:

To construct a railroad between Bingham, and the mines and mining properties thereof, and Garfield, and the smelters and smelting plants thereof, a distance of about 35 miles

Incorporators and directors:

W. S. McCornick SLC 1 President
D. C. Jackling SLC 1 Vice President
R. C. Gemmell SLC 1
John N. Hayes SLC 1 Secretary, Treasurer
A. C. Ellis Jr. SLC 1

Remarks:

Amended May 9, 1911, to change structure of Board of Directors

Charles N. MacNiel shown as President (name had been scratched out, as president, on the original articles)
John N. Hayes shown as Secretary
Filed: May 15, 1911

Amended November 3, 1911, to increase capital stock to $2,500,000 (25,000 shares @ $100.00)

Filed: November 6, 1911

Amended August 31, 1912, to change terminus: to continue from Garfield, north to Saltair Beach

D. C. Jackling shown as President
John M. Hayes shown as Secretary
Filed: September 7, 1912

Amended June 10, 1913, to increase capital stock to $6,000,000 (60,000 shares @ $100.00) Filed: June 11, 1913

Amended December 19, 1916, to increase capital stock to $10,000,000 (100,000 shares @ $100.00)

Filed: December 22, 1916

Amended October 24, 1940, to decrease capital stock to $2,800,000 (28,000 shares @ $100.00)

D. C. Jackling shown as President
E. S. MacWhinney shown as Secretary
D. D. Moffat shown as Vice President
Charles T. S. Parsons shown as Asst. Secretary

At the time the corporation was dissolved, September 8, 1948:

Thomas Temple shown as Secretary

Kennecott Copper Corporation (of New York) is shown as owning all shares of stock, except the six shares for qualifying in Utah and one share held by N. E. McKinnon

The wording used in these articles is almost identical to the wording used in the articles of the Bingham Central Railway (index 6542) which preceded this corporation by about a year's time. Both had the same organizers.

He become a member of the Pacific-Union Club, Club Rooms, 1000 California Street, San Franciscoon the 3rd June 1913. This club was exclusive for magnets only.

Buried in Cypress Lawn Cemetery.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census: US 1880 National, 1880, Heaths Creek, Pettis, Missouri, USA. 1880 US Census
Census Place: Heaths Creek, Pettis, Missouri
Source: FHL Film 1254708 National Archives Film T9-0708 Page 120A
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
John L. COWAN Self M M W 33 IA
Occ: Minister Gospel Fa: KY Mo: KY
Abbie L. COWAN Wife F M W 27 IL
Occ: Keeping House Fa: SCOT Mo: OH
Finis C. COWAN Son M S W 7 MO
Fa: IA Mo: IL
Minnie COWAN Dau F S W 5 IL
Fa: IA Mo: IL
Willis B. COWAN Son M S W 3 IL
Fa: IA Mo: IL
Bertha M. COWAN Dau F S W 10M MO
Fa: IA Mo: IL
Daniel JACKLING Son M S W 10 MO
Occ: At School

Daniel married Beatrice Jeanne SULLIVAN in 1894/1895 in Cripple Creek, Teller, Colorado, USA. (Beatrice Jeanne SULLIVAN was born about 1881, died on 18 Sep 1919 in San Diego County, California, USA and was buried in 1919 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA.)

Daniel next married Virginia JOLLIFFE, daughter of W. H. JOLLIFFE and Johanna, in Apr 1915 in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA. (Virginia JOLLIFFE was born on 9 Oct 1879 in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA, died on 21 Oct 1957 in California, USA and was buried in 1957 in Colma, San Mateo, California, USA.)