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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

POSITIONS VACANT Position as superintendent of all-sliming cyanide plant in Montana will he open in spring. Thoroughly experienced man wanted. No. 6. Position as engineer for iron-mining company in Virginia is open. Single man with experience in underground surveying preferred. No. 7. ENGINEERS AVAILABLE (Under this heading will be published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute. by members or other persons.) Member, 34 years old, married, nine years responsible position in South America, excellent knowledge of Spanish, Latin-American people and customs, with present employer seven years, six years as manager and legal representative of a mining company, desires to make a change April, 1914. Prefers position requiring energy, executive ability, business tact and practical knowledge dealing with political and legal authorities, rather than strictly technical position. No. 35. Technical graduate, married, with four years' experience in assaying, surveying, sampling,. and mine supervision in Utah and Mexico, open for engagement. No. 37. Member, aged 28, desires opening on engineering or sales force of machinery house, or manufacturing concern. Twelve years' experience, in smelters, cyanide plants, concentrators and gold dredges, steam, gas and electric machinery and mechanical drafting. At present foreman for a silver-lead company. No. 40.

Jan 1, 1914

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

POSITIONS VACANT (Under this heading will be published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute by members or other persons.) Assayer and chemist with experience in gold and silver work and refining; used to handling a force of men. Large property in Northern Ontario. Send reference, record of practice, age, married or single, and salary expected. Apply Position 54. Metallurgical chemist wanted, competent to make the following analyses: cupola, gray iron; air:-furnace iron; pig iron of various kinds; coal; coke; sand of all descriptions; materials used in modern foundry practice; steel, and bronzes of all kinds; oils for fuel in Diesel engines and lubricating purposes; materials used in a modern machine shop, in fact, all materials likely to be used in a foundry, machine shop and forge shop. No. 55.

Jan 12, 1915

POSITIONS VACANT No. 175. At a mine in Missouri: general designer on timber work for concentrator power house and general mill work; two draftsmen on all kinds of mine and null work; two tracers, good letterer and map tracer; one transit man for surveys who can plot his work accurately.

Jan 1, 1917

No. 230. Two engineers, technical graduates, three to five years, experience. One to take charge of 'pyrite mining in Canada; the other to assist in the mining work at the head office in New York. Salary for the right man, $5000. No. 231. Two young engineers, preferably men who have just graduated from college who are looking for an opportunity to work up with a reputable mining company. Men who have had some practical experience will be considered. No. 232. Assayer. Wet analyses, principally of lead, zinc, sulphur and insoluble. Assayer will also have some mill sampling and experimental work in a new flotation installation, as well -as control of regular mill operation and development-work samples front the mine. $75 to $100 per month and board, according to experience of candidate. No. 233. Engineer to lay out, erect and operate calcium carbide and ferrosilicon plant in the State of Washington. One furnace, 1500 hp. No. 234. Professor of metallurgy for school of mines in western state. $3000 per year to man properly qualified for the work.

Jan 9, 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, 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 Member, aged 41, mining engineer, manager or general superintendent, 20 years' experience, 10 years in Mexico, 5 years Western States, 5 years abroad. Guarantee results, fluent Spanish, excellent references. New York interview. No. 282. Member, technical mining graduate, 10 years' experience, especially in design, erection, construction and purchase of power and mining equipment and supplies, desires position in purchasing department. Married, aged 32, employed at present, references furnished. No. 295.

Jan 6, 1916

No. 219. Assayer for gold-silver property in Ecuador. No. 220. Two engineers to go to Russia, 22-28 years old. Not engaged or married. Knowledge of some language other than English. To study conditions in Russia two summers and intervening winter. One man must have experience in oil-well operation or oil manufacture; the other, in mining or metallurgy. Salary £300 per annum, plus traveling and living expenses. No. 221. Position in metallurgical testing department. Initial salary $1600 to $1500. Candidate who has had industrial training and experience either in the manufacture and testing of steel or in electro- metallurgy preferred, but one who has had post graduate work in these lines will be considered. No. 223. Experimental and research laboratory in Wisconsin wants ,a man who has had experience in ore dressing, iron ore preferably. Salary $3600. Also, an iron metallurgist. Salary $3600.

Jan 7, 1917

POSITIONS VACANT No. 228. Slate mining company desires men for the following positions: Superintendent to take full charge of underground work, quarrying and milling. Assistant or night superintendent. . Foreman for sinking a new shaft. No. 229. Chief engineer to take charge of drafting room, on furnaces and combustion apparatus. ENGINEERS AVAILABLE (Under this heading will be published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute by members or other persons introduced by members.) Mining engineer and executive. Member. Columbia graduate. Age, 32. Married. 9 years' responsible work in mine examination and development. Experience in United States, Canada, Mexico and South America. Now superintendent large operating mine. Personal interview in New York. Available in August. No. 367.

Jan 8, 1917

ENGINEERS AVAILABLE (Under this Beading will lie published notes sent to the Secretary of the Institute by members or other persons introduced by members.) Member,, technical graduate, aged 38, 14 years' experience in engineering, exploration, and management of copper, pyrite, and large iron mines, safety work, professor of mining in large university. Married. Open for position after June 10. No. 205. 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 5, 1915

POSITIONS VACANT No. 157. Superintendent for roasting. and magnetic separating plant working on zinc concentrates. Must have mechanical experience and a working knowledge of electricity. Salary will depend on experience and results obtained. Location Canada. No. 155. Metallurgical chemist familiar with copper and steel for company just starting. Must have had technical education and practical experience with both metals. Salary moderate at beginning, but will be increased as business grows. No. 159. An experienced, up-to-date coal-mining engineer to open up and manage soft-coal mines in Spitzbergen, preferably a Scandinavian capable of handling Norwegian laborers. Employment beginning January.

Jan 12, 1916

POSITIONS VACANT (Under this heading will he 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. Man to take entire charge of the sales of a steel company making electric alloy steels in the shape of ingots, billets and bars. To the right man an opportunity will be offered for taking a leading position in the management of the company and of participating in its results. No. 68. Chemist wanted by Electric Steel concern in the East. Must be fully acquainted with alloy steel analysis. Send full particulars and references. No. 73.

Jan 3, 1916