Gaines, Alfred M.

manager of the Premier Zinc Company left for New York City Friday night to attend a directors' meeting of the American Zinc institute. He will be absent about a week. F. C. Wallower, vice-president. Of the Golden Rod Mining and Smelting Company, whose mines are located at Cardin Oklahoma, and Charles T. Orr of Webb City Missouri, directors of the national organization are expected to attend the meeting.

Gaines, 64 years old, prominent in mining operations of the Tri-State district, died at 11:30 o'clock last night at his home southeast of Picher Oklahoma following an illness of eight months. Mr. Gaines had been confined to his bed the last five months. Mr. Gaines was born at Mishawaka Indiana, Oct 12, 1869, where he resided until 17 years old. In leaving Indiana, Mr. Gaines went to Colorado, where he engaged in the gold and silver mining industry with profitable results. In 1913 Mr. Gaines left Colorado and settled at Galena Kansas where he had the Diplomat Mine. [Interest: West Seventh Street in Galena Kansas was closed to traffic on Jan 2, 1913. Problems with mine drifts, which undercut the Street, had resulted in cave- ins. The Street was ruled unsafe, and the weakest points were filled with gravel.] In the operation of this mine he was credited with two achievements, one being operation of the first electric equipped mine of the Tri-State district and the other being the first big tonnage of the district. Four years later he came to Picher and became associated with the Kanok Metals company as operator of the Premier Mine on South Main Street. Six years later he acquired a lease on the tract of land southeast of Picher, where he developed several paying mines under control of the New Chicago Mine corporation, of which he was president. He home was on this tract of land. Mr. Gaines was president of the former Bank of Picher a number of years. He was a member of the Quapaw Masonic lodge. Surveying are his wife, Mrs. Ellen G. Gaines; a son, J. H. Gaines, Jr. of Picher; his mother, Mrs. J. H. Gaines of Mishawaka Indiana; two sisters, Mrs. H. L. Pike of Fort Thomas Kentucky, and Mrs. Otis Replogle of Mishawakea, and two brothers Charles H. Gaines of Warika Oklahoma, and William Oliver Gaines of LaJolla California. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. The body is at the parlors of the Todd undertaking company.

Funeral services will be held in Miami Saturday. The services will be conducted at 1 o'clock in the afternoon at the All Saints Episcopal church. The Rev. Louis Denninghoff will officiate. Active pallbearers will be Irwin Hocker, Fred Leslie, Arthur Babb, Frank Steele, George Washburn and G. E. Bullock. Honorary pallbearers will be Charles Neal, Reggie Barrett, Richard Russell, William Thomas, J. Craig Warren and Jess Ramsey. Burial will be in Evergreen cemetery at Fort Scott Kansas, under the direction of the Todd undertaking company. The body will lie in state from 11 to 1 o'clock at All Saints Episcopal church.