Myers, Sylvester "Clay"

...Lead from the Premier Mine is selling at a figure higher than yet heard, of at this office for months, $105, having assayed 84.40 and the price for 85 per cent being settled on as a complement. Not only is the mill equipped with the last word in ore saving devices, but the mill man, Clay Myers, is an adept in his line having followed General Manager A. M. Gaines from mill to mill for the last eight years. Mr. Gaines, manager of the Premier Mine and the New Chicago Mine, has been in the mining game for 32 years. He is a Western operator but managed the Diplomat Mine and the Harman Mine of Galena Kansas and the Thanksgiving Mine at Porto Rico Missouri before coming to the Miami Field. He has built eleven mills since coming here. He is great for organization and has for his mill man at the New Chicago Mine, Clayton Moore, who like Mr. Myers has been with him eight years. In fact one had the day shift and the other the night at the Diplomat eight years ago. To give some idea of the amount of work being done at the Premier it might be well to say that 10.450 tons of dirt were hauled out of a single shaft in a month working single shift, and Saturday...yesterday there was five cars of lead, 8,500 pounds of lead made in fifteen minutes.

Sylvester 'Clay' Myers, 61 years old, died at 1:15 o'clock Sunday afternoon at his home, 459 South Francis Street, Picher Oklahoma, as a result of a cerebral hemorrhage. Mr. Myers was stricken while attending services at the First Baptist church while observing the Lord's supper. He was taken to his home in a Durnil ambulance and died a short time later. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Alice Myers; two daughters, Mrs. Mabel McIrvin and Mrs. Ruth McGeehee, both of Picher, a son, Ernest C. Myers of Brownsville Texas; two brothers, J. B. Myers and John P. Myers, both of Galena Kansas; three sisters, Mrs. Charles Craig of Galena, Mrs. Lucy Sexton of Miami [mother of Henry Monroe Sexton] and Mrs. Pearl Judd of Picher, and three grandchildren. Mr. Myers had been a resident of Picher since 1921 and was employed by the New Chicago Mining Company from 1921 until 1930, at which time he retired. He was a member of the Joplin Masonic lodge, being a thirty second degree Mason, the Modern Woodmen lodge and was chairman of the board of deacons of the First Baptist church. The body is at the Durnil funeral home in Picher.

Funeral services will be held at the First Baptist church in Picher. The Rev. W. A. Evans, pastor, will officiate. Active pallbearers will be F. F. Smithson, Ed Reece, William Keithley, Ed Wilson, Frank Steele and Jim Elliott. Honorary pallbearers will be Neal Gillette, Elam Hall, Clyde Dawson, S. C. Betts, I. W. McCracken and E. N. Dickinson. The place of burial had not been decided this morning, it was announced by the Durnil funeral home, Picher. Members of the Ottawa Lodge A.F. & A.M. 478 are requested to meet at the Picher lodge at 1 o'clock to assist the Webb City Missouri, lodge with funeral rites.

Funeral services for Clay Myers, 61 years old, prominent Picher man who died Sunday afternoon at his home 459 South Francis Street, were held at 2 o'clock this afternoon with Rev. W. A. Evans, assisted by the Rev. C. E. Bergen of Miami and the Rev. Billy Bain of Neosho, officiated. Burial was in Hillcrest cemetery at Galena Kansas with the Durnil funeral home of Picher is in charge. Masonic rites were conducted at the grave by the Webb City Blue lodge.