[citation needed] Also in Arizona, he and Ray Con partner Philip Wiseman took a wildcat speculation on the United Eastern mine in the Oatman district.
The high grade ore deposit proved Arizona's richest and provided the partners with a quick but short-lived profit.
In early 1914, just before World War I, he partnered with Charles Godfrey Gunther and Philip Wiseman for a drilling opportunity in the island of Cyprus, where evidence of Roman and Phoenician mining of Copper ore had been found.
He served as one of the government's dollar a year men, helping upgrade munitions production for the War Department.
He was an advocate for education and, among other gifts in his will, provided one million dollars for the Claremont College in Pomona, California, where he had been chairman of its board.