, 1890-10-23
MINERS DAY.
There Was a Large Attendance and
Interesting Exercises.

There Was Large Attendance and
Interesting Exercises.
There was u great many people at
the building Friday night to listen
to the exercises for the day. Among
Others on the platform were: L.
lockwood Moore, w, III. Taylor,
Warren Hussey, c. ID. Porter, of
Wallace, j. w. Goss, +. Il. Goodall,
III. Bolster, r. G. Grinitts, and
Hon. William IL, Clagett and +.
Lewis Clark.
President Clark introduced Mr..
Gritfitts, who spoke as follows:
THE ADDRESS OF WELCOME.
The citizens OF Spokane ever mindful
of the debt OF gratitude they owe to the
miners and tU the mining industry,
have dedicated this glorious October
day at this unequaled exposition tor the
special entertainment of miners and
their friends, and have commissioned
me with the honorable and pleasant
service of saying the first chow dye
do and speaking the first words OF
public welcome.
The miner who has stood upon the
rugged mountain peak and looking
around him realizes the imInensity of
nature and the puny insgnilicanCe of
man in comparison can appreciate how
unequal | iecl to the occasion. | can
only say to the miners and mining
people, one and all, that We ure glad to
see you hope you are well aud want
you to make yourselves at home. And
why should not the mining men of this
country make aud feel themselves at
home in Spokane Falls and among its
generous peopleY Is not this superb
city, nay, this very exposition itself
partly the work of your own hands? Was
1t not the disco Iery of gold, silver
and lead in the mountains, streams and
gulChes of the Cpur d' Alenes that gave
the original impetus to this clty's
growth, and has nurtured and sustained
its business ever since, and made IL Dos
sible and profitable to build two lines of
railroad into and through that region
sending branches into every stony
gulch? Was it not the miners of the
kootenai, Calispel ana ColvilIe who first
gave US our magnificent northern aud
British Colum Dia trade and made 1t pos.
sible and profitable to build the Spo.
kane Falls & Northern railroad, with its
center trunk reaching and connect
ing with the Canadian Pacific
railroad, and its two proposed branches
reaching the one to the kootenui lake
and the other across to the northwest
until 1t will mingle with the waters of
the sea? Was II not the miners who
went into the cdistantOkanogan and in six
months had carved out of its mountains
and valleys new country, established
populous towns and demonstrated the
richness of the minerals of that famed
region and lent additional impetus to
the building OF the Washington Central
railroad? Have not all these great
mining regions contributed to swell the
volume of trade aud preserve ths pros
perity and accelerate the growth of this
marvellous city2 Why, then, should
you not feel at home and enjoy your
selves? In behalf of all the citizens
OF Spokane Falls whose humble mouth
piece 1t is ON TINS OCCASION my privilege
10 be, ! point with pride to our popu.
lous city with its teeming industries
its palaces of brick and stone, monu.
inents to the enterprise of its citizens;
its stores filled with Itch merchandise
of the earn; its railroads; its factories
and its public Improvements; its thea
ters towering TO the sky and bearing
aloft the chaste form Of the goddess Of
music and song; its thousands OF happy
homes and vlrtuous tireyides whose In
mates commission me to thank you for
your share in their prosperity; to this
great exposition where not the least of
the display are the glittering nuggets Of
gold from the Cnur d'Alencs and the
rich silver and load specimens from the
Kootenai, Colyille and Okanogan, and
say TO you one and all. you are welcome,
thrice welcome, enjoy the freedom of
the city, even unto Is horse races and
its tiger, If you will, We thank you for
being with us.
hut pleasant as it 10 TO welcome you
here, in behalf OF our city anticipate u
special pleasure and privilege. Among
the representative mining and profess
sional men OF the Northwest there is
one whose name is known in every
miners cabin in every mountain gulch.
For thirty years his clarion
tones have echoed from peak
to peak, vibrating and swelling and
charming those who heard. And soon
his gray hnir and grand faco will be
seen and his silvery voice be heard in
the senate chamber Of the United States