The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-04-27
What the Executive COMMITTEES Is
Doing to Make II q Great
Success.
Ten Thousand Pieces Of Mail Mat
ter Already Sent Out by
Secretary Brown.
An Undertaking the Result Of which 10.
ponds Altogether mn the People
Of Montana.

E9rNN AsN NsAA ~ ~ SAH \ hkNAiQ
executive committee or the national mining
congress. last night finished tho first big
undertaking in connection with this maet-
ing of the national mining congress- in Hell
snA July u nsxt. This was the mailing
and addressing Of 10000 calls for tho CON
v%ention, and several thousand certificates
for delegates. These certificates are in
conformity with the apportionment and
basis OF representation Is follows: For
eaoh state and territory of the United States,
ton delegates, to DO appointed by the
governor Of the respective states and terri
tories. For each incorporated city and
town In the United States, ons delegate,
having 2,6oO population, two delegates;
having 1900 population, three dele
gates, and one additional Delegate for each
10000 population over 1850, to be ap-
pointed by the executive officers OF tho
respective cities and towns. For each in
eorporated exchange on which mining
stocks are regularly called, one delegate.
and one additional delegate for each ten
members Of such exchange, The executive
committee may appoint fifty delegates from
the United States at large. In addition about
300 elegantly gotten up certificates will DO
sent to the leading newspapers OF the
United States. to every editor in Montana,
and to all tho dailies in the adjoining min
ing states. Enclosed in tho same envelope
with ths certificates and calls ia a postal
card, addressed to Secretary Brown. Ihs
governors. mayors and other officials who
have the appointment Of delegates are re-
quested to return these postals with the
names Of the delegates. On their receipt
the secretary will send to the railroad
companies interested lists of the delegates
from the various sections of the United
States, 30 their agents can call upon them
and arrange for their transportation.
lew people have an idea of the vast
afhount Of labor entailed in this prelimi-
nary work. Unlike the conventions Of the
A., @. U. w. and Sons of Veterans,
there are no organized bodies scat
tered over the eountry to aid tbs
Montana committee. and all the labor
of interesting the public in the mining CON
vention and drawing their attention to it,
must be largely transacted in Helena.
The work Ia divided up among a number OF
committees, but in the end the greater part
Of it falls upon the secretary, who ia net
only this secretary Of the whole committee,
but also Of all the branch committees.
Chairman Hauser, and Vics-Chairman
Irwin II. and determined to make the CON
%yention . notable success, and they find to
do go requires q great amount Of time, as
we'll aa the expenditure of q large sum Of
money. There will be $500 expended in
postage to start the ball, thousands Of cir
cuials have been printed. and within the
next month it will be necessary for one or
more members Of tbs committee to 20 east
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before the lending men Of the %oouutry. May
rs there will be a silver convention IN
Washington, and it is most desirable that
there DO a strong delegation sent from Mon
tAna. Ihe representatives from this state
will have an opportunity to meet the most
prominent free silver and enti-silver men
IN the United States, and invite and urge
upon them the policy OF attending the min.
ing convention in Helena in July.
In conformity with ths idsa that the |
mining congress is a state affair, the mem-
bershlp of the executive committee is made
up OF representative men from all over the
state. and the committee meets this first j
Wednesday in every month in Helena, to
hear the reports of the officers and COM
m1ttees, and to plan the work for the
succeeding month. Working together for
the success of the congress-, with a SOM
potent and painstaking officer to carry out
the wishes OF the committee, the members
feel it will be a success, net only in so far
as Its deliberations are concerned, but also
that 1T Wall be Il great benefit to the state as
a whole. Tho congress will bs composed in
large part, OF men OF means and national
reputation. many OF whom will for the
1lrst time nave an opportunity of learning
something BY personal knowledge of Mon
tana,s resources. The call for the congress,
sent broadcast over the country, to all the
governors, mayors, presidents of mining
exchanges and leading newspapers, sets
forth the objects of the mesting, and the
programme IN a worry interesting way, as
follows:
We transmit to you herewith credentials
in blank for your use in appointing dele
gates III accordance with the foregoing ap-
portionment. We respectfully urge tho
active cooperation of yourself and oonstit-
uency to secure at this session of the Ma
tlonal Mining congress a complete and
thoroughly representative participation in
the deliberations OF this organization,
which, being based upon the greatest in
dnRtry of the United states. it's expressions
must exotic universal interest. The po-
tency of discussion by eminent mon OF the
general needs of our mining interests and
kindred subjects cannot be exaggerated rs
to their helpful influence upon necessary
legislation, ard the value of interchanped
ideas on these matters is unquestioned.
The congress- is to convene in the varv
heart OF tho most extensive mining region
yot discovered. The city Of Butte, but
three hours' ride from Helena, constitutes
the largest aggregation of diversitied min
sng industries ever known, and tho entire