The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-08-27
BUSINESS AND MINING.
Call for a Bimetallic Convention
at St. Louis.
UTAH INVITED TO JOIN.
Plan to Divert Trade from the Eastern
Cities.
An Appeal Taken in the Noted Roadside
Rather case-Copper Ore from the
Tintic DIines-Yesterday' Clear
ings-Real Estate Transfers.

President Hubbard yesterday received
the following communication and call
for
BMETALLIc CONVENTION:
DENVER, Aug. %, 1892.
President Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce,
Salr Lake City, Utah:
DEAR SIR.-On account of the open
hostility OF the trade centers of the north
east to the best interests of the masses OF
the people of the south and west, and in
view of the fact that there is a common
bond OF sympathy uniting the people OF
the southern and western states and ter
ritories, and the further fact that the
growth and settlement of these great Sec
tions renders north Atlantic seaports no
longer convenient or essential, but, on
the contrary, inconvenient, expensive
and unnecessary, you are earnestly urged
70 send representatives to the meeting
provided for in accompanying call, to the
end that commercial emancipation and
independence may be secured.
The movement involves the welfare OF
one-haH the population of the United
States and more than seven -eights of the
area Of all the states and territories of the
union.
Please advise me OF the names and post
office addresses of representatives as soon
a. they are appointed. Respectfully
yours, OLNEY Newell.
HEADQUARTERS PAN-AMERIcAN
BIMETALLIC ASSOCIATION,
DENVER, Colo. Aug. 15 1898.
a convention is hereby called OF repre-
sentatives from Old Mexico and all the
states thereof, of all the countries OF
South and Central America, and of the
states OF Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas,
Cutffnrnto Tnfnradn Florida (5pnrUIQ
Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louis
lana Missouri, Minnesota, Mississippi,
Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North
Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma,
Oregon, South Carolins, South Dakota,
Tennessee, Texas, Utah. West Virginia,
Virginia, Washington and Wyoming, to
meet in st. Louis, Mo-, on Tuesday, Oct.
8, 1898.
This association was organized at Ell
Paso. Tex, at the southwest silver con-
vention held in that city On the 9Th, 9Th,
9TH and Sth of December, 1892, and at
which many of the leading and wealthiest
citizens of the states of Old Mexico and
the countries OF South and Central Amer
lea were in attendance. 1t was then
ordered that convention, representing
all the states, territories and countries
belonging 20 the association be geld in
Denver in October. 1898.
The extraordinary condition OF business
and industries of the United States, the
danger which threatens the money OF
Mexico and the countries of South and
Central America, as well as that of the
United States, the necessity for broader
remedies than those which the association
can apply under literal construction of
its constitution, have induced the execu-
tive committee TO change the place of
meeting and to suggest other subjects for
consideration than that alone of bimetal-
lism.
IT is very evident that the center of the
conspiracy in this country to utterly de-
monetize silver and thrust the United
States upon single metallic standard,
that of gold, for its currency, is in New
York, Boston, Philadelphia and Balti-
more. The press of these cities has become
thoroughly subservient to the end of the
conspirators and has so imbued the minds
OF the people of the states in which these
cities are and the surrounding states that
they have all become hostile to the welfare
and advancement of the west and south,
whose interests are lnSeparably blended
with fair and full volume of money,
which cannot be secured and maintained
unless silver has restored its functions of
primary money, upon which, in company
with gold, the credit money of the coun-
tries may rest. In the name of 'shonest
money those states are parties to the
sDoliation of our sections and the cities
named are the prime instIgators of the
crime.
1t has seemed to us that we should not
fRtten and strengthen such cities with the
vast trade and commerce of our section.
Not only does self respect and self preser-
walton require that ne should deal with
friends, but the geographical position OF
the states, the facilities of ports on the
gulf aud its tributaries and upon the Pa
cific coast, the proximity OF Mexico AMI
Central and South America to the gulf
and California lines of the United States,
the shorter distance from them to many
European and Asiatic ports, and the bet
ter railroad and inter-waterway facilities
from them to nearly every quarter of the
west ana south, all combine to render
practicable and readily feasible the build
ing up OF the ports along the gulf, ito
river tributaries and the Pacific coast
line, through which the great bulk of our
grain, ore, meats, raw material and man
ufacture6 goods may reach Mexico, South
and Central America, European and Ash
attic ports, and the wares and products of
other chimes be returned to us with recip-
rocal profits.
We therefore urge upon the govern
ments of Mexico, South and Central
America, and upon the American states
interested in the work, and upon all the
commercial and manufacturing bodies
within them, 30 send delegates to the
convention. and we further request all
railroad and steamship lines of this and
the South American continent and of
Europe and Asia interested in establish
ing new ports and lines Of communica-
ton upon the lines suggested to send rep
resentatives for consultation and sug-
gestions-
Let us proceed in this work with DELHI
eraticn, but frmness. 1t is a great
patriotic task as well as one of mutual
profit and advantage.
By order OF executive committee OF the
Pan-American Bimetallic association.
A. c. FISK, President.
Olney Newell. secretary of the Denver
chamber of commerce and board of trade,
has been authorized to conduct the cor
respondence, and to him all communica-
tions should be addressed.
ROADSIDE AND RATHER CLAIMS.