The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-14
MINERs, ASSOCIATION.
Important Action Taken by the CAL
ifOrnia Organization.


ifOrnia Organization.
Among the resolutions adopted by
the California Miners association that
has just been in session in San Fran
cisco were the following:
Resolved, That we look upon the
state mining bureau as one of the i'm
portant factors in the advancement of
the mining industry of California, and
urge upon our legislature the necessity
of providing for its continued proper
maintenance and support. Its reports
and bulletins are not only directly use
full to the miners of the state, but also
serve good purpose in attracting the
attention of people of other states and
countries to the advantages to be
gained in following the business of
mining in California.
Resolved, That the professor of min
ing, the professor of geology and the
professor of mineralogy of the State
university, and the president and vice
president of the board of trustees of
the state mining bureau and the state
mineralogist be made honorary MEM
bers of this association, and that they
and each of them be entitled to seats
as delegates to the present and future
conventions of this association.
Resolved, That the California miners
convention indorses the plan of having
the state mining bureau cooperate
with the United States geological sur
vey to make topographic and geolog-
ic map of the mineral regions of the
state of California, county by county,
on scale of 200 feet to one inch.
Resolved, That the California Miners
association do urge upon the legisla-
ture of this state at it's session COM
mencing in January, 1897, the repeal of
those certain acts, as follows, to-wit:
First.-An act entitled AN act for
the better protection of the stockhold-
ers in corporations formed under, the
laws of the state of California for the
purpose of carrying on and conducting
the business of n1ining,'' approved
March 80, 1874, and relating, among
other things. to the furnishing of veri-
fed weekly and monthly statements by
the superintendent, and monthly veri-
fed statements from the secretary and
president of incorporated mining COM
panies.
Second.-An act entitled IAN act for
the further protection of stockholders
in mining companies" approved April
%, 1880, and preventing the directors
of any mining corporation to sue,
lease, mortgage or otherwise dispose of
the whole or any part of the mining
ground owned or held by such cor
poration, or to purchase or obtain in
any way an additional mining ground
unless such act be ratified by the hold
ers of at least two-thirds of the capital
stock of such corporation.
Resolved, That a committee of three
to be residents of San Francisco, be
appointed by the president of this con-
vention, the duties of which committee
shall be to examine and carefully con-
slider what legislation may be necessary
for the benefit of the mining industry
of this state, either in the way of
amendments to existing laws or as to
new laws, and that said committee re-
port to the incoming legislature in
writing, through the appropriate COM
mittees. with such recommendation as
said committee may make; provided
however, that all such proposed legis-
lation shall first be submitted to the
executive committee of the California
State Miners association for it's an
prevail.
Believing that the time has come
when new cabinet officer should be
created in the United States. to be
known as 1.-THE secretary of mines and
mining" and believing further that the
Endorsement of this idea by the Trans
Mississippi congress, soon at the city
of Salt Lake, would go far toward
securing the same, therefore be it
Resolved, That the delegates from
California and the said Trans Missis-
sippi congress be and they are hereby
requested by the California Miners as
ISOLATION to secure from said congress
an Endorsement in favor of said new
cabinet officer