The San Francisco call., 1897-11-03
local MEN
WILL BOOM
MINING
The San Francisco Miners
Association Wakes Up
With Big Plans.
I'll ILnuEALO IU DV NVWD HIlV,
Proposal to Open a Bureau and
Advocate the States Min
ing Opportunities.
4 MARSHALL SEMI'CENTENNIAL.
The Association Starts in to Get Up
Great Celebration of the Dis
cOvery of Gold.
MARSHALL SEMI'CENTENNIAL.
The Association Starts in to Get Up
Great Celebration of the Dis
covery of Gold.

Here is welcome news for the mining
interests of this great mining State.
The leading mining and business men
OF San Francisco propose to get in and do
something TO whoop along this reviving
industry. which is producing $26 000,OO0
year with rapid increase, and OF which
$1,000, 600 was last year i'll yellow gold.
The proposition is that of the San Fran
cisco Miners Association, the executive
committee of which met last night 10
consider ways and means OF becoming an
energetic fo-ce in the field of mining. 1t
is proposed TO awaken greater general
apprecia ton OF what mining, and eSpe-
cially gold mining, means to the prosperity
of the State, do whatever is possible to
advertise this States gold resources and
opportunities for mining investment, back
up the broad work of the California
Miners Association IN the field of legisia-
zion and generally awaken a real cation
that gold mining has now again become a
very 1--we thing in California, that it is yet
IN an early Stage OF DEVELOPMENT, and
that it should be .ostered in every way.
For one Thing IL Is proposed to esta bl .sh
a headquarters and a bureau of mining in
formation III this city. Efforts are 10 be
made TO induce the press of the entire
state to say more about gold aiming and
IL any way hat may be open, TO advertise
more widely this States mining interes IS
ami the city as great depot OF mining
supplies.
The very first thing the ASSOCIATION has
taken hold of is the plan already talked
OF by the Pioneers of having q great cele-
bration of the tiitieth anniversary of the
discovery OF gold by Marshall January "a
next. The associa lion started in last
night 10 take the Lead in this scheme and
TO vigorously push it along.
The San Francisco Miners Association
was organized six years ago when other
county associations were formed as a basis
for tho California Miners Associa ton,
which is composed OF presentatives OF
the county associations. The mem ber-
ship has varied between $50 and 500 and
has been largely composed OF mining
operators and com m erclal and manufac-
turing firms partly or wholly dependent
on the Industry.
Some OF these mem bers have been quite
prominent and active in the California
Miners Assoc alton and the presence
there of a few men not directly engaged
in digging gold has caused a few rather
quiet criticisms of the association by men
not much interested III it. But the fact
that business men OF high standing have
taken an active interest in the State asso-
citation Is a lucky thing for the miners
and is key to the present movement.
The San Francisco association, thus
com posed, has furnished the greater part
of the money that has Imported the State
association and enabled it to win some of
It's great victories. While the outside
county associations two of which exceed
Il thousand In mem bership, pay bu. 81 per
member in dues, the local association
assesses each mem ber $5 per year, busi-
ness firms paying $50 year and mining
companies $25 year. About dozen
firms pay the $50 year. But the San
Francisco support 10 the California
Miners Association has been much more.
Here subscriptions have been readily
rai>e when needed. When the Caminetti
law was pending and delegation of
workers was sent to Washington, the pow
der com panies subscrib bed $500 each, other
firms gave largely, and the Board OF Trade
donated $4,000 Secretary Julian Sonntag
estimates that San Francisco busines and
mining men have contributed $40 900 to
the support of the State association.
But this supplying of the sinews Of war
and active mem bership in the California
association on the part OF a few mem bers
has been the measure OF the work of the
local association.
Now it is proposed that the San Fran
CISCO association shake itself, double its
membership and become an independent
initiative force Itself. The yet somewhat
vague idea is that it shall be 10 the min
ing interests of the State what the State
Board OF Trade is 10 some other inter-
ests.
The idea was initiated by 7. ]. Parsons,
who was recently elected president of the
local association shortly before the State
Mining Convention, when he also became
vice-president of the California Miners
Association. Mr.. Parsons is president of
he Del Monte Milling Company, which
does not sound much like power drills and
stampmills, but he Is a practical mining
man, and has important mining interests
on the side. That is the case with host
of other San Francisco business men.
On accepting the presidency Mr.. Par
sons conceived the idea that the local
association, largely com posed as it is of
leading business men, ana located at the
Pacific Coast center of the mining indus
try, ought to do more than passively put
up money for the State association. As
the organization was naturally composed
OF those most actively interested in the
industry, ana as the enormous recent in
crease in gold mining activity had put
prosperity and new heart into mining
men, his enterprising ideas found ready
cooperation.
The other day he named the executive
committee for the year, first stipulating
with each mem ber that time and hard
work should be freely given. The com.
mttee named was as follows:
B. T. Lacy of Parke & Lacy, Charles AL
lem berg. A. L. Scott of Miller Sloss &
Scott, TREY l.. Ford, s. K. Thornton, S.
G. Irving and Louis Glass. The officers of
the association, who are also me N bers of
the executive committee. are: T. J. Par
sons, president; w. q. Raston, vice
president; and Charles G. Yale, secretary.
These are the men who have just taken
hold with the general plan of getting in
and doing something for mining in the
ways described, ana they will find plenty
of backing and cooperation.
1t is estimated, in the absence of reliable
figures, that the mining industry of this
State alone gives more than So 600, 600
year to the commercial and manufacture
ing trade of San Francisco, to say nothing
of the general coast and foreign mining