The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-26
What the San Francisco
Miners Association
Proposes to Do.
Mining Progress of the Year
in Washington and
Oregon.

The Golden Jubilee and the great min
ing exposition which will follow it are
absorbing all the energies of the San
Francisco Miners Association, which
gave the semi-centennial its first i'm
petus, but when these affairs are over the
association will take up other lines of
effort. and promises to be a very great
aid to the prosperity of the industry in
many ways.
The active president of the asso-
citation, T. ]. Parsons, gives the fol
lowing general outline of the new career
which is planned for the organizations:
The San Francisco Miners Associa-
ton has started an effort to stimulate
late the growth and prosperity of the
mining industry in California, mainly
by advertising its possibilities and
greatness to the world.
The plans for this work are yet very
general. They will develop in de-
tail as we go along, and will, hope,
grow as we progress, as the plan for
a semi-centennial of the discovery of
gold grew out of the idea of this as
ISOLATION to celebrate the event with
a large parade and other suitable ex-
ercises and develop into a plan for
an exposition in connection with a
great Golden Jubilee.
The jubilee and exposition will COM
mand all the energies of the assOcia-
ton until they are over, and then ac-
tive steps along other lines will be
taken, plans for which will be con-
siderably developed meantime. The
first work will be to get the associa-
ton thoroughly organized and strength
ened. Its membership is now about
265, composed mainly of manufactur-
ers and merchants directly interested
in the mining trade, and hence in the
prosperity of the industry. Individ-
uals pay dues of So a year, CONNER
cial and manufacturing firms $50 and
mining companies $25. We wish to
largely increase the membership from
among all who have an active or a
merely friendly interest in mining. We
Will show many business men the di-
rect benefit of identifying themselves
with the association and helping it
along.
We want to establish a headquarters
supplied with publications, etc, of in
terest to miners, and to make it a
rendezvous for mining men when they
come to the city. 1t is our idea to
maintain there a bureau of mining
information which shall do the
statistical and scientific work of the
Mining Bureau, which will afford
ready practical information to min
ing men and TO strangers.
A permanent exhibit may be main
tanned, displaying as well as possible
the mineral resources of the State.
This exhibit would correspond to
that of the horticultural and
agricultural resources of the State by
The State Board of Trade. One pur-
pose of the association is to advertise
San Francisco as the mining center of
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of mining machinery and supplies
might maintain private exhibits there.
What this institution will become de-
ponds on developments in the near flu
ture, but we hope to make it a grand
advertising bureau for the industry
From it literature might be circulated
all over the world.
There can be no doubt about the
need of such advertising. If Califor-
MIA mining had been properly adver-
tised in the past the production would
be 80 per cent greater to-day. Climate,
agriculture, horticulture and every
thing Californian but mining has had
It's best features called to the atten-
ton of the world. No efforts what
ever have been made in this line. We
have a virgin field, the opportunity is
ripe and we think that we can do q
great deal for the State in this way
The erection of a large and worthy
monument representative of the min
eral resources and mining industry of
the State is another thing that we will
take up actively when the jubilee is
over. This, if erected on a large scale
and made a thing of striking beauty,
would be itself an effective advertise
ment of what ii represents as well as
interesting for sentimental reasons.
All these plans will be discussed
during the preparations for the jubi-
lee and interest in them developed. So
many have already become deeply in
terested in our plans that 1 am conf