Arizona republican., 1898-01-26
HUNTERS FOR GOLD Miners of Arizona Blocked to
 Phoenix Yesterday AN AUsPIcIoUs BEGINNING
Of the iZation of a Terri
 torial Association
1t Was Only Slightly Marrsd at the lzst Hour by Vigorous But Un- successful Artempt to Infus9 Pol ios and Personal es.

JIG Oi Sd1iLdtiOu Ol 1eTTItUTlc Miners association, for the form t io of which Governor McCord issued call for a convention not long agc was gotten fairly under way yesterday All that could be done in the matte was done and the work will be com pleted on the first Tuesday of nex March, to which date the convention adjourned in order that member ship of the association might be SC lected representative of the mining in terests of the territory.
 No movement was ever entered upor in this territory with more enthusi asm. An attempt was made to injec unhealuhful and disintegrating DO litical matter into the convention, bu it was rejected by a. large majority ct the delegates present as inopportu-s and ill-advised.
 The convention met in the Elks hall at 2 o'clock. The attendance was even larger than had been antici- pated, and a very large majority ol those present ware either actual miners or were identified win the in- dustry. The meeting was called to order by J. L. B. Alexander, who ap- pointed Col. William Herring, Col. E.
 Edwards and Judge w. III. Barnes
 ammittee to escort Governor Me
 to the hall. The governor had
 pfuoA fho& ~h =
 \ee, though well performed,
 lily perfunctory.
 >rnor having been received
 said
 Enc hour having ar
 \is gathering was call
 kQmes my duty and pr to come to order. Tn Iular meeting of me en Cf the min Ing IN \erritory and it IS an for your best fnougnt and serious considers hrtment of iaoazsfrT arked evi- dences or which oeatS wlth with 3 WeW eo oe dvan- 91ee rom 1ne\ raw The art of mil advances, not onI
 general applicati0
 science, but also aE
 through the applicatid
 principles of physical s
 by means of marked in
 engineering and machinS
 cries of new deposits of
 and precious ores are couz
 ing made and even mines Id
 ed haD been rendered more
 by. Improvements in the art iI& & Man Is TO longer limited tl /ffciaf operations, but safely with the assurance of rich retu pierces the solid crust of the g,oA to great depths, boldly demandini the place and commanding possessi-l of her hidden treasures. Scarcely any thing now baffles him. Do immens strata of flinty rock lie between hin and the sources of wealth and power with tools yet harder backed by hi. own irresistible vii, he drives hi way through them Are 6eep an seemingly inexhaustible supplies o water encountered he marshals hi mighty engines with a capacity suffic tent to conquer the floods. Is the GOV eted mineral at last found in h, midst of noxious gases that TO hu man lungs may inhale, he brings l+t bear his command of the mater.a forces, and at once supplies the min with the pure atmosphere of heaven that the opened mines become th, hoh # IL. work them And so, at last. by tn, aid of steam and engineering mn chinery, he brings to light vast o e of the best material gifts of Gcd
 Thirty years ago Sir Will am Arm strong, noted mining expert of E g land, said that mining could neve be carried on at a depth exceedin, 4,000 feet underground. But with tn, facts now before Us no man can safe ly calculate the limit, unless it b. made co-extensive with the deposit Economy everywhere and in ever, way chsracterizes the works of h Creator and no deposit of mineral de signed for the use of man is beyond his reach. In metallurgy the pro gress is most remarkable. II was bu a few years ago that steel was manu factured only in limited quantitie and was so expensive that it was onl, used at Sheffield, England, in tn manufacture of cutlery of the kin, that required the hardest and bes material. It was worth $500 per tol in England and more in the Unitel States. It was made from pig irol by what was known as the cemepta tfon process which was very slow an very expensive. Then came the pud ding process, which, while some les expensive and more rapid was no such as to make its manufactur cheap enough to bring it into genera use even in the manufacture of al kinds of cutlery. Something e1s