The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-06-25
THE MINING CONGRESS-.
International Convention to Meet at Salt
Lake City In July May Number 1000.

Lake City in July May Number 1000.
Yhe Salt Lake City correspondent of
the Chicago Record says of the COM
ing mining congress-:
A flood of correspondence is being
received at the headquarters of the in
ternational mining congress here, in
dicating a very large attendance at the
convention to be held the first week in
July. While the lumber of delegates
at the Denver session last summer ex-
ceeded 1000 it seems likely from the
indications now that the Salt Lake
meeting will have two or three times
that number Although the official call
for the appointment of delegates has
been out less than a week letters are
coming in from every direction assur-
ing the executive committee that the
bodies invited to be represented will
accept the invitation almost without
exception. The call provides for five
delegates from each county. city, town,
mining bureau, mining exchange, real
estate exchange, chamber of com
merce, board of trade, miners union
and trade and labor assemblies. Other
organized commercial bodies are also
invited to send delegates. Besides, the
governor of each state and territory
has been invited to name thirty dele
gates at large and n additional dele
gate is allowed from cities and towns
for each 10000 population.
After canvassing the number of or
CARNATIONS included in the call and
apprOXimating from returns already
received the proportional representa-
ton of each, the committee in charge
has decided that it will be necessary
to make provision for the entertain
ment Of 1000 to 5000 delegates, aside
from the large number of mining men
and others Interested in the proceed
ingS of the congress who will not come
in official capacity.
The program to be provided for the
visitors in Il social way will include a
special concert in the famous Mormon
tabernacle by the tabernacle choir of
800 voices; a reception at Saltair, one
of the great bathing resorts of Salt
Lake; visits to the famous mining
camps near by. and II military recep-
ton and concert ut Fort Douglas.
The program for the business ses-
sions will include papers by specialists
and discussions on all the more i'm
portant subjects affecting the mining
industry. 1t is intended to have every
phase of the business represented by
prominent men in their particular lines,
whether investors, mining engineers,
mine managers, makers of mining ma
chinery, smelters, or labOrers. The
government will be asked to send n
or more representatives of the interior
department to take part in the CON
vention.
Among the matters of special inter-
est to be discussed the first and most
important will be the report of the
committee appointed at Denver to urge
upon Congress- the establishment of IA
department of mines and mining, with
a Cabinet officer at its head. A. f.
Pence is chairman of this committee,
and his report will tell the delegates
what progress has been made and
what may be expected in that direc-
ton.
Next and almost equally important
will be the report of the committee APP
pointed to consider the ACCESSIBILITY of
a recoditication of the federal mining
laws. Under this head will come up
the question of the law concerning
~eXtra-lateral rights and the law Of
apex, the uniformity of state mineral
land laws and the mining district laws.
California. Colorado, New Mexico and
Arizona have a matter of special inter-
est to them before the convention in
the memorial to Congress urging the
opening of the Spanish land grants in
thNe states II territories to miners
and prOSpectors.
Utah's special subject will be a reso-
luton asking Congress to have a geo
logical and Typographical survey made
of the entire Oquirrh range, connecting
the mining camps of Bingham, Mercur
Ophir and Tintic.
Legislation affecting labor in mines
is another subject of moment and al
invitation already has been issued to
one of the most prominent mining law
yerS in thec country, n resident of Colo
RADIO, to present that subject for con-
sideration. Utah will contribute to the
discussion the result of experience here
with the cight-hour law which was re-
Gently upheld in a decision of the
United States Supreme Court.
Although at first it was intended not
TO ask the outside states to make an
exhibit, but rather to establish a fine
collection of Utah mineral products for
exhibition, the correspondence of last
week indicates the determination of
other states to be included in the dis
play and the committee is making ar
rangements to provide for their proper
installation. Minnesota, among others,
has advised Secretary Johnson that the
state has gold mines and it is so anX-
ious to have mining men know it that
it will provide al exhibit of gold ore
and other specimens.
All the sessions of the congress will
be held in the assembly hall of the
Mormon church, unless the attendance
proves too large for its capaciOus audi
forum, in which event the church au-
thorities have offered the use of the
tabernacle, which would seat 5000 del
egateS.
A special reception will be given by
the women of the city to the women
who may accompany the delegates.
The railroads of the Western Passen-
ger association already have assured
the executive committee that a single
rare Tor the round trip will be offered
from points as far east as Chicago and
including all of the territory west of
the Missouri river excepting that
reached by the Southern Pacific, which
company has as yet made no definite
announcement, although it is expected
to do sc.
The big money in mining as a rule
saws the MINING Tp1uc+,r