The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-07

ROYAL n.,asa POWDER CO., NEW Yo7x
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these mountains. Partake of our hos
pitality. Inhale the pure air of our
sunny Wales Battle in our briny lake.
Dip in our medicinal springs. Ride on
our electric cars. Call on us in our
city and county hall. Inspect our min
eral products and learn their variety
and value, and when you go away.
speak of us as you find us, not as you
may have heard about us.
Again 1 bid you welcome 20 this
city of the Great Salt lake. May AIS
Mining congress prove to be, as it was
designed, a perpetual institution, bring
ing together strong minds, brave hearts
and progressive spirits, such as move
the world and give life and energy to
all things. And. while Dewey and
Sampson achieve victory on the sea,
and Shafter and Merritt bring triumph
upon the land, may the CONQUEST of
peace, for which we contend, add glory
and riches our beloved country AID
hasten the Jay when poverty and OBJ
preston shall be lifted from the ma
tons and plenty and liberty smile upon
the world. Again l welcome you to
go state of Utah.
GOVERNOR ADAMS RESPONDS.
President Prince thought such q mag
niflcent welcome could not go without
responses from the visitors. He there
fore wanted to call upon Colorado's
chief executive to say something in
behalf of his people.
Governor Adams thought it unfair
that he, who was used to nothing but
hammer and drill Qaughter) should be
called upon to make a speech. The ap-
probation of Colorado of the state OF
Utah and the city of Salt Lake was
so well known that he need not add
to it. They were in reality twin states
identical in every interest. AS dee
gates. he gave the assurance that they
would not be backward in pressing the
button IL case they wanted anything,
a declaration that met with a round
of hearty applause from the Utah con-
tingent.
Governor Adams then devoted some
time to contradicting the general i'm
preston prevailing among many east
ern people that mining is a gamble.
FROM VENEZUELA.
Senior Yanes, Venezuela's representa-
tive in the congress, briefly responded
in behalf of the foreign delegations.
The regular programme was then
taken up. Secretary Johnson read the
call, as printed previously, after which
President Prince delivered his address,
speaking as follows:
THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
Ny heart is full of joy and pride and
my tongue has no words but those of
congratulation at the sight of this magni-
cent asSemblage of the representatives of
one of the greatest industries OF the
greatest nation upon the earth. What
gathering it is, representing 81 great
every section, reaching from ocean to
ocean, and with the delegation of for
eign powers, who have come to give us
encoura cement and inspiration by their
presence.
This is but the second congress OF this
kind. the first under its more compre-
henSive name and extended scope, and
yet, 1909 delegates are in their seats or
speeding across the mountains on their
way hither, all eager for the exchange of I
ideas and the acquisition of increased
knowledge year ago a few men full I
of courage and confidence issued a call
for a gold mining convention in Denver,
and labored against somewhat of local
opposition and apathy TO achieve success. |
They were almost overwhelmed by the
reSponse-the living, human response
that came from all parts of the mining
regions of the land. showing that the
people appreciated the need of such a
body. And then came that wise step in
the change of name, which removed what
seemed limitation, and proclaimed this
as the representative mining organization
of the whole country. l doubt if all ap-
preciate what an enlargement that was
and how vast is the interest now repre-
scented. AS a gold mining convention it
only the So, 90 600 or $50 0O0,-
0o0 of annual output of that one metal.
but now it stands for a yearly product
more than L times as great, exceeding
$50 000,UC0. and embracing every form of
mineral wealth There are the ten
great commercial metals, among which
IRON is by far of the largest value and the
coal stands Dre-eminent with an annual
value almost four times that of gold.
A PECULIAR SATISFACTION.
the mining industry in that il is con-
stantly adding TO the available stock of
mans possessions We are told that
man is a public beuefactor when ne
makes two blades of grass to grow where
but one grew before, but what shall we
say OF the miner who from the rocky
Businesses of Gods eternal StOrehouses
bring forth almost untold wealth, with
out the loss of an atom of the precious
accumulations of the world? And it can
not but be peculiar satisfaction to us
to know that IN the production of every
one of the fine precious metals, gold, sill
yer, copper, lead and iron, the United
States today stands in advance of all the
nations: that the same is the case as to
bClIOltulIis anu COdA, anu lllal dS 70 one /
of those metals-cOpper-w produce more |
than all the world besides.
MILLIONS FROM NOTHING.
1t is difficult then to overrate the i'm |
portance of the interest here represented, |
$50 C0),000 of actual substantial value pro-
1uced from nothing, created, we may say, |
and from the very bowels of the earth, is |
40 small addition TO the wealth Of the ma
ton. So l congratulate you on the OBJ
ect of your labors and on the character
and extent of the industry which you so
eXcellently represent
The extension of the scope to which
have alluded not only enlarges the
interest represented here. but it brings
nto one organization with the west the
Tast BODY of miners in the east and the
south, those who labor in the mines of
ron and coal and the innumerable sub
stances which make UP the mineral