The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-09
THE MINING CONGRESS,
NEW ENGLAND PASSENGER AS
ISOLATION MAKES RATES.
Arrangements For Visiting News
paper People-Summary of Dele
gates So Far Appointed.

The New England Passenger associa-
ton notified the mining congress COM
mittee yesterday that a special rate of
a fare and a third had been granted
for delegates to the congress from the
! territory of the association. The roads
in the association are all of the large
lines of New England and the Cana
dian Pacific, and this action, with other
! rates already granted, will extend the
! fare and a third rate to all points on
the Atlantic seaboard from Portland,
/ Me, to New Orleans and Galveston
The rate from Chicago and st. Louis
has already been fixed at a single fare
! plus 81 for the round trip to Salt Lake,
| so the excursion rates now practically
include all points from Atlantic to Pa
cific.
| The committee has arranged special
| accommodations for visiting newspaper
| people. A room will be fitted up for
! their use in the Hall of Relics, where
the state mineral exhibit is to be made;
typewriting machines, with an expert
stenographer, will be on hand, and
everything possible will be done to
make the newspaper fraternity enjoy
I the congress. A local newspaper man
will have charge of the reception of the
fraternity. and be prepared to furnish
all the information that may be de-
sired for newspaper use or that will
facilitate the work of the correspond
ents in attendance In addition, spe-
cial invitation Will be sent 10 all the
prominent newspapers Of the country,
asking them to have representative
present and announcing the commit
tees intention to take care of them
when they come.
Mayor Cruikshank of Montpelier,
Ida, writes that he has named as del
egates from that city Messrs. G. Spong-
berg, H Carrick, Ed Purtell, f. r.
Richards and A E. Miller.
The pressure of correspondence and
other clerical work at headquarters
has become so heavy that Secretary
Johnson has found it necessary to keep
five stenographers and typewriterS
constantly employed. The committee
has had this branch of the work facil-
itated considerably by Professor Nell
son, principal of the business depart
ment of the L. d. S. college, who has
given the secretary the use of his
equipment as far as it has been neces-
sary.
4 summary of the delegate appoint
mentS made yesterday shows that 26
states and 81 cities are represented in
the appointments to date. and that
seven other states which have accepted
the invitation are yet to be hard from.
The appointments, of which notice has
been received will bring the delegate
list up to nearly 500 names, with some
of the large delegations vt to be heard
from.
The California state board of trade
was heard from yesterday, with it's
appointments, in the following inter-
esting letter signed by J. a. Filcher,
secretary and manager:
Dear Sir-Pursuant TO your circular
and letter received some time ago, the
president of the state board of trade,
by authorization of the directors, has
appointed delegates to the session of
the international mining congress,
which meets in your city on the 9Th of
July, as follows, viz:
Wv H. Mills, San Francisco; Colonel
J. p Irish, San Francisco; J. NJ.
Nevada City. Cal; Captain
n. A. Messenger. Valley Springs, Cal;
J.. A. Filcher, San Francisco.
THE state board of trade was the
first organization on this coast to sug-
gest the idea of a cabinet officer to be
known as secretary of mines and min
ing. and we feel that the great mining
interests of the United States would
fully justify a department of the gov
eminent devoted to its welfare. The
congress will no doubt consider this
matter among other things, and in it's
our representatives. if
present. will give the subject an earn
EST support"