The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-25
THE MINING CONGRESS.
FINAL LETTER SENT OUT TO THE
DELEGATES.
All Are Strongly Urged to Be Pres
ent-Principal Work Now Is In
Arranging for the Entertainment
of Visitors.

| Nearly 1000 letters were sent out
from mining congress headquarters
! yesterday, giving Inc final announce
ments of programme, dates of excur-
sions, railroad rates from different sec
lions of the country and other details
of information that have suggested
themselves to the committee. In adj
diton, 5000 newspaper letters were pre-
pared, and will go out this morning to
the newspapers all over the country
which have shown an interest in the
/ congress- The secretary's letter TO del
egates reads:
Dear Sir-With this final letter rel
atiVe to the international mining con-
gress, to be held in this city beginning
July 6 next to which you were ap-
pointed as delegate, I hand you
copy of an article covering specific in
| formation regarding reduced rates
granted for the occasion, an outline OF
the subjects and papers that will be
presented for discussion, together with
the details of our programme of enter
tainment and of the special excursions
to the prominent nearby mining dis
tricts Immediately following the adj
jOurnment of the congress. Everything
that could be done TO make your visit
both profitable and pleasant has been
portance of the work promises to bring
together a large assemblage of notable
men from all parts of the country and
from abroad.
Permit me, therefore, to impress
upon you your obligation to be in at
tendance in behalf of your community.
/ cannot urge you too strongly, as no
occasion of such vast moment to the
mining interests of the country has
ever been recorded"
From now on the principal work of
the committee and its secretary will
be in preparation for the reception and
entertainment of the visitors, and in
arranging the great exhibit of state
minerals. The work of moving the
chamber of commerce display was be-
gun yesterday, and will probably be
finished by noon today. Then all of
the samples will be labeled and ar
ranged for exhibition.
Considerable inquiry has been re-
ceived from abroad as to the accom-
modations that can be secured at the
hotels and boarding houses. The COM
mittee has already had a list of places
offered which gives the information
desired, but it is anxious to have as
complete a list as possible of all the
places where rooms and board, or
either separately, can be had, and
wishes to have them filed with the sec
rotary in the Templeton block.
Below is the list of new delegates GER
titled to the secretary yesterday:
Delegates appointed to represent the
state of Missouri by Governor Ste
phens- Mayor Henry Ziegenhein, Hon.
William j. Stone, Charles d. Mcclure.
Alex D. Cochran John Hartman, L. C.
Nelson, Harry B. Halves, st. Louis,
Mo; Joseph B. Shannon, Frank Dex-
ter, o. G. Young, Kansas City, Mo-;
]. c. Fisher, r. Dallmeyer, Jefferson
City; DR.. J. L. Miner, Smithville;
Charles Meierhoffer, Boonville; Mr.. r.
Smith, Pennington; DR.. John Hall,
Marshall; James Todd, Marysville,
Mo-; w. T. Baird, Kirksville; Profess
sor George R: Dean, DR.. ]. D. Carpen-
ter, Rolla, Mo-; John NJ. McMichael,
Plattsburg; E. D. Axe, Ironton; NJ. NJ
Pryor, Glasgow; John NJ. London.
Caseyville, Mo-; George Wilson, Lex
ington; T. J. Lingle Clinton, Mo-; w.
S. McClintic, Monroe City, Mo-; Eli
jah Miller, Denver, Mo-; w. F. Lyon,
Kansas City; John S. Clay, Farming
ton.
From Fayetteville, Ga.-Dr. ]. f.
Tucker, ]. W. Beck, T. n. Kidd, E. B. /
Harold, 3. H. Thompson.
From Dallas, Tex, by Mayor John
H. Traylor-W. T. Cummings, Frank
Irvine, Barnett Gibbs, ]. 3. Wilson, W.
H. CASTOR, o. P. Bowser, Charles o.
Hodges, W. c. Holland, D. H Morrow,
w. E. Hughes.
From Springville, Utah-R. A. Deal, |
E. ]. Yard, Dr. F. Dunn, H T. Rey-
nolds, Nephi Packard.
From West Tintic Miners associa- |
tion-W. F. James, L. II. Farnesworth, |
Willis Knapp, o. P. Rockwell.
From Uinta county Wyoming |
c. Hamm, A. E. Bradbury. George w. |
Carlton, P. ]. Quealy, Isadore Kastor, |
all of Evanston.
To represent the chamber of COM I
merce of San Francisco-C. w. Cross, |
TREY L. Ford, w c. Ralston, George |
Stone w. S. Keyes.
From Gainesville, GAG. H Gibson. |
From Auburn, Cal.-B. F. Hartley.
DR.. ]. L. Rollins, Colonel w. S. Davis, |
William b Fisher w R. Monahan