The San Francisco call., 1899-10-21
SEVEN STATES
EXTEND A HAND
To CALIFORNIA
Mining Counties to
Send Men.

The eighth annual convention OF the
California Miners Association, and the
biggest one in its history, will begin its
brewing in the hotel lobbies to-day with
the early arrival of many of the several
hundred delegates.
On Sunday morning the reception and
business headquarters of the State Asso-
citation will be opened by Secretary Ben
iamin in the chief corner suites of the
Palace Hotel, of which door 162 will be
the entrance. Typewriters and assistants
will be on hand to aid the secretary in
assisting and directing incoming delegates
and in helping committees which Will
hold preliminary meetings on Sunday and
on Monday morning.
The committee on dams, of which A.
Caminetti of Amador is chairman, has
been called TO meet al headquarters on
Sunday evening. Other committees will
have meetings before the convention
meets.
Secretary E. H Benjamin has been for
dayS nearly swamped with the corre>
spondence and other business prepara-
tions preceding the convention. Iester-
dav thirty counties of California had re-
ported lists of delegates, and the Cover
nors of seven Pacific Coast States had
announced their lists of appointed dele
gates In response to the recent 1nFltatloh
to them that their State join in making
this convention an Interstate affair as far
as the paramount questions OF a cablnet
department of mines, the reservation OF
mineral public lands and the conserva-
ton of water are concerned. The seven
States from which delegates have been
accredited are Nevada, Arizona, New
Mexico, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming
and Washington. Idaho is yet to be heard
from. These Western States and Terri
tories are supposed to send ten delegates
each and whatever number comes Will be
royalty welcomed
COTreSnOndHnC2
Yesterday announced fifty delegates from
the ten counties of the Southern Califor-
MIA branch of the, association, along with
a good many other things. One item
worthy of more mention than is contained
in this sentence is contained in yester-
days report that the miners employed in
the Kennedy and South Eureka mines of
Amador County had joined the aftiliating
county association of Amador County.
This means 1923 so for the treasury of the
State Association, according to the ap-
portionment of yearly dues, and brings to
mind the harmonious way in which the
working miner, the mining capitalist, the
mine superintendent and the mining busi-
ness man in San francisco and in the
mining regions are federated for the COM
mon Industrial good in the California
Miners Association.
Mayor Phelan, Senator George c. Per-
kins and Congressman de Vries and Kahn
were among those who had yesterday for
mally accepted invitations to address the
convention. Secretary Benjamin's official
returns of yesterday showed that thirty
counties of California and seven other Pa
cific Coast States had named their quotas
of delegates, and more are to be heard
from
The biggest and most important repre-
sentative gathering the mining industry
has known will begin a three days ses-
sion on Monday It will be made up of
men of eminent character and ability and
will consider many questions. of impor-
tance to the whole industrial interest OF
the great West as we'll as to the mining
industry alone.