The San Francisco call., 1899-10-13
; MINERS WILL
GATHER FROM
MANY STATES
Big Annual ConVen-
ton Is Near.
DELEGATESBY THE HUNDREDS
LARGE QUESTIONS AND A WARM
ELECTION PROMISED.
Ninth Convention of the California
Miners Association Will Meet
October 23-Adieu to Visit
ing Engineers.
DELEGATES BY THE HUNDREDS
LARGE QUESTIONS AND A WARM
ELECTION PROMISED.

The visiting members of the American
Institute of Mining Engineers were
scheduled to leave Los Angeles and the
State on their homeward journey last
night and now, since the meeting and
tour Of this body is ended, the attention
Of the miners of California has turned
TO the annual State convention of the
california Miners Association, which will
open in this city on the 23d inst and con-
tinue several days.
The convention of this year now prom
ises to be the biggest and most important
one in the eight years of the associa-
tion's history. Secretary E. H. Benia-
min has returned from the Yosemite
where he and other members of the as
soclatlon accompanied the visiting engi-
neefs, and Is busy with correspondence
ana preparations concerning the conven-
lOn. lie anticipates that there Will be
several hundred delegates present OF
the Governors of Pacific Coast States
VINO nave been invited to appoint dele
gates and thus make it practically a Pa
enc coast convention which shall dis
CusS measures OF general Importance to
the mining industry, two have already
responded. Governor Reinhold Sadler Of
Nevada and Governor Miguel Otero of
New Mexico have each forwarded the
names OF ten delegates they have ap-
pointed A general representation of
well assured and this and the business
Of the convention will make the me ting
OF national Importance. 4 cabinet depart
ment of mines, the revision of Federal
mining laws and the conservation of
water Will be among the subjects Of dis
cussion' resolution and future aggressive
effort.
More interest is being manifested in this
convention throughout the State than in
any previous one. A number of the
county associations have already chosen
their delegates. Placer County will send
.-. Nevada GO Tnnllnna or
in proportion
This year Boards of Supervisors in coun-
Ties in which there is no organization have
been asked to appoint five delegates.
Among those that have already respond
ed are MADEIRA, Marin and Fresno. New
county associations are expected to fol-
low the convention.
The annual election of officers is ex-
clunS early interest Lieutenant Gov
ernor Jacob II. Neff who has been unani-
mOuSly reelected each wear since the
beginning, declares positively that he will
not again accept the office. There has
been general expectation that w. G.
Raiston. the vice president, will become
candidate, and his friends expect to
place him in the chair. During the re-
cent trip of the mining engineers ex-
Senator Z. G. VOORHEES, of Sutter Creek,
AmadOr County, who has been an active
member from the first was put forwa rd
as another possible candidate. The sec
Tetaryship promises d lively contest. The
present energetic secretary, Edward H
BenJamln VIII no doubt be a candidate
for reelection and will have good sup
port other candidates have not yet
been definitely announced, but 1t is un-
derstood that several would accept this
Office
The visiting engineers were escorted
into the Yosemite Valley by Secretary
Benjamin, J. (. Douglas, F. a. Leach and
wife. Charles 6. Yale and wife and W. A
DOble and wife At Fresno on Tuesday
evening adieus were said during a big
impromptu meeting on the depot plat
form, and then the visitors went south.
escorted by L. 2. Aubrey. II. Z. Osborne
and Professor Theodore B. Comstock of
The Southern California branch of the
California Miners Association. At the
Fresno open-air love feast the Fasteners
expressed enthusiastic thanks and ap-
probation for the hospitality and pleas
lres offered them by the miners Of Cali
faruid, and there were cheers for CalifOr-
l-a and everybody in il. Professor y. w
Lord Of OhiO declared that the visit would
result in great good to California. All
have agreed to sign a statement recording
trair Impressions of California and its
mineral resources, which Will be pub
he'd in various journals.