El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-24
A Good Thing For EI Paso
And Is Certainly Worth
Working For.
But A MINING EXHIBIT
As a Permanent Feature Of
the Chamber Of Com
merce Is Just As
Important.

Mayor Magoffin yesterday afternoon
received letter from T. J. Sullivan,
secretary of the International Minin g
Congress, to be held in Milwaukee, June
1928, 1900 inviting Ell Paso to appoint
delegates to the convention.
| The basis of represe tation in the
congress Will be thirty delegates at
| lare c, to be named by each state and
| territory, five delegates to be nam ed
| by each county commissioners court,
| five to be named by the mayor OF each
city and one additional for each 1O,O O00
population or fraction thereof, and five
to be named by each chamber of com
to thirteen delegates ard the county to
five more, making eighteen in all.
Mayor Magoffin turned the letter
over to Secretary Russell, of the
chamber of commerce. asking him to
look alter The matter aud suggest the
| names of persons who would be willing
to attend the convention and would
properly represent the city as dele
gates.
Secretary Russell's motto is "While
you're gettin' get aplenty." After
reading the letter he Immediately de-
cided, "here is another convention
Ell Paso is the only proper place for
holding an International mining con-
gress. Well just go after that con-
vention for 1901"
He will put his thoughts into words
and action as quickly as possible. He
said today: Gel Paso should GO after
every convention in sight. 1t doesn't
do any harm; it gives US lots of free ad-
vertisipg and we are bound to get some
of them.
eve should have a full representa-
tion and, if possible, a creditable exhi-
bit at the Milwaukee convention If
we show real interest in the matter we
can possibly get the convention for next
year. 1t would be a big thing for the
city. 1t would bring together here all
the mining men OF Mexico and the
United States, would advertise the vast
mineral resources of this section aud
would give new impetus to the devel-
opment of mining property
The mining interests of Ell Paso
are undoub btedly our most important
interests. We should do everything
possible to foster them. While we are
in this thidg we should work up in
terest in permanent mining exhibit.
w hile everybody admits that our min
ing interests are what the life of the
city rests upon, we have nothing to
show the visitor to our city as evidence
of what we have in the way of mineral
products.
''The cham ber of commerce should
have q room or rooms in the center of
city and one of the things that should
be in those rooms is mineral exhibit,
showing the resources of the country
of which Ell Paso is the center and dis
tributing point. There should be q
good many other things, but none is SO
as this.''
President Freudenthal, of the
chamber of commerce, will appoint the
delegates allowed to the chamber as
quickly as possible. Secretary Rus
sell. in conjunction with the members
OF the boar0 OF directors and members
will suggest the names of the del
egates at large to the mayor and
county commissioners.
w. E. Fitzgerald, brother of |
George Fitzgerald, of this city, is a |
member of the Milwaukee COMMITTEES |
on entertainment.
The letter received by Mayor Msgof-
in is as follows:
MILWAUKEE, Wis.,, Jan. Is.
70 the Honorable Mayor of Ell Paso,
Ell PasO, Tex:
Dear Sir-Some time ago we ad-
dressed q communication to the effect
hat the International Mining congress
8 to be held in this city June 1928,
300, at the same time requesting you
20 appoint five delegates at large from
7our city and one additional for each
70, 900 population, or fraction thereof.
Many OF. the mayors have already for
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