The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-27

me delegates worked we'll and the result
IS due to their untiring efforts.
Boise citizens did the right thing in
'helf treatment of the convention. The
state officers OBLIGATED at all the recep-
CONS, and the city hall and state house
We're headquarters and loafing places at
all times.
About the only drawback was the
!'tensely hot weather, the thermometer
standing all the way from SO to 1O2 de-
frees. Through the barren country be-
Tween Pocatello and Boise. it was simply
trlShtful. On our way home, the citi-
gems of Pocatello did a nice thing for
Us. We got into there about noon. yes
terday, and the mayor and several of the
representative citizens came to the car
inviting us to come over to the finest
avn in the city and make ourselves at
nome. 1t was treat indeed, to sit out
under the trees, on the grass, and ac-
sept the Inequalities of the people,"
Major E. L. Shafner of Cleveland.
ohio, the newly elected president of the
congress, is in the city today, having ac-
eompanied the Montana delegation on
thelr return. He is accompanied by his
Nlfe and daughter and will make some
lille visits through Montana before leay-
ing Tor his eastern home. He is largely
interested in mining in Madison county.
where he is operating in the Lake Shore
district, adjoining the Leite mines. He
1'as FOR many years been identified with
iaree mining interests, having been one
OF the men to open up the great Gogebic
non mines in Michigan for the Standard
Gil company
The meeting in Butte next year will
snrpass any ever held in our history"
said MAJOR Shaffner, at the Butte this
morning. We may expect anywhere
rom 1000 to 1900 people, delegates
II ON all over the world. We shall send
cut invitations on larger scale than
ever before, and the name of Butte viii
carry greater prestige for such gath
ermg than any other city that could
iave peeh selected. We shall have del
es"'es from every quarter Of the globe
Neiy continent. every CLINE. The at
.ehuahce mas been increasing yearly.
put next year will see such an increase
81 has not heretofore been dreamed OF,
MS was really a critical year.
TIT essential that rep
Iesentat1ve mining country ia
fhosen to revive and awaken the interest
that IS necessary for success. One can
m.
~ mining country, than by hearing the
subject discus ed at length amid flowers
ana trees, and to the sound OF babbliny
waters
4 one of the principal objects of the
congress is to agitate in favor of the
government putting on plane with the
other departments of industry, and maxi
ing separate bureau, with a cabinet Of
f1cer at its head to supervise n1.ni,g liti-
satl)n and in erests. The mining inter-
ests OF the country especially of the great
west. are but in their infancy, ard need
fostering. In no way could this be done
So laAdly and successfully as by Great
Ing national bureau for the dissemina-
ucn or useful information, for the equal
lz-e.on OF m.n-ng laws, ANA for the en-
cou!aSemelt of the industry in general
The bureau Of agriculture has worked
wonders in making research into this line
Of Work, and giving out its informa ion
One might almost LAY that the face of
tse country has been entirely changed
through the efforts of that one bureau.
Mir ,ns needs the same announcements,
and then our great treasure vaults in the
hills VII be unlocked, and the whole ma
ton will he the gamer
The following are the Montana dele
gates who were in attendance at the
congress-: Fred j. Rowlands, George D.
Cochrane, Il. p. Newton. S. p. Wright
Prof H. G. Winchell, George W. Winter,
j. H. Heilbronner j. HI. Trerse, l., o.
Leonard. N. r. Leonard, wife and daugh-
tsr, all of Butte: Edwin Norris, Dillon;
Mrs. Ella Knowles Haskell, George O.
Freeman, Albert kleinschmidt, Robert
A. Bell of Helena: julius Berg Town
send: r. W. Berry, Great Falls; w. j.
Stevens, Missoula. II. Douglas, Anacon-
da. Accompanying the party. though no.
as regular delegates, were George H.
Cagey, George c. Fitchen and w. F..
Cobban of Butte. Commodore Kendall
of Cleveland, who owns great mining
interests in Madison county, and John
r. Gard, New York capitalist, who is
Investing extensively in Montana min
erals, Joined the party at Dillon, going
and returning as part of the state dele
cation.
] The Montana representatives had
very pressing invitation to come home
by way of Wallace, the people of that
town having promised to receive them
royalty if day could be spent there
1t was impossible to accept the invita-
ton, however, even though it promised
well.
Already the Butte mining men are
laying plans for great exhibit of min.
ing machinery for next years congress,
representing all kinds of placer, quartz
smelter and cyanide processes There
was no machinery exhibited at Boise,
though the mineral exhibit was very
fine. But Butte. being the headquar-
tiers for so large district. will be able
to show heavy and varied machinery
that would he impossible in a smaller
place. The promoters promise the fin
est show of the kind ever made in the
country.