El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-13
D0ingS of the
Miners Association

a reporter for The Herald called on
J.. A. Eddy, president of the miners
association to ascertain if there was
anything new in the matter of the
proposed mineral exhibit at the Buffa-
10 exposition. meeting of the asso-
citation was held a few days ago and
| the matter discussed. The members
present were generally in favor of the
proposition and felt that an exhibit
should be made. 1t was decided to call
upon all the railroads whose lines
handle the mineral products of this
southwestern region for Go per cent
of the $4,000 required. In conformity
with this decision President Eddy sent
out number of kilograms to the va
| rious railroad companies putting the
matter before them and asking for
their assistance. He informed the re-
porter this morning that so far he
had received but one response. That
| is from l.. 5. Thorn of the T. & p. say
ing that the matter would have to be
| referred to the New York Office.
Here is letter | received the other
| day from Ex-Governor Thomas of Col
orado." said Mr.. Eddy. as he picked
up letter from his desk. In letter
| 1 wrote Gov. Thomas relative to mining
regulations and state lands. l gave
which we have been working on here
In regard to it he says:
4 think the bill which you have
prepared is a very good one. You have
| fortunately avoided the two chief
sources of controversy over mining
rights. to-wit. the necessity of n pre-
ceding discovery. and the right to fol-
low a vein Internationally in its course
downward
Which being Interpreted contin-
ued Mr.. Eddy, means that it is not
necessary TO show mineral in order to
hold claim. and the claimant is not
allowed to follow his mineral outside
the perpendicular of his boundary
lines.
This association is also working
upon a plan having in view a revision
of the United States mining laws. At
the present time they are the most I'M
satisfactory compilation of laws that
We're ever brought together. In
meas sure this was caused by the fact
that in the early days of mining in
this country the government provided
a skeleton code of laws leaving the de-
tails to be supplied by each district
and also containing some features
which the district could not deviate
from. By. reason of the inadequacy of
this code we have today. instead of
set of good mining laws to work under.
a set of what may be termed mining
rights. which are almost entirely the
result OF court decisions.
There is another matter that the
association has taken some action up
on" said Mr.. Eddy. 1T was decided
that IN recognition of the benefits
which will accrue to Ell Paso by the To-
cation of the miners association at this
point. the citizens should take at least
one hundred memberships in the ssso-
citation in order % afford it proper fl
nancial assistance and support. In that
connection two committees were ap-
pointed at the last meeting. one to ad-
dress the citizens OF FL Paso on this
subject and the other to solicit mem
berships. The location of the aSsoci-
alton here gives a great deal of prestige
TO 81 Paso as its membership is COM
posed of men scattered all over the
western Fart of Texas. New Mexico and
old Mexico. and the benefits to be de-
rived will he not little to FL Paso.
The association is a hard thing to or
eanize and we figure that it will take
six months or year of persistent work
to establish ourselves and in the mean
time we will have to have money.
When we have established permanent
association The battle is won. But there
are quite a number of miners who are
not quite convinced OF the TACT that the
location of The association at Ell Paso
is not a real estate scheme for the ben
eft of this city. Now if Ell Paso Will
come forward ard take ono hundred
memberships IN the association that
suspicion would &c wiped out.
In the circular letter issued by the
association 20 the mining fraternity the
following statement is made:
Recognizing the benefits of an
Stock Exchange. the association will
undertake in an advisory capacity to
lend it's aid and encouragement in es-
tablIshing and conducting such an eX-
change.
I'm conformity to this statement the
association is now gathering together
data ana information relative to the
best way of establishing such an ex-
change in FL Paso. The mines of the
district will be listed and puts and calls
and all the other features of q regular
stock exchange will be there