Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-07-05
AN APPEAL To
NEW MEXICO
The Territory Should Be Well Represented at
the International Mining
Congress.
GREAT INTERESTS At STAKE
An Omen Letter by J, Turlsy, Vice President Tor New
Mexico Of The Congrsss-EWry One Who Can
Should Attend the Convention at Butte
In September.
Lincoln. N. NJ, June 2S, 1902,

Fellow Residents of New Mexico.
i Dear Friends: Let me ask you Few
questions upon matters of importance
to YOU and to me. Are we not each AM
all of us interested in, and affected p9
the principal industry of the common
wealth in which we live? Is not any
thing which tends to benefit this indus
try directly or indirectly, our benefac-
tor also? Ought we not then to leno
orr assistance and efforts toward help
ing that which aids this industry
Shall we not do this? Answer for your
| selves after reading these few lines
| and carefully thinking upon this mat
| ter.
Mining, and it's allied pursuits, is one
of the principal industries of New Mex
| leo; and is the one in which there is
more room for expansion, growth and
| development than in any other indus
try we have here; without mining and
the aid it lends to other pursuits what
would become of New Mexico? What
| WOulQ Sne ever De. DGuu, certainly
she never would get statehood.
There will be in session in Butte,
Mont, the fifth annual session of the
International mining congress, the OBJ
ject of which is 'the fostering of fra
ternal relations among those engaged
| in mining and kindred pursuits the
advancement of the interests of these
| pursuits: and especially, until these OBJ
| jects are attained, the improvement Of
| the mining laws Of the United States
| to conform with the teachings of eX-
perience and changed conditions Of the
| country, and the establishment of a
| national department of mining.
What section of this country needs
| these things more, and what country or
section would be benefited more there
by than New Mexico, and we who live
here and have her best interests at
heart? Not one, but each and all Of us
| would gain thereby; it is simply nusi-
ness proposition-you lend your assist
ance and support to that which dement's
| YOU. directly or indirectly, and you
| have done everybody some good; you
have become a public benefactor; II II
is possible to do so attend yourself; II
not then encourage your friends to go;
| what can be seen and learned at Butte
"the greatest mining and smelter camp
on EARTH" next September will be
worth more to you than it will cost to
| take the trip, besides the pleasure to be
had
The meetings of the international
mining congress are, in Importance
second only to the sessions of our nat
ional congress; had you ever thought
of this? Did it ever occur to you how
much good you could do, not only for
| yourself, but for all who are engaged
| in, dependent upon, or affected by min
| ing, by being present and taking part
in the deliberations of this body?
Have you mining properties which
cannot be profitably worked because of
excessive railroad freight or smelter
charges? If so, you should attend the
mining congress, one of the purposes
and aims of which is to relieve this
| very state of affairs:
Do you know Of or are you interested
in some mineral deposit of which you
do not exactly know the value, kind or
uses? Would you like to have the
doubts and uncertainties, and the con-
sequent losses therefrom, removed, as
far as it is possible to remove them,
from all pursuits of mining? Would
you not gain by having new districts
located or investigated and thus open
ed up? Would you like to have better
and more statistics than are now OBJ
in any way gain from these and hun
dreds of other benefits and blessings to
be derived from a national department
of mines? If SO, attend the mining
congress and use your influence to-
ward the establishment, by the federal
government of such department.
Just think of the benefit to the agri.
culturist that the department of agri
culture has been and is, and who would
think of abolishing it and doing with
out these benefits now? Many prob
lens, which affect the farmer have
been solved by the general government
which never could have been by single
| .4oAoc ~, iodixyi6ua1c
Just so 1t would be for all of us, onl!
to a greater degree, in the case of de-
partment of mines; mining, now II
America, is second only to the pursuit!
of agriculture most of the mining
states have some kind of a department
of mines, but states working by rhem
selves, each and ALL have to go over th'
same ground covered by the others
which of necessity is slow; one stat'
may have a good mining bureau, whil'
another adjoining, more particularly (
new state, has poor one; these condi
tions could all be bettered by putting 1
all under national department o
, mining, which could and would IL
hundreds Of ways aid the advancement
and help the development of new
state or territory.
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