The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-13
MINING MEN in
FINAL SESSION
Portland, Ore, Will Get the Next
Convention.
OFFICERS ALSO SELECTED
LAST MEETING WAS THE MOST
INTERESTING OF ALL.

Deadwood, S. D, Sept. 12.-The Amer
lean mining congress held its last days
session at Deadwood today. Owing 10
a snowstorm which started last night
and covered the entire Black Hills dis
trict with several inches of snow, the
old rink was not comfortable place IN
which to hold meetings. On the whole
this mornings session was the most
/ interesting and best attended OF the en-
tire week The first business was the
reading by the secretary OF letters OF
regret and cOngratulatiOn from many
distinguished individuals who had re-
ceived invitations TO attend the con-
greSs, among whom were President
| Roosevelt. members of the cabinet
heads of various departments at w ASH
ington. United States senators, mem
bers Of the lower house of congress,
{ prominent scientists and mInerologists
and from scientific bodies or every
country in Europe. A committee was
! appointed to draft a resolution OF
1 thanks to President Roosevelt for his
/ recognition of the American mining
/ congress and sending Secretary Shaw
TO represent him before that body, and
the report submitted was adopted.
/ Officers Nominated.
/ The committee on nominations rec
! commended the following ticket. which
| doubtless viii be accepted without
/ change. as the committee was unani-
nous:
Deterioration. J. Richards, Boise
4 Ida: Colonel Thomas Ewing, San
/ Francisco: Richard G. Patterson, Oma-
/ ha; John T. Grayson, Portland, Ore;
/ Colonel Edward +. Brown, Aspen,
/ Colo; John Dern. Salt Lake City;
! DR.. Joseph A. Holmes. Raleigh, n C.;
/ James Lynch, Butte, Mont; John Gray
! Terraville. =. D.
! Of1ce-s-President. J. H. Richards
! Boise: first vice president. Colonel
] Thomas Ewing, San Francesca; second
vice president. Richard G. Patterson
/ Omaha, third vice president. Colonel j
/ T. Grayson, Portland, Ore; treasurer
/ Thomas King Mair, Portland, ore;
/ secretary. Irwin Mahon. Carlisle. Pa
/ Several resolutions were adopted
J among which was one to recommend 70
I the legislatures of the several states
and territories the enactment Of laws
/ to afford better protection to life and
/ limb of persons employed in and about
/ mines. The subject Of increasing ths
/ membership in the congress was
! brought up by Mr.. Patterson Of Oma-
/ ha. who succeeded in arousing the first
J burst of genuine enthusiasm during the
/ session, and whose presentation of the
/ purposes of the organization and the
] essentials to its future success had the
! effect of adding Immediately about a
( score Of new permanent members &c
/ the congress.
Should Be an Honor.
/ President Richards expressed the
| conviction that in order to attain any
| thing like success the American con-
/ gress would have to be Graded in the
/ arms of the miners which was taken
| TO mean that the congress meetings
/ should be held in mining districts
rather than in cities of capitalists.
President Richards spoke of the ne
/ cesSitV Of making the congress a body
/ membership in which would be ar
/ honor. declaring that the weakness
/ which was becoming apparent in the
J miners federation lay in the fact thai
! it was ceasing to be an honor to belong
/ to that organization.
| c. L. Dimnowity Of Boulder, Colo.
read a paper on The Revelation OF