The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-09
MINING CONGRESS
OPENS AT DEADWOOD
Secretary Shaw Speaks on Min
eral Industry and Demand
for Markets

ny Leslie M. SHdWs secretary OF the
treasury. The secretary was given
warm welcome by the delegates, who
frequently applauded his statements
and when he finished speaking gave
him rising vote of thanks and three
cheers. The congress also unanimous
ly elected him an honorary member
and appointed a committee of three to
draft resolutions thanking President
Roosevelt for his recognition of the
congress in sending Secretary Shaw to
represent him before 1t.
The secretary was scheduled to adj
dress the congress on the question of
The Mining Industry and Its Relation
to American Finances"
I'VE make a mistake" he said IF
we estimate the Importance of our diff
ferent industries according to their ap-
parent relative products" He refer
red to the necessity of increased mar
kets for our products, saying he would
rather have the market of the United
States than all the markets of the rest
of the world; would rather have the
productive capacity of the United
States than the productive capacity of
nearly all the rest of the world.
Need More Markets.
He said we had to get more markets
for our products. AS to how many
markets are to be created, he pointed
to the countries lying to the south of
the United States, and said, in his
judgment, the government could with
out paternalism encourage the install
lation of great steamship lines in the
way it has aided two great railways to
the Pacific coast, and which would be
markets for our products.
Abiding to that norton of President
Richards annual address In which he
urged the creation of department of
mines and mining, Secretary Shaw
said he was heartily in favor of the
government doing everything it can,
short of paternalism, in support of the
mining industry. He would not, how
ever, have the gentlemen of the con-
gress go away with the idea that he
advocated the formation of a special
department of mining with representa-
ton in the cabinet, suggesting that it's
functions could be properly attended to
through bureau which should form a
part of the department of commerce
and labor, and pointing out how other
important industries had been taken
care of in the same manner. Secre-
tary Shaw said:
Importance of the Mines.
'It is an error to rate the impor-
lance of our many industries according
TO their relative productiVeness. Our
factories and works hops produced $13,-
000,O00,000 gross in 1900; agriculture.
$4,000,000,000; forestry, $2,000,000,0 600,
and mines $1,000, 900. Yet it must
occur to all that manufactured
entity our greatest wealth producing
industry-is dependent upon iron, cop
per, lead, zinc and other metals. and
equally upon coal and other nom.
L., -,
interests would dwindle into insignif1-
canoe but for our Mines"
The congress was called to order by
the president, ]. H. Richards, of Boise,
Idaho, in the rink at 10 o'clock this
morning. The rink was occupied all
most entirely by delegates, who repre-
scented most of the states of the Union
and representatives of mining interests
of the country, many of whom were
accompanied by their wives. A prayer
was offered by Rev. John Stariha,
bishop of Lead.
Addresses of welcome were made on
behalf of the state by Charles N. Her.
reid and on behalf of the city of Dead
wood by Mayor Edward Mcdonald.
President Richards responded in the
name of the American Mining con-
gress, and responses We're made by
other delegates, expressing apprecia-
treatment and entertainment which
they were receiving at the hands of
the citizens of the Black Hills district.
The appointment of the committee
on credentials and resolutions COM
pleted the morning session.
AT the afternoon session the attend
ance was somewhat greater than in the
morning.
President Richards Address.
President Richards, in his annual adj
dress, made convincing argument for
asking that congress pass law Great
ing a department of mines and mining
with cabinet representative. He rec
commended that action be taken by the
congress looking to the establishment
of permanent home Of the organiza-
ton and a permanent working staff.
He said that great mining university,
endowed with millions, should be es-
tablisheG.
In part he said:
"The ultimate aim of the organiza-
ton must be to place the mining indus
try as a whole upon plane commen-
surate with it's Importance. The con-
gress must arouse SO much interest
throughout the whole country, must be
the means of giving the public so much
valuable information about mining that
the people will at least realize the i'm
portance and dignity of everything
connected with the proper develop
ment and utilization of this great
source of raw material; 1t must be the
means of finally opening the eyes of
the aw-makers to the necessity of a
department of mines and mining CO.
ordinate in rank with the department
of agriculture and department of
commerce and labor"
Addresses were made by Edward p.
Brown, of Denver, on "Incorectness of
Government Statistics" and Nelson H.
barton, Washington, D. c., on Work
of the Geological Survey in the Black
Hills"
At tonights session the following pa
pers were read: D. ]. E. Todd, state
geologist, South Dakota, on Geology
of South Dakota" DIR. James D. Ir-
wing, Washington, D. c., on '-Ore De-
posits of the Northern Black Hills"
and James w. Abbott, Denver, on
Good Roads for Mines"
Wednesday forenoon the congress
will move to Lead and hold three ses-
Sions there.
Strenuous for MIR. Shaw.
Shooting through Spearfish canon. ON
the pilot of a Burlington engine for a
distance of twenty-five miles. at the
rate of forty miles an hour, I'D and
down steep grades and around sharp
curves through all kinds of weather.
encountering repeated f1urries of snow.
showers of rain and bright sunshine a
walk of seven miles up a steep. rough
and muddy mountain road opJ a, a,