Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-22
Seventh Annual Session Called to
Order by Prest, J. II,
Richards.
1900 PEOPLE WERE PRESENT.
Welcomed by Gov Chamberlain and
Mayor Williams-Salt Lake Has
Good Chance for Home

| II. Richards Of Idaho dropped the
Manzanita gaye that called to order
the seventh annual session OF the Min
ing congress at 10 o'clock this fore
noon I'm the presence of about 500 peo-
pie Many OF the delegations from
| throughout the United states have not
| get arrived and the attendance is con-
seryatively estimated for the later ses-
| sions of the week at from 1900 10 $500,
George III. Hines secretary OF the
Oregon Historical society presented
| President Richards with the gayel
| made OF Manzanta wood cut In Rich
| Gulch, jackson county southern ore
gOn the first mining district OF the
state. II II banded with gold from the
placers of the gulCh bearing the en-
graved history OF the gavel date OF the
Poland session and its presentation.
The convention was opened with
prayer IN which Rev Father McDevitt
invoked the care of Providence on the
assembled representatives Of the min
ing industry ON behalf of the state OF
Oregon. Gov. Chamberlain Welcomed
the delegates and visitors. His address
Of welcome follows.
GOV. CHAMBBERLAlN'S SPEECH,
Mr. President Ladies and Gentle
men. 1t affords me great pleasure to
extend 10 you, the delegates to the
American Mining Congress, on behalf
OF the people of Oregon. a cordial well
come TO our state.
IL matters not from whence you
come. nor what flag floats over you
When at home, the genial breezes OF
Oregon are balmy enough, the homes
OF cur people hOspitable enough, and
the hearts OF our citizens warm enough
TO insure each and every one Of you a
hearty reception and a pleasant stay
amongst US.
OREGON HONoRs YOU.
Oregon feels that in honoring you
she Is honoring herself. for IL is seldom
indeed that any state has an opportun-
.ty to welcome as her guests body
OF mon so distinguished not only in
the fields OF commercial and Industrial
enterprise and activity. but as We'll in
governmental affairs OF state and ma
! ton
You have assembled here 70 consider
problems affecting one of the greatest
Industries of our country, ana TO take
steps looking TO its advancement, IL
Is well that TO the settlement of these
problems and the promotion Of an in
dustry so vital to the welfare OF the
world YOU have invited none but men
who have achieved distinction In the
various activities to which each has
bent the best energies Of his life.
OREGoNIANs GRATIFIED.
Permit me to assure you that II is
peculiarly gratifying TO our people that
Oregon was selected as a place for
holding this. the seventh annual ses-
sion OF the American Mining congress.
Without disparagement to the phenom-
email strides which. In the past few
wears. most of our sister states have
made IN wealth and population, ] think
/ may safely claim that oregon occu-
pies no second place. For many years,
and until quite recently, she occupied
an almost isolated place In the sister
hood of states, cut OFF by lack OF rail-
road and other transportation FACILITIES
from the great world of business and
commercial enterprise Truly her
motto. "Alis volat proprils,' was pc
cularly appropriate. She had none OF
those adventltious aids which other
states have been able to claim TO push
her 20 the fore front, with the result
that. while our neighbors have ad-
yanced more rapidly In material pros
perity. Oregon now stands with out
stretched hands, inviting those who
will to come and exploit her practically
undeveloped resources.
Even II my time were not limited, Il
would hardly he proper for me To do
move than merely TO call y0ir atten-
ton to strides which our people nave
made i'm the last few years In every
40. hA
enrichment of a magnificent common
wealth Immense bodies OF land which
until the past rs months have never
felt the impress OF the footsteps OF
man. and were considered as III only
for the desolate habitations of the
coyote. the prairie dog and the jack
rabbit have been reclaimed from the
desert and with abundance Of wattS,
snatched by the cunning hand of man
from snowcapped peak and mountain
streams. are mantled with crops of
cereals. hay and fruits, furnishing
homes for thousands OF sturdy men and
women,
Sections Of the state which IN years
gone by were deemed UNIT for cultiva-
ton. have proven to be the most pro-
duclive and Of wonderful capability In
the growing Of cereals and other food
crops.
LIVESTOCK INTEREST
The livestock interest, although many
Of the ranges have been converted into
wheat. fruit and alfalfa fields contin-
ues 10 grow IN volume and value Ps
the facilities for breeding and feeding
the vast hordcs OF horses, cattle and
sheen improve each year HIS and
valleys that were once deemed best
adapted to the culture of wheat, have
been reluctantly but pro6tably aban-
doned for these purposes, and here
may now be seen magnificent orchards
OF apples peaches. peas prunes and
cherries. which are coming to be
known the world over for their excel
lence of form and flavor.
Portland. a few years since without a
single line OF transcontnental railway
to bring 10 her merchants the wares OF
the east or the products Of the Interior
now finds practically centered here five
transcontinental railways and n line ~
steamers connecting them with the
Orient. From q city of little import
ance SHE now occupies the fourth place
I'm the United States. and promises YOU
that i'm the next few years that she will
not only occupy the first place In this
regard. but viii step rapidly TO the
front as great exporting and import
ing point for the commerce between the
new and the old east
oREGoN's MINERAL SOURCES
And how IL Il with tho mineral re
yourcos NJ the qtatpp They TOO arc i'm