Bisbee daily review., 1904-08-24

amply repaio 1T when you return tt
 your distant homes you cherish none
 but pleasant memories of your visi
 here.
 . At the conclusion of the address ci ! welcome by Governor Chamberlain , Mir Drake addressed the congress ln part as follows:
 Mir. President and Gentlemen of the
 American Mining Congress: In jour
 neying to this assemblage, those of
 ycu who came from the North cross
 ed the great river of the West. On
 May II. 1792, Captain Robert Gray
 entered this river in the good ship Columbia and bestowed the name of
 his vessel on the stream. From this
 ships mast head that identical flag fashioned by the cunning hands of
 Betsy Ross (the first American flag ever madel flouted defiance to the foes and tokened dominion over the
 Western world. The first flag. on this good ship, was the New Republics first messenger around the world.
 The captains sea chest wherein was stored the flag when not at the peak, Is here in your midst, the property of the Oregon Historical Society.
 Some of you. on entering the state. rom the East. passed over the range called the Blue Mountains. Others coming from the South crossed the Siskiyou Mountains, on entering Ore Gon. In either case you enjoyed un- surpassed scenery and severally en- countered the present feet of what in early geological times were twin is i lands. the gen.ses of the North Pa cific Coast.
 In the beginning the eastern portion Of the Blue Mountain Range and the Siskiyou Mountain were two islands lar off the then western coast of what is now North America; mere granite peaks in a world of waters. So that in much of your journeying here. to our honor and pleasure, you have reached us by traversing an ancient ocean bed. exalted and somewhat crumpled now. and in part covered With modem lavas. and crossed the feet of two very old islands, the geo logical parents of this lovely and won derful state.
 
 of the ancient Blue Mountain island, You are surrounded. not by shore less sea. but hv hundreds of majestic mountains. bald of head. their faces Sashed and wrinkled with canyons and goTges and bearded with dense. dark frs. cedars and pines. the un- shorn growth of centuries. These are the giants which hoard the treasure vaults of Eastern Oregon. They. with intervening valleys. cover a territory nearly equaling in extent the con- bined areas of the States of Massa- chusetts. Rhode Island and Con necticut
 Standing on the summit of that ether ancient island, the Siskiyou designated in United States Govern mental surveys as "Klamath") you are surrounded by another array of sentinels, wrinkled and whiskered like their brothers, guarding immeas- urabie treasures in Southern Oregon. and covering an area of over 15,OOO square miles.
 Coming northward through Central Western Oregon, a section often To- cally embraced in the general designa- ton Southern Oregon" you cross the mIre modern ranges of the Rogue and Calapoola, and here again the massive hills. all bearded and un- shorn, are boarding limitless treasures for the good of the industries and hopeful man who dare attempt great deeds for great wealth The area Of the richly mineralized portion of this section equals in extent at least one of the populous and wealthy New England states
 In 1S45. at the feet of that old Blue Mountain island, the second discovery of Soli in the present limits of the United States was made. Mar shall. who made the discovery in Cal ifornia in 1S4S. was an Oregon emi- grant. It was this third discovery that set the world ablaze with univer- sal desire to get riches quickly. That desire has not preceptibly abated with the passing years. Gold was found on the Sanitam river in 1S47. but the immigrating Missourians of that day ! had not fully developed the char acteristic desire to know things by seeing them" and didn't yet know gold when they saw it The stories l of their conjectures as to what the 1 yellow stuff really was are both pa- | thetic and ludicrous. It was useful ] however. and nuggets were easily l hammered into sinkers suitable for i their fishooks. Later. millions of ounc- ] es of the royal metal mined from the l placers of Oregon went into the histo- !, " of California gold.
 The provisional government. which ! had been organized pending the de- l lterminatSn of the controversy be- tween the United States and England i for dominion over the Oregon territory, | through ar act passed and approved by l the then Governor early in 1849, es- tablished a mint at Oregon city Coin- i age of 8 and s1O gold pieces was authorized. The mint, with dies | shaped from old wagon tires, was con structed by American mechanics, and | the first coins minted on this coast were of pure gold. The image of a | beaver appeared on each ccin, whence the name. "Bever Money
 Oregon. with proper modesty. of course. desires facts admitted of his