Bisbee daily review., 1904-08-24
MINING CONGRESS
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| DtFOaldA III SOAOA aAO
 in the wonderful fossil beds of the
 John Day country. Eastern Oregon, at
 the present base of the original Blue
 Mountain island, are remains of man.
 mals, long extinct; the horse, three | toed at first, is there found in progres-
 sive stages of development; also the
 camel, elephant, broad-faced OK, mas tadon and mammoth. with remains of
 a tropical vegetation. Remains of like
 tropical animals and tropical vegeta- ton are abundant in the Sterling Creek" place-s at the foot Of that other ancient island, the Siskiyou (Klamath). Yearly for 15 years last
 past the hydraulic giants have un- earthed huge fossils of former tropical
 funa and flora on Sterling Greek.
 I cannot pursue this matter further
 but beg to ask geologists to consider
 whether neurological conditions,
 chemical activities, electro-dynamics and variant temperatures of sea, earth and air have had due consideration in the study of the formation of rocks of the assumed various ages, periods and the like. Theories are pleasing for contemplation and speculation; but frequently some one fires a blast of facts and what seemed theoretically to be a true vein of good logic and sequence disappears like the prospec- tors soil-embedded boulder. which. though seeming outcrop of ledge of rock in place, burst into cureless ruin under single charge of dynamite. The serious things that confront men in this radically practical age are present / conditions and pressing necessities. It is up to the miners of all grades and degrees to get profit l able and prompt results while pu-- suing geology as sort of by-prCduct to be utilized as far as possible.
 That science is not yet so certain ! on many essential points as 10 justify 1 dogmatism, or hard and fast rules. | Theories, so easily constructed, are often but blind trails leading to barren i countries. It is far easier to fit a | theory to a mine than to fl a mine l to a theory. The leaves must be l unfolded before the pages can be read | The best time to examine the record | is as the pages are being turned. as | the successive strata of each locality | is opened to view.
 The mineralogists have their troab- | les and difficulties also They haven't i settled the important matter of the | numbers and classification of orisi- nal things-the elements" Something | new is reported frequently, and prop ably no state in our Union can present | better and broader fields for miner alogists as well as geologists than this | Oregon of ours. Nearly every known mineral is found here and some, l | am told. that cannot be found else where. The chief regret is all can not be found in paying quantities.
 All the way from the water aga.ss i and auriferous black sands of tie ocean beaches to the summits of those old islands are strange and curious things for geologist and mineralogist to ponder over and devise theories to fit their creation and emplacement Many of these are extensive and of great commercial value and probably His Exceilency, our esteemed Cover nor. intended that this address should be confined to descriptions of this class of Oregon's goods; but it is difficult to pass silently by those but not wholly dead vol canoes bearing ice fields hundreds of | thousands Of acres in area and thou sands of feet in perpetual depth; and the underground lakes of Crook coun- ty; and the great caverns Of perma- nent ice in the torrid desert of Nal heur; and ahe !cave of Josephine. which riyals, perhaps exceIs, Ken. tuck's Mammoth; and the mystical | long-abandoned homes 1600 feet above the sea in Central Oregon; and waterfalls bursting out of the very clouds on the Cascade | Range; and the nos, wonderful lake silent and dark, in the heart of Mag, ama's Mountain. and the vast plateau of lavas bearing unmatchable fields of grain; and the majestic rivers, ;he irterminable woods. and the Gowers.
 non.">1 .-o--elous grandeur and
 buys and sells. Tn the presence
 musical instruneutsaatest of men
 ule arms eic- s, bIewpipes,