Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-11
Il PASO WILL Be
IN THE CONTEST.
Texans Preparing to Send a Big
Delegation to the Mining
Congress at Portland.
FAMOUS MEXICAN BAND GOING.
May be an Opportunity for Utah Dele
gates to Work a Little Game
OF Strategy

Among the places to contest for the
permanent headquarters OF the Ameri-
can Mining congress at the Portland
meeting which commences one week
from next Monday--will be lei Paso,
Texas.
According to late adyices from the
southern city. large delegation from
that point will leave for the Oregon
metropolis sometime next week.
The El Pasoans win set up the
claims among others, that their town is
the proper place for the permanent
headquarters OF the Congress because it
is the gateway to the Mexical mining
camps which have become popular vita
American investors.
An I'll Paso paper has the following
TO say:
with all the brilliance Of brand new
uniforms, silver decorated sombreros
OF most picturesque pattern, the ia.
nous Mexican National band OF Juarez.
Mexico, will be taken to Portland to
sound the praises of III Peso AS con-
vention city before delegates to the
American Mining congress. The fame
of El Paso as convention city has
been gained within few years and
the military band of the city across the
Rio Grande has had no small part IN
It's achievement
Last year El Paso sent delegation
to Ogden 10 capture the National lrri-
cation Congress that waged one OF the
most unique convention contests ever
conceived. The Mexican government
had released the band to make the trip
H.. l.ln a 4
white, capped with the ornate sombre-
ros that bore weight Of silver lace far
greater that the weight of the closely
woven straw, of which large quanti-
ty is consumed In one fthe great
headpieces From the moment the band
arrived In the convention city there was
a constant echo of the rollicking airs
that are popular In the southern repub-
lie; serenades heard in front Of delega-
tion Headquarters, hotels, newspaper
offices, and evfn the headquarters OF
delegations from cities that were rivals
for the next convention.
Headquarters will be maintained by
the local delegates, where some dell
cious Mexican wines viii be on tap TOT
the caller, and long, black Mexican ci-
CARS will be freely dispensed to the Min
ing Congress delegates as a sample OF
the FL Paso way of greeting. Allurine
tales will be told of the borderland, and
Il Is not improbable that promise OF
contest in which matadors match
| their skill and nerve against the mad
! dened fury of wild bulls.
secretary clifford of the lnterna'
tlonal Miners association, who Is get
ting up a delegation to send to Fort,
land. announces that the following VIII
attend the Congress from I'll Paso'
Norris p Kirk, mining engineer Eu'
gene II. Neff OF the II. u. Men company
| Captain w. II. VIM, a capitalist and
| mining man; August Meisel, capltal'
| ist and mining man; w. II. GrandoVer
| electrical supply store, j. W. Fisher
proprietor OF the Hotel Sheldohi ser
| Orndoff. day clerk at the Hotel orn'
doff Otto Laud. a mining man, MOTIF ~
| n. Baker, mining engineer; Dr. D. L
Turner; ], w. Malcolmson, mining en-
| gIneer. and c. n. Bassett, lumberman
| captain Eugene Flechet of the Unit
| Renicio Barracks, California, ana II
| Idehtbody, now sojourning In CantOr'
| mia. are also expected to join the dele
| cation" AZ, q,
| II will be seen from the foregoing tina
| ,be Utah delegates are not going u
have things all their own way wneI
thew get TO Portland. An ASSOCIATED
Press dispatch from the convention Guy
| OF Yesterdays date contained the IN
formation that Denver already mas
representative on the ground ana u
LAYING the preliminary plans for IN
skIrmish to be made during the ses
sion o6 the Congress,
one Utah delegate suggested TO-DAY
that with both Denver and El Paso II
the fight, the chances of Salt Lax,
would undoubtedly be strengthened
Again. he said, Il may be That II th'
El Paso delegates should conclude the'
cannot win they may throw their sup
port To Utah by way Of recognition o.
the services rendered the Texas dele
gates by those who represented inv
state AT the Irrigation Congress at Og
den last year. Had It not been for IN
support Of the Utah delegation on I'M
occasion 1t is believed the meeVns o.
the Irrigation Congress would moi nav
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