The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-04
ASSOCIATION SPIRIT LIVES

! in week they would have been distributed
Everything that could be destroyed by fire was
consumed
ASSOCIATION SPIRIT LIVES
But the and spirit of the California
Miners Expectation remained imperishable
From whs data remained in the hands of the
president, who fortunately had a copy of last
years proceedings, and in the hands of indi-
fish the California Miners Association Annual
for 1905, and it may be said for the spirit of
the organization that we are here today met
in convention with firm determination Ct
adding to our membership and strength, and
originally came together, namely, to extract
the untold millions of gold that is known 10
farmer of California and to his detriment
was formerly done.
the National Rivers and Harbors Congress will
be held in Washington, D. c., their object
lions annually for the improvements of rivers
and harbors instead of nineteen million, the
maximum now appropriated. | would like a
resolution framed and forwarded to that con-
yention that our association in convention as
sembled in full accord with this work
Gentlemen, / thank you.
ENGLEBRIGHTvS PLEDGE
Congressman w. F. Englebright of
the Third District. successor OF ]. N
Gillett, Governor elect, followed Presi-
dent Tregidgo. The Congressman said
that any resolution the convention
might adopt would receive his most
careful attention and that 1t would be
his aim while at Washington to do all
in his power to secure the enactment
of legislation that would benefit not
only the miners of California, but the
miners of the whole United States. His
pledge aroused the enthusiasm of the
convention and he was warmly ap-
plauded.
The address of S. B. Christy of the
University of California was notable,
ha
tunities to enrich the State by the de-
velopment of it's great iron deposits,
which, he said, had been sadly neg
lected. He admitted the difficulty that
confronted the State in the Question
of securing suitable fuel, but laid stress
on the fact that other countries not
more favored have developed huge
works that are turning out iron pro-
ducts of excellent quality. He also
pointed to the neglect of the cement in
dustry, the manufacture of cement be-
ing engaged in by but few corpora
lions, the neglect until recently of the
oil industry, and what amounts to
practical neglect of the friedrich, pot
terry and building stone industries
Continuing, he said:
7 venture to raise the question, has not San
Francisco put all her eggs in one basket? Has
she not made the mistake. of allowing herself
10 become too exclusively a commerciai citvS
the past too much neglected mining and man
featuring. that now, in the hour of need.
In her efforts to repair the results Of the fire,
she is compelled to pay excessive tribute to
the eastern manufacturing States and to the
railways when the materials lay all
around her only awaiting the energy and the
enterprise of the miner and the manufacturer
TO utaize them?
FIGHT FOR SUPREMACY
At time when the commercial interests of
San Francisco paramount. is II not plain
that the city. without yielding her CONNER
cial supremacy could utilize the advantage of
her natural position as the center of n great
commonwealth?
All roads In Europe lead to Rome but in
California they all lead to San Francisco All
the wealth OF our mines lies ready to be
poured into her lap. but if San Francisco Is
to take the position that belongs to her by
natural right. she must awake to the duty of
developing the mineral resources that lie all
about her.
Professor Christy also pointed to the
wealth that would come from the re-
rolling of the metal that lies in the
ruins of San Francisco.
At the conclusion of Professor Chris
tvs address it was announced that to-
morrow morning "wednesday the del