Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-15
MINING CONGRESS
 ID BE IMPORTANT

JOPLIN, Mo, Oct. 14.-AlI other questions of importance in the lead and zinc fields of the Missouri-Kan-
 sas-Oklahoma-Arkansas mining camps are being merged into that of the coming meeting of the American Min ing Congress in Joplin, November 11th to 18th inclusive.
 Every facility for seeing and in specting the mines, and the machin- cry used in its concentration is being provided for by the operators and the committees. There are within a radius of 35 miles of Joplin over 500 concentrating mills, with an average capacity of 150 tons each, a few of this number have 250-ton capacity.
 while some three or four recently built have a 500-ton capacity.
 Beside the trip to the mines, very fine exhibit of ore is being placed in German hall under the direction of MT. C. Guengerich. which have been gathered by the producers from the mines of Galena, Baxter Springs, Hiami, I. T., northern Arkansas, Oronogo. Prosperity Dueneweg, Car terville, Webb City and Joplin. Also an exhibit of mining machinery, with a few new inventions in that line. will be made that all the steps taken in bringing this district to its present prosperous position in the mining world may be studied. By consider ing ore formations and ground condi- lions with machinery used one finds ample demonstratTon Of the ad- vance mining Is making in the scien- tific as well as in the industrial world. Of the many subjects to come up during the various discussions none
 will be more interesting than that of the uniform laws governing metallif-
 erous mining and quarrying in the various states, prospecting for oil and gas, lead and zinc in the southwest field, tariff on zinc ores, and the waste
 of the national mineral resources, all
 of very practical nature.
 Nor will these discussions wholly push aside few of the purely spec
 nlative questions, such as, will the production of gold in the world keep pace with the increasing demands oi
 commerce and trade. How long will | the iron ore and coal supplies meet
 tn demands of commerce and trade
 and the possibilities and limitations of geological survey work as applied
 to the mining Industry, and the i'm portance Of the mining industry to the industrial and commercial nfe of
 the nation.
 One of the vital issues in every metal mining camp Is that of the re lations of the smelteTs to the produc- CT: in fixing the rates or determining the ore values, which is probably one
 question of greatest importance 60 the mining world. There seems to be
 nothing like this determining the ore vaIues in the channel of commerce, because nearly everything is under state regulation, but this one indus try. second only to the agricultural in terests. the value of ore being en- tireIy determined by the buyer, and for this and many other reasons this congress will ask for the revision oi the state laws, the enactment of na- tional legislation, looking toward the announcement of honest competition, and where there are differences to- ward their anfcable settlement.
 This organization of mining men will ask the United States govern ment to create a new office in the presidents cabinet, that of secretary of mines and mining. which the grow ing complexity Of the metal world ae mands. Mining. now one of the chief industries, Is made possible by the advancements made in the scientific world. otherwise the industry would still remain. as among the ancients, an undeyeloped resource, a loss De cause there is that about mining that speaks of generosity. of talent wrought into wisdom. making man capable of great things and great fn- huence.