The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-11
MINING CONGRESS
WILL OPEN TODAY
Delegates to Tenth Annual
Session at Joplin, Mo-,
Begin Their Work.
WANT UNIFORM STATUTES
DETERMINED EFFORT TO BE
MADE TO PREVENT FRAUD.

joplin, Mo, Nov "a number of
delegates and visitors arrived today to
attend the tenth annual secession of
the American mining congress, which
will convene in this city tomorrow
morning in sessions which are to con-
tinue through the week.
First Vice President Thomas Ewing
of Vivian, Ariz.. was the first of the
national offieff1ers to arrive. Visitors
came today from Mexico City, New
York, Nevada. California, Wyoming,
Pennsylvania and Colorado.
There will be a spirited contest for
the honor of entertaining the next an
nual congress Spokane, Wash, Los
Angeles, Reno, New, and Columbus, o.,
are the ambitious cities now actively
in the race. The candidacy of Column
bus is in the interest of a movement
10 make the congress yet more nation
al and international than it has been
heretofore. Previous congresses have
been held in the west.
Joplin and its people are extending
the glad hand to the visitors. The
downtown sections of the city are
tastefully decorated with flags and
bunting, myriads of electric lights
blaze on arches over the principal
streets, and a number of the larger
ignition of this most important meet
ing i'm the life of the city.
Incidental to the regular work of the
congress. there will be side trips over
the Missouri Kansas lead and zinc
district, for which purpose more than
one hundred automobiles will be
placed at the disposal of the enter
tainment committee.
Many Utah DELEGATES.
A large number of representative min
ing men from Utah and Nevada will
be among the delegates i'm attendance at
the convention. Today the delegates will
be taken in automobiles to visit the min
ing camps at Chtwood. Belleville Carl
Junction, Badger, Galena and Baxter
Springs. Luncheon will be served at Ga
lena.
formally with addresses of welcome by
Joseph w. Folk, governor of Missouri;
Mayor Osborne of Joplin and Colonel IL.
II. Gregg on behalf of the committee of
fifty. Responses will be made by the Of
ficers of the mining congress- The fol-
lowing day the actual business of the con-
gress will be begun. Reports from the
standing committees will be taken up
and papers on pertinent subjects read by
mining experts. Each day various top
les of especial interest to mining men
Will be taken up and on Saturday trolley
excursions will be made TO the mining
The ladies of Joplin have arranged for
special entertainment for the ladies &C
companying the delegates and members
to the session of the congress. Recep-
TONS excursions. drives and automobiles
are included In the plan for the enter
tainment. On Friday evening ball COM
plimentary to the visiting members, dele
gates and lides will be given.
To Fight Frauds.
An important feature of the work of the
mining congress will be the endeavor 10
prevent the existence of fraudulent min
ing schemes. Laws Will probably be
drafted which the congress will ask be
passed by the various state legislatures
and the United States congress, cOntem-
plating the punishment of promoters of
fraudulent mining schemes.
At the last session of the congress. held
in Denver a year ago, a committee of five
prominent members of the mining con-
gress was appointed for the purpose of
devising and demonstrating methods of
preventing fraudulent mining schemes.
In an exhaustive report on the subject
which will be presented at the present
mining congress. the committee makes
five recommendations: