Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-11
DOUGLAS WORKS FOR
 MINING CONGRESS

DOUGLAS. Orig, Oct. 10.-Special What are we going to do about il? That is the question. Whatever We | do must be done quickly
 He who repeated a question of the l interviewer is Charles B. Bell, the
 well known Douglas mining man,
 whose heart and soul, as the saying | goes, is at present enfolded in the proposition of bringing the great
 American mining congress to this city for 190S-something already promised
 and something that can be obtained if 1 Douglas makes any sort of an active effort to get it. This year-in Novem. | Der, from the 1lth to the 16th-the congress will be in session at Joplin, | Mo, in the heart of the middle west l lead and zinc field. Next year it will | naturally come to the west, and. as ! Mir. Bell last year at Denver after one | of the pluckiest fights for recognition ever made by a lone delegate from a
 great commonwealth, was promised l the convention for Douglas this year there is the best of chances that it ! can be brought here. While Mir. Bell is confident that it will come to Doug las in 1908 with his efforts alone, still he feels that he should be backed by good-siZed delegation of representa- tive men from this section and city, and with them present at Joplin there is no doubt in the mind of Mir. Bell that the great gathering of mining
 men will in 1908 be the guest of Douglas.
 What is the good of it? Why, it
 will be of incalculable benefit to Doug las, Arizona and the tributary Sonora country. At this meeting will be threshed out the all important ques-
 ton to the mining industry-what is
 the status of the smelter branch of the industry-is it a trust or is there Gnnh- 2 thing as -Gzzaalta1.- -tIIIst 2 The matter was debated at the DenYeP~s1s-
 sion last year and at that tiDre/it was
 left to committee to report Gfis year.
 This committee has been engaged for a year in collecting data on the smelter industry and its relation 70 the ore producer. This momentous question
 will be settled probably at the Joplin
 meeting, and one can realize the vast
 amount of advertising Joplin and the field surrounding it will get out of that
 meeting and the settlement of that one question. Next year other ques-
 tions of almost equal importance will bt HdllhAtu anu Nflt OL luC proceedings of that meeting in every
 known part of the world with Doug
 las date line on it would be an adyer-
 tisement for this section the benefit of which cannot be calculated.
 But perhaps the great benefit that
 would arise from the congress being
 held in this city would be in the fact
 tkat many of the biggest mining men
 in the country would come into inti-
 mate and personal contact with a sec ton of the country of which they know comparatively little. They would undoubtedly become more or less financially interested in this section and 1t would benefit all of us. In a
 matter of this kind there can be no
 selflshness, for in the mining industry
 that which helps one man helps all others in that section. It booms first
 the district and then the section and
 thus helps directly every individual.
 whether he is engaged in mining or
 some other line of business.
 And we can get that congress If We
 only go after it properly. The Mis- souri delegation that last year beat us
 by a close margin will this year sup
 port us and l am assured of still other
 support from influential sources. Cal
 ifornia may make a fight for the hon. or but it was tentatively promised us and if a fair-sized delegation goes from Douglas, laden with Arizona and
 Douglas badges, Arizona enthusiasm and the other things that it takes to
 win, Douglas for 1908 will be the mec- ca of the country's grea6est and most successful mining men"