Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-05
FIELD DAY FOR
MINING CONGRESS.
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Lewis Of United Mine Workers
Favored Arbitration Without
intervention Of Third Party.
LETTER FROM E. H. HARTMAN
senator Dick Advocated Tie EStab-
Iishmcnt Of Il Bureau Of Mines
And Mining.

pittsburg, Dec. Arbitration WAS
the theme at tonght's session OF the
american Mining congress,
President T. L. Lewis OF the United
Mine Workers Of America, made the
opening address, taking the stand that
arbitration iii. which Il third party or
outsider had to be utilized was unsat-
isfactory and failed TO bring about per-
manent settlement, but that arhitra-
tson In which employer and empioyc
& got together and between themselves
adjust their differences has done more
< FOR the betterInent of the mining M
Ilustry than any other agency
AGAINST FREE ZINC ORES.
The congress late today adopted q
resolution offered by I'll, FL. Greg OF
missouri, opposing the free importation
of zinc ores into this country ana iufs-
ing d duty sufficiently high to protect
American producers. Another resolution
adopted expressed sympathy for tile
surviving defendants of the victims OF
the Marianna mine disaster and also
for the company that had done so much
z to make its mines safe
83 There was general discussion on con-
& servation, the present waste and the
prevention of accidents. G. w. Traer q
= 4SnlGaSO5 [ueleStte, Eatlili sstiidt -
+ been his observation that Engilsh-
speaking miners more often disobey
mine rules than do foreigners.
u. IL. IIARRIMAN's LETTER.
Unable 10 he present in person, II.
3 TEL. Hartman forwarded u letter to be
read before the convention on trans
Iortation of mineral productions. Mr.
q Hartman says the mineral productions
~ fyltf nj
year had an aggregate value of more
than two billion of dollars and the
crude and manufactured mineral prod
sucts of the country gave an aggregate
tonnage of more than 525,000,0OO tons.
Tho letter continues
1.-The products OF the mines consti-
tute the heaviest freight and are
charged the lowest ia te. This Is be-
cause they are llonperishabe and their.
quick delivery is not urgent. Also as
a rule, mine products are more constant
q in their production.
Many OF the original investors in
railroads lost a large part OF their
capital The risk was greater than
they thought. But while there inves-
tors lost, the country plotited. The
carly transcontinental railroads and
the lines that were built after them
have transported coal and other heavy
mineral products for distances so great
and at rates so low as TO be inconsis-
tent with economic management of
the railroad, but for the fact that at
those distant points these crude ma
teria1s had depeloped new industries.
which have in turn been the means of
increasing traffic of the higher grade.
In many parts OF the country new
territory issi'being opened AMI It's de-
2Nelopment made possible by the con-
Htruction of railways. But even the
5loWerSra Of the country. The struggle
of the tpresent railways during the past
few years has been and is now, to
Keep pace with the rapid growth ard
Tile rapidly Increasing needs for larger
facilities
Both the consumer and the produce
Croft mineral productions are naturally
interested III any and every factor
which enters into the question OF the
cost of these materials 1t * natural
for the consumer to think they cost
too much. ana he may divide the re-
lsponsibility Of the supposed excessive
cost between tile miner and the rail
road The! producer, on the other hand
ls4apt to lay The excessive cost ut the
5Tioor of the railroad. And there is wide
" circulated expression tlat the rail-
roads charge for transportation all that
the traffic will bear It Is equally true
that they do not charge what the traf-
Dtic will not bear.
81 am not writing to make or deny
any specific charges us 10 freight rates.
Ireal;zc the fact, as do you that in
edualities may sometimes get into
freight rates as we'll as into other
forms Of business: but these are being
eliminated as fast as the situation in
each case Is realized.
THE miner and the railroad have
been the two greatest advance asen-
cies In opening up the country.
Let me call yonr attention also to
The fact that as the country is devel-
cPing and as the railroads are develops
ing, freight rates have been dminish
ing.
THE people of this country desire
toMbe fair, aud they desire to see all
interests treated fairly. The impress
sion exists that the railroads are owned
by a few rich men; ana itsis commended
that because these men are rich they
can stand . restriction TO small re-
turn on their investment. But the fact
is that the railroads are not owned by
a few rich men,
The opinion that those who invest
theirimears in Il railroad should not
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