The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-06
SALT LAKES MINING TEMPLE.

Tho movement now in process for the
establishment of the headquarters of
the Mining Congress in Salt Lake City
is commendable in every way. IL is
reversion TO first principles. Every ono
felt from the first that Salt Lake City
was the natural place for the hcadouar
ters of this congress 1t was lost TO us
at the session of the congress in Port
land by silly 1uke, the interiection
into the decision of something that had
nothing in the least TO do with the mat
ter. Denver evidently felt that its vic
tory at that time was n barren one, be
cause it has done nothing in the mean
time to cEnch its claim upon the head
quarters OF this congress.
The move TO organize the beadquar-
terS in this city with hne mining tenn
pie is in strong hands. When such men
as Colonel Wall, Mr.. Newhouse, Mr..
Jackling. Mr.. Dern, Mr.. Keith, Mr..
Loose. Mr.. MacVichie, Mr.. Talmage,
and Mr.. Dunyou, take hold of any mat
ter in earnest their doing so mems sue
cess. The magnificent offer Of Mr.. New.
house, seconded by the equally splendid
offer of Mr.. Jackling of 700 20 go
towards the construction of au appro-
pirate mining temple, are steps so I'M
portant that they ought TO be decisive
Of the final result. And Mr.. Dern prom
ises to make this q live feature of the
coming session of the congress to be
held in Pittsburgh, beginning December
End and lasting three days.
The strategic advantage of Salt Lake
City in this matter is that it is situated
centrally in the metal mining region Of
the country, almost in the exact center
in fact. The mining interests to the
north are balanced by those to the
south, and those to the east by those to
the west. Geographically the site is as
central as one could possibly make it.
The disadvantage of Denver is that
the city is entirely to one side. Those
In the western part of the mining re.
giou have TO travel almost the whole
breadth of the metal mining area before
they reach Denver; they only have TO
go about half way to get to Salt Lake.
And so of those to the east, they only
have TO go half way across the metal
mine producing area TO get to this
city
Fortifying these strategic and geo
graphical advantages, Salt Lake City
is Immediately surrounded by some of
the most interesting metal producing
anywhere to be found in
the world. The immense copper ore
lodes, mountains We might say, at Bing
ham. the great Tintic region with its
diversified mining problems, the trc
mendousIy productive camp at Park
City, and the less developed regions of
Tooele, including Mercur, Oquirrh, and
Lone Hill enterprises. the American
Fork propositions, the great and diversi-
fed wealth of Beaver county, including
the old Horn Silver region, North Star
district, the big Newhousc operations,
the important and highly successful de-
being conducted under the
of Mr.. Mcguire northwest
Of Ogden, the hydro-carbon regions Of
the eastern part of the State, the great
oil discoveries-all these point to Salt
Lako City as the central spot Of the
mining interests of all the mountain re-
gion Of the United States, and as
backed locally by greater interests than
any other place can show.
Those at the Pittsburg session Of the
congress who work for Salt Lake City
as the headquarters will have ample ma
terial TO draw upon for their pleas. The
points briefly outlined above will consti-
tute some of the main features. There
are also here all the accessories in the
way of salt and the various huxing COM
binations that are necessary TO The
treatment Of ores this in far better de-
gree and quantity than in Denver. Be-
sides, we have abundant fuel and trans
portation affords every facility. All
these naturally should work to the end
of establishing tho headquarters of the
Mining Congress in Salt Lake City. We
believe they will so work, and The Trib-
une most earnestly and cmphatically |
supports the work doing by the mining
men OF Utah for tho establishment of
the great mining headquarters and ten. !
pie in Salt Lake.