The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-09-04
Where the Credit Belongs

rr@ 90 much praise cannot be bestowed upon the gentlemen connect
ed with the mineral exhibit, for the splendid-yes, brilliant
results they ae achieving. The mineral exhibit for the Am
erican Mining Congress will surpass anything ever thought OF by the
originators of the idea. 1t will be the finest collection ever gotten to-
gether by any state in the Union, and will be a distinct feature of the
Mining Congress-. 1t will be a screaming success. As Secretary Call
breath said when he first saw the exhibit-and it WASH t half complet-
edit is startling. 1t surpssses any mineral exhibit / ever saw at a
national exposition II
To Secretary Milton M. Detch, Of the state commission appoint
ed by the governor to superintend the collection of an exhibit, a great
deal of the credit is due. Upon him has devolved the work of plan
ming and directing Of taking care of voluminous correspondence and
other detailed office work incident to this extensive campaign. He has
worked hard and faithfully and is seeing his reward; for the satsfac-
ION derived from a knowledge of success is all that he will get for his
work, the appointment Of the commissioners being purely honorary.
But work hard as he might, Secretary Detch could not have
achieved such success without assistance and it is the excellence of
the support given him by the appontees of the commission that has
produced such brilliant results. The board could not have found a
better mar as curator and classifer Of minerals than John Tate. He
is prepared by education and training to classify and catalogue and
arrange the exhibits in a scientific manner and he has worked night
ind day for weeks to get the collection in the best shape possible. Ills
WrBrk will be better appreciated by the mineralogist; the men learned
in the profession Of mining, than by the general public. But when he
gets through he will have exhibition that will command the inter
est and admiration of expert and layman as we'll
Perhaps there is no one connected with the work of assembling
the mineral exhibit, who has worked s. enthusiastically and untiring-
" as c. +. Kapp, one of the field men appointed by the commission
MI. Kapp visited every camp in Southern and Central Nevada and
many camps in the north to interest mine owners in this Mining Con
gress mineral exhibit. He worked his ground thoroughly, giving out
publicity to every newspaper along his trail, advertising the congress-
And after he got the state worked up he returned and has divided his
time between the office of Secretary Detch and the Mineral Palace,
where he has worked necessarily and without hope or promise of fnan-
cal reward; but his intense interest and enthusiasm impells him in
the work that two men generally could not do-certainly would not
do more intelligently or more intellectually. Branch Smith of
Tonopah is the other field agent appointed by the commission, and
we understand he has done good work, but it has not come under our
personal attention as has the work OF the other three gentlemen Ger
tainlv everyone is to be congratulated on the excellent work these
three men m doing; their efforts are not only a credit to themselves
but to Godfeld and the entire state.