The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-10-09

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words of my can express to you
in any adequate degree, the extreme
pleasure we experience, the deep honor
we feel, in being able to welcome to
our city such an influential organiza-
ton as the American Mining Congress
and such a distinguished body of dele
gates. Every since our representative
at Pittsburg, Mr.. Joseph Hutchinson,
wired us that Goldfeld was the sue
~cessful candidate for the honor of en-
tertaining you, the people of this camp
and district have been standing tip toe
with expectancy, awaiting the dawn of
the day that should herald your com
ing. And now the day has arrived and
you are among us, we extend you only
such welcome that wells from the hearts
of the sons of the desert, as broad as
the limitless expanses among which we
live, as fervid as the MONDAY sun, rs
kindly as the greatful breezes that
soothe the tired and fretful day at
eventide.
The people of Goldfeld know it is no
slight honor to be chosen as a meeting
place of the American Mining Con-
gress. We recognize in your organiza-
ton, one of the great forces that is
making for the conservation and de-
velopment of our natural resources, to
the enrichment of a great people, to
the glorifcation of our beloved Republic
and to its pre-eminence above all the
nations of the earth. / knew the Ameri-
can Mining Congress in its first modest
beginnings, and / have watched its
growth both in numbers and influence.
until it's knock is now heard at the
doors of the national congress and they
are opened to it; and may / not pre-
dict that with almost certainty, the
knock of your organization will be
heard at the White House itself, and
it will open to welcome a member of
the great mining industry to a seat
among the presidents official family.
As a mining community, as a mining
state, W. are watching with interest
and sympathy every effort put forth by
your organization to dignity mining and
bring to it the national recognition its
Importance deserves. And as an appre-
citation of your work, as an evidence of
our desire to aid, Nevada has presented
to the secretary of your organization,
nearly 200 representative men of the
state who wish to join the American
Mining Congress, and help you in your
splendid cause.
Mr.. President, / believe that Nevada
is the making of the greatest mining
state in the union. / believe that from
within the confines of our borders will
pour forth more mineral wealth than
from any like area on the face of the
globe. While many of us have been
denied the privilege of being native
sons, and have lived in Nevada but
only a comparatively brief span, we
have come to learn her history and
love her for what she has wrought.
Carved out of a trackless and unknown
desert at the time when the union was
in distress, she joined the sisterhood of
states that she might cast her vote for
the great emancipation and make his
second election assured. Her votes
were needed to ratify the amendments
to the constitution which were designed
to make sure the fruits of the victory
won in the bloody war of Rebellion,
and we are proud to remember that in
her most trying period when the fate
of the fight against the d-ismenberment
of the union was hanging in the balance,
that Nevada, from her great Comstock
opened up her treasure vaults and
poured $3.50, OOO, 900 into the Golfers of
the union and made victory assured. In
this mighty tribute from her mines, l
can well claim for Nevada, that she
financed the cause of the union, she
financed the cause of liberty, and of
equal rights before the law.
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union, but restored industrial n com
merciai prosperity. Nevada Is great sill
yer lode built transcontinental rail
roads; it built great steamship lines and
laid oceanic cables; it finances great
newspapers, founded universities and
endowed institutes of art; it built pal
aces in France and Italy overlooking
the blue Mediterranean; it founded
towns and cities, and made of San Fran
cisco the voluptuous queen of the west,
1t made men famous in politics and fin
ance. 1t made United States senator's,
railroads and bank presidents. 1t fixed
in history the names of Mackey and
O'Brien, Fair and Flood, Stewart and
Sharon, Sutro Ralston and Jones. The
Comstock furnished the mining law
that were enacted by congress in 1872,
the best laws of any country on earth,
} and the Comstock enriched the litera-
} ture of our language with a Mark Twain
and a half score of others. This lode
also furnished some of the world e
greatest mining engineers who helped
to solve the worlds most intricate min
ling and mineraluroieal nrohlems.