The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-30
Delegates to Congress
Take Thirty.MiIe "trip
Across DesertinSpeciaI
Train to Visit Mines
COMMITTEES REMAIN IN GOLD
FIELD PREPARING REPORTS
AND GETTING READY.

TONOPAH, New, Sept. %
Tonopah was visited today by several
hundred delegates to the American
Mining Congress now in session at
Goldfield. They came by special train
thirty miles across the desert. The
mills and mines of Tonopah Mining
company and other properties around
Tonopah were visited. Members of
the committees remained in Goldfield
and are busy preparing reports on
various resolutions.
The principle topics discussed at
the first business session of the an
nual gathering of the American Min
ing Congress were means to secure
greater commercial usage of silver
and the desirability of national min
ing department. The principle ad-
dress was delivered by Judge c. c..
Goodwin of Salt Lake.
Mr.. Goodwin said in part:
There Is special reason for re-
turning to this question now The
myriads of men in the orient, Spanish
American, southern Europe, western
Asia and northern Africa will not,
cannot and have not changed their
money. Some states have accepted
the gold standard, but this has been
merely for convenience in dealing
with foreigners. The money of the
workers, who create a country's
wealth has remained the same. And
that money is silver money.
Though silver measured by gold,
has fallen nearly or quite 60 per cent
employers in silver money countries
pay employees the same weight of sill
yer that they paid 80 years ago. The
result is that they can sell their wares
to us at about one-half what they
could 80 years ago, but when they
come to buy of us, the cost, in their
money has been doubled. and ex-
changes have fallen until our ex-
port trade with half the worlds peo-
pies has been practically killed. The
ships of the Southern Pacific, for
merly engaged in oriental trade, are
swinging idly on their chains in San
Francisco harbor, and Mr.. Hill OF
the Great Northern and Northern Pa
cific roads, admits that he has no
outbound cargo for his ships to
China; that since the war between
Japan and Russia closed the exports
to both Japan and China have been
chiefly confined to such machinery
and material as they are obliged to
have and are not yet able to supply
from their own works. Eastern manu-
facturers can no longer sell their
wares in the orient, their trade with
other silver countries is being swiftly
curtailed- countries that contain
quite half the inhabitants of the
earth.
"The great financiers and bankers
see the decentralization that has fallen
upon the exchanges and are helpless
to prescribe remedy; the reports of
our consuls in China, Japan. India,
Turkey and Egypt all show that our
export trade is dead with those coun-
tries, and reports from South
America are almost as bad.
"The appeals of the eastern press
for extended trade relations with
China, IL illustrated, would make a
hilarious showing in comic almanac
In the meantime, the awful Chinese
hive has begun to swarm. her manu-
facturers are being rapidly extended,
and 1t will not be long before she
will be laying down in our ports iron
and steel and wooden goods and e
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