Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-25
NEWS OF THE MINES AND OIL FIELDS
FOURTEEN STATES URGE
ROOSEVELT TO VISIT US
Mining Congress Convention and
Conservation inducements
for Big Chief to Come

Fourteen Rocky mountain and Pa
cific coast states are now sending their
stream of letters and resolutions to
former President Theodore Roosevelt
inviting him to attend the American
Mining congress convention in Los
Angeles. In all these states, from
Colorado west, there is hardly single
chamber of commerce that is not
adopting a resolution pointing out the
desire of the west that the father OF
conservation" attend the convention
and explain the principles of his policy
to the mining, smelling, coal and oil
men of the country who have been
more or less affected by the operation
of regulations based on the so-called
conservation laws already passed.
1t is not unlikely that fully three
or four thousand letters and resolu-
tions from these states have already
been sent to Roosevelt or will have
been before the stream stops. Many,
if not all of the governors, United
States senators and congressman, and
many mayors of these states have also
joined in the general demand for
Roosevelt and Roosevelt alone. With
in the past week the movement shifted
to the mine owners and operators OF
these states, who likewise have begun
sending personal appeals to the former
president.
Officers in charge of the convention
committee of the Sierra Madre club
of Los Angeles which has the Amerl-
can Mining congress affairs in hand,
say with the utmosa positiveness their
confidence that Mr.. Roosevelt cannot
escape the duty he owes these west
ern states embraced within the mining
congress, and are holding the hope
that when the stream of invitations
has grown sufficiently voluminous, Mr.
Roosevelt will realize that it would be
little short of a political blunder to
ignore the offer which has been ten
dered to him as a friendly invitation
from friendly sources.
The recent publication of Mr.. Roose-
velt's middle western and southern
itineraries indicates a gap between
September 10 and October 8, during
which no public speech has been sched-
uled, and it is for these dates that
the Sierra Made club is asking Mr..
Roosevelt to become its guest, the
dates of convention being September
26 to October 1. Mr.. Roosevelt would
have two weeks after his Pittsburg
date, when he closes his middle west
ern trip, in which to reach Los An
geles and would have a week after the
Los Angeles convention in which to
assume his southern engagements. His
friends here assert that they do not
believe he can afford, with this time
on his hands, to slight these Rocky
mountain and Pacific coast states most
interested in his conservation policies,
as it is plain that these states are
practically the only ones that have
not been included by Mr.. Roosevelt In
his schedule of public addresses.
Certain of the leading chambers of
commerce of Southern California are
now formulating an entirely new plan
which they will urge upon Mr.. Roose-
welt and which will result in the pres
entation of an entirely new itinerary
to cover practically all of these four
teen Rocky mountain and Pacific coast
states in coming across the continent
and returning. Just what these plans
really are, however, the promoters or
the idea will not say, but promise that
within the next week they will be
ready to make them public. 1t IS evil
dent, however, that this itinerary VIII
include such cities as Salt Lake City,
Butte, Boise, Spokane, Seattle, Port
land, San Francisco, Reno, New;
Phoenix, Ariz,, and probably oklahoma
City, Okla, and FL Paso, Texas. 1t Is
hinted that all these states to be Wis
tied according to this newer plan Will
be induced to take as lively an IN
terest in securing Mr.. Roosevelt as
has been shown by the Sierra Madre
club, the local mining and oil mems
organization, since it first initiated the
invitation to Mr.. Roosevelt to attend
the American Mining congress.
Such an itinerary would doubtless
include other visits at intermediate
points, inasmuch as sixteen days
would elapse between Mr. Roosevelt's
Pittsburg date and the opening day of
the mining congress convention, so 1t
is not unlikely some fishing or hunt
ing trip may be injected into the itin-
erarv to take care of this extra time
not required in visiting these various
cities coming west and returning east.