The Arizona sentinel., 1910-07-07
Chamber of Mines

With the return to this city on Sun day of w. |. Fair, secretary of the Yuma Chambe of Mines, from weeks visit in Los -Apgelts what will doubt less result in a statewide effort |" cap , ture next Near's convention Of the American Mining Congress vii! be set in motion.
 MT. Fair will leave for Phoenix with in the next few days, and after confer ences with some of the leading boosters of the state, will arrange for call for d meeting of delegates frorl all the honstiny organizations of the stale and of local boosters from those sections where no organization exists, but where mining development is being prosecuted, to formally arrange for a monster delegation from all portions of the state to move on the Los Angeles convention in such numbers as to sweep all opposition aside.
 With large delegations, numbering from 500 to 1000 promised from other active centers, MT. Fair believes that nothing short Of an excursion of 1000 boosters will create the right kind of sir to offset the cI oice of these oppos- ing allegations. The coming congress will be so far greater success in point of numbers than any mining eonven- tion ever held before in the United States it is recognized that no ordinary delegation to which previous conven- tions have been accustomed will be able to stampede the delegates to any one state or city.
 Coach loads to train loads will come from San Diego, from the San Josquin valley. from San Francisco. Portland, Seattle. Spokane, Salt Lake, Denver, Kansas City, Chicago, Cleveland and even New York and Boston. if present signs do not fail, while scattered dele gations will be picked up by the regu- lar trains from practically every min ing section of the country. Mexico City promises coach load, while many coach loads will doubtless come from the west coast of Mexico.
 It is Mr. Fairs intention, according 10 plans agreed to, to arrange for a state conference at Maricopa, one dele gate from every boosting organization or mining section to be present, at which all cities now a candidate for the honor of entertaining the American Mining Congress shall be considered and the most available and log ical can- didate be selected This action in a neutral city would pat the Arizona de- mand on state basis and remove all local friction.
 The delegates would then return to their respective cities and sections to work out a more detailed plan Of or 'raniZation which Mir. Fair and Los Angeles friends have outlined. It Is probable that as an outgrOwth Of this conference a state association of boost
 ing organizations would also he perma.
 
 nently organized. This meeting will
 be called for about two weeks hence. rFse seeretsF iies ind beastseeFFss of the txariDus bodies comId theM go to work
 Ion .beir respective memberships tt
 work ous the details of a state Arizona
 del+gation, hailihg from every sectlor
 of the state, to move on Los Angeles il
 force.
 By planning two separate excursions all portions of the state could be ac
 commodated, either on the train iron ! the north or the one from the south. . If these two trainloads present for ? gmidable front, insthe way of numbers
 Mr. Fair believes that, with aid o 4 delegates from other cities, including , many with whom he talked in Los An
 geles, the coveted prize may be cap
 tured, while the object lesson in tn sminds of the visitors from other DOT tions of the country would be tremen tdously in favor of Shi6 new state-