Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-04
ORGANIZATION OF
OIL MEN BEGUN
Sierra Madre Club Fires First Gun
in Mining Congress
Campaign
DISTRICTS BEING TOURED
Plan to Get Industry Within Scope
of the National Unions
Purposes
DISTRICTS BEING TOURED
(special to The HERALD


BAKERSFIELD, June 3.-What
virtually was the first gun of the cam
pagn begun by the Sierra Madre club
of Los Angeles in the lining up oil tne
oil men of California as members OF
the American Mining congress was
fired here today, with the arrival IN
this city of a big siXty-horse power
Simplex automobile driven by j. M.
Dunn, one of the Lake View gusher
magnates, accompanied by his partner,
A. E. Hodginson;' Bob montgomery
president of the Sierra Madre club;
Sidney Norman, secretary of the CLUB;
T. j. Carrigan and w. ]. Guthrie VINO
had left Los Angeles earlier in the day
as Mr.. Dunn's guests in a hurried run
around the adjacent oil districts. The
party will remain several days.
While no definite plans have been
made public regarding the movement
toward organization of the oil men,
1t is generally understood here that
the oil men are in favor of the idea
and that they will cooperate in a
series of meetings which will be held
throughout all the oil districts of the
San Joaquin valley
The plan is to have the oil men in
these various districts meet a repre-
sentative delegation from Los Angeles
some time during July, under the aus.
pices of the chambers of commerce or
the various districts, and come into the
American Mining congress as united
body thus adding the oil Industry 70
the range of subjects embraced Wlthln
the general scope of the purposes OF
the national organization of mining
men.
The American Mining congress at
present is made up of mining and coal
operators, as well as smelling men.
BY the addition of the oil men the en-
tire family of allied interests will have
been brought under one general ma
tional head with a harmony of purpose
The helpless condition of the oil men
of California was so graphically dem
onstrated recently when news was re-
ceived from Washington that injurious
legislation was about to be adopted
by congress without the semblance OF
protest from anything that looked like
organized opposition of the oil men
that the fact was driven home to them
all that something would have to be
done and done speedily to crystalline
their common interests into a general
movement.
At present the same general laws
that govern placer mining claims apply
likewise to oil lands, which the oil men
generally recognize is an unreasonable
hardship placed on the former, mas
much as the development of oil and
placer or quartz claims are radically
different and that regulations govern
ing the one cannot be made to apply
to the other.
BY the recent gratifying victory of
the representatives of the American
Mining congress in securing the pas
sage of a bill through congress pro-
vidng for the establishment Of fed
eral bureau of mines, after three
year fight against determined opposi-
ton on the part of antagonistic inter-
ests, the American Mining congress
has done more to prove, not only to
mining and smelling men, but to the
oil men as well, that it is a power in
influencing national legislation. With
bureau of mines established at
Washington, with a capable head,
which the American Mining congress
officials are insisting on, the mining
congress will be still letter fortified
in compelling needed reforms in legis-
lation, and the oil men are beginning to
appreciate this fact.
The Dunn party will go to Maricopa
and other oil fields before returning to
Los Angeles, and a more or less definite
program of action will, 1t is believed,
be decided upon for next month before
their departure from the district.