Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-06
DOUGLAS DESIRES
MINING CONGRESS
Smelter City Leads in Campaign
to Bring 1911 Conven-
ton to Arizona
CLAIMS LOCALITY IS IDEAL
Smelling Pot of Southwest Offers
Many inducements to Sc
cure Meeting
CLAIMS LOCALITY IS IDEAL

DOUGLAS, Ariz.. Sept 5.-Arizona
wants the 1911 session of the Amer
lean Mining Congress, and Douglas is
the city that wants it most of all.
For three years the Smelter city has
carried the campaign into the COM
mittee rooms and on to the floor of
the congress at it's annual gatherings,
and twice has had the prize within it's
grasp, only to lose it at the last min
ute. This has not disheartened the
Douglas spirit of contention; instead
it gives Douglas another good reason
for advocating her claims before the
congress when 1t convenes in Los An
geles the last week in this month.
Douglas establishes her claims on
the basis of locality ability to raise
the fund necessary to take care of the
congress, hotel service to care for the
delegates when they come here, per-
feet autumn climate. side trips to the
most famous mining centers In the
United States and Mexico, adequate
railroad facilities, a people ready ana
willing to devote themselves to the
pleasure of the visiting delegations,
and the fact that this city has been
foremost In striving to bring the con-
gress TO Arizona in other campaigns
for this honor.
Douglas is not only the smelling pot
of the southwest, but in the treat
ment of ores from the Warren dis
trict at Bisbee and the gold silver
and copper ores from Sonora offers a
fine field of observation to every man
interested in the reduction of natures
gifts to mans uses. In this connec-
tion is may be stated that Douglas is
turning out 17500O,000 pounds of cop
Ser alone every year, including in this
T5 per cent of the copper produced In
Arizona at the present time.
In side trips of interest to mining
men what can afford better area of
study than the great mines of the
Canauea district, with its wonderful
DEPOSITS of copper, silver lead and
zinc, and it's furnace and concen-
traitors where the ore is handled by
the most improved methods of con-
veyance from railroad car to the
weighing pits? The great Pilares
mine of Naeozari, with its snowy in
terror workings, dry and pleasant to
inspect beyond compare? Or the
world-noted mines at Bisbee, with
their five compartment shafts. azurite
caves and immense pumping plants?
or the rapidly developing mines in
the Tigre district, or the placers in
the Altar, with its record of 200 years
of production?
The Douglas Chamber of Commerce
and Mines has been promised the sup
port of Bisbee for the congress. and
from many sources have offers come
promising influence to land the con-
gress in Arizona, and in Douglas next
year. Douglas thinks she is the log
ical point, and on this point will fight
till the last ditch, whether Phoenix,
Tucson and Globe enter into the lists
or not. Funds are already subscribed
to this end by the big mining COM
panies interested here and by others,
and until some other city comes for
ward w-sh a better show. for the con-
gress than has so far loomed up
Douglas will cling to the main chance
at issue and her own platform of in
ducements. ..Al-I