Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-11
PRESIDENT TAFT NAMES
DELEGATES ESFOR CONGRESS
Mining Men and Government Will
Be Represented by Men Promi-
nent in Annals of Industry

resent the United states government at
Mining congress in Los Angeles, Sep
tember 26 to October 1, President Taft
has named what is believed to be far
the best delegation ever nominated to
a similar service on the part of any of
| his predecessors.
Heading the delegation is John Hays
Hammond, generally recognized as the
worlds foremost mining engineer, a
man worth many millions in his own
! right and one of the closest friends of
the president, with whom he attended
Yale. If Mr.. Hammond accepts the ap-
| pointment he doubtless will be heard
upon some important phase of the min
| ing industry, probably concerning the
relation of silver to our trade in the
| Orient.
Next on the presidents list is Curtis
| H. Lindley, recognized from one end
of the country to the other as the lead
| ing legal authority on mining law. He
is the author of "Lindley on Mines" a
! standard work, and maintains offices in
! San Francisco. He has been connected
with most of the important mining liti-
! cation throughout the west for the past
decade.
DR.. James Douglas is widely known
as one of the greatest authorities on
copper and is president of the Copper
Queen Mining company of Bisbee, Ari-
zona, considered one of the richest cop
per properties in the world. DR.. Doug
las lives in New York, though he spends
| considerable time in Arizona and other
directions in which he is interested.
LEADING ENGINEER
J. Parke Claiming, who comes fourth
on the presidents list, is one of the
leading mining engineers of the world,
his work being equally appreciated in
Europe and in the United States Dr.
H. Foster Balm, editor of the Mining
and Scientific Press of San Francisco,
is also mining engineer of very high
standing, and is unqueStionably among
the leading mining authorities on the
Pacific coast. The press is still further
represented on the presidential list by
the name of DR.. Walter H. ingalls,, ed.
itor of the Engineering and Mining
Journal of New York, the leading min
ing publication of America. DR.. ingalls,
is an authority upon mineralogy and
metallurgy, and is the author of sew
eral standard works on zinc and other
metals He is also a member of the
| committee on revision of mining laws
of the American Mining congress.
The president is evidently anxious
that the two candidates for the direct
orship of the bureau OF mines be pre-
named both DR.. Joseph A Holmes and
E. w. Parker. The former is director
of the technolcgic branch of the United
States geological survey, and was fore
most in efforts to secure the passage or
the bureau of mines act. 1t is through
him that senators and congressman in
favor of the measure were supplied
with reliable statistics upon the min
ing industry, and it is not too much to
say that it is largely due to his unre-
mitting work that the industry has at
last received federal recognition. He is
a man of tremendous capacity in his
line, and perhaps the best posted man
in a general way on the mining indus
try of the United States.
e. W. Parker is a valued member OF
the staff of the geological survey, ana
is Director George Otis Smiths candl-
date for the dictatorship of the new
bureau. He Is not as we'll known as
DR.. Holmes, especially in the west, put
is said by his friends to be man or
thigh attainments. Director Smiths eff
forts to prevent the appointment of Or.
Holmes and to secure support for his
candidate have raised a bitter light IN
official circles in Washington, and Mr.
Smith is being severely criticised for
his activity in the matter.
WELL KNOWN HERE
Walter C. Mendenhall, also on the
presidents list, is we'll known in South
ern California, and it may be said with
truth that he has done more to mark
the water supply of this and the adJa-
cent desert country than any other
man. 1t is through his cooperation
with Prof. Gilbert Ellis Bailey and
George w. Parsons of this city that
information was gathered to guide the
latter in marking the isolated water
holes in san Bernardino, Riverside and
FNFlE m
devoted to his work, and therefore re-
| ceiVes little attention in the press. 1t
is doubtful, however, if any other man
has rendered such valuable service TO
this state in his line. Until year ago
he was in charge of the Los Angeles
office of the geological survey and pre-
pared all photographic maps and re-
ports upon the water supply of all
Southern California. He also had spe-
cial charge of the photographic and
irrigation research and reports on the
Salton sea and Imperial valley districts.
Subsequently he spent year in the
Sandwich islands, investigating the wa
ter supply for technical purposes he
is the greatest authority upon the
depth, character, quantity and quality
of the water supply of Southern Cali
fornia, and his work is invaluable TO
every horticulturist and farmer in the
country.
PROMINENT EASTERN MAN
G. s. Rice, the last man on the list, is
practically unknown in the west al
| though he has established an enviable
record in the east as one of the leading
authorities on the technical features
of coal mining. He is in charge of the
governmental station of the technolog-
ical branch of the geological survey at
Pittsburg, and led the rescue party that
went down the Cherry mines immedi-
ately after the great disaster of last
winter and succeeded in bringing to
the surface all those whose lives were
spared.
will he represented by the most famous
men in their respective lines to be
found in the United States. The Sierra
Madre club, which is in charge of the
| arrangements for the convention, has
! already communicated with each mem
ber of the delegation in order that
their decisions may be known at the
earliest possible moment. Each man
on the list is worthy of prominent place