Weekly journal-miner., 1910-07-06
HOPES TO SEE BIG
 ARIZONA DELEGATION

LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 3O.-
 W. Jay Fair, secretary of the Yuma
 Chamber of Mines, who has been
 In this city for the past few days,
 in the interest of his state in con
 neetion with what will doubtless re-
 suit in a general effort to capture i the 1911 session of the American
 Mining congress for his state, de clares himself as more than en- thusiastic at the prospect, and gives it as his opinion that if the entire state and every interested section will pull together for the "weal of Arizona" the effort to secure the convention will prove success ful.
 "One thing the Arizona boosters will have to make up their mind to-" said MT. Fair, "is that we will have to come to the Los An geles convention with real numbers II we are going to succeed. I nave found since I came here that there are many other large delegations coming from many portions of the United States, and you may rest as- sured that some of these delegations will want the convention just as badly as we will.
 ofT AhA tion at the Goldfeld meeting and may be expected to be on hand this year with a renewal of it's demand for recognition and it cannot be | overlooked that that city is in the heart of a tremendously rich min eral belt and will have it's weight with the delegates and member. of the American Mining congress.
 'I have talked with many of the largest and most influential mining men in this city, and find them ready to help us in every way pos sible. I have also met the railroad men, who are cooperating with the Convention committee of the Sierra Madre Club, which has i'm mediate charge of the convention details. After a thorough canvass of the situation and of what we will have to do, have come to one conclusion, and that is, that we must come to Los Angeles with such Overpowering numbers that we will impress the justness of our demands on the convention by very force of numbers. would like to see the largest delegation from any state come from Arizona, 1000 if possible, and every one of this number a member of the Ameri- can Mining congress, with a voting power, so as to be able to take an active part in the convention.
 ''The thing we will have to do is 10 run two excursions, believe, one from the northern portion of the state and one from the south ern, made up of coach loads from the various mining districts of both fields. To accomplish this we will have to get every boosting organ ization in the state at work, re- gardless of where it may be deeid- ed that the convention is to be held. This question we will have to settle among ourselves, but as Arizonans, working for the Arizona veal we should be entirely united, no matter which city appears to have the best call.
 "Yuma is not in the race, and will work for the best city, and I T believe every other city will look l at it the same. This is a question of state pride, I feel, and not one of local pride, and, with many cit ies already alive to the possibility | of capturing the convention, it may be necessary for a compromise | meeting of some kind, to be held at some neutral city, where the best judgment of all will finally prevail. And you may say for me, that this years convention is going to be wonder. They're working like beavers here in Los Angeles, and I wouldn't be surprised if their efforts bring 5000 mining men from all over the country in to the convention hall"