Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-07-21
MINING CONGRESS.


Treatment of Semi-Sulphide an,
Sulpho-Telluride Ores" Adolpl
Maiers, z. NJ, Grants Pass. Oregon.
Addresses by Professor H. M
Parks, mining department. o. A. c.
Corvallis, Oregon.
Tomorrow will come the contest
among miners in various stunts
Attorney Blanchard's Address.
Attorney o. s. Blanchard in wei
coming the delegates spoke as fol
lows:
Ladies and Gentlemen:-If tht
old Arkansas traveller had made hii
home In southern Oregon and had
been called upon to welcome the del
egates and visitors to this conyen.
tion, he would, no doubt, have spok.
en- as follows:
Howdy boysl Light, hitch your
mules and come In. Amt many beds
but got plenty of SOW bosom and
corn bread. Heard you was coming,
so killed off most all the bad dogs
last week, and what amt killed.
the heat will kill this week. You
fellows from Siskiyou county who
are used to sleeping on a side hill
can make arrangements to stick fir
poles under one side of the mattress
to make you more comfortable at
night, and you fellows from jackson
county can sleep on top of the houses
where the wind blows the hardest
so, in the words of the Arkansas
traveller we ask you to hitch your
mules and come in. The trail is
wide around Grants Pass and we
hope you will enjoy yourself while
you stay. Seriously, no better time
could have been selected for a con-
of the mining men OF north
ern California and southern Oregon.
Since the early days Of the forty
miner, no greater activity has been
shown In the mining industry than
such as has been manifested for the
past year. And the vast amount OF
capital and the great influx Of ex-
perienced prospectors is a living
of the magnitude of the
indeveloped mineral resources at
our very doors.
To the pioneer prospector with
life devoted to the hardships of
he wilderness, whose hair has be-
,ome gray in the toll of life, who
)lazed the trail to the end of no.
here whose law is justice and the
golden rule, TO him, and to her also
who followed him into the realm of
The unknown, who knew the pangs
Of suffering and prlvati6n, who moth /
cred a family far from the aid of
medical assistance, to her who breath
ed life into early mining by her
courage and fearlessness, to him and !
10 her we owe lasting debt of great |
and we welcome those of
you who are here today.
TO you who came afterwards,
who learned the use of the pipe and |
giant, in place Of the ground sluice.
who learned that modern methods
made quartz mining profitable, who
still suffer many privations of life,
whose every dollar follows the ray
OF hope exposed in the propect, 10
you the Grants Pass Commercial
club extends a welcome. And last.
but by no means the least, those Cf
you who know the science of metal !
luTgy and other and various branches
Of mining and mining engineering.
and those OF you who put your thou
sands into our mines, or intend to
DO SO, l say welcome, doubly well
come. You are, indeed, lost broth
ers to all of us for INNINGS good
most anywhere around here Gen
eral Meade, In response to an Off
GERS demand to be placed where
fighting was good, replied to him
with a wave OF his arm down the
line of battle, General, fighting's
good most anywhere along there.
So II Is with northern California and
southern Oregon, Mining is good
most anywhere.
We believe that the holding OF
mining conventions will be a great
stimulus to the mining Industry in
a country so favorably endowed with
the gifts of the Divine Providence in
the way of timber, water. climate
and numberless lodges and channels
buYlng quantities OF mineral and
metal-producing ores. Not only must
these matters be brought to the at
tention of the mining world. but
many and various phases OF the min. |
Ing Industry, such as mining legls- |
Iation, wlld-cattlng, treatment Of
ores, and other educational textures
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