Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-11-21
MINING CONGRESS
NATIONAL MEET AT SPOKANE.
BEGINNING NOVEMBER Is,
DRAWS THOUSANDS.
SPOKANE D|CC|NS A GREAT FEATURE
A Typical Frontier Mining Camp Of
Early Days-Most Unique Enter
tainment Ever Put On for
Amusing Delegates.

When the delegates to the Fifteenth
Annual Session of the American Min
ing Congress, which meets in Spokane
the week of November 25th, have fin
lshed the strenuous labors of the con.
ventlon, and have set their stamp of
approval upon plan of campaign for
the coming year, they will be taken
IN body to view one of the most
unique entertainments ever presented
In this part of the country if not in
the world.
A building 21O feet long, 100 feet
wide and so feet high will be used.
The visitor will step from the street
OF modern city into the center of a
mining camp typical of that long past
day, when the word was passed from
village to village that gold has been
found in California, and thousands of
men, hoping to win happiness and for
tune from the treasure vaults of Moth
er Nature, leaving friends and home
Dehlnd, trudged YEARLY across desert.
plains and mountains, until at last. ar
irving at the place where gold was
found, pitched their tents OF. built, their
shacks along the sides of rocky gorge
and called it city.
mere are few men left today who
remember those old-time frontier camp
scenes, and it has been left to the
efforts of the entertainment commit
tees composed of many mining men to
revive those memories, as we'll as in
struct younger generation in the
manners, customs and language of the
early-day Mining Camp.
Not detail will be missed. A stray.
ely irregular street winds through the
center of the building, both sides of
which will be occupied by buildings
or that nondescript character only
round IN the frontier camp. Above and
back OF the shacks, rock work is con-
structed, which will form the walls of
the Gulch and the top of which will
blend into the blue sky stretched over
head
What form of entertainment will the
shacks contain? All! that is the sur
price which the committee is reserv-
ing for the visitor We are informed.
however, that realism is the watch.
word and not a detail is being over
looked that will aid in conveying to
the mind of the visitor the impression
mat he has stepped back to the time
When men settled their disputes with
the aid OF Colts As, when the main
topic OF conversation was the latest
strlke' and the principal amusements
were dispensed at the Bucket of
Blood" thirst parlor, the Golden Prom
1se Faro Palace" and Dutch Jake's
Dance Hall" OF course, the PONY
Express" will be there as we'll as the
picturesque stage coach and driver
with his ever recurring load of ten
derfeet' while Faro Nell' will take a
conspicuous place in the setting.
We often see so-called scenic re-
productions of the old-time Mining
Camp on the stage" stated Mr.. Sidney
Norman, secretary of the local com
mlttee, in an interview yesterday; "but
they are never true to life, and even
II they were, would not compare with
this stunt In the theatrical produc-
tlons' the audience sits out in front
and merely looks while in this show
the visitor enters into and becomes
part of the scene"
1t was intended originally to give
this show on Friday night the 10th,
only, and make it strictly stag affair.
but the demand for tickets was so
great and the demand that another
night be added when visitors would
take their ladies so insistent, that the
committees decided to devote two
nights to the show. Thursday night
for ladies and gentlemen and Friday
night for gentlemen only.
OF course there will be other fea-
lures than those mentioned above.
among which may be cited four-roupd
boxing tournament in which champions
and near-champions from Washington.
oregon, Idaho, Montana and British
Columbia will contend for the Inland
Empire championship, the best acts
from the local theaters and many orig
lnal stunts not yet divulged, but all in
perfect harmony with the atmosphere
or the old-time mining camp.
The committee has decided that ad.
mission will be limited to the number
that can be conveniently cared for.
delegates and visitors from out Of
town receiving first consideration