Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-10-24
MINING CONGRESS
NATIONAL BODY WILL HOLD
MEETING NOVEMBER 1929.
AT SPOKANE.
SPOKANE MAKING Big PREPARATION
A western Mining Camp" AS Was
known in Pioneer Days Will
Be Shown at Armory in
Honor of Delegates.

Mining scenes, fast disappearing be-
fore the march of civilization, and con-
sequent eradication of the frontier.
will be portrayed at the Western Min
ing Camp" smoker and vaudeville
show to be given in honor of delegates
to the thirteenth annual convention of
the American Mining congress, which
meets in Spokane during the week of
November 1928. The armory, largest
building in eastern Washington, com
fortably seating $500 people, will be
turned into a veritable boom" camp
on Friday evening of convention week.
There will be dance halls and thirst
parlors; wheels of fortune and a big
stage upon which the leading turns of
the local vaudeville stage will be re-
produced. Everything will be free to
delegates and it is expected that ii
will constitute the biggest affair of its
kind ever attempted in the state.
The first evening of the convention
week will be devoted to a reception tc
the president of the congress-, Mr.
Samuel A. Taylor, one of the leading
coal operators of Pennsylvania.
Headquarters for offices and direc
tors during the big convention of the
American Mining congress In Spokane
November 1929 will be at the Hote
Spokane.
Plans for the entertainment of dele
gates to the convention include a biz
excursion to the Occur d'Alene distric
in Idaho, and SLOGAN district in Brit
ish Columbia.
Temporary offices have been opened
at 1120-21 Paulsen building, Spokane
where detailed convention arrange
ments are being made.
Send Your Delegates.
Though the mining congress is
body legally incorporated, with severa
thousand members who pay direc
dues, delegates to the annual conveT
ton are selected outside as well as il
side the membership, and %appointe
by various elective officers through
out the United States, to correspon
with the long-established public chal
acter of the work of the congress. TIL
president may appoint ten delegates
the chief executives of foreign nation
may appoint ten; governors of state
and territories may appoint ten; ma.
ors of cities and towns may appoir
two delegates with one additional fC
each 100, 900 of population. So tn
system reaches down the line, givin
the selection of delegates to boards
county commissioners, chambers {
commerce., trade organl ations, sciel
tific anu technical societies.
Special Railroad Rates.
announced the following rates: Fro
Missouri river points to Spokane an
return, $52.50; from Chicago and +
turn, $6S.S0. Tickets on sale Mover
Der 8, 10, II, u, % and 20, with fin
return limit December 81. A rate
one and one-third fares, on the certil
cate plan, has been granted from loo
points.
With the new agitation that h;
been started by the Blue Sky" law
Kansas, so widely heralded, opportur
ties may be found to take addition
steps for the protection of mining
vestors, in the discussion of the va
Gus proposals that the convention W
take up in it's program.
The old problem of Alaskan co
lands, metal resources, and railroad
which has remained unsettled sin
1907, will again come up for the mo
public discussion. 1t is expected tn
a large delegation representing eve
section of Alaska, will be in after
ance at the convention.
illustrated Lectures.
DR.. Joseph A. Holmes, director
the Bureau of Mines, will be a pror
nent figure in the convention. ]
will give two illustrated lectures, o
devoted to coal mining and the 9th
to an outline of his plan for met
lurgical work in the west, for VIII
congress has appropriated $500
Both on the SLOGAN and b Coe
d'Alene excursion trips all mines V
tied will be prepared to welcome
visitors and to advance all inform
ton.