Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-07-22
CONGRESS WAS SUCCESS
Meeting of Mining Men at Yreka
Last Week Proved Best of Its
Kind i'm District,


, Mining enthusiasts to the number
OF about fifty went from this city to
freka last week to attend the ses-
sion of the Southern Oregon and
Northern California Mining Con-
gress. The Tidings is indebted to
F. G. McWilliams for a letter writ
ten Friday, which is published be-
| low. According to a number who at
tended from here, Ashland had rea-
son to be proud of those of her citi-
ems who assisted in the program. At
torney K. H. Burns gave an excellent
address on conservation, which was
heartily received, while Mrs. Sylvan
provost was the recipient of enthusi-
astlc applause for her solo work. Mr..
Dozler's address on Freaks in Ore
Deposits was much appreciated.
The final program and concert lSatur-
day evening was one of rare enjoy
ment. Local talent, assisted by Mrs.
Provost of Ashland and Mrs. Dr. Ma
son of Dunsmuir as soloists and the
Elks Quartet from Medford, contrib
uted the numbers of this program, in
which the Yreka band played prom
lnent part. All in all, the visitors
report royal treatment at the hands
of their hosts. The confidence of
Slskiyou county in their mining flu
ture was evidenced by the purchase
by the county commissioners of
$4,000 worth of high grade ore for
a permanent exhibit.
The letter of Mr.. McWilliams fol-
lows:
Yreka Cal, July 10, 1912.-The
Ashland Tidings: ! am sorry Ash
land did not have representative
from either of the Ashland papers
at the mining congress now in ses-
sion here. However, there is fair
representation from Ashland and a
big delegation from Grants Pass
Siskiyou and Shasta counties, Cali
fornia, Josephine and Douglas coun-
ties, in Oregon, have all fine exhibits
of ore, but Jackson county not an
ounce. The committee for Jackson
county failed to do anything in send
ing an exhibit.
The people of this fine little city
are treating all delegates royalty and
the town is filled to overflowing
from all over northern California
and southern Oregon.
When the first Ashland bunch ar
rived in this city we all piled into the
bus of the t'ranco-American Hotel.
but found when we arrived there
that all rooms were taken We then
went to the Clarendon, only to find
there was no room in the inns OF
Yreka for the lost tribes from Ash
land. We finally found good rooms
| a tbn Dn1lnply l.
we are comfortably situated for the
balance of the session.
All trains have been loaded coming
in since we arrived, also all boats
coming up both the Shasta and
klamath rivers have been chuck
block with miners and mining men.
Y The next congress will be held at
Redding, as the territory has been
enlarged taking in Shasta county.
The congress will end tomorrow
noon, and in the afternoon all who
wish will be taken on the free auto
mobile excursion to Ft. Jones,
Scott's valley and Aetna.
The building where the congress
is being held, when entirely COM
pleted, will cost $4,000 and is a
fine, commodious concrete building,
a credit to the town and the builders.
This congress is grand success,
in fact, the most successful yet held,
and there are several reasons for it.
In the first place all the citizens OF
this city took an interest in the con-
gress and the committees spared
neither pains nor money to make it
a success, and everyone attending the
congress will always retain a most
friendly feeling for the people of
Yreka on account of the royal treat
ment accorded them.
While Yreka is only town of
about $500 people, it is much more
metropolitan in appearance in the
heart of the city than many other
cities, as it has no railroad running
through the center of the business
part, which always takes away all
metropolitan appearance from any
city. The depot is half mile from
the center of the city and all trains
are met by the hotel buses three in
number Yreka is a rich town, also
a prosperous town, made so by many
producing mines, of which Yreka
reaps the trade, besides the hundreds
OF residents who have been made
wealthy by the production of these
mines. The many beautiful homes
testify to the prosperity of the mines,
as mining for so miles west is the
phiaf industry of tho Yraka pouutrV