Arizona republican., 1913-10-14
Annual Convention of American Mining Con gress In Philadelphia Will Bring Together Thous- ands of Prominent Men.
EXHIBITS WILL
 BE INTERESTING
Coal Mining and Gold Min ing Will Each Come In for Proper Share in Lee lures and Mechanical Demonstrations.
Especial to The Republican,

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 13.-The city of Philadelphia will for the first time in her history entertain the prominent mining men of the coun- try in the annual convention of the American Mining Congress to be held October 20 to 25.
 At about the same time. October r to 25, Philadelphians will view in horticultural hall the first na- tional mining exposition ever given in the United States. The exposi- ton, which is under the auspices of the American Mining Congress, will emphasize in an elaborate manner the safety first" movement, which practically had it's beginning in the mining industry and which has since spread all over the country.
 Both events promise to bring to Philadelphia more than 1000 of the leading mining men of the country. Already mining men from every state in the union have notified the convention headquarters of their in tention to be present, some of them coming in delegations on special trains, especially from the Pacific coast and the west There will be a delegation from far-away Alaska t5 tell the story of the bottling up of the natural resources of that country by the federal government and the refusal of the federal gov ernment to grant relief. There will De another strong delegation from { Chicago, including T. T. Bent and Carl Scholz, two of the leading coal ] operators of the middle west. From Denver. Co, will come D. ". Brun- | ton, president of the mining con gress and the leading drainage eX- pert of the world, heading a large delegation. Washington, D. C, will send a unique trio. consisting of John Hays Hammond Hennen Jen- nings and Gardiner Williams, all multi millionaires who made their | fortunes in South Africa gold and diamond mining. The nations capi- toI will also send Senators ShOfroth of Colorado; Walsh of Montana, the head of the senate committee on mines and mining; and Sutherland of Utah; Representative Foster of Illinois, chairman of the house com mittee on mines and mining, and the other members of this commit tee: Secretary of the Interior Lane, If he recoVers in health sufficiently by the time of the convention; Sec retary of Labor w. E. Wilson; pr. Joseph A. Holmes the director Of the United States bureau of mines, who is now hurrying back from Alaska; Dr. George Otis Smith, the director of the United States geo. logical survey, and many others The sister city of Pittsburgh will be rep resented by delegation of the big gest bituminous coal operators ot the country. headed by John II Jones, president of the Pittsburgh Buffalo Coal company. More than fifty of the best known mining en- gineers of the country will come from New York, these men repre- senting the great mining corpora tions of the United States. They will include Dr. James Douglas, dear lof the mining engineering profession of the United States, J. Parkt Charming, w. R. Ingalls,, and others
 The mining industry is second only to agriculture, with an annua output of two billion dollars It em' ploys directly one and One-half mil lion men and another million mel handle it's raw products The out put of the mines constitute 65 pc
 cent of the freight traffic of tn
 
 at this great national gathering t' impress upon the country the mag
 nitude of the industry and to shoV what progress it is making.
 The mining exposition in hortlcul
 tural hall. under the direction Q Richard L. Humphrey of Philadel
 phia. will show in graphic wa
 what is being done by the minini
 industry in reducing the number O deaths in the mines The indication f now point toward the exposition re solving itself into a safety deVlc lcongress. The famous oxygen hel
 met, which permits rescuers to ente ! mines filled with deadly gases toi lowing explosions, will be shown an
 it's use will be demonstrated DIV . trained crew from the United State Q bureau of mines.
 At the exposition there will ais
 be continuous motion pictures de /, picting mining in all it's Varlou
 nhases. The films were taken D
 the federal government as a matte of education to the miners and wi