The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-14
MINING INSTITUTE
MEETING IS OVER
Coal Men Say Gathering Was
One of Most Successful
Ever Held.
CLOSES WITH BANQUET
Next Convention to Be in
Denver; Salt Lake Is
Complimented.
CLOSES WITH BANQUET

| what was declared by delegates who
attended to have been one of the most
successful gathering of mining men
ever held came to a close yesterday at
noon, as far as the business was con-
cerned, and last night concluded with
d banquet in the grill room of the Ho-
| tel Utah The banquet was attended
| by about 200 members Of the Rocky
| Mountain Coal Mining institute, which
has been holding its semi-annual con
vcntion in Salt Lake for the past three
days.
The next meeting of the institute
viii he held in Denver, in November
| This was agreed upon yesterday after
| noon by the executive committee. The
announcement was made last night at
the banquet The committee 8 choice
was favorably received. The Denver
representatives, in their after-dinner
remarks, assured the members
that Denver would attempt to equal
Salt Lake in hospitality and show the
visitors good time in November.
Resolution Adopted.
The final days session opened YES
terdaY morning at 10 clock in Bar
ratt hall. Following a paper, which
was read by D. J. Griffiths, superin.
company of Trinidad, Colo, in which
Mr.. Griffiths urged the adoption of
uniform system of timbering for
mines. the following resolution was
adopted by the convention:
Resolved. that it is the sense of
this meeting that any systematic
method Of timbering which con
templates the placing of supports
at regular intervals is not apphca-
BILE to the character Of roof overly
ing the coal measure in Rocky
mountain regions, and that the
only safe method is to require
timbers to be set 10 securely sup.
port the roof In each Individual
working place; it is further re-
solved that this institute use all
fair means TO prevent or repeal
any Legislation which would at
tempt to establish systematic tim
bering in the several states In
which the institute operates.
DR.. James L. Talmage gave an ad-
dress in which he discussed the vari-
Gus coal formations IN the United
States and the different uses made for
fuel He and other speakers, who had
helped to make the convention a sue
cess, were given vote Of thanks.
In the afternoon, the delegates
amused themselves in various ways.
One party, consisting Of about seventy
five persons, went to the Utah Port
land Cement company plant, where
they witnessed q demonstration of the
Hansen g. Hayes rotary dumping de-
vice. The coal mining experts, after
examining the Utah invention. pro
nounced it of great advantage to their
industry Others were taken around
the city fon sightseeing trips and Wis
tied the various amusement resorts.
Banquet in Evening.
The final event of the convention,
the banquet last night, was given, as
was all the entertainment, by the Salt
Lake members of the institute. E. l..
Carpenter, president of the tonsoli-
dated Fuel company, acted as toast
master The first speech OF the even.
ing was made by E.. H. Weit3el of
Denver. president of the institute.
"We Coloradoans have been so thor
ouphly entertained while here that we
win scarcely know how to make up
for it at our convention in November,
declared Mr.. Weitzel. The president
was enthusiastic over the hospitality
of the Salt Lakers and brought forth
hearty cheers when he asserted that
the convention Just closed was the
most successful gathering of coal men
ever held
Although the Rev. P. A. Simpkin, in
troduced as "the parsou who was dear
to everybody in the west declared he
had not slept for seventy-two hours,
he did not exhibit a lack of energy IN
his talk and brought cheer after cheer
from the banqueters with his mixture
Of humor, pathos and sound advice. So
appreciated were the remarks of the
H!parsonN that he was given three
hearty cheers and several visitors as
serted after the speaker had left the
room that the Utah delegation would
not fulfill its duty, unless the Rev, Mr..
Simpkin was brought with them to the
next meeting at Denver,
Forty Speakers Heard.
There were about forty speakers in
all, most of them giving more or less
humorous talks. Probably the most
striking talk of the evening was given
by DR.. j G. Roberts, mining engineer
in charge Of the government rescue
work in the west. His subject was
was brief, he said much. He urged
that the miners be thoroughly drilled
in the safety first idea IN order that
fewer accidents might occur in mines
"It is well known that about 80 per
cent of the mine accidents are caused
L., o,ro1occne,s or iouornnpe on the