Arizona republican., 1914-10-14
ACTION URGED ID STIMULATE
 GOLD MINING
Decrease of Gold Subject of Plea in U. $. Senate-Big Question Before Ameri- can Mining Congress Here in December

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.-Decrease in the worlds gold production is reaching such a point that a note of warning has been sounded in no un- certain terms in the United States senate by Thomas J. Walsh, the junior member from Montana That this condition will be aggravated greatly by the closing of silver mines was brought out clearly by MT. Walsh.
 It is of vital importance that the gold production of the United States be increased as was shown in a let ter from the secretary of the Ameri- can Mining Congress, which Senator Walsh used in connection with his remarks. While it is the cOncensus of opinion that every effort should be made first to increase the gold yield through scientific research and avoid bringing out the possibility of the need for providing for a bounty to stimulate work in ow-grade re- fractory, gold bearing ores.
 In the face of the great work that is being done for agriculture by the government, the appropriations al lowed the bureau of mines were termed "pitifully small and painfully inadequate"
 The following summing up of cer tain of the ideas expressed was laid before the senate by Mir. Walsh:
 CD The need for gold to main tain a proper ratio between base and structure of credit is increasing with the great increase in our commerce. CD Increased foreign demand for gold reserves is absorbing great part of the worlds production.
 (4) The increased use of credit money, made possible by the new currency bill-that I may not be mis- understood, let me say that I con- slider this bill the most important, the most valuable, and that in effect it will be the most useful legislation O recent times-increases the bur den upon an already overburdened gold supply by requiring it to sup port a greatly enlarged "superstruct- ure of credit
 (5) The highly productive mines of the country are being rapidly ex- hausted and no comprehensive effort is being made to develop other mines to thereafter maintain continued pro- duction or to employ the labor, the skill, and the capital now so em- ployed.
 Senator Walsh's address was ac companied by complete statistics showing decided decreases in the production of gold in the leading mining countries of the world. The principal falling off was shown to have been in South Africa and in the United States, the two greatest gold producing regions of the world The passing of the high grade ore bodies as well as the increasing cost of labor, machinery and supplies, is making the mining of gold less at tractive each year Conditions of general prosperity induce additional operations in the mining of other minerals, as the increased demand raises the price; the opposite applies to gold mining. In times of general prosperity, everything needed in the operation of a gold property is more expensive but the product retains it's unfluctuating value. These and many other pertinent facts were call ed to the attention of the upper house of congress and there is evi- dence that a deep impression has been made
 The question brought out by Sen ator Walsh, as well as many other matters of important interest to every man dependent upon the mining in dustry. will be discussed at the se venteenth annual session of the American Mining Congress, which will be held at Phoenix. Arizona, Dec. z, 8, 9, 10 and II. As one of the effects of the war has been to ac- centuate the need for a greater pro- duction of gold in the United States, it is expected that the meeting of the American Mining Congress this year will be of greater importance than has been any other session in the history of the organization.