The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-06-02
OIL AND MINING
MEN Of STATE
WILL ORGANIZE
P. c. DINGS, CHAIRMAN, WRIT
FRANKLIN, MEMBER OF
ORGANIZATION COM.
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Oklahoma City, June IA teder'
alton OF forces including the zinc
and lead, oil, gas and the coal pro,
ducers, geologists and mining en-.
gineers of Oklahoma is announced
in a letter signed by twenty-five
leading operators in these lines and
which is now going to all interested
parties in the state.
This is one of the most important
constructive moves ever made in
Oklahoma and is in line with the
general national policy OF the
American Mining Congress which
is organizing all mining men in the
West into a nationwide force de-
signed to protect the interests OF
producers in all lines of wasting in
dustry and TO encourage legislation
looking to maximum cooperation
between the government and the
men who are back of industrial de-
velopment.
During the past year the Ameri-
can Mining Congress headquarters
in Washington has been the COM
mon meeting place and working
headquarters of the various commit
tees assembled in the national capi-
tai to secure readjustment of the
excess war profits tax law and other
important laws passed by congress
without giving consideration to the
conditions of Western financing or
operation.
First General Effort.
The American Mining Congress is
twenty years old, but until now no
general effort has been made to
complete the organization upon
such a basis that every state and
every wasting industry could par
ticipate. Arizona. Colorado, Utah,
Wyoming and New Mexico have
been organized and Oklahoma is
one of the chain of states to take up
the work with an idea of interstate
cooperation.
The general Western headquar-
ters of the congress has been
opened in Denver and Ohm I.
Burns, the Western secretary, is
now in Oklahoma cooperating with
the organization committee com
posed of Messrs. P. c. Dings OF
Ardmore, chairman; Edgar L.
Wallover of Oklahoma City, secre-
tary; Writ Franklin, Ardmore; J.
r. Cottingham. president OF the Ok
lahorna City Chamber of Com
merce and leading Healdton oper-
ator: R. J. Tuthill, Miami; John
H. Capelli, Joplin; c. F. Colcord,
Oklahoma City; Charles n. Gould,
Oklahoma City; Dorset Carter, Ok
lahoma City; D. J. Jorden. Oklaho-
ma City; ]. K. Dale Shafer, Okla
homa City; Victor Rakowsky, Jop-
lin; Charles H. Taylor. Oklahoma
City; Marshall D. Draper, Tarr
River; R. T. Price. Muskogee, pres
ident of the Oklahoma Coal Oper-
ators' Association; w. A. Evans,
McAlester; D. c. McAlpine, Hail
eyville: c. F. Dixie, Century; Otto
HUH, Joplin; o. F. Brinton. Cen
tury, president of the Tri-State
Mines Safety and Sanitation Asso-
ciation: w. B. Shackelford, Joplin;
Judge J. !. Shea, Tulsa, and Frank
Phillips OF Bartlesville.
Headquarters Are Opened.
Secretary Wallower has already
opened headquarters for the organi-
zation committee in the Skirvin Ho-
tel and arrangements are being
made for meetings of operators in
various districts. More than lOO
zinc and lead operators met in Pich-
er TO consider the matter and a spe-
cial zinc committee OF which Victor
Pakowsky is chairman and NJ. D.
Draper. manager of the Anna Beav-
er mine, is secretary, is at work
among the zinc men. the special
committee having opened an office
in the Tri-State Association build
inc in Picher. The coal operators .
viii meet at McAlester within a few
davs and take up the matter as a
special order.
The action of the administration
in Washington in deciding that ,
there must be a new war profits tax
law. a new form of incomt tax and
added revenue measures is the i'm :
petus back of the organization OF
the Oklahoma chapter, in order that
this state may act in unison with
all other mining states in prevent
nc a recurrence OF the muddle re-