Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-09-25
MINING CONGRESS
 - ATEDENYER NOV. Is

Plans are rapidly maturing for a
 notable gathering in Denver of repre-
 tentative mine operators, government
 hnd state officials, ,financiers, lumber
 men and leading opponents of indus
 rial readjustment, at the twenty
 third annual convention of The Amer
 can Mining Congress, to be held at
 the Albany Hotel during the week
 pf November 18th.
 In addition to program of nation
 al speakers, a series of important
 Conferences have been arranged for
 the various group bodies interested
 in the solution of present-day prob
 ems in the coal, metal and petroleum
 adustries, and is a result of such de-
 Alterations resolutions will be adopted
 hnd bills framed to be presented to
 Congress, imperatively urging needed
 Legislation.
 An invitation has been extended to
 the gold producers and bankers of the
 United States to meet in three days Conference to consider ways and
 means of preventing further depletion
 Of the gold reserve, and the petroleum Rnd coal men-both anthracite and
 bituminous-have been, invited to
 meet together to propose certain
 measures looking toward the conser- kation of the fuel and power supplies of the country. Such organizations |hs the National Coal Association, of which Col. Daniel B. Wentz is presi..
 dent, and the American Petroleum Institute, have been invited to parti- 1 |cipate in working out the practical suggestions and plans submitted. A feature, unique in the history Of |mining, will be a Standardization Conference to initiate national prop uganda for the standardization of |mining practice and mining equip. ment, such as safety codes, methods of accounting, sanitary appliances, life and labor saving devices, etc. The Invitations to this conference bear the Signatures of Col. Warren R. Roberts of Chicago and Charles A. Mitke of Arizona, both eminent engineers, and Richard A. Parker, chairman of the Mining Bureau of the Denver Civic and Commercial Association, and H. k. Lunt, State Commissioner of Min es for Colorado. Col. Roberts was Tn charge of the standardization of war munitions in Washington during the Var; MT. Mitke is a leader in the stan dardization movements in metal pro- duction, and Mr. Parker, for many years the manager of group of gold producing mines in Africa, was rhC first to standardize mining under European management.
 Important sessions of the War Min erals Conference will deal with the claims of those who have been re- used relief by the Federal Commits sion appointed under the War Min ,rals Relief Act. Several hundred lsers of oil Notation in the recovery If metals have been invited to meet md talk over their troubles. Under his division there will be discussion # the commercial and legal phases if the contest over patent ownerships, including the merits of lawsuits in- Olving more than two billion dollars. n this connection a report will be cad setting forth the activities of The American Mining Congress and the 'ederal Trade Board which have led 9 the inquiry now being made into |! 1e practices of the Trust which pur- orts to control every oil Notation rocess extant. Representatives from the Schools {! Mines and technical Institutes 1 lroughout the country have been re- aested to take part in separate 1 inference called by the Schools of ines Section of The American Min ] g Congress. ! Other subjects tQ come before the