The Cordova daily times., 1921-03-29
ALASKANS ON PROGRAM FOR
 MINE MEETING

PORTLAND, March 29 (by Associ- ated PreSS) Vital questions dealing with the development of the mining industry in the west will be dis cussed by experts at the third annual international mining congress to be held here April to 9. Emphasis will be laid on the practical commercial problems rather than on technical matters relating to the industry.
 About 1,5OO delegates are expected, and in addition to the program in cluding addresses by meu prominent in the mining world, there will be large exposition with displays of min. ing equipment and cres. A special local conmittea Eas been planning entertainment for the visitors anI there will he lours of tho har,yor, showing facilities for handling ore at the municipal terminal and a trip cn the Columbia Highway terminating in rein6Ccr barbecue.
 The convention will be opened April by Harry M. Parks, chairman of the executive committee, and there will he addresses of welcome by Gov ernOr Ben W. Olcott. and Maydr George L. Baker, with responses from mining men from the western states, Alaska and British Columbia.
 will hn hn oF sions of April g. George w. Evans of Seattle, Dean E. J. Babcock of the University of North Dakota, and other experts will talk on the sub ject, and special attention will be given low authorization of coal and it's commercial possibilities.
 President Edwin Ludlow, New York, who succeeded Herbert Hoover as president of the American Insti- tute of Mining and Metalurgcal En- gineers. and Bradley Stoughton, sec retary of the institute, are among the speakers listed on the convention program Stoughton will give sug- gestiOnS on fuels for steel industries of the west. William Sloan, minis ter of mines Of British Columbia, will talk on the mining industry of British Columbia, and he may be ac- companied by his six assistant engi- neers. Sidney Norman, editor of a mining publication of Spokane, form CT mining operator, will discuss fed eral regulation of corporations. Gov ernor Emmet D. Boyle of Nevada, is expected to enter into discussions of mining questions. Robert N. Bell, of Boise, Idaho, will talk on the phos- phate rock industry and T. A. Rick ard, editor of a San Francisco mining journal, will talk on "Prospectors, Past and Future"
 Mineral tariff and freight rates will be discussed April g. Stanley Easton and Frank M. Smith of Occur d'Alene, Idaho, are on the pro- gram in that connection and Floyd Parsons, writer, may be included.
 Gold, with problems concerning price fixing and the high cost of pro- duction and incidental questions will also be discussed April 8. Fletcher Hamilton, of San Francisco, Cal, president of the American Mining Congress, will talk on this subject.
 An interesting feature of the con- vention will be consideration of Alas ka's mining problems. M. D. Leehy, of Seattle, will discuss "Alaskas Leg islative Requirements" Falcon Jos lin, Seattle, will talk on Past and Future of Alaska giving special at tention to the question of capital as the prime necessity for Alaskas de- velopment. George Hazelet, of Cor dova, Alaska, will talk on Alaska From the Prospector's Standpoint"
 The entire day of April g will be devoted to sight seeing and the bar becue.