Show headquarters FOR SALT LAKE salt lake city has before it an all eunity that should be grasped without delay the twelfth annual session of the american mining congress has been called to convene at goldfield nevada september Se 29 to october 2 five years ago a go this month salt lake sent its dele delegates gates to the session held at portland to make a fight to secure the location of the permanent headquarters of the congress in salt lake that contest and the subsequent choice of Den veras headquarters is still remembered by those whose interest in the subject caused them to keep close watch on the proceedings but since she was awarded that for which she sought and was made in effect eff act the capitol of the minin mining e world denver has done nothing to hold the headquarters or to justify the action of the convention in making the award A year ago a movement was started in salt lake to have the question reopened at the next session of the congress with a view toward having I 1 the permanent headquarters moved to salt lake one prominent n e nt mining operator agreed to give ive a site lor for a mining temple and another agreed to hend head a subscription list with a donation but when the eleventh annual session was held the matter was sidetracked side tracked and never brought before the congress it is not yet too late to revive this movement and send a good fighting delegation to goldfield to capture the prize and bring it where it rightfully belongs salt lake city that salt lake is the logical mining center i a statement t that cannot be gain sayed it is in the heart of the mining country not on the edge as denver and los angeles for example it is the natural distributing point and headquarters not only for utah but for western colorado northern arizona eastern navada southern wyoming montana IN and idaho its mines and metallurgical works have no superiors on the face of the globe at bingham the first steam shovel to be used in mining copper was put in operation and the result was the profitable working of the great country rock mines which led the way for ely ray and a score of other camps that are coming to the front ifer here too is underground mining on an economical basis such as is not excelled anywhere where else at garfield is one of the greatest copper smelting smelling sm elting plants in the world and when wen at this same place the ponderous stamp of the new boston con mill began to drop a new era in the science of concentration ratio was proclaimed eight miles to the south at Al murray urray is the largest lead smelting smelling sm elting plant in the world up in the oquirrh mounta mountains Ans at manning is the old mercur mill the cradle of cyaniding cyan iding in the western hemisphere whose filose successor the con mercur has worked out many problems in this branch of metallurgy at tooele thoele a great new plant which is to be a model of all that goes to make a modern smelter is in course of construction and at tintic gintic are more dividend paying mines in point of numbers than in any othow other camp callip h in the world these are a few of the reasons which present themselves off hand as to why the mining congress ta should make its permanent home in salt lake the advantage to salt lake in being officially recognized as the mining in center of the country would be the ahe greatest boost the mining industry of the city and state could receive capital seeking in a mining investment would naturally come to the central point from which to view tile the situ situation atio n once here the task of maintaining this center should not be difficult and we should gradually see our vast undeveloped districts built up and our state take a position in the mining world commensurate with its natural resources the time is short but if every mining man will get into the fight and go to goldfield with the determination to force the issue in the convention the utah delegation will vill come back victorious and the official headquarters of the mining industry will be located where they belong in salt lake city |