Show THE ORE PRODUCERS An Important Step Taken Last Evening PLEDGES AND RESOLUTIONS An Orcanization Rightly Conducted That WIll Prove of Great Benefit Bene-fit to Miners Quite a large number of gentlemen interested in the mining industry of Utah met at the Chamber of Commerce last night to hear the report of the committee com-mittee which had been previously appointed to draft resolutions Among those present were noticed A Neidringhaus F A Mitcehner F M Bishop W A Stanton R N Baskin Frank Foote M H Walker John Cunnington W G M Steward R J Deighton W G VanHorne George Cullen Charles Brooks W F James John S Combrie J E Dooley W F Colton and others J E Dooley acted as chairman and W G VanHorne as secretary The following resolutions reported by the committee were then adopted We the undersigned residents of Utah and deeply interested in her prosperity pros-perity and particularly interested in the advancement and protection of her mining industry hereby resolve ourselves our-selves into an association to be called the Utah Ore Producers Association Its objects shall be the better protection protec-tion of ore producers and the advancement advance-ment of the mining interests of Utah In pursuance of this we pledge ourselves our-selves To stand by and patronize such reduction re-duction works as will meet us on fair terms and half way in adjusting the differences existing between the miner and the smelter so that we may obtain a fair share of the profits of our ores We pledge our support to independent independ-ent samplers and assayers We pledge ourselve to patronize patron-ize the railroad that gives the fairest rates on our ores ana bullion and which adjusts its rates in away a-way to place us upon an equalitythe location being consideredwith the miners and smelters of other territories and states To use our best endeavors in conjunction conjunc-tion with the people of other mining territories and states to ward off the legislation which threatens toplace lead ores on the free list and in the same connection to use our best endeavors to protect and defend the interests f silver to extend tho coinage to the maximum allowed by law and to repeal the alien land UW so far as it aliects the mining interests We pledge ourselves by all reasonable means to spread before the coun ry a knowledge of the immense mineral resources re-sources of this region and to try to make clear the advantages which this region offers for the investment of capital In case no fair arrangement shall be made with existing smelters we pledge ourselves to cooperate with any citizen or firm that will immediately undertake to erect convenient to this point perfect and extensive reduction and refining works for the treatment of the multiplied minerals of this region and agree to reduce ores at a reasonable price Ii The officers shall be a president vice president secretary and treasurer and an executive committee of nine members I mem-bers to be elected by the association The executive committee shall have power to fill vacancies in their numcer I The president shall preside at all meetings and have the casting vote incase in-case of a tie He shall be also ex off < loa lo-a member of the executive committee The vicepresident shall in the absence ab-sence of the president preside and have the casting vote in case of a tie in all meetings of the association and shall likewise be ev officio a member of the executive committee The secretary sec-retary shall keep the records of the association and prepare such i matter for publication as shall be deemed advisable to publish The treasurer shall keep the monies of the association and distribute them on the order of the president or vicepresi dent countersigned by the secretary The executive committee shill made terms with smelters and railroads shall gather information regarding the Territory Ter-ritory and the business of mining shall in short be the working force of the association but shall not bind the association in any important contract without the approval a majority of the members of the association The association may at any meeting by a majority vote change or add to these articles The following officers were then elected President W F James vice president J E Dooley secretary W G Van Horne treasurer W F Colton The committee appointed to draft thb resolutions was made the executive committee Over twenty signatures to the resolutions agreements were obtained ob-tained The meeting then adjourned |