| Show ITHE MINING CONGRESS I Preliminary Work Finished snd An Informal Report Made GREAT AMOUNT OF LABOR WHAT NEWSPAPERS OF THE counTRY HAVE DONE Good Results Prom Mr Iglehearts Press Work Dr Hubhard State Geologist of Michigan Placed On the Programme Many New Delegates Dele-gates Reported At the meeting of the mining congress con-gress executive committee last evening even-ing Secretary Johnson made an informal infor-mal report of the clerical work done In his office since the committee began active operations Thirtyfive thousand thou-sand copies of the official call have been sent to the cities towns counties coun-ties and commercial organizations entitled en-titled to name delegates Five thousand thou-sand personal letters have been written writ-ten about the same number received and 30000 circular letters sent out The postal service of the office used 35000 2cent stamps and several hundred postal cards The committee discussed the arrangements arrange-ments for the opening of the congress as heretofore published and passed on some details concerning the reception of the delegates and the entertainments entertain-ments to be given in their honor The report of press work shows that 157 canoes In 1R ritferentitntes nittddp of Salt Lake have printed a total of 163 columns of mining congress matter free of charge of any kind The Salt Lake papers have devoted 122 columns of space to the enterprise and the other Utah papers have been proportionately generous The Canadian papers especially es-pecially those of Toronto have been very cordial in their treatment of the congress a fact attributed largely to personal visits to Canada made by Mr Irwin Mahon secretary of the Denver I i congress g I j These new delegate appointments I were recorded yesterday Frank Perry New York H E Cary Chicago Den I I i man Blanchard Henry S Mackay C L DIgnowity Boston Dr C W Page I Danvers Mass A D Hodges jr Roxbury E C Hodges Boston I From Brooksville Ky W A Byron G B Kenney H C Weaver J E Poage J B Clarke jr S W Bradford Brad-ford From Missouri delegates at large Gilbert Barbee Joplin John Dermott Webb City T N Davery Carthage I W A Daugherty Carterville Hon Peter White of Marquette delegate del-egate at large from Michigan < who expected ex-pected to attend writes that he will be unable to be present and says I have today written to the Acting governor gov-ernor to appoint Dr Lucius Lee Hub bard who Is the state geologist He could produce such a paper as you would like to have and would make a magnificent addition to your congress A telegram was at once sent to Mr White telling him Dr Hubbard would be placed on the programme for the paper on copper which had been assigned I as-signed to the northern Michigan delegates dele-gates |
