Show MINING MENS convention AT DENVER A pronounced SUCCESS from all accounts the gathering of mining men engineers geologists and other representatives of ta the 1 e chief it industries dus tries of the mining west held in denver recently was of a 2 worthwhile worth while success from every angle many problems 0 fu those relating to the thel moment were discussed including ture of silver the mining and treatment of ores and nan hall adling and control of the streams which are to play an ian 1 part in the furnishing of power and land reclamation ano in western states the conservation and utilization of pet pei stand leum etc as viewed from both state and national siai points trained j it is from and through such gatherings gathering 5 of kenw men such in the professions and callings having to do with touch weighty problems that the people of the we west st keep in ini de to with what is going on and what efforts are being ma ina rage serve their interests we live in an adein age in which the ave abc charar citizen is prone to assume an attitude of ind indifference il terence mental en and by the homely and selfish expression bienia ichen outspoken of let george do it the day is cam cown g oa coin the people of the west will have to abandon that thatch geall oe attitude shed their coats and wade in to ha do doit it erst As s representatives representatives of the american silver prodoc e force in for instance were at the congeni convention tion what 1 has 5 both officially and as laymen and an outline of ot about a r cc so far been accomplished in the task of bringing abou monition oni tion of silver as money and the stabilization of its value was clearly presented as was also an outline of the difficulties to be overcome before a satisfactory solution of the problem can be worked out if at all on his return to this city a few days ago W mont ferry president of the association expressed the opinion that much can yet be done for silver to preserve its recognition as money he states and many agree with him that it will take years before the plans of the indian banking commission to foist a gold coinage plan 0 on n the hordes of india can be bc brought to fruition so that mover movement nent is not as much of a menace to the silver mining industry as it might otherwise be but if the people of the western half of the united states do not wish to see silver as money taken away from them if they wish to see the metal mining industry thrive and the people of the west prosper they must as a class step out and demand its recognition they can not afford to set back and LET george do it they must hold up the hands of george and aid him in every possible way to continue the fight he is making 6 for THEM probably one fourth of the silver now produced in this country comes as a product byproduct by in the mining of other metals lead and copper chiefly if the disuse of silver is encouraged or permitted by the people of the west and the price of the metal is thus forced down business is likely to become as stagnant and idleness become as general as it was when silver was de in 1873 we ave dont get much in this world that we dont fight for and if the metal mining industry of this country is to if carry on as it should the people of the west must take a hand through their representatives in congress and through the agency of the men composing the american silver producers association to protect silver by stabilizing its value |