Show NEW ERA FOR THE MINING CONGRESS J F P cullbreath Coll breath jr the amendments recently adopted by the american mining congress mark the beginning of a new era for that organization heretofore its work has consisted almost entirely of holding its annual session at which matters of importance were discussed and resolutions adopted embodying the con census of opinion through the influence of which a number of reforms have been accomplished with the creation of permanent headquarters at denver the work of the congress was enlarged and plans were made for the creation of a perra perman acerit exhibit of commercial ores of the whole i country a complete mining g library a 1010 labor 01 atory for qualitative analyses a bureau of information on all subjects connected with wh w h mining and a compact organization through which the problems of raining mining inight be h e solved all these so planned as t to 0 b be e practical school of mining in which the t pra practical edical mining man could find a solution so lutio of particular problems and the novice at to the mining business by the prince prince ly success of campion stratton newhouse walsh and others could here gain that knowledge common to all men in close touch with the mining business the lack of which is responsible for so many failures in the mining world it is also planned to furnish such information to intending investors as would serve to guard them against palpa dalpa ble frauds and place mining on an investment rather than a speculative basis these plans could not be carried out without considerable expense and the provision on made for the expense of an annual con convention bention only was found to be entirely inadequate again it was found that the fixing of permanent headquarters at denver created the impression that the mining congress was liable to become a denver organization rather than serve the broad purpose of a national institution with which the mining men from every section of the country could operate cooperate co and to which all could turn for assistance in the solution of those problems which require united action and which are of general interest another weakness of the old plan lay in the fact that the directors necessarily widely separated and busy men could not hold frequent meetings ing s and the responsibility of decision of many matters of importance must of necessity be left to the secretary these problems have been met by the recent amendments providing for an executive committee with power to act in the interim between meetings of the directors and for the increase of the annual duels due from 2 to 10 which is believed to be sufficient to meet the necessary expenses not so high as to prohibit the membership of any reputable mining man and yet high enough to keep out unworthy men the third objection was met by an amendment to the bylaws by laws which limits the power of any one state to control the organ organization under this clause colorado with one thousand members would have DO greater influence in the selection of the governing an nd body than oregon washington at oy any idaho with th thirty airty members present annual I 1 meeting that this amending should have been passed by the unan unanimous lanous vote of the colorado members pres presen ent st indicates indica the recent meeting of members the desire on their part to foster a aw national organization on broad comprehensive illies |