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Show committee be appointed by tho chair to solicit subscription!. Speaking to the motion, Hon. D. P. Ferry of Park, laid that "he had not looked into the matter a a stockholder but simply as u miucr. The exhibition wmild (five an air of legitimacy to min-lug min-lug ami W8 would convey the idea to eastern people that the industry was a vastly profitable one. The Ontario in a coustaut wonder and astonishment to visitora. Congressmen and senators who had been opposed to silver coinage after walking through its thirty miles of workings went away tho enthusiastic enthusias-tic champions of the white metal. As far as dividends were concerned, if I they came along he would accept them with profound thanksgiving, but If they didn't, why he was willing to blow in a cold thousand en tho scheme, foelinV assured of an incidental return of hundred fold." f Some gentleman in tho back eiwl WT tho room who had come in rati cp-Matr, was skeptical of tho success jf)iie undertaking un-dertaking and feartnl that Xjhth wouio" merge hei" identity A? that of other sections, kit Mr. frirowe auswered all the arguments hiv 'raised that ho soon subsided aiJiL rVent home for his roll so a to be'itiy'to subscribe. Colonel Murray asked the indulgence of the chair for speaking twice to the same question, but he had gotten an inspiration that was beyond control. Mr. Treweek gave permission and Murray started in and spoke like a campaign orator. Italy had her Vcsuvias but America had a Niagara that woul'.l put it out in fifteen uiimites. France had her Fidel tower, but the : Tinted States would havo a mine that could knock it silly. The chair then put the motion which was carried. The committee on subscriptions sub-scriptions was named as follows: J. K. Bamberger chairman, T. 1'. Murray, Fred Simon, II. C. Lett, John J. Daly, Holier Wells, and Aionzo K. Hydo. Mr. Crowe is to accompany the committee com-mittee to explain everything. It is the intention to call on nil interests represented repre-sented in tho city, but should anyone be left unsolicited he can call on any of the members of the committee and hand In his shecklcs. IT IS ISOtM) TO GO. Thi World's lair Meeting at tbs Mining Exoh:iga Tenches the Publio Pulse Favorably. BO ME EN THUSIASTIO SPEECHES Ara Mad on the Advantages That Would, bo Cerivfd A Committee on Subscriptions, There was a meeting last night at. the ' mining exchange to take action on tho proposition made by Hon. George YV. Crowe, to give Ttah an important position po-sition in the groat World's Fair mine, that is to be dug on the exposition grounds. The night was one calculated to do anything but attract a largo crowd, but while the number that attended the meeting was somewhat limited, the lack was more thau made up by the enthusiastic, enthu-siastic, way they cottoned to tho idea ttud endorsed the scheme, not only as a money making venture but as a comprehensive com-prehensive u.xouipliticatiou of the vast importance of mining as an industry and its advantages as an advertising medium. This was not lost sight of and all of the gentlemen who spoke to the question, studied it from a business standpoint uud nothing else. When the meeting came to order, Kick Treweek, vice-president of the milling exchange, was called to chair ami briefly stated tne objects of the meeting. Ho expiated on the vast mineral resources re-sources of the entire west, including Utah, and on the results that he believed be-lieved would be derived, if this great project was carried out. He looked upon it as an investment purely, not a temporary one, but lor all time, not only to those who lent their pecuniury aid, but to the whole west wherever mining was the principle source of revenue. rev-enue. To investors iu the stock ho was coulident they would not live long enough to see the popularity of such au exhibition wane. Mr. Crowe explained the details of tho scheme. Ho gave much information informa-tion on tho geology of the part of Chicago Chi-cago where tlio great mine was to be located, the favorable and unfavorable conditions that might be encountered and how they were either to be made eontributary to the prosecution of the work or to be utilized in adiliug to its attractiveness. He was convincing to a point beyond contradiction. He fully explaiued every detail, both of the labor and estimated esti-mated cost of the mine when fully completed com-pleted and equipped, and the manner of its construction aud interior arrangements. arrange-ments. Some of the details given by Mr. Crowe were: "That a shaft 00x12 feet in the clear be sunk to a distance of 500 feet. At that depth the developments would be made for placing the exhibits of the mineral productions, not only of the states and territories, but of the different differ-ent mines, placing the ores in such positions po-sitions as would give a faithful representation repre-sentation of the manner in which they actually existed iu the vaults in which nature had placed them. "The shaft would be lined with sheet iron so as to exclude water and be painted white or cream color so as to givo light and perfect cleanliness. An iron stairway would be placed at one end of the shaft and a huge pump compartment com-partment at tho other. The center of the shaft would be supplied with six cages fitted up In the most elaborate style and arranged with hoisting engines en-gines above and below to load and unload, un-load, and mate a full trip every five minutes, each cage carrying from twenty-live to fifty people. "Below the apparent bottom of the shaft an enormous sump was to be dug and a pump chamber excavated, iu which was to be placed the most mod-, ern and approved patterns of pumps, showing just how mines were drained of surplus w ater. "Then a grand corridor was to commence com-mence on one side of the shaft running in the form of an elipse around and back to the shaft on the other side. This corridor was to be 700 feet iu length and 40 feet wide, it should be tnarble tiled, with sides of marble and plate glass, made perfectly dry by a systoru of drainage roofed with iron, so as to have the appearance of a subterranean palace. The shaft and corridor was to be lit with thousands of electric lights and made bright as day. Outside of this corridor would be tho line of drifts, which would be reached by adits, and from this circles of drifts ' would be places, as nearly as possible as found in nature, the various ores and products of the different mines. One set of openings would show tho coal mines, another a silver mine, and a third an iron mine, and in all tho outer circlo of drifts would be a natural looking look-ing counterpart of some of our great mines, making both an individual and composite picture. Here would be a raise, there a winze, and in yet another place a slope where would be correctly displayed the riches of tho mineral min-eral kingdom as it lies hidden in the bowels of tho earth," The proposition as it had been out- j lined, had taken the western world by . storm. President Palmer of the world's ; exposition says it will eclipse the Killel j Tower; D. II. Moffat t said nine peoplo . out of every ten who visited tho exposition exposi-tion would go down if they had to fall iu the shaft; and every man of conservatism conser-vatism who had given the proposition a moment's thought gave it his unqualified unqual-ified endorsement as a practical proposition, propo-sition, having every recommendation for the purposes for which it is intended, and would result in inestimable good to the mining industry. The capital stock is to bo one million dollars, divided in shares of ten dollars each. KaolpU and Frollt. It is conservatively estimated that nearly nine 11 illion peoplo would pay an admission fee of fifty cents to visit-the visit-the mine dining the continuance of tho fair, of which 25 per cont would be clear prolit, leaving as net earnings to the itockholders ' moro than $.',500,000 over expenses of constructing, maintaining, etc. But the charter runs for twenty years, and tho mine would bo a constantly growing attraction and a daily mining kindergarten i to thousands who would visit it every , day for the next twenty years. It would be the greatest card for mining that had ever been played. He had come to I'tah to get substantial aid for the enterprise and asked that the business busi-ness and mining industries subscribe to $50,000 worth of the stock of which half would be payable iu cash." Mr. Crowe then asked for criticisms and expressions of opinion on the matter. mat-ter. Col. T. P. Murray wished enlightenment enlighten-ment on the point of payment fur the slock, which was given by Mr. Crowe who promised if the amount asked wns 1 subscribed that Salt Lake should be represented in the board of directors by one-fourth of its members. Colonel Murray was satisfied and said ho had no conception before of Its magnitude and to put the matter in a shape for immediate action, moved a |