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Show UTAH LEADS IN SPIRITED RACE Can Got tho Permanent Homo of Mining Congress If Eight Is Made. WITH nn organised effort on the part of its citizens and the active ac-tive co-operation assured it from without. Salt Lake City should at tho approaching session of the American Mining congres3 at Portland, Or.,, be made ito permanent home, said Col. Thomas Ewlng of California on his arrival ar-rival from the west yesterday morning to confer with Vice-President TIbbals. Tho game Is worth any fight that Js necessary to win it, continued the visitor, vis-itor, and, with a delegation of a hundred hun-dred representative citizens or more on the ground, tho contest should result In favor of Utah's capital. Certuinly It has tho advantage geographically, and the effort put forth by It should secure the support of every Western State. Colorado Included. In addition, the prestige pres-tige It must bring to the town, the association as-sociation will be required to erect a building of such magnitude as shall be required to accommodate Its sessions each year, and to maintain an open house all the while. The Colonel may be relied on for strong support, at all events. The session will be a most Interesting Interest-ing one In every way, while those who attend cannot but be Instructed by the various papers now being prepared and that will be compiled and presented before be-fore the gathering is rapped to order. Col. Ewlng was among the first to enter the gold-bearing field out of Kingman, Ariz., and at which tho Gold Roads mines and mill have become the more prominent and the most productive produc-tive of Its undertakings. Of the proposition: propo-sition: the Coh nel. who parted with the Leland mines in the same locality when his price was poked at him, speaks in highest terms. Indeed, the Gold Roads, from which over $1000 in gold Is coming dally, is at the head of the column of gold producers In that locality, and yet the real extent of Its wealth Is to be determined. In the support of the mining Industry none have been more active for a score of years, and from tho Government he expects to see it get the concessions to which it has for so long struggled. |