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Show Meeting at Goldfield Opens With Nearly 700 Delegates Dele-gates Present. ( MANY OTHERS, HOWEVER. ARE VET TO ARRIVE Royal Welcome Is Extended to Visitors hy Great Gold Camp. GOLDFIELD, New. Sept. 27. With the opening formalities out of the way in tho afternoon, the delegates to the annual convention of the American Mining congress, devoted the night of tho first day to an inspection of tho mineral exhibit, which has been gathered gath-ered bv tho stato and which is worth about !?200.000. Combined with many famous private collections and that of tho Mnekay School of Mines at the stato university was a display of specimens speci-mens of the ' mineral wealth of the stato gathered especially for this time. This display will bo auded to that of the Mackay mining school when the i-onvention is over. The delegates and visitors wero made welcome to tho mineral palace by Professor Pro-fessor Georgo Young, head of tho mining min-ing department of tho 6lat.e university, who spoke in behalf of tho regents. Senator F. G. JSowlands. of Nevada, also spoke in the uanio of Governor Dickersou and tho state. Tho visitors then began their survey of tho wonderful wonder-ful collection which was classified by John H. Tato, to whom iho work -was entrusted by the legislative commission. commis-sion. Business Begins Today. When the congress is called to ordor tomorrow morning by President .1. II. Richards, the actual business of the gathering will be taken up. Numerous resolutions may be presented pre-sented but it is not definitely known of what nature they will be. A non-political non-political discussion of the silver question ques-tion will be invited and several phases of that problem will be taken -up iu carefully prepared papers by men whose names arc prominent in tho mining world. Papers of a technical nature will follow. At night the annual report of President Richards will bo laid beforo tho delegates, who will then adjourn to attend a recoption in their honor given b- tho ladies of Goldfield. There was a dearth of political discussion dis-cussion among the delegates today. The incoming trains woro badly delayed de-layed and many of tho most prominent figures in the congress did uot arrive until after dark. Interesting Session. When the convention was called to order this afternoon there were nearly TOO delegates present. "The session is expected to bo the most interesting the organization has over known, because of the expected criticism of the government gov-ernment lorcstry sorvice, or, rather, tho administration thereof by Chiot' Forester Gilford Pinchol, by the committee com-mittee appointed last j'car to investigate inves-tigate complaints. Many now delegates arrived during the day, notably those front Ely, Tono-pah Tono-pah and Reno, Nov., and Salt Lake City, Utah. The lirst represent a lived from farther east arc expected to arrive ar-rive tonight. Thero was considerable talk among tho delegates today over the federal , minen bureau for "which tho congress hns been striving for years. D. W. Brunt on of Denver, president of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, Engi-neers, is scheduled to mako tho lirst address on this subject tomorrow, and will be followed by W. F. Hnglebriglit, ; congressman from California; Senator P. G. Vi wlands of Neada and Con I gi ssmau G. A. Bartlclt of Ncadu, |