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Show WAR MIHERHJS BOARD io mm claims' i . I Producer-! of I unpsten. ma ngaii'sp. chrome and prftei who have claims of losses lo f'le with tiie ko. eminent, presented pre-sented their rlainm hi a puhllc harinfj bv th war ininrals relief commission held thM week In the Officer of the stat railroad commission. Union Ieague building: build-ing: Former United States Senator Jamrn Shafroth of Colorado and Philip N. Moore, prominent' ndnlnp engineer of St. Ixuis. , me ml": rs of the com mission ; Judpe Paul , F. Hlaek of S'ashlngton. iounnc.1, and H. i F. Mevcr of "Washington, I- ' s,erotary. arrived here yosifrnay morning a nd arr at ihs Jonathan club. Former 'ongressman M. 1 . Foster of Tllinois, the third member of the roinnils-fdnn. roinnils-fdnn. wan tak'-n lil at St. LouH and Is not with tiie commission for the sittings 1ut. The government had ein ourag'd mining men to Increase the output f Die rntn-erals rntn-erals named, vhhdi were highly Important In the manufacture of war munition. The armisti'-e put ii n end to the Rbnormal demand for them, and prices dropped below be-low the, ent of produeiton, with altijndaut losses to the prodU'erfl. For the relief of these, pnngrem appropriated appro-priated JK.r,n0,''M wltli a provision that claim? must be filed with the s'-rtary of the Interior by June 2. A total of 3 1 V)00. -'KiO of claim1 were pre-nt"d. Secndary ,iino a ppoi n ted this romm Ission as an advisory body to take oral testimony of claimanlH and rt'oommend what suma sh'ntld bo paid to them. Senator Sha froth Ih otm of the hert kno'ui iit i.oriK'i s of r -n er. II o wru a meinbT of the Fifty-fourth contcrer.8 and w:ih eleetetl to the Fl f t y -l(fh t h congreHS In l!04. but refused to retain ids Feat be-cause be-cause it was nbowu thit tlio f,"-ii''ral lion tta.t talnti-rj with fraud. Tie was governor gov-ernor of Colorado f"r two terms, from 1001) (o 1913, and United States nena tor from H'Ki lo 1!H!t. In tiie senate he was a member of Ihe committee on mines and mining. Former ConpreaMina n Foster wan chalr-rTian chalr-rTian of the hou committee on mines arid mining. Mr. Mom re i one of l he bent known mining enplnern In Die country. He was president of the American Iristl I ii In of Mining I'.ng Ineers for tho term prior to the present one. The eomndsHlon came here from a hearing hear-ing at Tucson. I Worn tlmt It had held csionK ut St. Uouia nnd TJtil" Itoett. It will go from hern to San I'"iandHco and from there lo Oregon, Washington and Montana cille-, and flnnlly to Salt T.Jiku u nd I e nver.- I ,o.i A ngele--; Times, |