Show MEET URGED AT en CONVENTION N Mining Association Asks Hoover Hoover Hoover Hoo Hoo- ver to Call International al Conference I r rI rI I m Dr fly Prell p I SPOKANE Wash WasIL Dec Dee 3 3 Having Having asked President Hoover to call an in in- in onal silver conference am and mulled over of ot the Industry industry Indus indus- try hy delegates to the Northwest Mining Min ing lag association convention were en route roufe home today Resolutions passed at the closing session favored the conference asked aska revision of laws of-laws aws regulating mine de depletion depletion depletion de- de suggested appointment of a committee to investigate proposed legislation to regulate sale of mine securities and asked repeal of cerain certain tam ain tain Alaskan mining laws WORLD CONFERENCE An international conference to co con con- eider ider of silver w was s' s held to be a necess necessary ry prelude to the return of world-wide world economic pros A. A H. H Richards manager of the Tacoma Tacoma Tacoma Ta- Ta coma smelter smeller of the American SmeltIng Smelting Smelt- Smelt Ing ng Refining company assured the delegates that the present gloomy outlook for the copper industry was only temporary a natural result ola ofa ofa of ol a a serious and lengthy adjustment of world wide economic conditions Industry is using more copper every year rear consumption steadily is I lag ing ng and means are being perfected to o permit American producers to prosper in the face of projected increased increased In- In creased production by Canadian African African Af- Af I rican ican and Russian mines he said In two or three years he added American Amer- Amer lean ican can producers able to operate economically economically economically eco eco- will vill begin to prosper GLOOMY IY PICTURE A gloomy picture of the outlook In Idaho was drawn by Stewart Campbell Campbell Camp Camp- bell state mining inspector With metal prices low and no evident Indication in indication In- In they will improve ve soon he said the industry generally is In the dumps In IIi sections however particularly particularly arly in the famous C eur dAlene region production is and full crews are working Campbell I added B. B T. T OGrady Nelson B. B C. C resident resident resident resi resi- dent engineer for the British Columbia Columbia Co- Co lumbia department of mining was the he most cheerful speaker on the pro pro- gram Great phosphate beds in his province he said are arc sending huge shipments to the Orient and prairie provinces for fertilizer The northwest section of the Amerlean Amer- Amer lean ican can Institute of Mining Engineers opened its two day meeting yesterday yesterday yesterday yester yester- day with discussion of technical sub- sub j |