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Show MINING CONGRESS IS POSTPONED A MONTH After having obtained the content of President Taft to apeak at the Anurl-j (an mining congreia In October. President Presi-dent John Dern haa arranged with the director of the cons res to postpone the annual meeting. The date fixed fur thla convention waa Heptember : to 29, In Chicago, and since Pn aldent Taft will not he In Chicago until later It haa been arranged to have the meeting begin October Oc-tober 24. with Preaident Taft'a speech scheduled to lake place on October i. Infinite announcement of Ihe n-ust-nonenient will be made when the board of director paaaea upon the matter, but. a moat of th membera have already wired Mr. Dern thlr approval of hla suttirested change, the matter practically la arranged. "I consider the poat ponemr-nt to a later date a benefit to tb organization.'; "ld Preaident rern. "There are meef-Itigx. meef-Itigx. state faira and other leathering j . w turn wouin Keep deiea-atea away rrom h Be p tain be r convention, while one held In October is certali of a larger attend-I attend-I ance." Mr. Pern expects a larae and repre-. repre-. srntative delegation of mining men to no from the state of I'tah. Friend of . M r. lern highly appreciate the honor , paid both him and the Mate of Vtah when he waa elected to the presidency , and will give the executive the compliment compli-ment of aendlng a large defecation to the convention oer which he will preside. P" ' a degree of benefit from President Taft's presence at the conference. They , are v oi king for a larger appropriation for the bureau of mlnea. which haa al-readv al-readv done much good In the matter of Mfe saving In coal mlnea, mid with more . funds available tan undertake a general , research for th heneitt of the metalliferous metallif-erous mlnea of t tie ! |