Show COMMERCIAL CONSS SS TO EST or Of MININ The official call for the Eighteenth annual session of ot the Trans-Mississippi Trans Commercial Congress to be held in m Muskogee Okla November 19 20 and 22 has just b been cn issued The following paragraphs are quoted q from the call call- The Th importance of the mining industry industry industry in in- in- in as as' as asa a source of national wealth calls caUs for recognition beyond the limited operations of ofa a I mere bur bureau au upon the part of the Government and therefore as the proper means of bringing closer to together ether the National Government and this great industry a department of Mines and Mining is is' suggested suggest or co-or- with the Department of Agriculture Agriculture Agri Agri- culture with its head a member of the Presidents President's a cabinet Other public questions upon which suggestions are made are submitted as follows Rivers and harbors Federal superVision supervision supervision super super- vision and the right of the Government to secure secure the cost of operation by a ale le leasing sing system upon water land or timber operation of the national reclamation re re- re- re act drainage of submerged public lands scientific farming as the means of reclaiming the public grazing lands in the semi semiarid semi arid States making them desirable for agriculture municipal municIpal pal State and Federal ownership Alaska Alas Alas- s- s ka Statehood for New Mexico trade with with the Orient parcels post western livestock industry Intercontinental Inter railway private monopoly monopoly- Panama and the canal Hawaii and dud the he Philippines Philippines Philippines Philip Philip- pines merchant marine irrigation good roads j beet beet- culture and the sugar industry immigration Yukon Alaska-Yukon Pacific exposition In addition to the above upon which resolutions and recommendations recommendations' may be made any delegate may mav submit submit submit sub sub- mit suggestions germane germane to to the objects objects ob ob- ob- ob of the Congress It is is' the desire of the executive committee to have a afree afree free discussion 4 of matt matters rs of interest to the people of the trans-Mississippi trans cou country try The executive committee however desires it t to be understood that all aU questions questions- of a a. political nature are arc excluded ex cx- eluded from the discussions of th the tbd Con Con- gress gresi The following is printed as a special special ape cial notice Muskogee submits I to the delegates of the Trans-Mississippi Trans Commercial Congress the which most affects af at- the prosperity of this section She desires a full fulI discussion of the proposition proposition tion that ll restrictions on Indian lands be removed The position is maintained that to perpetuate the existing policy of the tho Government would dwarf the possibilities of this region retard the growth of f the new State and and- prove particularly disastrous to the commercial commer commer- cial ial ial industrial and manufacturing interests interests interests in in- of this city now in its infancy Muskogee also directs attention to her gre great t possibilities as the tM head of navigation on the Arkansas river and desires Federal aid that the waters water of the Grand and Arkansas rivers flow flowing wing w w. ing lug at her feet may be utilized d. d She I desires t to have the inland waterways movement include the plans for deep deepwater water from Oklahoma to the gulf for which the have surveys by by- bythe Government have already been established Transit in bulk and cheap rates by a supplementary supplementary tary waterway system ar are the objects to be attained J. J B. B CASE Abilene Kansas chairman executive f committee A. A C. C TRUMBO Muskogee Oklahoma vice The call caU is signed by the following officers of the Congress H. H D. D Loveland San Francisco California Cali Cali- fornia president J. J B. B Case Abilene Kansas chairman executive committee A. A C. C Trumbo Muskogee Oklahoma vice-chairman vice executive committee D. D E. E Francis St. St Louis Missouri chairman chairman chairman chair chair- man committee on program John Henry Smith Salt Lake City Utah chairman advisory committee N. N C. C Blanchard Baton Rouge Louisiana vice chairman advisory committee Fred W. W Fleming Kansas City Missouri Missouri Mis Mis- Bonn chairman congressional committee commit commit- tee Arthur F. F Francis Cripple Creek Colorado secretary of tn tie the Congress |