Show ANOTHER CABINET OFFICER mining congress favors department of mines and mining el paso among the resola alons adopted thursday by the amer lean mining congress was one favor ing a national department of mines and mining presided over by a cab inet officer other resolutions adopted were urging the government to preserve the desert water supplies asking the government to enact legislation en abling miners to locate and work mines on spanish and mexican land grants in arizona and new mexico titles to which have been approved by the united states court of land claims favoring the formation of state mining associations in every state in the union the same to af filgate with the american mining con gress urging tlona for the of state mining schools recommending that congress enact a law for the formation of min ing drainage districts A resolution providing that the pay ment of an annual tax of 50 on a mining claim shall exempt the owner from doing assessment work was voted down |