Show I L MINING CONGRESS AFTER COMBINES Collusion Between Railroads and Smelter Says Special Special Special cial Representative Dulse Buise Ida Idu Ida JuI July 1 H. 1 II L L. Thomp- Thomp son special representative of the American Mining Milling congress Is visiting the tile Couer Menes lenes for tor tile the purpose of oC gaining the support of mining men of that region in Ill the thc organization In speaking of the work being accomplished pUshed by br the tile congress Mr 11 Thompson said We e c know kIlO thai the thc smelter trust and antl Iho ho railroad railroad- are nrc in collusion to maintain maintain main main- tain excessive hc prices for the thc transportation Jor- Jor tation of or ores and antl this is especially true of ur the tile Santa I Fc Fe e and Gould systems If It the tho independent ent mining mining- operators of or this country c ever expect cl to get Just treatment from lom the thc theL smelter t and antl from flom tile the railroads K it itIs Is ls necessary for tibia them to lo set get together an and act for Under the tile pre present conditions when the ilic railroad gets gels a shipping mine on a Cl non ing InS tine line It il literally robs rob the owner either by charging exorbitant rates rales for tOI forthe the tho transportation of or o the tile ore oie or for tor hauling provisions to lo lh til mine and andIn nd I In lit tills this WU way man many liO new shipping mines have bavo liven been een ruined The rile matter mailer of or dealing with wiLh the smeller trust t an and tile railroads l' l will bo be boone one of or the tue mo t important items Hems of or that will como come before tho the coming coaling mining congress al at MoThe Mo Io The now contracts which the smelter smelter ter tru trust l has with Iho tue mine mille owners of or Colorado Wyoming Utah and NOW New Mexico can cai be u abrogated rog at nt any time time- L by time the trust but are arc binding on the Tile The American A Mining Congress which Mr 11 Thompson represents Is a aI national or organization the members of or which nr are persons ons cly engaged ed in I the thc mining bu business The congress la is or organized to lo advance the mining and I metallurgical Industries In all their branches u and to promote a a. more perfect per per- feet teet operation co-operation between the Iho government govern govern- ment and the development of oC the minIng mining min min- ing lag Industry It proposes lo to bring about these objects objects' by the thc creation of or ofa orn n n. department of or mines and anel mining hayn having at Its Us head a member of ot the iho presidents president's cabinet and und by bringing about 1 an intelligent revision lon an and unification calfon cation of the mining laws law of or the iho several sev sev- oral eral states and for tor the el enactment of or I such laws as will bo be o to lo the u L f J J t r A. A ft 1 i I. I |