Show NEEDS OF TOLD MAN Government Would Find Field for Special De Dc- WOULD ELEVATE BUSINESS Mining Congress Should Press Measures to That End Says Dern Joplin Mo Nov 1 One of tire the most notable addresses delivered at time tho opening session or of the Mining Mini Min lug ing congress In Iii this city chy today was that of JoInt John Dern director for In response to the addresses of wet wel come After paying a a. high merit nt to time the Southern hospitality displayed dis played here Mr said In part All of us mrs will admit that wo Vc arc panning through a great epoch In Iii our public affairs affair Tire Tho tremendous movement move move- ment against corruption arid and for more exact equality before tine the law hams which in mm its political application was begun by Folk In Missouri ama and which lias imas spread until it has permeated tine the af affaIrs affairs af- af fairs of tine the nation and amid time tho affairs of thy the states tire the domains oC of business is as welt well as the Hold field of politics should be considered bj by this organization lIon tion of the Limo industry to the end that we may keep pace with the ad- ad business standards is If the vines of the Iho game need revising let thOrn them be revised i If there be house house- needed let It be done In short let us advocate and press any measures that will lit elevate time the business of mm- mm Ink Some of us are arc fond of saying that when prOperly conducted mining Is Just Justas as safe as us army any other business With this view I 1 can ean riot not fully agree be because b- b cause there Is undeniably a mm greater greater- clement of chance In seeking mother earths earth's hidden treasures than there Is s about a mercantile or manufacturing business where success almost invariably ably rewards ability Industry enterprise enter enter- prise ami foresight If It these qualities be properly erly displayed In mining no ito amount of energy can make a a. mine maine If time the mineral is not intIre m in tIre the ground The risky nature of mining min ala ing is at once obvious when we know the largo laygo proportion of meritorious prospects which result In Lu oven cYca though they bo be honestly anti ana economically managed It will bo be Bet Better better bet bet- ter for u all If lie Iho 55 fit Cf mining bo be freely and admit admIt- ted At the time there IS- IS no doubt that the risk Jn mining ventures nifty may be very cry reduced and this van Oo do no greater service to thul than to lend its Mil 1111 to making sate cort- cort amid 4 s i submIt tile dud the T oC of tIme the festive wild wildcat eat cat Wonderfully vV Iu Utah Flair e aki for K for my state of Ufah J i do not wish to claim nhat we have been entirely free from ting mining abuses abuse Mining Mining- In our staId slate has imas had r mr wonderful won won- de Ju iii tire tho past few ye und no tro doubt tie the optimistic In some Instances im- im upon time Iho Investor to 10 tire fib i Si regret and yet be denied that ii been the the the- rulo irm In U uh ja ilium produced iL aid t 4 oui ono of the most tc Ji states and our works are rp Ufa admiration v- v of engineers rs find and metallurgists Th tho world over r r- r I L need not r fer to 1 the statistics t which show U tans Lit rank mph as n a producer of time the other metals Our old g-old und sll- sll P 4 cr mer mines have long loner been famous an arid our load production has un an Important effect upon the supply of that metal Nor Noi Is Utah restricted to mining Coal salt and other othOr hydrocarbons hydro hydro- carbons ire clay and other wealth making products we abundance Utah people go u r away from home borne to mine put but genor verdict ally they come back that nn as a Utah lias iw superiors of the subjects that that- ably be dIscussed in this time you tint this questIon questIon- of most vital and omm of the most concrete that Gnat confronts us life Ti-ic-life mo of man mines Is abs dependent upon transportation facilities and rates If It we approach this subject In a a. of fairness desiring Justice for ourselves our our- r others I have selves without Injury to no lie doubt that the h t ran may pm j lead to improved conditions OT abuses exist J- J Necil of itt One of tire tho primary objects of tire tire- s American Mining congress iii to secure t r tire the creation of a department of ot mines f and mining In tire the national government ml t Tho TImo establishment of a a. now moW cabinet portfolio Is never easily brought about band b- b and mo now department iris lias beep c tf introduced before a strong Intelligent demand for It was aroused It Js Is- fd We time the members of this congress to carry on a campaign of education so that time the representatives of the people may know that Limit there Is u a genuine need for f V such a iL department In this let br-let address I can not adequately give voice to the lie reason v why tine the department of mines and p ping lug ing would bo be desirable and beneficial I want howe er to emphasize emphasise one or two fundamental principles which may help to Impress miners with the tho dig dig- and of their calling In time the first place tIme the original source Of all wealth is the soil or the tho earths earth's J crust Everything l we eat drink wear or use Is supplied us by our earth Tine The earths earth's products may bo be j broadly divided into two branches i vegetable and amid mineral vegetable kingdom Including animal life sub sub- S slating sitting is represented In mm 2 our government department of jj 3 I am firmly convinced that one of time tho wisest and most stateS slates manlike steps taken by our government In time tho past quarter century was ViLS time the e of time the department of agriculture It takes years to get such u a department into condition to do ilo time the most t good but al already already al- al ready this department has haa great achievements to Us its credit Without anything paternalistic In It Us plan milan It hiss has before It a ni scope of work that can not fall to grow gromi Into helpfulness to tire the entire nation I contend that time the mineral kingdom Is entitled to similar simi simi- J lar representation In our government fj und and that a department of mines and amid 2 mining would primarily the mining and thereby as an inevitable consequence provo prove a good tIming thing for time tho nation As a of the tho help which could COUII bo be expected from a amines mines department let hot mo mention the splendid work that has boon done by the tho United States geological survey whose special surveys of particular mining fields have havo t served as intelligent guides for time tho prospector and mine operator In mm those districts Very many of time the features of mining could bb bc helped in a manner If there thero on Pa v I ml I N NEEDS NEDS EDS OF MINING F l TOLD BY UTAH MAN 1 Continued C from Page c Otto w a department specially devoted to 1 of human activity There Thero I might be bo experimental stations for I milling us its well as as for a agriculture with who knows how great advantage antage to the ha worly of el A Second point which I want to lo cm cin- I hasl c e is time the importance of or the Iho miner mum min er orul ul Many lanY of oC us when we 0 lof of lof mining think only onh o of gold goud silver Mead lead zinc and amid copper mines moines u as these are arc in Iii themselves do thc not look secondary we them beside tho time tremendous values represented cpr s b by the production of or JIon cool coal petroleum brick and amid other oilier cl products building stone slone and amid other oIlier J ivon n minerals l Let Lel et us- us luJ bear In that thuat limo tho mineral Industry stands fr r all of these as us for Cor I tho timo precious Let us re remember re- re member that mining mining- is Just as us ess essential to human II ul pi plO ogress pm-ogress rc s a us as agriculture Itself Indeed u could not have h ad- ad except for mining because without Iron lIon man would still be tillIng tilling till till- ing the tue soil with a crooked stick slick |