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Show SILVER PRODUCERS TO MEET Silver producers of the North and South American continents will meet in Salt Lake on August 6 for what promises to be one of the most important im-portant conferences in the history of the white metal. Many acceptance have already been received in answer to the call of W. Mont Ferry, chairman chair-man of the Reno Silver conference of 1923. Attendance at. the convention is not limited to mine operators. It will also include representatives of smelting smelt-ing and refining concerns, international inter-national bankers and brokers, members mem-bers of the United States Senate commission com-mission of gold and silver inquiry, the United States bureau of mines, and nationally known economists, engineers en-gineers and business men. A special effort is being made to have all silver miners and prospectors, regradlcss of the scope of their operations to attend. at-tend. C. F. Kelley, president of the Anaconda Ana-conda Copper Mining company and chairman of the Silver producers' fact-finding committee, will report on the practicability of a silver export ex-port association. A hint of what this committee has already accomplished is found in the announcement that it has sold 3,200,000 ounces of silver to Poland as a step toward resumption resump-tion of silver coinage by European nations. Former Senator Charles B. Thomas of Colorado, counsel for the committee commit-tee will discuss the legal aspects of the Treasury department's revocation revoca-tion of orders for silver under the Pittman Act and sales to the Orient in 1919 and 1920 through banking interests to depress the price of silver. sil-ver. A plan for permanent organization of silver producers will be submitted by a committee composed of Alfred Harrell of California, Henry M. Rives Riv-es of Nevada and W. I. Snider of Utah. Arrangements for the meeting are being made by the Utah mining men through the Utah chapter of the American Am-erican mining congress and the Salt Lake chamber of commerce. Trips to the famous Utah Copper mine at Bingham and other Utah mining camps will be interesting recreational recreation-al features. |