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Show TAKE AN" IXTR1IEST IX MIXING The selection of Sacramento. California, Cali-fornia, as the seat of the 1924 convention con-vention of the American mining congress con-gress has caused a gr.eat deal of satisfactory sat-isfactory comment from old time mining men. Every foot of soil surrounding Sacramento is hallowed by the early deeds of the sons and daughters of the east, north and south the leaders lead-ers of that first mad rush for gold in the days of 1849. Within two hours drive of Sacramento Sacra-mento is one of th richest gold bearing bear-ing areas in the world. It is planned to take members of the convention through the great Grass Valley mining min-ing district, where mines discovered 75 years ago ar.e still steadily offering offer-ing up their golden hoards. A meeting such as this should help focus public interest on mining as one of this nation's greatest industries indus-tries which stands hack of our permanent per-manent prosperity. Mining is no longer the speculation specula-tion it was in the days of '49, and it is deserving of the encouragement and hacking of individuals and financial finan-cial institutions. Our law-makers can do much to encourage mining by adopting reasonable rea-sonable taxation policies and refrain ing from passing radical or confiscatory confisca-tory legislation. While the history and romance of mining has been largely built up around gold, we must not forget that the more lowly metals such as silver, lead, zinc and copper contribute vastly vast-ly more to our material wealth than does gold. Production of these metals employs em-ploys tens of thousands of warkmeu aud the mines pay millions of dollars annually in taxes. :f the Sacramer.'o 'onver.tion awakens awa-kens pu.hlio interest in western mining min-ing and its needs it will be of great benefit, not only t0 mining industry, indus-try, but to the co-.i'Try at largo. A |