Show salt lake city offers site for permanent headquarters committees appointed Port landOre aug 22 the seventh annual session of abo american mining congress will convene today in tho drill room of the portland armory the largest auditorium in the northwest the main floor ot the armory provides seating capacity or 2000 persons and the balcony has seating capacity for 1000 more owing to the unusual excellence of the properties of the great ball delegates to the congress seated at the most distant points from the rostam will be enabled to hear all that is said during the sessions the decorations of the hall are largely of a patriotic order the balcony being festooned festoon ed with flags and magnificent stands of national emblems and colors make the great platform attractive about the speakers table has been banked a mass of flowers roses predominating as typical blossoms of the lale summer and giving evidence of Port lands right to be called athe rose city by which cognomen she Is becoming known the world over tor her wonderful ability to produce these royal blooms flowers of every variety known to oregon are in prolusion everywhere making the hall an unusually beautiful meeting place it is estimated that 2000 delegates and visitors will be present when the fall of the gavel calls the first session ot the congress together at 10 the attendance will greatly increase aa the sessions succeed each other many of the delegates not having arrived in time to attend the opening sessions the cities which are contesting tor the privilege of entertaining the congress next year and tho cities which are seeking to secure the location of the permanent headquarters of the congress tor theat selves have sent large delegations which will be strengthened from day to day by the arrival of additional delegates tho fight tor location of tha permanent headquarters will bo a hotly contested one denver and salt lake city apparently having the greatest strength at this time though invitations tor the consideration of the congress have been received from butte log angeles chicago deadwood Dc el paso and several other cities indications cat ions however point strongly to tha fact that the contest will narrow down to denver and salt lake city the most central points tor the establishment lish ment 0 the congress permanent offices el paso it la aalde will sacrifice her claim tor the permanent headquarters in order that her entire strength can bo devoted to an effort to secure the congress tor next year probably the foremost matter for the consideration of the congress will be the question of establishing a department part ment of alnea as one of the babl not offices ot the national government leaders in this movement will submit tor the consideration ol 01 the congress plans which will provide for a more thoroughly movement tor tho creation if a department of mines than has ever before been at tempted it la generally recognized among the delegates that such a department in the governmental system will be 0 inestimable benefit to the mining ln austry creating for it greater lecog nitika and guaranteeing better supervision in all the tr anches ot the industry an fn the making of uniform laws tor the government ol 01 mines in general and protecting legitimate mining operations for the information of delegates and visitors to the congress a splendid exhibit of ores from western mines croci almost every locality has been established in the armory portland ore aug 23 president richards of idaho dropped the man gavel that called to order the seventh annual session of the mining congress at 10 this morning in continued on page 6 MINING MESS IN SR continued from paga one continued from page the presence of about u many of the delegations delegat iona 1 throughout alie country have nit arrived and the attendance I 1 estimated lur the latiff elona of the week at from geo II 11 aimea secretary of aby gon historical society ident richards with the batel of manzanita wood cut in alch 5 jackson county southern farst mining district of the sta is banded with gold from the W of the gulch bearing the engraf tory of the gavel date of the session and its presentation the convention was prayer in which rev father matfin invoked the care ot providence on it assembled representatives ot thea ing industry on behalf of the state o 0 chamberlain welcomed omeA the delm and visitors mayor george H williams land followed on behalf of the cujko of the rose city addressee of welcome were inep states by J T small of aa W powers of utah H C cocky texas J F gallbreath Call breath of colof it was announced that one of th du cements offered by salt lake ar on behalf of its selection as bennim headquarters of the congress will t building eite on fourth south o 0 facing the city and county building the utah metropolis valued at ea and a pledge of additional cash COMB oration that will go far toward the building and maintenance ot headquarters the honorary philippine commit which arrive cr here this morning tended the opening cession of the x gress and were greeted with anti lastic applause from the crowd w eat A W ferguson was to the congress and made a behalf of the visiting commissi ool |