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THE SUMPTER MINER
Wednesday, July 29, 190;
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MINING CONGRESS.
Interesting Matters Relating
To Organization By Hon.
Irwin Mahon.
Tho folJowini address wiih delivered
before the business hi on of Rapid
Ciy, 8. I)., on the '21 Ht, by Hon.
Irwtti Million, secretary of tho
American Mining Cengress:
In July, 1H!)7, the first assembly
of what 1h now known iih the
American Mining Congress wiih held
in the city of Denver, Colorado,
with the then governor of that Htate,
the Hon. Alva AdaiiiK, as Hh
teniiiorary president.
Karly in April of that same year,
1H!7, a few gentlemen, realizing the
liiiporlnnco of tho mining industry
to the general welfare of the nation,
and more rapid development of the
great empire west of the Mississippi
river, conceived the (ilea Unit an
organization that would lie liroiid and
ropscsoutatlvo In cliaracter, through
which miht !e discussed methods
IichI adiipteil to tho higher de
velopment of mining, and in voicing
the results of Hh delilieratioiiM, that
those results would lie, not the
opinion of an Individual, or any
one particular locality, lint the voice
of the people through their
representatives attending Hh hihhIoiih
from every iuarler of North and
Houth America, hoping lu ho broad
and liberal it platform to command
respect of and favorable consilient
tlou of the people from every Hcctiou
of our country, iih well iih (hat of the
eongrcsH of the United Htaten, in
any rcHiiouahle request linido by them,
anil from thin movement you have
the American Mining Congress today,
which, although not u local enterprise
in cliaractr, Iiiih in every liiHlauce
where IIh iiuuual session wiih held,
been of untold llnauulal advantage
to the Htate ho favored.
It Hhould not be necessary to
appeal to the IiuhIiichh men of tho
country in behalf of the milling
IndiiHtry, yet hoiiicIiow or other, when
there In any great or hiiiiiII movement
contemplated In the internet of thin
iiuliiHtry, the l, 000,000,000 of new
wealth our mine produce and
add to the uouutry'H wealth e-icli
year requires a great deal of letter
writing, uewHpapcr work and speech
making iM'fore altracllug thoHllghteHt
attention from the average Amrlcan
oltiirou, and with Home It requires
the work of a diamond drill before
you can make them underhand that
there are more railroads in the
United States that do not return one
cent of Intercut to their stock
holder than (here are in I lien; and
tho only real value they have In to
furnish an avenue for Hpeciilatiou
for 'tluiHU who live by thin meaiiH.
They do not seem to know that for
every railroad of value iu the
country there Ih a mine that In pay
ing from four to live t lines iih much
intercut and whoso stock Ih on a
much more solid basis of actual
value.
We talk a great deal about com
merce, trade and manufacture, but
say and do but llttlo for the real
wealth of tho nation, which in tho
wealth we win from tho soil. Tho
immensity of the importance of tho
products of our mines aro not
realized either by our national and
state legislators, tho public general
ly, or iu many instances oven tho
miners tho themselves. Wo all
recognize the fact that commercial
and manufacturing centers aro
busy, intellectual centers, but wo
seem to forgot that it Ih tho raw
materials iniii absolutely mako a
successful permanency of these busy,
intellectual manufacturing centers.
In tho United States, according to
the census reports, wo have moro
than half ii million manufacturing
establishments that, it is claimed,
havo invested capital to the amount
of 80,835,080,909. If this bo true,
Is it not a fact that tho corner stouo
of tho foundation upon which rests
tho hope of tholr succoess the
products of our preoioiiH metal
mines? Nor is this all: tbeso
manufacturing establishments must
have raw material from which to
manufacture articles of commerce.
Here again must we look to tho
source of all our real wealth, tho
Hull, and of Its products do wo con
sume annually 87 :H8, 144,7115 worth
of the raw material, out of which wo
manufacture prdouots worth 31!),
014287, UIB. Thoso are certainly
convincing figures of tho nation's
great strides in tho production of
raw materials (without reciting
special statistics by states) as ii
mineral producer, and would seem
to me to warrant a greater recogni
tion by the people and by tho
nation for the Industry than it now
receives. No sounder argument
why every American citizen, I cure
not whether he lives iu a com
mercial, agricultural, manufacturing
or it mining relgon, Hhould feel in
t rested in the greater success of min
ing and be ready and anxious to aid
the American Mining Congrss iu its
etrorts to secure a national
department of mines and mining.
The industry has forged ahead
practically unassisted. What think
you, then, would be the result with
the same assistance as that rendered
our agricultural iuteretH?
Tho American Milling Cougrees
Ih not a local organization; its aim
and purpose is altogether national,
consequently the holding of one of
its annual sessions, if held In San
Francisco, Ih of iih much Importance
to the state of New York iih it Ih to
Sau Krauclsco, and to reverse it, tho
same to Sun Krauclsco iih to How
in every other instance, tbero is no
county, city, town, village or hamlet
in all the great commonwealltb of
South Dakota that la not urged to
send representatives to this coming
session of the congress, and all
good citizens are invited to
become members, if they will, not
only of tho Black Hills Mining
Men's association, but of the Amerl
can Mining Congress, and by their
presence and active influence build
up the industries of their state, and
I know of no place moro directly in
terested lu the succeess of this com
lug assembly than Rapid City. There
may not be auy groat mines in the
immediate neighborhood of Rapid
City, but within a short two hours'
ride of this place you find one of the
greatest and most active mineral
producing regions in the world.
Thou, again, at Rapid City is located
the state school of mines, with such
professors of note in charge aa Drs.
Slagle, O'Hara and Fulton, who are
succsesfully oduoatiug your young
mou, training thorn for a lifo service
iu tho mining industry, and thoso of
you residing iu any section of tho
state who havo sous as students
at this institution do not wish, I am
sure, in auy manuor to weaken thorn
lu tho profession of tholr choice.
Nor is this all. By your own
efforts was your state school of
mines established and located in
Rapid City, and to sustain and mako
it a successful institution of learn
ing havo you appropriated large sums
of money, and at ovory session of
your legislature ask for more, and
yet aro not dlrootly and indirootly
Interested, and intensely interested,
lu the success of the mining
industry of your state, wher
ever tho mluoritl is found,
whether iu Rapid City, Deadwood,
Lead, or elsewhere, I think, I hopo
you are.
Is it wise, thou, to bo indlfforeut
to tho question of fostoriug iu all
legitimate ways, tho great mluiug
industry of America, and Is It not
tho duty of ovory loyal American
citizen, natlvo born and adopted, to
aid the American Mining Congress,
financially aud othorwise, in secur
ing such legislation, state and
national, iih will protect aud advauco
tho mining Industry of tho country?
These grand and lofty hills that
aro so beautiful to look at, so
fragrant with health-giving climate,
ho cliurmlng lu their diversity of
scenery, wonderful caves, crystal
witters, great peaks, balmy air,
historic charms, aud that gem of
waters, Sylvan lake, have for
countless ages continued tho base of
untold wealth; still, until tho hand
of mini, commenced to drag thorn
forth, the world wiih uouo tho wiser
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