Identifier: 1910tripofhmmbat00jame (find matches)
Title: The 1910 trip of the H.M.M.B.A. to California and the Pacific coast
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association Hotels
Publisher: San Francisco, Press of Bolte & Braden company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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many acres around, the absorbent sands have been saturated, and dayand night the struggle for supremacy has been carried on with puny manand all his ingenuity pitted against a genuine freak of Nature that laughsat his futile efforts and still coughs up its treasure with a noise that resem-bles the hiss and roar of some subterranean Inferno. Time and again de\iceshave been used to control the flow, but in each case the force of the updrivefrom the bowels of the earth has torn down all contrivances and, as if indevilish glee, the tremendous flow spouted up again towards the heavenswith a deafening roar heard for miles. The owners of this wonderful well are John M. Dunn, Parker Barrett,Julius Fried and A. E. Hodgkinson, all of Los Angeles. Another of the prominent mining men of Los Angeles is E. A. I\Iont-gomerv. known to his friends and the mining world as Bob. )\Ir. Mont-gomer\- is the president i>f the Sierra Madre Clul), of which Mr. Sidney 126 THE 1910 TRIP OF THE H. M. M. B. A.
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TO CALIFORXIA AXI3 THE PACIFIC COAST 127 Xormaii, the editor of the Los Angeles Alining Review, is secretary. Itwas this ckib that planned and snccessfnlly carried ont the National MiningCongress Thirteenth Annual Convention in Los Angeles, September 26, toOctober 1, 1910. This club, the tirst mining club ever organized in anvfirst-class city of the United States, was started in May, 1909. It wasdesigned to make a meeting place for the mining men of the Southwest, andto provide a home of welcome for \-isiting operators from the surroundingmineral country. It now has upwards of 300 members, and is contemplatingthe erection of a million-dollar clubhouse of its own, which will doubtlesscome to fruition in due time.

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