Oct. 16, 1902. 



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from the " I<oop " point, the town has the appearance of 

 beinf;^ built in a sort of bowl formed by the mountains sur- 

 roundiiifj it. It is a typical mining,' town. Kverything 

 must be brouffht into the place on the railroad, as there is 

 no farminjf land anywhere near. 



All alonp the sides of the mountains could be seen 

 places where some precious-metal prospector or miner had 

 dug his sort of woodclnick-like hole, and boarded up the 

 front, often closing- it with a door. 



We think we wouldn't care to live in Georgetown. It's 

 too " hilly " there to suit us. 



We reached Silver Illume about 12 o'clock, and re- 

 mained only long enough to eat lunch. 



Silver Plume is simply "no place" — only a mining 

 camp away up on and in the mountains. And it seemed as 

 if there was nothing but mountains in every direction as 

 far as the eye could see. 



The return, or downhill, trip was made in a shorter 

 time. The train simply whizzed around the curves. At 

 Georgetown it stopped a few minutes, when we were enter- 

 tained by three or four small, poorly-clad children who sang 

 one or two Sunday-school songs, one being " In the Dawn- 

 ing of the Morning. " It seemed strange to hear such sweet 

 music coming from such forlorn-looking children and in 

 such a God-forsaken place. But it would have done your 

 soul good to have seen those children jump for the nickels 

 and dimes that were thrown to them from the car windows. 



The rest of the return trip to Denver was uneventful, 



except the scenery seemed grander than when first seen on 

 going up. It .seemed to grow on one. It is nimply wonder- 

 ful. It was al.so about the cheapest side-trip we took after 

 the convention, as it cost only ^2.(K) for the round-trip. We 

 thought it was the most for the least money of anything we 

 struck in or near Denver — except it was that excellent ban- 

 quet (which was free to all from outside of Colorado) with 

 its quarter-pound souvenir sections of honey at each plate. 

 I5ut we didn't know it until after we had eaten all our sec- 

 tion of honey near the close of the banquet, that it was to 

 be carried away as a " souvenir." The reader can imagine 

 how wc felt with a souvenir inside of us 1 No doubt there 

 was at least one of those sweet souvenirs carried away and 

 completely invisible, too I But if any one doesn't want us 

 to eat honey, it is always safest not to put it near our plate 

 on the table. If within reach it is almost sure to disappear 

 —or at least a goodly quantity of it. A " quarter section " 

 is just right 1 



Well, we all reached Denver again about .^:3() p.m. We 

 at once secured our baggage at the hotel, and boarded the 

 train for Colorado Springs at S p.m. We arrived there 

 about 8 o'clock, a tired-out quartette, you may be sure. But 

 we found an excellent hotel, and after a good meal all went 

 to our beds and "slept like a log " all night. 



And this seems to be a good place to rest our pencil 

 also for this time. Next week we will tell of a restful Sun- 

 day in Colorado Springs, and about our Pike's Peak trip on 

 Monday following. 



I The Denver Convention. I 



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^ Report of the Proceeding's of the Thirty-third Annual Con- ^• 



^ vention of the National Bee-Keepers" Association, ^ 



^ held in Denver, Colo., on Wednesday, Thurs- sH 



^ day and Friday, Sept. 3, 4 and 5, 1902. S^ 



(Continued from pay^e 64b. ' 



Pres. Hutchinson — The next thing 

 on the program is a talk by Dr. C. C. 

 Miller, on 



The Most Hopeful Field for the Na- 

 tional Association. 



Mr. President: — I do not often 

 make apologies — I do not like to ; but 

 sometimes I tell the truth when I can't 

 help it. The Secretary wrote to me 

 quite early desiring me to prepare a 

 paper in accordance with the statement 

 on the program. Very prompti)' I 

 wrote the paper ; then I immediately 

 sent it to the Rev. E. T. Abbott, who 

 was to make the response. I sent that 

 paper without making any copy of it, 

 and if I could say he never returned it 

 to me it would have been a great kind- 

 ness on his part. Unfortunately, Mr. 

 Abbott returned the paper very 

 promptly to me, so I can't make that 

 as an excuse, and I suppose I put the 

 paper away very carefully — so care- 

 fully I have never seen it since ; but I 

 will give you just a few points. I don't 

 know whether they are the same points 

 that are in the paper, and I don't know 

 whether Mr. Abbott intends to reply to 

 what I wrote formerly, or whether he 

 will reply to what I say to-day, so that 

 if we get all jumbled up don't blame 

 Mr. Abbott. I am the one to blame 



for it ; but as this is the first time I 

 ever made a mistake it must not count 

 this time. 



The President has told you about 

 organization, and very properly comes 

 next the question as to what is the 

 best thing for the organization to do ? 

 I want to emphasize his paper by say- 

 ing that the very best thing that the 

 organization can do is to organize some 

 more. There is a whole lot of material 

 that is not organized, and I believe the 

 first and most important thing that 

 can be done by the Association is to 

 organize a little farther and get a new 

 and larger number of bee-keepers. 

 Numbers do count, there is no question 

 about that. If you want to have any 

 moral effect in the way of securing 

 legislation, or doing anything of that 

 kind, if you can say. Here is an organi- 

 zation composed of 5000 members, that 

 colints a good deal more than if you 

 say it is composed of 1000 members. 



Now, I am'not sure just which is the 

 best way to do to get in a larger num- 

 ber of members. I very much doubt 

 the justice of allowing it to be done so 

 largely as has been done by the bee- 

 journals. They have done a lot of 

 good work in that direction, and they 

 have done it freely. Perhaps they are 

 willing to do it. Well, it is right 

 enough for them to do it if they want 



to. I am not so sure whether we ought 

 not ourselves, as an organization, and 

 perhaps through our officers, to do 

 something more in that line ; and I am 

 not ready to say what is the best way 

 to do that. That is not my business ; 

 my business is to tell yoa 7ii/ia/ ought 

 to be done, not ho:i' it ought to be done. 

 The matter of adulteration is an im- 

 portant thing. I suppose if you were 



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going to be very strict you might call 

 me to order. I ought to be allowed to 

 mention but one thing, for the ques- 

 tion is, "The Most Hopeful Fie/d for 

 the National Association," and I am 

 going into several fields, if the fences 

 are not too high to keep me out. 



You can hardly strike anything of 

 more importance than the matter of 

 adulteration ; but that is a question 

 that has been threshed over pretty 

 well, and it is hardly worth while for 

 me to saj' much about it. 



As to the matter of legislation, I be- 

 lieve that the Association can do a 

 great deal to help in that. Of late 



