Permanent Officers Chosen
The men chosen to run a Denver mining and industrial exposition planned for the following year, a piece of Gilded Age civic boosterism now entirely forgotten.
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San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895 · Page 1
1 min readDenver, March 22.
The International Mining and Industrial association, incorporated to carry on the exposition in Denver next year, has elected the following officers: President, David H. Moffatt; First Vice President, James B. Grant; Second Vice President, Albert W. McIntyre; Secretary, Frank F. Hostrum; Treasurer, J. A. Vickers; Auditor, Frank C. Young.
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