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Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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OHIO EXHIBIT. the market. Michigan, at the central court, has, through the lib-erality of many prominent citizens, erected a triumphal arch of redsandstone, surmounted with bronze figures of minerals. Over herlow parapet are to be seen four obelisks of pure copper, rangingin weight from 50 to 500 pounds—massive copper in bars, rods, 254 MINES. sheets, burnished sheets, wire and masses of native copper weigh-ing many tons, and just as found In the great Lake Superior coppermines. Across the aisle the two largest lead and zinc States ofthe country—Missouri and Wisconsin—tenant pavilions of hand-some design, and are brilliant with crysrals of calcite and shiningcubes of lead. Under the central pagoda of Wisconsin, cushionedin soft mountings of plush, is a collection of pearls from Wisconsinrivers valued at several hundred thousands of dollars.
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MICHIGAN SECTION. Of course the centre of attraction among all of the precious metalStates is the world-renowned Rehan statue in the Montana section.Here the treasure State of our country, the Mountain Queen, hassymbolized her material wealth in terms of artistic beauty. Thesubject of the statue is Justice, the figure holding in her one handa pair of scales, In the other a silver sword. The value of thesilver poured into the moulds was estimated at ^61,800; the goldused for the plinth base at $230,000; while the cost of sculpture MINEJS. 255 and founding brings up the total value to over $300,000. The ex-hibit of the Montana copper companies is in itself well worthy ofattention. The mineral exhibit of Utah is exceptionally fine, andincludes gold, silver, lead,copper, zinc, antimony, bis-muth, tellurium and quicksil-ver ores, with a list of gemsshowing topaz, garnets, opals,malachite, onyx, agates andcrystal quartz. The collec-tive display of California isentered through a triumphalarc

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