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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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mineral products. Thus all of the pre-cious metal States, such as Montana, idaho, Colorado and Utali,are at one end—the south—while the Stat s yielding commercialminerals, such as clays, cement, stone, keep the balance at the otherend. Pennsylvania ranks first in the list of mineral producers, and MINES. 253 has exhibits in petroleum, coal and iron. A complete workingmodel of a coal mine and breaker shows the manner In which thecoal is brought out on cars from the mine mouth, dumped andsorted. In front of the New York structure has been erected ageological obelisk giving a lesson on the structural geology of theState. Kentucky has a skylight of transparencies of Tniningscenes, and beneath her floor conducts the visitor into a chamberreproduced from the Mammoth Cave. Ohio elicits universal ad-miration for her beautiful facade of many-colored burnt, unburntand glazed brick, with freestone copings and bays. Within arecarried on the operations of evaporating salt and preparing it for
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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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