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etc.
(b) A series of Notes to illustrate tb
steps in the process of reduction from th
ores. The Ducktown display can be mad,
very attractive and interesting.
60 Lead-In bars.
CLASS 8.
Mineral COnsbuStibIes-sueha as.
(a) BituminOus and semi-bituminou
coal.-COal is mined extensively at mum
Der of points, mainly in the fOllowin.
counties: Campbell, Anderson, Roane
Hamilton, Marion and Grundy. A com
plete series will embrace many specimens
including free burning, coking, ETC., but
all more or less bituminous, there being nC
anthracite.
o. Coke-Some Of our Goals, and the
waste at that, yield a superb coke.
(c) Lignite-West Tennessee can con-
tribute this product. Interesting beds Of
Ignite occur in Obion, Dyer, Lauderdsle,
Upton, Shelby and other counties.
ID Petroleum-This cOmbustible can be
forthcoming from number Of counties,
among them Overton, jackson and Dick
son.
CLASS I.
Building Stones, Marbles, States, Etc.
In this class are:
(a) Building Stones-There are many Of
these of superior quality in the State.
GRANTEES and Syenites (Gneissoid) can be
obtained in the northeastern counties,
johnson, Carter and Washington, as well
as in Cooke and Polk.
Sandstones occur at very many points,
the best perhaps within the limits of the
Tableland, and in Dickson,
LimestOnes-Thesa occur without limit,
both in variety and quantity.
% Marble-For a certain, variegated,
fancy marble Tennessee is noted through
out the Union. This marble Is brOwnish
red, notified with white spots, or fleecy,
clouds, and is a crinOidal and coralline
rock. 1t occurs in inexhaustible quantity.
The best is found in East Tennessee, in
Hawkins, Knox, Loudon and other cOun-
ties.
Beside the above, we have interesting
black and conglomerate marbles, black or
dark-blue, with white veins, gray, red,
variegated magnetism, and other varieties
Of vnOro or lose infakast
(c) Slatas.-In masses, slabs, and split
into the various sizes used for roofing.
Gold slate occurs in Polk, Sewer, and other
counties of the most easterly tier.
CLASS 8.
Clays, Kaolin, Slick, and other kindred
materials for the manufacture Of porcelain,
glass, bricks, terra-cotta, tiles and fire
bricks.
We have under this head great variety
Of materials; white clays in West Tennes-
see and elsewhere; fire-clay under the coal
stratum of the Cumberland table-land; pot
ter's clay at many points.
Kaolin may be found in Carter; siliciOus
materials of practical value in many cOun-
ties.
CLASS 9.
Lime and Hydraulic Cement.-Raw and
burned. accompanied by specimens Of the
crude rock or materials used.
Hydraulic Cement.-This has been man
ufactured at a Lumber of points; Clifton,
on the Tennessee river, in Wayne county
rock blush; Northumberland light
blue; near knOxyille-TOck reddish.
CLASS :.
M,llStOneS, GrindstOHeS, FTagatOneS, Etc
In this class are embraced:
MilIstones Of excellent quality are or
have been quarried from ebert layers Of the
great Dolomite Formation Of East Tennes-
see, as at Big Spring, Claiborne county; al
so at points in Knox county and elsewhere;
q pair Of finished stones Of this rock ought
10 be put on exhibition, together with
specimens of the rough rock. In Trous-
dale, near Huntsville, is an old quarry from
which hundreds Of millstones, once highly
priced, have been taken.
Grindstone, fagstone, and allied mate
rial, well worthy of note, could be ex-
hibited.
CLASS s.
Mineral WGterS.-These in great variety
could he exhibited; sulphur" EPSON
salt, Chaly beate, Alum, SulphuIic
Acid, CarbOnic Acid, and all other kinds.
CLASS 9.
Mineral Fertilizing SUJstmceS.-UnderI
this class would come the screen sand" of
and Henderson counties.
Group III.
Under this head come cereals, grasses,
wheat, rye,Oats, barley, rice, buckwheat all
Of which should be g. l.bited in the sheaf
and cleaned. Timothy, blue grass, orchard
grass, German millet, etc, should 90 in
bundles, as well as red clover, alsike, white
clover, sspling clover, etc. The different |
varieties Of corn, sorghum, root crops, fruits, |
both dry and green, green vegetables, etc,
tic. Timber and lumber Of every kind,
both rough and dressed, should, by all |
means, find place in the exhibition, and
specially the large walnuts, some Of which |
Ire FIVE feet in diameter.
Group HI.
Under this come our various breeds Of /
lorses, COWS, sheep, swine, the finest speci-
mems Of which should be sent to the exhi-
,itiOn. Tennessee has an enviable reputa-
ion as stock growing country, and she
hould see to it that this reputation is
iept up. In twenty years the high noun
aims of East Tennessee will be white with
countless hocks of sheep which will find
protection from the wiutry blasts and from
heat by laurel thickets and shell
ering coycs.
We have thus gone through one depart
nent Of the classification TO be observed at
he Centennial, aud TO US the most impor-
ant. Any one may easily see how the re-
naming nine departments may be extend
d, arranged and classified.
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