The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-09-09
Exhibition Of the Mt. Mica Mining Com
DanY.
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Oxford Democracy
The first exhibition of the Mount Mica Company
was held at the Academy Hall, ON August 81 and
September l. and was the finest display of the lithia
proup of minerals every given in any country.
Mount Mica is too well known to require any de-
scription at the present time but it may be proper
to state that number of gentlemen, well known as
mineralogists and capitalists have formed compa-
nv to develop several localities in this county which
are believed to be rich in minerals of great value in
so;anoa os wal, 90 in commerce and certainly the
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late display must encourage tnelh 10 pursue 'nelr
investigations on more extensive scale.
Tor savaral months mast the COMPANY have been
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biastlng the leoge DIV niooi' HieA' anu l'0 .0'-i'o
many of the mineralogists of the country that an
onnortunity would be given on September LIST to ex
- .,,oo;,,ans +bot have hear
anime the relnarkapie specimens V""' A"'o 'eeA'
brought to light up to the present time.
A.great number of scientists signiied their inteu-
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prevented from attending. on account OF the OPP
nrassive heat Int among the number present. were
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some Oh the nrsI hiiiiel a'osieO' - NV
Prof Brush of Yale College, Prof Barker, OF the
Trn,versitv Of Penn. Prof. Munroe. of the Nayar
',N-'. ..,.,,, ,,d o+bors rro ossis+ +bs
Acaoeuy az Auhapoiis, anu 0'A WV
display OF the Nouhe hlca ooinpany' so0oVon' "oio
-, n Go. ord Nathan Perry and altooatbar
uel X. Carter, ana Natnap Felly, anu ai1oeeOner'
they furnished a matchess exhibition, and one
which will not be easily surpassed for many years
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to come Inc principal ieaVu "a VIC eApi' was 'ie
array of tourmalines; and this can be appreciated
,vhen we saw that the British Museum the ROYAL
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Capihet az fiohn"' any" ' Nnooi VI iii"e' "
Paris, could not unltedly nave approached IL III
beantv. in extent or in value. Some of the finest
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ed together, with many brilliant cut specimens OF
the mineral. forming picture of such beautiful
forms and coors as to lead the spectator to doubt
their reality
Among fire specimens were CRYSTALS of red green
blne and white colors Others exhibited two or
three hines in the same prism: white and red red
and oreen or white green and red and even white
gree1 red and blue: forming a strange arrangement
6f coiors In examining these beautiful CRYSTALS of
vared colors the spectator is inclined to wonder
how thew we're created and to specuate ON the mar
velons faroe of nature which conld produce these
oos IN tbe bosom of fhe granite rock
crvstaIs varied in size from half an inch to
civ incbes IN length and to more than an inch in
dametar The Isstone discovered Inv tbe' company
;s % rem HE mneralopical specimen being nine
;nohas in length nv an inch in diameter and ex-
hihting a bfne,green color for two-tbirds of the
iapgtb Of its shaff which is quite transparent
me disnlay of cookeite amblvgoniIe and other
rare minerals macmillan to This LOCALITY was very at
tpactiye TO the student of mineraiogy. and en-