New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-02

In the opening exercises. Inc city is cIcWuVu WIN
strangers The Hon. William d. Kelley of Penn
syivania. made the opening address,
GENERAL VIEW OF THE EXPOSITION.
lTs HISTORY. SCOPE AND oBJEcTs-PLAN OF ihn
BUILDING AND ARRANGEMENT OF EXHIBITS
JFsoM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT oFTHE TRbUNhi
DENVER. Col, July 2S.-Four miles sou'hWes'
from the city, in the centre of broad piain STATUS
the spacious building erected with true western
enieIp prise in two months and a hal' Whlch con-
fs,ns the first Exposition ever held IN the ROCKY
Mountains and the largest as well as the most
costly exhibition of minerals ever shown IN this
country The site is we'll chosen. From the towers
the eye follows the range of the brown foothills
with the storm-riven. snow capped peaks OF the
Rocky Mountains Just beyond, Tor 300 miles from
Wyoming to New-Mexco. The crests OF Long.
Gray Resale and Evaus, all soaring to height
of over $4,000 feet cut the distant horizon their
Scared submits clearly defined in this clear dry
air. To the southwark. sixty miles as the crow
flies towers Pixies Peak, the goal from whose az
fanment the treasure seekers of 1898 dared FAMINE
thirst and the Indians arrow in their mad race ioi
gold Between here and the Peak are far-reaching
plains dotted with grazing cattle with occason"i
valleys rich in fields Of grain. Just below on inc
north lies the metro polls of the mountains Denver
1000 feet above the sea. Her broad level streets
show splendid business blocks of enduring prlck
and sandstone hotels of metropolitan elegance anu
an opera house that New-York cannot surpaSs'
while her avenues are lined with luxurious resi-
dences shaded by spreading trees, and cleansed by
ripping streams of mountain water brought from
ten miles away
GROWTH OF MINING ENTERPRISE.
Grim and defiant as the mountains look, the
treasures collected in this building tell that they
have been forced to yield up part of their precious
secrets For nearly quarter of n century an eager
buman tide has been dashng against their rugged
TANKS striving TO rive from the crags the wealth
Entrusted to their keeping. One wave followed
another. Five years after the Pixies Peak ex-
citement came the discovery OF silver at George
town, and IN 1870 the construction of railroads
followed by the introduction of the smelling pro-
cess brought another throng of adventurous Argo-
nauts Then came the discoveries OF Nirhinia CITY,
White Pine the Black Hills Leadville, the Gunn-
son district the Tombstone district in Arizona and
the rich mines of New Me Sico each attracting a
fresh wave OF immigration and an influx Of capital.
Now the mountains are pierced with railroads and
their valleys form sites for busy towns. Now THIS
Exposition shows that the feversh waves OF excited
immigration have subsidized into prosperous de-
velopment and permanent occupation OF the land,
and that mining in the Western States has well
earned its rank, second only to agriculture among
the National industries. For the ten years from
Wells Fargo& Co.. the value of the precious
metals from the Western aud Pacific States was
$500 OOO. 600 Last year their yield was valued at
SS4, 5O4,4l7, of which Colorado, the largest pro-
ducing State. furnished 26 per cent. Yet the state
Geoogsi declares that one-half OF one per ceut is
n fair estimate of the miues aheady discovered iii
comparison with the available mining territory"
SCOPE AND OBJECT OF THE EXPOSITION.
Two objects of this Exposition are therefore
l,afn ha uulliN yfpnf
and rich returns of the mining business in these
Western States; and. second, to indicate undeve-
oved fields where capital may safely and prottably
be employed.
The first aim is important. for many of the richest
mines in this Western country are unknown at the
East while the mines most notorious on Eastern
stock boards often play an insignificant part here
in actual mining business.
Further the opportunities suggested by this Ex-
position for the development of mineral wealth
through the employment of capital are by no means
alone in gold and silver mining. which have over
sbadowed Industries no less useful. Here are to be
seen specimens from the vast unwOrked coal aud
iron beds of Colorado, with examples OF her lead
which lies awaiting smelters and of her unused
marbles. Here also are splendid examples from
the extensive but neglected bsmuth and sulphur
deposits of Utah. with specimens of her mineral
wax and slabs of her fine marbles side by side with
blocks of soda from the beds of Wyoming, and rich
copper ores from yet undeveloped mines in New
Mexico and Arizona Together with these yet I'M
troden fields in mining, the Exposition pvinls out
opportnnities for new manufacturing INDUSTRIES
and shows inventors the need OF new anu improved
machinery. Last year 206,4O7,OO0 pounds OF
manufactured iron goods were imported into this
State where it Is estimated that enough iron ore
lies neglected to supply the world. OF lead pipe
$50 900 pounds we're brought in although this
State produces moe lead than any other In the
country. Over four and halt million pounds OF
cement were imported, with abundance OF lime
stone and granite in the State; more than ten aud
a half million pounds OF salt with the great salt
springs in South Park only hundred miles from
this city; two and half million pounds OF boots
and shoes, and over a million pounds of leather,
while the state exported in hides and pets
o.5Gs 900 pounds with plenty Of tanbark ready
n, hand. Tallow and soft timber. TOO. the State
exports TO bring candles and wooden ware,
These are some OF the facts that Colorado presents
at this Exposition, asking for manufactures, for
blast furnaces aud iron and steel works. at her iron
mines and for labor and capital to develop her coal
and marble while her sister States in the West tell
"a like story.
second in Importance to the mineral display at
this Exposition Is the exhibit of mining machinery,
and here IS indicated another want. Inventors are
called upon for n process which shall make the
mining Of low grade ores profitable Before present
smelling processes were introduced, less than ~
per cent of the assay value of ores was saved but
even now there millions of tons of low-grade
ores awaiting new form of treatment that shall
be economical enough to make their working
profitable and the smelling process that will ex-
tract 90 per cent of their ASSAY value will effect a
revolution in mining. There is demand here,
greater than is realized. for new methods of reduc