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good English education, and so have the
resources Of the State thoroughly devel-

Nortn Car0llna may De iounQ one OF the
best places for workmen in granite and
marble to find employment, and that
there is no other State that surpasses it
in the wealth Of the natural productions. !"
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT WOODS.
Another Connecticut man, His Honor,
Mayor Lewis. of New Haven, is also a
large manufacturer, and interested in a
representative carriage-wheel manufac-
tory Of New England. During his visit
't) Boston he took pains to critically ex-
anime the display Of woods at the North
Carolina exhibit.
1 am something Of q Judge of woods
myself, "says Mayor Lewis, and | must
say that it surpasses anything | have
ever seen. There are some excellent
grades of hickory, prominent among
which are the white, red and shellbark
The white, or what is known in this Sec
ton as the pig walnut, isthe best for use
IN carriage building, and for the purposes
for which it is mainly used. The fibre of
this kind of hickory is tougher than the
other specimens. The blocks Of wood are
sawed somewhat in the shape of a chair,
so as to show best the grain and fibre.
There are also some very fine specimens
of white oak as we'll as the other varieties
of oak. This is used for building ship
carriages and similar purposes.
There is also a splendid variety of
fancy woods, such as poplar, white and
pitch pine, sycamore and maple. Some
of the specimens of curled maple are very
beautiful. should say there were nearly
fifty specimens of wood on exhibition. |
believe that the advice which Horace
Greely used to give young men to go
west will in the next quarter of century
be changed to go south.
NORTH CAROLINA MINERALS.
Among the large exhibit of minerals
now to be seen at the Exposition are spe-
cimens of many mineral species from
North Carolina of especial interest to
mineralogists, geologists, crystallograph.
ers, &c. Among the most noteworthy
are the ores of the rarer elements, of
which we here enumerate those Of the
most importance:
Samarskite. .-Crystallized and in mas.
ses UP to five pounds weight. This min
eral contains columbian, tantanum, ura.
mum, yittrium, cerium, phillipium, de.
ciplum, &c. Found in Mitchell and
Burke counties.
Gummite. "A hydraed lead, barium,
calcium, and strontum uranate. One
mass weighs pounds 6 ounces. From
Mitchell county.
IIranotil. From Mitchell county.
Urannite. Pure uraniumoxide. ln
masses of several pounds weight; sp.
gray. 9.05. From Mitchell county.
Columbite. - Columbian, tantalum,
manganese and iron. Massive and 10 fine
crystals. From Mitchell, Yancey, Burke
Alexander counties.
Autunite. An uranium phosphate;
found in the feldspar at the Flat Rock
mica mine. Mitchell county, quite abund-
antly.
Phoephorangitc Uranium phosphate,
Mitchell county.
Ganhltc. .--Contalnlng 81 per cent 0i
zinc. Mitchell county.
Monazite. "A normal cerium ph0s'
phate, but containing usually as me-
chanical mixture, some thorium sylicate
(organite). This exhibited from Burke
county, Brindletown district, contains G
per cent thorium oxide. (Penfeld).
Fergusonite. An yttrium (etc. col.
umhate; crystals from Burke county.
Xenotime, An yttrium and cerium
phosphate. .
Octahedritc and Brookite. Small
crystals from Burke county of rare per-
fection.
Atlantic. New Find. Large masses.
A cerium, Lanthanum, dldymium and
yttrium sllcate.
Xircon. zirconian silicate. Many
pounds OF the gray crystals from Hender-
son county. Also brilliant highly modi-
fed crystals from Burke county; massive
from Mitchell county, late find.
Rutile-Pure titanlum oxide. Re.
markabIe CRYSTALS from Alexander and
Mitchell counties. Not surpassed from
any other region, Long brilliant prisms
and geniculations.
Cassiterite. Pure tin oxide, found
massive and semi crystalline in the west
ern part of North Carolina. Sp. Gray.,
G.S; hardness, I; 10 per cent tin.
Itacolumltc. Flexible sandstone from
the Linvile region and from Stokes
county.
Doiomiie. Calcium and Magnetism
carbonate. Perfect crystals of the prmi-
tive rhombohcdron, from Alexander coun-
ty Rare.
Apatite. Calcium phosphate. Trans
parent and highly modified crystals from
the emerald and hiddenite locality in
Alexander county.
Quartz Pure silica. Remarkable
CRYSTALS from Alexander, Oatawba and
Iredell counties. Rare planes and curious
types Basal planes, and the "trinono
type OF Maumanu, which was, until
lately, problematica form. Smay, amc-
thystine, citrine and clear. Also note.
worthy are the large inclusions Of liquid
and gaseous carbon di,oxide.
Garnet. Perfect Perfect trapezohe
drous of 2 to 10 lbs. weight. Some very
compact and fit to cut into small gems.
Albite. Soda ielspar. Fine crystals
trimmed parallel to the basal place.
Rare.
Corundum. Pure crystalized alumina.
Many colors and forms. Some partly
pseudomorphous and OF great interest.
Gold Nuggets. ts.-From 5 to 1900 grain!
weight. From Mecklenburg, Burke
Stanley and other counties.
Beryl.- Highly modified and transpar
ent crystals, colorless and pure emerald
color. From Alexander county.
Emeralds. Useful for gems, of from