The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1883-10-20
OUR DENVER EXHIBIT.
NORTH CAROLINA AT THE COL
ORADO EXPOSITION.
The Attractive Display of Valuable
Mineral Ores Exhibited by the Rich
mOnd and Danville Railroad.

The Attractive Display of Valuable
Mineral Ores Exhibited by the Rich
mOnd and Danville Railroad.
Delayed .SpectdJ Correspondent Of the Chronicle.
DENVER, COL. Sept. 15.-The attention
of THE CHRONICLES readers has doubt
less been so absorbed in the reports OF the
magnificent displays North Carolina has
at the Boston Mechanics Fair and at the
Louisville Exposition, that the fact may
have escaped many that the State is also
very creditably represented at the Colorado
National Mining and Industrial EAposi-
ton now being held in this city.
The display is under the management
of the Richmond and Danville Railroad. a
corporation that gave your State such
valuable boom during the Atlanta COttol.
Fair; and although it is such a long dis
tance from home, the exhibit is by no
means meagre one. 1t attracts a great
amount of attention, and it is suggestive
fact that not only the casual and unscien-
| tific visitor seems to be impelled in that
| direction, but capitalists, mining engineers
and others interested in industrial enter
prises, flock around the exhibit. The
| great display North Carolina is making at
| partly from these accounts that unusual
attention is directed to the display here
| from the Old North State.
I am entirely too unscientific cores
! pOndent to give you an accurate summary
| Of all the ores your State has exhibited
| here, but | will endeavor to mention those
| which seem to deserve more than ordinary
| comment:
The counties Of Macon, Haywood, Lin
coin, Rockingham, Cleveland, and Cald-
well exhibit fine specimens of merchanta-
BILE iron ores. Samples are also shown
| from three great veins OF CrOwder noun
tain, and from Madison, Buncombe, Stokes
md Hp1S1f 0v.1 liz NJ hos
ores, Prof. John X. Hallowell, an accom-
plished and practical Colorado Geologist,
said recently to Capt. G. G. McPhail, who
has charge of the Richmond and Danville
exhibit, "You show analyses of these
magnetic iron ores in which the presence
of these deleterious elements, sulphur and
phosphorus, appear to be so small, their
influence on the product must be tritling.
! Then the small percentage OF ttanum in
such high grade magnetites is very remark
able. 1t is in this latter respect that the
| Colorado magnetic ores cannot compare
with these products OF North Carolina.
They contain all the way from five per
cent. to twenty-five per cent. titanium.
So good steel ores consequently are quite
the eXceptOn.''
Those who ought to know assure me
that the display of iron ores from North
Carolina is exceptionally fine. Hematites
are shown from the Kings Mountain To-
absence of sulphur phosphorus and tita-
MEM. Specimens are exhibited from the
Chapel Hill mines, in Orange county, con-
tanning 81 per cent. metallic iron. Watauga
county shows micaceous hematite, and
Cherokee a specimen of limonite of unu-
sual purity, capable of producing a pro
duct ranking with Swedish iron. David
son county sends samples Of siderite (the
spathic variety of iron carbonate) the most
easily reduced Of all iron ores, so an old
miner tells me. A variety of chronic iron
ores are shown from Madison, Jackson
and Yancy counties, and fine ochres are
seen from Mcdowell county.
North Carolina is said to Outstrip all the
other States in the production of chalco
pyrte copper specimens of which are rep
resented here from the counties OF Gull
ford, Davidson, Randolph, Mecklenburg
Cabarrus and Jackson some of these Civ
ing, | am told by Prof. Hallowell, 80 pei
cent. copper from veins ten to twenty fee1
wide, and it appears to occur as solid ore
; Davidson county displays the celebrated
states containing copper and gold. Gran
vile shows native copper, and LOmite from
Granville and Ashe counties are displayed
} Specimens of black oxides, cuprite, etc.
from the famous Ducktown mines. Chal
copyrite and black oxide of copper from
the Cid mines giving values of ~ per cent
copper, $50 gold, and 16 ounces silver
Chalcocite ores from Person county give
value, gangue and all, 20 per cent. cope
aud a value in silver, but out of the sam,
mine, by selection, II per cent. copper ant
I 80 ounces silver has been obtained. Sam
same county, that were taken at dept
of sixty feet, and assaying an average o
: twelve per cent. copper and twenty ounce
: silver. A Colorado mneralogist told nj
a few days ago, while we were examinin!
e these specimens together, ''Why such or
bodies and values with us, would be a
: once advertised as bonanzas, and woul
furnish our papers with something to tall
about for time TO come" The famous Or
1 Knob mines and smelling works in Ash
county, presents specimens OF copper ore
: and refined ingot copper.
The display of North Carolina mica
! pronounced by Biologists and other com
! petent persons, to be the finest exhibit O
{ the kind ever shown. The samples ar
: said to be worth $l.5O to Sc 90 per pound
!. . Our mining people here can we'll appreci
= ate this portion of the exhibit, becaus
they realize that a good mica mine Is O
more value than silver mine.
: OF course there are many remarkabl
!, specimens of gold and other ores, but it i
= = | unnecessary to further enumerate. suffic
= it to say the general exhibit from the OIL
North State is highly creditable and des
- - tined to be productive of many beneficial
results in the way of attracting capitalist
and industrial men generally to your State
In conclusion, let me say, would it no
be proper for great commonwealth lik
North Carolina, that is taking front ran
Z as mining State, to hold. in the near fu
: ture, a mining and industrial exposition a
which she can more thoroughly show t
the world her remarka BILE mineral wealth
Such an exhibition would surely attrac
thousands Of visitors to North Carolin
= who need only one more incentive to draN
Z %hou hifhnr uft no
= OF the displays at all of the great Fair
: during the past year.
l. A Pen Picture of WinstOn's Thrift.
t Editorial Correspondence in Mt. Atrv Ne,cs
l. Winston as ever is in the van Building