The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-09-06
A THING OF BEAUTY.
The Tennessee Display at the Louis
vile Exposition Greatly Ad-
mire6.

Louisville Post.
Tennessee has one of the mos
varied and excellently arranger
displays in the exposition. He
people are fully alive to the impor
tance of making a creditable dis
play, and they have made every ef
fort to have the natural resource
of the state well represented. Com
missioners were appointed from
each county to superintend th,
work of collecting and Forwarding
specimens of ores and agricul
tural specimens, and the result o
the interest taken in the matter by
the men appointed is a most excel
lent display on the part of Tennes
see, representing almost every veget
able and mineral TO be found in
the United States. he minera
display is particularly excellent
There are on exhibit specimens OF
magnetic iron ore which yield sew
enty per cent. Of pure iron, speci-
mems of limonite from a bed esti-
mated by skillful engineers to con
tain over 187, 900 tons, speci-
mems of pot, pipe and needle ores,
specular ore, and massive hematite
from many counties i'll the state.
One of the most noticeable features
among the minerals is a complete
serial line of specimens from War.
ner Iron Furnace, Hickman county,
Tenn, comprising charcoal, iron
ore, clay, limstone, and the differ
ent grades of iron. Another article
of prominence in the department is
an Immense block of coal from Sc
vance, surmounted by a pyramid of
fine coke made therefrom.
Probably nowhere in the world
certainly nowhere In America
has there been yet discovered such a
Of marble regions as in Ten
nessee. They have in>their display
over $50 different kinds repre-
sented, of almost every imaginable
color, from the pure white to the
perfectly black, and they have also
the only collection of Tennessee
granite ever made, consisting of
twenty-five different specimens of
different colors. These granite
beds of Tennessee, though very
fine and in great abundance, have
never been worked, and in order to
obtain the specimens on exhibition
it was necessary to go to the noun
tains and blast them out. Speci-
mems Of copper and metals of Ga
lena, and the carbonate of lead, of
black oide of manganese, of gold,
silver and many other ores, with a
full line of Tennessee clays, may be
seen in the display.
In addition to the mineral eX
libit there is magnificent display,
n variety and excellence, of the ag-
garden and orchard pro
ducts of the state of Tennessee,
comprising thirty eight varieties of
wheat, cotton in all its grades, oats,
grasses, clover and vegetables innu-
There is among the ag-
ricultural products an assortment
of wines from Hofstetter's celehra-
ted Hermitage vineyard. These
wines took first and second prizes
at Atlanta. just above the shelf
containing the wines hangs a lot of
silk cocoons and raw silk, which is
a paying industry in Tennessee,
though in its infancy there.
Haywood county deserves spe-
cial mention on account of the spe-
cial effort made to fully represent
her resources here. She has a very
handsome and diversified collection
of native woods, q large assortment
of native mineral products, and the
whole is arranged very harmoni-
ously. The temple of the Tennes-
see Ceres, occupying the center of
the space, is surrounded by a
most beautiful and artistic frame
work, supported at each angle upon
twin pillars, manufactured from ce-
dar, poplar, walnut, cherry, sugar
maple, oak, ash and redgum woods,
all indigenous to Tennessee. Taken
the display is the most
excellent, and Col. A. j. McWhir-
ter, with his assistant, Mr.. Guild,
has arranged it to the best possible
He invites every one to
personally inspect the Tennessee
exhibit, and by his courtesy and
kindness to visitors adds no little
to the pleasure of such an inspec-
tiOn.