The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-02-23
MINING Is NETALLURGY.


a potkl0UO pF1Oo N the 0ovol0pm0nt
Of ouf great state should be suflicisnt
motive TO induce all having arti-
clss illustrative Of our vast resources
and products that represent our skill in
fashioning the crude materials 20 Law.
ishly bestowed on our most fortunately
situated commonwealth, to make . suit
able effort to 20 present the fruits Of
their industry ct our coming centennial
exposition that all beholders may ap-
preciate the fact that nowhere on all
the earth IL there an equal extent Of
territory possessing 80 varied and 80
vast and inexhaustible resources. We
have more than ten thousand square
miles. underlaid with coal and moro
than half of that amount underlaid with
iron--coal and iron enough to supply
the markets Of the world for period Of
time greater than all recorded history.
Our agricultural lands are equal to the
whole extent of the state and suscepti-
BILE Of sustaining population a. dense
as that Of Belgium or Lombardy. When
that time shall come, and come 1t will,
our state will contain fifteen millions,
at least, of inhabitants. Our situation
is most fortunate. Our southern border
il washed by the beautiful Ohio, yet
more useful than beautiful, connecting,
ID it does, natural means OF inland COM
munication unsurpassed, II It 10 equaled,
in any other country. Our northern
border lies along Lake Erie, opening
additional avenues for water commune
cation 30 favorable that no equal extent
Of frontier coast Of any land, witnesses
an activity 80 great or . carrying trade
snt1, al AL 3,rkr
consideration our central location and
the fact that the great bulk Of the COM
merce Of the continent, from East to
West, must pass over our fruitful
fields and inexhaustible mines, 1t is
reasonable to affirm that our favored
state Is the keystone" in fact; and the
"Ohio idea" is always so potent in the
counsels of the nation that we may con-
clude it il already plain to all mems
minds that the great and benefcent
arch Of the Union can have no firmer or
more enduring keystone. To the peo-
pie of this great state / appeal for an
exhibit of your mineral products. This
department will include all kinds Of met
ais, metallic compounds and the ores and
mineral substances from which they
are obtained; also as full an exhibit Of
the geology Of the state as is practical.
Crude and manufactured metals. Z
Every kind and quality of iron and
steel now manufactured.
Every variety of coal.
All kinds of clay and the articles man
ufactured therefrom.
All kinds of stone used in building,
for statuary work, ornamental work,
for monuments, etc., etc., together with
specimens manufactured from the same.
Glass and quartz rock and all other.
materials from which glass is manu-
factured, with specimens of work ready
for use.
Petrifed wood and Ornamental prod
ucts made from the same.
An exhibit illustrating the manufact-
ure of salt and all the products resulting
| therefrom or incident thereto.
Crude mineral oils and the products
OF their distillation.
All crude minerals from which chem
| ical products used in the arts or in med
icine are produced, together with speci-
mems Of such products. ~
All minerals and mineral products
not specified, useful, ornamental or
| curious.
Exhibits in geology, a. full AZ possi-
BILE, are desired, among which the fol-
lowing are mentioned, but exhibitors
are requested to make their collections
as full as the means at their disposal
swill permit:
The elements constituting rocks, az
far a. practical.
Minerals constituting rocks, showing
forms Of crystals andvariety Of colorsi
Fraghental rocks, exclusive of lime
stones, imestones or calcareous rocks,
iron ore rocks, igneOus or eruptive
rocks, condition, structure and arrange
ment of rock masses; stratifed condi-
ton, structure of layers.
As we have said, pride in our great
state should be sufficient inducement.
But your efforts will be repaid hun
dredfold. You not only make known
the resources OF our more than princely
Inheritance, but you make known your
products and thereby increase and ex-
tend your business. 1t is desirable that
your intentions as to your exhibits
should be made known at an early date
80 that the space and kind Of facilities
that you need may be reserved OF pre-
pared for you.