The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-10-12
TWO MEN INTERVIEW ED.
WHAT .MESSRS. SKIFF AND COOP
Err HAVE TO SAY
Worlds Fair-WnI Visit
This State


While visiting the Worlds Fair the
editor of The SENTINEL met Mr..
Skiff, Chief of the Department of
Mining, He found him to be genial
man and his ideas were clearly and
forcibly expressed. Mr.. Skiff was SO
much pleased with the exhibit of this
State that he said to THE SENTINEL s
editor: '''I'll endorse anything you
see fit to write" Being asked for a
definite statement, he spoke as fol-
lows:
81 consider that North Carolina has
one of the most interesting exhibits
in this building. While many people,
acquainted with the resources of
America, know how rich your State is
in minerals, the public generally are
not well advised. The first impress
sion of the ordinary visitor is there
fore one of surprise that such rich
minerals are found in North Carolina.
You have an excellent position in the
building; in this respect your State
has been well treated. Your commits
SionerS have been economical in their
space in the matter of display and it
is sufficiently striking to attract the
attention of the public. They seem
to have brought out thoroughly the
industrial material Of their State,
and of course their
GEMS AND FREE GOLD
specimens are universally admired.
You can't step into North Cardinals
exhibit at any time without finding
MANY people looking at it. This is
all the more gratifying because we
had considerable difficulty in stimu-
Int RI n If tr. liyo
d good exhibit. In the variety of
minerals North Carolina stands first
and Colorado second"
Mr.. Skiff was asked what in his
opinion would be the effect of the eX
hIbit in the State itself.
He replied: sit cannot be other
wise than beneficial. l think the
South is a strong competitor of the
West now in point of attraction, not
only for young men but for general
immigration from abroad, and think
that nothing will conduce more to
that end than the displays that have
been made here by the Southern
States that have exhibited, and in
this respect North Carolina easily
takes the lead. Some Colorado min
ing people are going down to your
State 10 look into its mining proper
ties"
A MINING ENGINEER
THE SENTINEL's editor, gratified
with the conversation of Mr.. Skiff,
next sought out Mr.. W. L. Cooper of
the Gold and Silver Extraction Co., of
Denver, which has an exhibit in the
same building. Mr.. Cooper said he
was very favOrably impressed with
North Cardinals exhibit, and thought
the teaching process which his compa-
ny owned would treat j great variety
of Southern ore successfully. He pro-
poses to visit North Carolina in the
interest of capitalists to secure
mining properties adapted to the Nc
Arthur Forest teaching process which
they own, and he will spend the
greater part of the winter in North
and South Carolina. Il don't believe
there is a more varied display in the
building" said he, land | know it
will be very beneficial. | have called
to it the attention of a number Of cap.
italists and they are satisfied that
there is a large amount of gold quartz
down there of sufficient value to war
rant working it,
Mr.. Cooper is the confidential min
ing man Of the wealthy ex-senator
Tabor, of Colorado. He has examined
our State reports very carefully, and
he hopes to see a revival of mining in
the Old North State.