The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-05-05
THE MICHIGAN BUILDING.

tho city Of Saginaw at an expense OF about *, 600
Muskegon did her duty by putting A,5O0 into a
the ladies' reception room, which is also on the
first floor It Is finished in stucco, and hung
with beautiful tapestries. The woodwork is
enamel white.
Tho house is not only a home, IL is O show.
On the second floor the University of Michigan
az Ann Arbor, the fnest institution OF the kind
In the west, will show q fine collection of native
birds, animals and reptiles In another room
to be shown the. resources of the state speci-
mems Of copper, iron and gold, salt, woods etc
The house will have pianos in the main rooms
for use in the Michigan building. The Michi.
gan newspaper men will find accommodations
there and files Of all home papers of note. The
building has checkrooms, post office, barber
shop. Information bureau, private rooms, and
everything 10 render ease TO tired visitors from
The outside of the building is pretty and i'm.
POSING: The main tower has large, illumin-
ated clocks which may be seen long distance
and from all the passing railroad trains. The
rotunda has balconies, porches run around the
outside, and the whole effect is harmonious and
pretty. Its total cost to the state is about
$4,000 and contributions OF about $4,000 more
have been simultaneously used. The plans
ton Of Grand Rapids, was the contractor and
construction.
Mining building than any other state in the
union. Here are .shown every species of min
eral TO be found in the state, arranged in shapes
Is as oesr 70 sow on the ibe apG % o.
the exhibit Is vast archway, built OF Mich.
gan sandstone from four different quarries,
and set in 1t are shields Of different Michigan
ores and mineral products There are some
beautiful specimens of verde antique, white
marble, conglomerats copper ore, etc. Inside
from which will flow mineral waters from the
state and above 1t Is frieze, made OF copper,
showing brownies at work in the mines.
win notice is the long line of pain tinss around
two sides OF the space, showing the mines of
the upper peninsula. There are views OF Lake
Salisbury, the Calumet and the Hecia and other
mines. The whole process Of making copper
from the native ore is shown by working
models
The exhibit OF minerals is one OF the finest
ever put together, and is taken In part from
private collections. There are specimens of
copper, block copper and every other kind found
Then there is iron ore, some OF the richest ever
dug, gold found near Ishpeming, and the .spoci-
mems shown would assay at least $40 900 to tho
ton. Then there are silver, marble OF different
kinds and colors verde antique, .serpen-
tine which is finer grade Of verde
cutie, graphite, fire clay and common clay, fire
sands, coal, amethyst, agate and chlorastro-
lites. This is an exceedingly beautiful mineral.
II is found only in Spain, and on Isle Royal in
Michigan. Carnelian of all sorts OF colors is
shown as well as red analcims, abophylites,
preahn1te, dathOlte, stllDlte, dolOmlte, calclte,
micaceous hematites, grape ores, kidney ores,
epidotes, needle iron ore, amygdaloid, pipe ore,
calcite crystals containing native copper and
no on through the entire list.
Michigan's vast forestry interests are dis
played, not alone by model of logging
camp but by display OF all the native woods,
pine, maple, beach, oak, elm, walnut butter
nut, hickory and other hard woods In addi-
ton TO the woods themselves, there will be ex-
hibited the methods OF making lumber,
which the lumbermen OF Michigan have per-
lumhpP Of
Saginaw and Bay City, Muskegon, Alpena, os-
coda, Tawas, Cheboygan, Big Rapids and all
the other lumber cities will be represented by
exhibits in the Forestry building
In its agricultural exhibit Michigan again
comes 10 the front In the Agricultural build
ing, in almost the center, the Michigan space
for her agricultural exhibits is found. II con-
tains about 1900 square feet Here will be
found a collection of the varied agricultural
products OF the state. On top OF the CEN
trail pavilion will be two deer both brought
from the woods OF Michigan. The ex-
hibit comes from oil parts OF the state
and will comprise wheat corn, oats, peas
beans, buckwheat, rye. clover and other kinds
OF seeds, timothy, popcorn, butternuts, walnuts
hickory nuts, beechnuts hazlenuts, turnips
beets, cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes potatoes
futabagas, melons, citrons, peppermint black
berries, raspberries squash and many other
products OF this fertile state.
The state is known as a great fruit-producing
country, but the greatest part of this exhibit