The herald., 1893-12-03
MINING At THE M|DW|NTER
A Remarkable Exhibit to BE
Made Of Minerals.
Novel Ideas Taking Form and Many
Requests for Space.
A Proposed Golden Pyramid d-rhe Out
put of tho Yellow Metal to Bs
Represented I'm Cuhical
Form-Sotes.
Special correspondence to the HnpALD.

Special correspondence to the HERALD.
SAN Francisco, Dec. 1.-The great
mining exhibit for the midwinter fair is
rapidly taking shape. The executive
committee holds three protracted meet
ings eysfy week, and more if necessary.
Ideas for making the display are taking
form and given full discussion before
being adopted. An energetic canvass is
being made to secure the $50, 900 deemed
necessary to make the exhibit all thst
the states tremendous mining and
mineral resources warrant. Circulara
are being sent out by carloads, inter
views had by hundreds, Thousands OF
letters written, and altogether the rooms
OF the executive committee present as
buey ecene as can be found in the big
Mills building in which the fair head
quarters are located.
The mining counties are getting
reused to the great Importance to them
and to the state generally OF making the
exhibit success. There ia general
disposition to group all the mining and
meteorological displays in one great ex-
hibit, rather than distribute them
among different county buildings. Each
county display will be separate in the
main exhibit, but will go to make up q
great, harmonious whole, and thus i'm
press visitors with the magnitude and
variety of the mining interests.
Everything should be made as i'm
posing as possible, in order to eaten and
retain interest. Proceeding on this
theory the committee is mapping out
several great general displays. The ia
cade at the entrance to the exhibit will
be one of the most attractive features
OF the entire exposition. This is the
came facade W hich caused so much com
ment at Chicago, and was California's
most effective feature there. It'is con-
structed OF polished marble and onyx,
and is 20 feet high. with base line OF
81 ieet. The great arches are fianked
by onyx pillars, and typical grizzlies
surmount the ntableture at either ex-
treme.
This immense facade is now being
packed at Chicsgo for shipment to Cali
fornia. When landed here it will be
added to and improved. The 673 ad-
ditional lineal feet inclosing the mineral
exhibit has been offered to the firms
engaged in quarrying building stone and
in manufacturing such decorative mate
rials as terra-cotta. fancy brick and TIL
ing, and they are expected to arrange
low enclosing wall which will serve to
show their products and at the same
time lend attractiveness to the general
exhibit.
One of the problems on which the
committee is now engaged in the secur-
ing of the most suitable design for
OF the output OF the gold
in California since Mayshall's discovery.
This output is figured at something like
81 800. 900, GOO, and when shown in bulk
will give all visitors an impressive idea
OF the magnitude of the gold-mining in
dustry. For instance, one design shows
q column 70 feet in hight, with base OF
10 feet. Another is in the form of an
ingot which he's dimensions that far out
shine Montezums's famous roomful OF
gold given TO Ccrtes.
A3Whatever design is determined upon
will be constructed with the idea of Civ
ing the impression OF solidity. 1t will
be coated with gold paint, and different
representations OF $1,000 900 will be
made to permit of instantaneous com
parisons. The output of different years
may also be cubically represented, and
also comparative constructions made to
show the decrease incident to the stop
ping of hydraulicking.
a quartz mill with all modern equip
ments will be in daily operation as an
object lesson in mining. 1t was pro.
posed to sink shaft and show the meth
DDS of quartz mining, but the Golden
Gate park commissioners objected on
the ples that caves might result and in
lure the park. The project has not been
altogether abandoned, however, and pri-
vate parties are thinking Of securing q
site just outside the park grounds and
sinking the shaft on a ledge. From the
tens of thousands OF people who flocked
to the spot where it was supposed Gin
nabar deposit had been opened in San
francisco, it is argued that nothing
like an actual representation OF mining
operations would go quicken general
interest in the mining industry.
Another great general attraction
which is slowly taking shape is the
proposition to hold general competi-
ton in drilling, to be open to ali the
miners of California, and possibly to ell
those of the Pacific coast. 1t is pro-
posed to secure valuable prizes for dill
ierent methods of hand drilling by one,
two and three men, to hold preliminary
contests and then to bring the different
champions together in one grand con-
test.
These are only a few of the attrac
tons being prepared by ths energetic
committee to make the exhibit entirely
worthy OF the miners of the state. All
that is now needed are a hearty co-op-
Grafton and generous contributions.