The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-14
ANACONDA NEWS.
WILL Be REPRESENTED
Montana's Resources Will Be
Displayed at Omaha.
THE WORK PROGRESSING
L. w. Curtis. Assistant to Commiss Toner
Sutherlin. Talks Interestingly of This
States Exhibits at the Trans
Mississippi Exposition.


Sutherlin, the vice president for Mon
ternational exposition, was in the city
yesterday Mr.. Curtis was here in the
interest of Mr. Sutherlin in gathering
together the mineral portion of the
Montana exhibit. This state will be
represented at the exposition in a most
satisfactory manner. The exposition
will open on June / and will continue
until Nov. l.
The exposition will be international
in scope, and England, Germany,
Switzerland, Austria, China, Mexico,
Venezuela, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Can
ada, the Sandwich islands and New
Zealand, besides many other countries
and nations will be represented by Of
ficials of those government, and also
will prepare exhibits for the fair
Among the other interesting things
that will be seen at the fair will be an
Indian exhibit which will be the most
complete of it's kind that has ever been
gotten together. The government of
the United States has appropriated
SOC, 900, besides making provisions for
a governmental building and exhibits
at Omaha. Nearly every state west of
the Mississippi river has made appro-
priations. Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois,
Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota,
Wisconsin, North Dakota, Montana,
Utah, Louisiana, California, New Mex
leo, Texas, Tennessee, Missouri and
many other states have appointed COM
missions and taken steps toward max
ing exhibits.
Among the most important exhibits
will be those relating to mines and min
ing, agriculture, horticulture, live
stock, electrical apparatus, educational,
fine arts, transportation. military and
numerous other departments. Besides
these there will be the amusement sec
ton, where unique and wholesome at
fractions gathered from all parts of the
world will furnish diversion for the
visitors who will attend the fair
So far as relates to the exhibit that
Montana will send to the fair. Mr..
Curtis spoke enthusiastically of the
work being done by Commissioner
Sutherlin. Mr.. Curtis spoke first of
the agricultural exhibit. He said:
Mr.. Sutherlin has worked hard and
industriously in this matter, and has
collected a very fine exhibit of the ag-
ricultural products of the state. He
has nearly 1000 jars of fruit preserved
at Missoula, which was gathered from
a number. of orchards in the Missoula
and Bitter Root regions. The fruit
gathered in the orchards of the Bitter
Root stock farm is included in this lot.
This fruit was picked by Mr. Sutherlin
himself who used the most extreme
care in gathering it and took special
pains looking toward its preserva-
ton.
In speaking of the mineral exhibit of
the state at Omaha Mr.. Curtis said:
Mr.. Sutherlin has spent the past
three months in getting together the
exhibits of minerals from all parts of
the state and now has almost every
mining camp in the state represented.
although the work is not yet by any
means completed. Mr. Sutherlin has
secured for this state an excellent To-
cation in the mines and mining build
ing for our exhibit and it is his plan to
exhibit it so as to show a complete rep
resentation of the mining industry
throughout the state. We have secured
the most valuable silver ores to be had
in the Neihart district; lead and Galena
ores from the Castle district; gold
bearing ore from Indian creek. Coloma,
Pony and Rochester. There will be a
good showing from Red Mountain and
the Marysyille districts. and valuable
gold and silver specimens from Basin
and all of the districts in Deer Lodge
county, and. in fact, we will have every
county in the state represented in the
mineral exhibit
Il have assisted the superintendent
of the Anaconda company in collecting
specimens of the Anaconda ores, and
tiers, together with sheet and bar cop
per, will make up a complete exhibit
from Montana, in which nearly all of
the mining companies will be repre-
sented'
Mr.. Curtis purpose in visiting Ana
conda was to ascertain if it We're posi-
BILE to secure pictures and photographs
of the smelling works and also photo
graphs of points of interest about the
city. 1t is proposed to secure a birds
eye view of the city. These pictures
and photographs will be used in deco
rating the walls of the mines and min
ing building. Mr.. Curtis says that
the work has been slightly delayed
through the illness of Mr.. Sutherlin
which has confined the commissioner
to his home. 1t is probable, however
that Mr.. Sutherlin will be out in a few
days and the work of securing Mon
tana's exhibit will be vigorously prose-
cuted Mr.. Curtis left for Butte, where
he will do some work in the gathering
of mineral specimens.