The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-15

and granite, and it tells so much that
one does not wonder about the other min
erals that exist within the state.
Of iron alone the state produced last
year over 100000 tons While it's copper
production figured extensively in the
worlds production and attracted wide
attention
Over seventeen varieties of granite are
shown IN this exhibit, Which include
some of the finest specimens inthe world,
because Minnesota granite Is of finer
texture and co4oring than can be found
elsewhere. Although the qaarrying in
, dustry is practically in it's first infancy.
! it is sufficiently well developed to prom
Use a great and wonderful future.
1t is not, however until we arrive at
the forestry building that the climax is
reached in natural products, for there we
learn that Minnesota leads the Union in
the production of lumber. Last year her
production was over 1900, 100000 feet of
manufactured lumber and still the zenith
has not been reached. The variety of
/ specimens of lumber covers a wide range
and the conditions of the country point
| to a continuance of Minnesota for long
! time to come as the greatest lumber
producing state in this country.
When one comes to the manufactures
and liberal arts building he finds Mime
/ sofa sitting at the fore front Of exhibit
| ors and acquires knowledge of the
/ manufactures of the state and the high
er development of the raw material
| which it affords.
Passing over all else, we come at once
to the displays in. the line of manufac-
/ turing flour, and once again we find Min
nesota supreme, not alone at the EXPOSE
! ton, but in the world. Her mills at Min
neapolis, her flour production and the
kindred output of wheat attain supreme
| T1rOroinanon nd VI c
with her showing. Yet it scarcely con-
yeys to the mind an linking Of the great
ness of the industries which have wheat
as basic element, for Minnesota is facile
| princeps along those lines.
Briefly stated, last year she produced
from her mills in Minneapolis alone 6,00(
| barrels of flour daily fo- use without the
state. This placed into cars for ship
ment would make a train around the
world and feed multitude of prodigious
size for many months
The Minnesota building, where the ed
ucational display is, is one of the pref
test and most attractive on the whole
grounds, and it's handsome decorations
and interesting exhibits have become SO
well known as to attract a continual
crowd of sightseers.
The school and educational exhibit is
one of the most original ever made an6
which is guiding the search for higher
education in the state. 1t runs from
primary grade schools to the famous
university which bears the name of the
state, and is the second largest in the
United States in point of attendance, an6
it includes examples of all the different
methods and educational facilities Espe-
cially fine is the showing of the manua
training departments and of the art
branches, and the whole is so arranged
and displayed as to be wonderfully at
tractive.
AS one passes about the building he
sees many things besides the mere ex
hibits, which are so interesting and move
as to attract his attention. There is the
wonderful mantel Ill the ladies' reception
room, the first of its kind ever made
from the famous stone of Pipestone City
and the other rare mantel in the mair
reception room that took a silver media
at the worlds fair at Chicago Thel
there is the famous convention table
famiiiarly known as McKinley's mascot
1t was made by the children of the man
ua1 training departments of the Mime
sofa schools and was used by Presiden
Mckinley when he presided over tn
Minneapolis convention in 1892, and late
1t served the purposes of the Chairman
u LIE l2OuiS E-IllduelpDld con
ventions that nominated Maj. McKinle
for the presidency.
, All through it's pretty rooms the build
ing bristles with interesting things, an
no Pan-American visitor can afford t
miss a visit to it at one time or another
These results, which are so vast and G
} such enormity, strike the observer mos
forcibly, for they represent the accom-
r plishments of such comparatively shor
time as to seem almost incomprehensible
Forty years ago there were less thai
< 10000 people in the state, and the crop
were scarcely sufficient to be worthy @
: mention. Twelve years practically mar
> the history of the enormous dairy in
) terests of the state, and seventeen year
\ cover the development of the iron ores.
; Few of the 10000 manufacturing plant
in the state have the weather signs &
twenty years ago, and of its $500 mile