Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-09-07

An Exhibition OF Mineral Products, etc
will be Shown at Grand Central
Palace. New York CITY.

An Exhibition Of Mineral Products, etc.
will be Shown NJ Grand Central
Palace. New York City.
From miners cradle and pan to power
drills and electrical, chemical and me-
chanical processes for the extraction Of
metals from ores, the advance made in
methods by mining men will be demon
strated and illustrated in the Mining
Exposition. next December in New
York.
The Exposition, which will open Mon
day. December End, for fifteen days
run at the Grand Central Palace Of In.
dustry, which covers the block bounded
by 43rd and 44th streets opposite the
Grand Central Depo& will be the first
Of its kind in New York.
Its Manager, Allen s. Williams, whose
downtown Office is in the Park Row
Building, states that he was assured of
an encouraging number of rentals for
space from interesting exhibitors before
prospectus, diagram of floor space and
application blanks were printed. to in
dicate sufficient interest, response and
support and satisfactory promise of
success.
The general plan Of the exposition will
be manufacturing and commercial ex.
hibits of tools, machinery and supplies,
exhibits of ores, oils, and other minerals,
concentrates, metals and non metallic
products, maps any illustrations of min
eral resources of regions by railway
companies, scientific displays of min.
erals by states, mining bureaus, schools
and individual collectors, and pictorial
and various advertising exhibits of ores
and products by corporations engaged in
all mineral industries, including mineral
springs and "water mining" with drilled,
bored and driven wells. Exhibits rep
resenting the petroleum industry will
be given due prominence.
A historical and entertaining feature
OF the exposition will be an extensive
reproduction Of a frontier mining camp,
with original and genuine hand made
tools, utensils, apparatus. structures and
furniture used by the miners in placer
mining and development work in quartz
mining and incidental picturesque de-
tails.
With the first issue Of its prospectus
the management delivers only the dia.
gram of the main floor Of the exposition
building, but oyer one hundred thous-
and square feet are in recerve available
and will be used if the Development of
the exposition requires it.
A mining exposition in New York
brings to the financial centre of the
country presentation of the important
interests allied with the industry. 1t
should bring together the practical work
ing branch with the money end, afford
an opportunity for fraternal intercourses
Of miners throughout the country or
even the world, will well demonstrate
the advance that has been made in the
mechanical end, the machinery and
tools and processes, and will also prove
Of unquestioned educational value to
people who haye meyer seen the original
ores Of our important metals of the
methods of treating them.
1t will be an industrial, educational
and entertaining convention, and has
already received the hearty indorse
ment of many Of the most prominent
men engaged or interested in the min
ing industry, who are certain that such
an exposition in New York City attract
new a ivocates and capital to the mines
and mineral pursuits of the world.