The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-03
Big SHOW At BUFFALO
New York's Scientific Exhibit At
tracts Widespread Interest.
wszE of the Artisan. From Dressing
Huge stone Blocks for building
Purposes to ChiseIfuE Teeth-SPe-
ciaI Days at the Exposition

ciaI Days at the Exposition.
BUFFALO. y. Y, June 9.-The scien-
tifc exhibit Of New York State at the
Pan-America Exposition which was pre-
uared by the New York State Museum IS
a representative exhibit Of the mineral re-
sources OF the State. and is attracting
widespread interest. The principal por-
ton Of the exhibit Is devoted 10 the iron,
cement, salt, gypsum, building stone, and
CLAY products. The building stone are
shown as cubes. dressed 70 the uniform
size Of ten inches. These cubes show the
principal styles Of stone dressing The
front face is polished, while the top is
usually left rock face Tooth chiseling,
fine and coarse pointing and patent ham
mering- are shown on other faces
Among the specimens shown are gran
ties from Westchestsr, Essex, and St
Lawrence counties; sandstOnes from Gin
Ton. Washington and Orleans counties;
bIuestone from Ulster. Delaware. Chenan-
20. and Wyoming counties; limestone and
marble from Westchester. St Lawrence,
Onondanga, Seneca, and Niagara counties.
Isluestone IS also shown in the form Of
1agstones, I foot by ? feet in diameter
Roofing slate from Washington county Is
shown in the usual sizes used in building
The iron ores Of New York which repre-
sent nearly every known ore OF iron, are
shown IN three large glass cases
Among the most interesting specimens
are some large magnetic cleavagss from
MfneviIIe. together with several hundred
octahedrsI CRYSTALS from the same place
The iimOuites from Columbia ana
Duchess counties are well represented 70
Rether with the carbonate ore from Bur
den, the Clinton hematlter ana iIe mem
attic from St. Lawrence county Inis cor
lection is interesting not only IN showing
the mines now IN operation out OF MS
for-ic int crest as well, inaSmucn as many
OF the mines not now In operation are rep
resented BY specimens, thus forming Il
comprehensive exhibit Of the state re-
m CLAW exhibit is intended not only TO
show the different qualities Of clay ana
kaoIin found in this State, but also the
products made from this maternal LAY
34-oy7 thirty representative localities Of
the State is shown in connection with the
manufactured products in TINS tHIlpIt
are also included the shaies OF New : gfh
that are used in the manufacture % DICK
and terra Gotta Among the many pro
ducts which are exhibited may be men
toned common brick, vitrihed paving
brick sewer pipe, hreproohng material
and acid-prOof brick
The lime and cement industries are rep
resented in TWO large cases, I'VE Ieel
square In this exhibit not oH!y IS the
e.rua. rock shown, but samples OF the m
ished product are displayed IN quart Dot
4Ieg Here are found lime, natural ce-
4
counties. and Portland cement from
Greene. Schohaire, ORondaga, and Steu,
ben counties Among the material USED
In the manufacture Of these cemeuts may
be mentioned limestone mari, clay, anc
The salt industry Of the State IS repre-
scented by specimens from the pTlnclp2
producing localities, and composed o.
quart samples Of salt, evapOrated by eV'
ery method used in the manufacture q
salt In addition, specimens Of rock sal
OF the different grades used arr shown
The localities represented are Syracuse
Warsaw BLIZZARD, RetSOf, and LiVonia.
The gypsum exhibit Is particularly in
teresting as showing for the first time
the use Of New York State gypsum in the
Inanufactu Of wall plaster During tht
past I'VE years this industry has been de
Veloped in New York, until now there art
five companies actively engaged in tht
manufacture of plaster Of paris and wal
plaster from New York gypsum; and
sixth company has purchased quarry
and anticipates using this material during
the coming year Until about 1895 New
YORK State gypsum was used only FOL
land plaster A more striking exhibit O.
the New York gypsum may be seen II