Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-14

Georeia's exhibit at the Charleston ex-
nosition consists of a display of its min
eral resources only; for, after the expense
of packing and returning the exhibits
from the Buffalo exposition, there remain
ed. of the small appropriation made by
the legislature to have Georgia represent
ed at both the Buffalo and Charleston ex-
nositions only about $500. With this small
amount. Professor Yeates the state geol-
ogist and executive officer Of the state
commission, has installed an exhibit OF
Georgias mineral resources that is not
excelled, i'm point Of attractiveness, If in
deed il is equaled, by the mineral exhibit
of any other state at the Charleston ex-
position. Surely there is no display Of
building stones at the exposition that is
comparable with the Georgia exhibit; nor
is there a systematic collection Of the min
erals of any state that equals Georgia s..
either as to material. or the effective
method of display. The Old North State,
with an appropriation of between 5000
and $4,000, shows beautiful display OF
cut stones, besides a superb polished wood
collection, which, it is said, originally cost
about IS, 900, and her agricultural and hor-
ticultural exhibits are very oreditable;
but I saw no systematic collection of min
erals that equaled our own display. This
collection is arranged in four plate-glass
double front cases with three shelves on
each front, bringing the specimens inn
mediately in front Of ones face, without
his having to stoop over in a tiresome po-
sition to see them. Each specimen is
mounted on an ebonized wood block so as
to individualize it, A neat printed label
gives the name, locality, ETC., of the speci-
men Immediately behind IT, The collec-
ton is arranged according to the chemi-
cal and crystal characteristics of the min
erals.
Among the many pretty specimens I
saw, none were more attractive than the
specimens of agate and drusy quartz from
Epson county; the display Of corundum
from Rabun, Towns, Cobb. Habersham
and other counties; the irridescent limon-
ite from Cedartown; the rutile, lazulite
and pyrophyllite from Graves mountain,
Lincoln county, and the barite crystals
from Gainesville. There are some 500 OF
800 mineral specimens in these four cases.
The systematic collection of Georgia
ores Is contained in two plate glass and
mahogany wall cases. They consist of
about 100 specimens of gold, iron, man.
ganese, aluminium and sulphur ores. and
abrasives! lubricants, pigments and fc-
tile materials, the last mentioned being
represented by beautiful exhibit of the
white clays Okaolin) from Bibb. Jones.
Taylor and other counties of Middle Geor-
gia.
Inc SYSlemdIlC COllCGbAOu Ol
stones consists of 80 S-inch dressed cubes
of the various building stones Of Georgia,
mounted on ebonized wooden blocks and
splendidly massed on a mahoganized wood
base having five stepped shelves. Fas-
tened to the front beveled edge OF each
block is a printed label Of French gray
cardboard, giving the name of the stone,
its quarry, locality and other interesting
information concerning it, These stone
cubes have one face polished, and the
other five finished in the various styles in
use by stone-masons. AS a further fin
ish. each face has a one-inch margin, IN
same case "ax-hammered" and IN others
''square-drove." In this handsome and
UNIQUE collection OF Georgia's building
and ornamental stones, granite, gneiss,
marble, serpentine, sandstone, hornblend-
lite and "caen-stone" are represented. The
GRANTEES range from the fine grained mon
umental to the eoarse-grained stone for
the exterior of massive buildings, with an
occasionally prophyritic granite. In color
they vary from the monumental blue" to
a light gray, the fine grained monumental
stones from Gilbert and Oglethorpe coun-
ties being types of the former, and the
light gray medium grained Stone Noun
tain granite truly representative Of the
latter. The gneisses are OF the kind
known as "contorted gneiss," In whlcn
the black mica occurs in fantastlc ar
rangement on a polished surface, very
pretty unconventional figures against q
gray ground-mass.
The marbles are represented by the