The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1902-03-28

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THEMARYLAND EXHIBIT AT
CHARLESTON.
The Maryland exhibit in the Mines
Building at Charleston is pronounced by
| discriminating visitors to the South Caro-
| lima Interstate and West Indian EXPOSE
| ton to be far the best the State has ever
| made Part of it was seen at the Pan
| American Exposition in Buffalo, where it
| was awarded the only Gold Medal given
| to any state for its general display of
| mineral resources. 1t was regarded as
| the most comprehensive and instructive
exhibit of its sort at Buffalo. In Charles
ton it is shown with many additions and
improvements, and easily outranks the
exhibits of all the other states represent
ed there. 1t was prepared for the Mary
| land Commissioners as it stands, under
the direction of DR.. VIM. Bullock Clark,
the State Geologist. Thoroughly repre-.
senting our mineral resources, no work
| the Maryland Survey has done will be
productive Of greater benefit to the State.
The full meaning of it is made clear by a
| descriptive pamphlet entitled maryland
and Its Natural Resources" This con-
| tains in less than 40 pages more or less
complete statement of Maryland's natu-
raj wealth. Thousands of copies have
been distributed at Buffalo and Charles
ton, and the Survey is constantly answer
ing requests for it from all parts of the
country.
The exhibit embraces a comprehensive
series of leading raw and manufactured
products that come from the mines, quar-
ries, and pits throughout the State, in
GLIDING the Goals; building and decora-
tive stones; slate; brick; tile; and pottery
clays; flints; building and holding sands;
mineral paints; silica; kaolin: iron ores;
cement rocks; limestones; marls; and other
natural substances as we'll as the various
types of pottery, tile, friedrich, building
brick, enameled brick, terra Gotta, and
other manufactured products. The total
value Of all these now produced in Mary
land exceeds So 100000 annually. Numer-
Gus maps, sections, models, views, trans
parencies illustrate still further the dis.
tribution of the States mineral wealth.
The exhibit also embraces a systematic
geological collection, a collection of soils,
and department where highway methods
are shown. A thousands square feet of
floor space and over 1000 feet of wall
space, the windows filled with trans
parencies, are required to hold the ex-
hibit.
The most comprehensive, ingenious,
and artistic feature of the display is a
great pyramid of Maryland building and
decorative stones. This occupies a
square opposite the entrance to the Mines
Building, the chief quarrying interests of
Maryland having cC-operated to produce
the beautiful fleet it realizes. One view
of this pyramid is seen in the illustration
here printed Handsomely turned columns
of granite, marble, red sandstone, and
serpentine stand at the, four corners of
| the pyramid which is capped with beau
tifully polished block of Potomac marble
More than 80 other types of rock are
| represented by large cubes, polished on
one side, that are exhibited tier above
tier. the bottom of the pyramid being
supported by four great risers that show
the distinctive types of Maryland granite.
All of the leading firms engaged in the
building-stone trade have their products
represented. Among them are the Mary
land Granite Co and Waltersville Granite
Co., Schwipd Quarry Co., Albert Weber,
Fl. P. Rieger & Co., Beaver Dam Marble
Co., Washington Junction Stone Co., ].
H. c. Watts, W. Scott Whiteford, l. H.
Peddicord, r. NJ. Spicer, Werner Bro,
and many others.
Associated with this exhibit is large
collection of Peach Bottom slate from
Hartford county, exhibited by the various
Maryland slate companies, and also large
polished slabs and specially designed
blocks of various rocks suitable for build
ing and decorative purposes. Taken
altogether it is the finest exhibit of build
ing and decorative stones ever attempted
by any State.
One of the most beautiful features of
the exhibit is the display of pottery from
the Chesapeake Pottery of D. E. Haynes
and Son and from the Edwin Bennett
Company, both of whom employ greater
or less amounts of Maryland clays in the
manufacture of their products.
One of the largest and most complete
exhibits is that relating to the clay in
dustry of the State. More than 100 types
of Maryland clay are shown in the raw
and prepared statea as used in the various
clay industries. These may be classed in
two groups, the fire. brick clays and the
common brick and pottery clay Among
the first group are representative exhibits
from various sections of the State includ-
ing the Carboniferous fire clays and the
famous Mt. Savage fire brick made there
from by the Union Mining Company, and
the various types of fire clay products
made from the residual clays of Anne
Arundel and Cecil counties by the Balti-
more Retort, and Fire Brick Company and
the Greenhill Fire Brick Company of
Northeast Associated with this exhibit
is an important display of enameled brick
made by the Mt. Savage Enamled Brick
Works, a class of products now being
used for exterior and interior finish of
public buildings. The exhibit of face and
common brick is very large and is made
by the Baltimore Brick Company and the
Washington Hydraulic and Pressed Brick
Company, the latter having constructed
a beautiful fireplace from it's MARYLAND
product. Other important exhibits of
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