New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-06-22

count The earliest and most i'm
portant act of the board was the APP
pointment of Mr.. Chas. S. Mitchell as
superintendent and executive officer,
whose tireless and able efforts are
warmly endorsed by the commission
ers and ali having to do with Mime
sofas interests at the exposition It
is to be regretted both that the ap-
preparation was not larger and that
the people of the state did not take
more of a personal interest in the
states exhibit With one or two ex-
ceptions not one of the representa-
tives Of the great resources and in
dustries of Minnesota, has given any
material assistance to the Board and
practically every feature of the
states exhibits had to be bought and
paid for, while in other states whole
exhibits were supplied by large spe-
cial interests.
The Minnesota Building.
The first intention of the Board
was to erect a permanent building,
one that could be taken back to the
state, but the contractors and build
ers of Minnesota instead of helping
W ILLS cIu duu ldkllS oil Interest
in the plan, submitted but two bids
after long waiting and personal so
heitation, and they were nearly dou-
BILE the architects estimate. Having,
therefore, to abantlon this idea of
permanency, it was decided to put just
as little money as possible in the
building, saving as much as possible
for the exhibits. The design of the
building is classic and severely sim
pie. The finish is very plain, and as
a whole it is either sharply con-
demned for it's plainness or is highly
praised for it's artistic consistency
and beauty; there seems to be no
middle ground of criticism. Those
who most admire richly upholstered
furniture and outward excess of
adornment, condemn, while architects
and students Of art, enthusiastically
praise. 1t is built with special refer
ence to the hot weather that is sup
posed to visit St. Louis in the mid
summer months, and certainly if
there are any breezes, Minnesotans
visiting the fair, will find them there
1t is an arrangement, just conven-
lent and comfortable club house.
There is the large front room, open
LIZ OA I'LL &C SlOSS, CIIl glass
doors, to side corridors and walled
front porch. Large urns filed with
towering plants, break and give col
or to the whiteness of this wall, while
large fat awnings extending from
the house to the wall afford protec-
ton from the afternoon sum- Be-
ness office and check room with the
e..
men and men with toilets off each,
and large room furnished for the
convenience of those who bring their
noon luncheon and wish place to
eat it. Every daily newspaper of the
weekly papers are kept on file, and
what is of decided Importance, pure
ice water is always to be had. The
States nearest neighbors are Iowa,
Massachusetts,, Kansas, New York
and Ohio, each of which has expend-
ed from forty to one hundred thou
sand dollars in it's building, while the
contract for Minnesota's was but lit
tie over sixteen thousand dollars,
which as it answers every needed pur-
building that must practically be CIV
| SA4 away az EAlC C1OSC VI IuS 1dl1.
Building Stone.
OF the department exhibits, taking
them in their order from the state
| building, the first is found in the
Palace of Mines and Metallurgy.
Fhis shows Minnesota's building
stone and iron ores. On two sides is
a low stone wall made of polished
GRANTEES from the St. Cloud and Or
| tonville districts, Kettle River Sand
| stone, polished Mankato and Kasota
marble and Twin City pressed brick,
| while polished granite column 20
feet high and weighing sixteen thou
| sand pounds stands in the angle. On
| the other two sides, are walls twelve
feet high, against which are placed
seven races of stone, each five by sew
en- feet, showing cut granite, Vino
ma stone, pipestone and jasper, as if
laid in the wall of building.
Iron Ore, Mines and Docks.
Minnesota has but the one mineral
to show-its iron, and this exhibit in
| cludes samples of ore from the mines,
the method of mining, how the ore is
handled and how shipped by rail to
Duluth, the greatest iron shipping
port IN the WOfld. from one TO TOUR
samples of the various grades of ore
taken from every mine in the state
that is in operation, are shown in
hundred large glass jars. There is a
statistical chart of the output and
two groups Of photographs, three by
ten feet in size showing every phase
of mining. There is model of the
cars used in shipping from the mines,
of a section of one of the great ore
cocks at Duluth and of the Fayal
mine-the greatest producing iron
| mine on earth. This last model is
eleven feet square, and shows even
the minutest detail of this most IA
nous mine and the three processes of
mining characteristic of the Mime
sofa region,-the open-pit, the mill
ing and the underground. In the
center of the space is beautiful
model of Duluth city and harbor On
it is shown every building in the city,
every elevator, dock, pier, bridge, car
line, and mill. One hundred and thir-
ty vessels, exact reproductions of the