Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-09-30
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ATTENTION
New Mexico Exhibits at Worlds
Fair Subject Of Much Favor.
able Comment.
WILL HELP STATEHOOD
Showing Made BY This Territory Has
Astonished fasteners Who Did Not
Know Of Its Resources.

The Mining World speaks as follows
of the New Mexico exhibits at the EX
position at St. Louis:
"The past ten years have brought
great changes to New Mexico, and the
marked advancement and progress
made along all lines is emphasized by
comparison of her exhibits at the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition with
those at Chicago The Territory has
large and excellent exhibits here, dis
played in a most attractive and inter
esting manner and showing many of
the splendid products of that country,
as well as the educational facilities and
other interesting features and the
chance for statehood has been advanc-
ed many points by the excellent i'm
preston made at the fair.
"Great irrigation enterprises within
the last decade have reclaimed large
areas of fine agricultural lands, richer
than the valley of the Nile, providing
happy homes for thousands of people in
the most beautiful and delightful eli
mate in the world.
"The superior products shown here
in New Mexico's agricultural and hOr-
ticultural exhibits are revelation to
visitors from all lands and have dem
onstrated that the very best results
and most perfect development in
fruits and farm products are obtained
by irrigation and sunny skies. The
fruits, grains, vegetables and other
products of the soil shown here are
most excellent The exhibits are larg
er and better than have ever been made
by the Territory, at various exposi
tions. 4
New Mexico's exhibit in the beau
tiful Palace of Mines and Metallurgy
ably presents the status of one Of hel
most important industries, showing the
products of vastly greater number
of producing mines than it was possi
bic to show ten years ago, or when the
Territory made an exhibit at Chicago
The exhibit includes anthracite an6
bituminous coal, iron, zinc, lead, cop
per, silver and gold, in their many
combinations and various mineralogi
cal forms, besides mica. gypsum, salt
sulphur, bloedite, asbestos, marble
onyx and building stone A unique and
most important product of the mines
of New Mexico is the beautiful gem
stone, the finest and most valuable
turquois found in any part of the
world This Territory has the only
turquois exhibit at the exhibition
One of these is in the mineral exhibit in
the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy, an
other is in the Varied Industries Build
ing, another exhibit of turquois
mine and it's products is shown in the
Gulch, or outside mining exhibit
where reproduction of the turquois
mines of the Rorterfield Turquois
Mines Company, near Silver City
the actual geological occurrence of this
gem, which was accomplished by
bringing to the fair several tons of the
rock from the mine, with turquois EN-
bedded in it.
"New Mexico's greatest pride is hel
educational exhibit, which, as one
writer puts it, is exciting the approva
and astonishment of all visitors ant
many easterners where hazy idea!
about New Mexico receive strong
and wholesome readjustment whel
they see the actual results of th'
splendid schoolroom work, and b.
photographs the school buildings
which demonstrate that New Mexico
in proportion to her population, is il
no way behind the older states in he
public school system, and far ahea'
of many in other educational institu
tions.' 1t is remembered that at Chi
cago the school exhibit represente'
only few institutions, and these in
limited way, while here a very larg
number of splendid graded school
and country schools are represente
nv fine exhibits, besides the work
the colleges of agriculture and ame
chanic arts, the military institute,
university, school of mines, two mol
NAL schools, also number OF denomll
ational schools of higher order.
"The beautifully arranged ethnolog
zeal exhibit, which fills room NO. LII
in the department of anthropolog!
consists of most valuable collection
chief among which is the wonderf'
Harvey collection, brought here frol
albuquerque, and which is highly Il
teresting.
From an artistic point of view, it ca
not fail to interest anyone who deligh
in the beautiful and that it is very s
perior from a scientific standpoint,
proven by the great interest It has e
cited in persons from all parts Of Il
world, who are qualified to Judge Il