The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-30
NOTHING LIKE IT.
Wonderful Collection Of Kansas
Minerals Received.
Shows the Wonderful Diversity
of the States Products.
FROM THE BIG FAIR.
Donated Through Prof. Grims-
ley by Exhibitors.
will Be Kept Permanently at
State House.
THE BIG FAIR.


lection of Kansas oils and minerals
exhibited at the St. Louis exposition is
now displayed in rooms 6, 8 and 10, in
the basement Of the state capitol, west
wing. 1t is probably the most COM
pIete exhibit of Kansas oil, gypsum,
glass, lead, zinc, salt, brick. tile, build
ing stone and other raw and manu-
featured mineral products yet made;
and. through favor of the fair admin
istration, it has become at nominal ex-
pense the property of the state h
Kansas Academy of Science invites
you to visit its rooms to inspect this
collection. The rooms are open every
week day from 9 to II a. m. and from
2 to 5 p. m"
The above nouncemen is being
sent out by j. T. Lovewell, secretary Of
the Kansas Academy of Science. of the
opening to the public of the st. Louis
exposition exhibit of Kansas minerals,
through his influence donate by the
exhibitors to the Kansas Academy of
science.
Prof. Lovewell says of the collec-
ton: 1.-THE state is fortunate in get
ting possession of such d collection at
so nominal expense Nearly every
thing which was exhibited at st. Louis,
and the original cases in which the
NAh4DAlS were AldQGs nave OCSn IIdhS-
ferred by Prof. Grimsley to the Acad-
envy of Science rooms. Prof. Grimsley
deserves great credit for this exhibit,
which was one of the strong features
OF the Kansas display at St. Louis 1t
is probably the most complete collec-
ton of his nature ever made.
There is one thing lacking from
the collection, and that is a display of
Kansas coal. l expect to take up the
work of making a comprehensive col
lection for such an exhibit and have
interested some of the prominent coal
men of the state in the enterprise"
One of the features of the exhibit
which is of interest to people just now
as a result of the oil and gas legisla-
ton talk, is a display of Kansas crude
oil from nearly 100 different wells. The
oil is exhibited in large glass vessels,
representative oils being selected from
Neosho, Allen, Wilson Montgomery.
Chautauqua, Elk and CofTey counties.
The Standard Oil company has an ex-
hibit of crude oil. together with manu-
featured paraffine. and wax candles,
both the product of the oil.
There is a miniature working model
of an oil derrick, which shows exactly
how the work of drilling for oil and
gas is carried on in the Kansas fields.
A Galena man who inspected the col
~ impressed with the display OF lead
and zinc ores. He said he had never
seen finer specimens. Some of these
solid blocks of lead and zinc ore weigh
lIOlu tVU " I,uUU pOuIlQS- Inc ILdlyDll
Zinc company has donated several DO
pound blocks of "spelter," which is
commercial zinc, together with manu-
featured zinc in the form of plate,
sheets and wire. The mixture of caleb
mated ore, coke and soft coal ready to
be placed in the %urnaces is also shown,
also one of the big fire clay condensers
where the zinc is cooled to a
liquid.
Kansas Made Glassware.
One of the most interesting exhibits
is the large case of Kansas made glass.
The feature of the exhibit is a glass
cylinder eight feet long, blown at the
COffeyville plant. This cylinder is the
kind from which window glass is made.
1t is the only cylinder of this kind ever
sent away from Coffeyville. owing to
the great difficulty of transportation.
In the glass case are Al different kinds
of goblets, wine glasses, tumblers, sher-
bet cups, and similar articles, made of
the clearest and whitest of lead glass,
the C~herryvale glass works. Tumb-
lers are shown in various processes of
making, and in various degrees of COM
pletion. There are also all kinds OF
bottles, from a little half ounce phar-
bottle to a big. aristrocratic look
ing whisky bottle with a huted neck.
A quantity of the sand, lime and salt
cake used in the manufacture of glass
is also shown.
County Display of Stone.
It will probably surprise people to
see the different kinds of building
produced in Kansas. There are
samples of a cubic foot of cut stone
from quarrieS in each of thirty dir
counties of the state. The col
range from snow white to a dark.
e. Each of the
has in the collection a cubic
of its best building stone: Rus
sell, Jackson, Jefferson. Sumner, Ellis
worth, Cowley, Ellis, Atchison, Leav-
enworth, Cherokee, Bourbon. Ander-
Marshall, Norton. Usage, Franklin.
Allen, Saline, Lyon, Wilson, Butler.
There are also two blocks of Kansas
chalk displayed, each block being
about two feet square.
Closely allied to the building stone
in its nature is the display of vitri-
fed brick. There are samples from
every large brick PLANE IN the state.
also samples of the shaIe from which
the brick are made. The CoffeyviIIe
pressed brick display which took q
medal at the fair. is an attractive fea-
ture- h CoffeyviIIe kilns have a
capacity Of 400. 900 brick a day, and
use gas with which to burn the brick.
independence, Cherryvale and Chanute
also burn brick with natural gas.
GrimsIey's Speciality.
Prof. Grimsley, who made the col
lection, was i specialist on the sub
lect of Kansas gypsum and cement. He
been able to get together a splend-
ID collection of these materials.
One case Is devoted to lola cement,