The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-03-19
MINERAL EXHIBIT SHOWS
WHY MARYLAND IS RICH.
There Are Vas! Stores of Ore And
Stone In The Hills Of The Old
Line State.


exhibits of States mineral resources
that has ever been brought together in
this country.
This collection contains not only
beautiful minerals and remarkable re-
mains of animal and plant forms that
formerly inhabited the lands and waters
Of ancient Maryland during. successive
periods since the dawn Of geological
history, but also complete exhibits of
the various economic products that to-
daysform the basis for many of the
States greatest industries.
A unique feature of this exhibit is to
be seen in the manner in which these
mineral products have been displayed.
Both the raw materials and the manu-.
featured products are shown, while the
various processes connected with their
mining and quarrying are presented.
The public is thus given a clear insight
INTO the occurrence and treatment of
the various mineral substances derived
from the rocks Of Maryland.
The exhibits have been brought to-
gether under the direction of Prof.
William Bullock Clark, who is at the
head of the State Geological Survey and
who originally collected the materials
for the States displays at the Buffalo,
Charleston and st Louis expositions,
where they attracted great attention
andireceived the highest awards given
to any State for its display of min eral
wealth.
The neutrality-suspicious. plan and
systematic arrangement of the ma :
terials so far surpassed that of any
otheraaState's display that the judges
first awarded to the collection at Buffalo
IN 1901 the only gold medal given to any
State for its collective exhibit of min
eraI resources. The following year, at
Charleston, this exhibit, much enlarged.
received more and higher awards than
were given to any other State, while
at st. Louis the exhibit as whole re-
ceiyed the grand prize, with numerous
gold, silver and bronze medals.
At jamestown last year the publica-
tons, maps and models, which were the
only partslof the exhibit displayed, also
receiYedathe only gold medal given to
any similar organization for its ex-
ploitation Of a States mineral re-
sources.
Few people, and particularly our own
Maryland citizens, have any idea of the
immense annual production Of CONNER
cially valuable minerals in MARYLAND
With the absence largely Of ores of
tAe precious metals, the public hears
little Of the great but solid industries
built upon the coal, stone, clay and sand
deposits that make up the chief produc-
ton of Maryland's mineral and the
rapid growth which these industries
have made in recent years since the
organization of the Maryland Geological
Survey.
In 1896, when the survey was estab
hshed, and for many years prior thereto
the annual mineral production IN Mary
land amounted to little over s., 900,
600. Since 1898 this production has
been gradually increasing, with the
result that for several years past it has
exceeded $40, 000,0O annually.
The Annapolis exhibit is so arranged
as to-display fully the leading CONNER
cial products. There is conspicuouslv
placed a:pyramid showing the different
types of Maryland coal contributed bv
the leading coal companies of the State,
the pyramid being capped by a great
block ofiGeorges Creek coal furnished
by the.Consolidated.Co Coal Company.
The production of Maryland coal in
the past. has come largely from the
big sVein' of the Georges Creek
BASIN but with its approaching exhaus-
ton extensive development has already
commenced on the smaller veins which
the State Geological Survey has studied
In detail and plotted on maps of large
scale, showing that far more small-vein
coal exists than was ever contained in
the big Vein. "
Thel elaborate report issued by the
survey ;and employed by the present
and prospective coal companies is in the
hands of all of the leading coal-mininq.
engineers.
The display of Maryland building and
decorative stones is particularly elabor-
ate. Near the center of the room is a
large pyramid, capped with polished
cone OF the beautiful varie gated marble
quarried near Washington Junction, on
which every type of building and dec
oratlye stone is represented by cubes.
At its four corners are beautiful.
polished shafts of Guilford gray granite,
Beaver Dam white marble, Seneca red
sandstone and Cardiff serpentine. This
pyramid formed a very conspicuous
feature in the exhibit at Charleston and
st. Louis. There are also several
monuments, slabs and blocks showing
effectively some of the n,nra boou+;f,I