Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-10-07
MINING EXHIBIT
SURELY A WINNER
New Feature at the State Fair
Is One OF CenterS Of
Interest.
REPRESENTS BIG INDUSTRY
Harry :. Joseph Covers Himself With
Glory in the Under akng--I'rac-
tically All Camps Represented.

ticauy All Camps Represented.
Out Of the rugged breasts Of Utah's
mountains. and from thu rocky depths
of her great quaries. have been gath
cred specimens of tho heaviest mineral
bearing ores and finest blocks of build
ing and paving stone. and these are
combined bon tho largo exhibit Of its
Kind In the history Of the state. which
is being shown In the mining building
at the Inland Empire exposition this
week.
Harry $ Joseph. supervisor OF the
exhibit. has worked early and late TO
make the affair success, and the con-
census OF opinion among mining men
who have visited the building Is that
he has realized more than they dared
hope In their dreams Of what the oN-
hibit should be. Mr. Joseph has been
ably assisted by Jesse cannon. W. u.
Reed and Charles A. Poet Mr. Reed
spent much time and effort In search
ing the Tintic district Tor its finest spec
linens and MI peet gathered mag
nificent display from the Bingham dis
trict.
The mining building represents the
whole mining Industry Of Utah I'm every
imaginable department The exhibits
i'm precious ores are enough TO make the
heart of lover Of Utah swell with
pride. and the figures Of ore values win
spread the fame of the states wonder
ful mines far and vide.
An ore sample from the Sioux Consol-
idated carries 1000 ounces OF silver To
the ton This is hard TO believe. but
the reports of half a dozen different
assayers confirm the statement beyond
peradvcnture of doubt As one old
miner said when ho looked at this sam
pie. 1t takes YOU back To the good old
days when the famous Mollie Gibson
of Aspen sent out carloads OF almost
pure silver ore"
Colorado will have to Ego some 10
beat this 4,OOO-ounce silver ore. TO be
surci
Another specimen that makes the
mining men Of other states sit up and
take serious notice is large hunk OF
ore from the Grand Central, which
shows Ave different kinds OF copper and
runs 80 per cent pure copper.
To q mining man, one Of the most
sensational exhibits Is huge speci-
men Of beautiful. red zinc carbonate
ore from the Scranton mine In the
North Tintic district. 1t is a peculiar
deposit of zinc in that the zinc car
Donate appears absolutely independent
of all other metals. Good authorities
Who have seen this specimen declare
that ia an probability there is 10 other
deposit OF zinc carbonate ore like this
In the world
MINERAL RUBBER.
4 mining exhibit is the last place an
the world whore one would look for
human interest. bat behind one of the
simplest exhibits in the building lies
"a story Of a Utah inventor who la
bored necessarily and give his life
for a dream which. ia It's realization,
win certainly rcNolutionize one OF the
greatest of the worlds industries On
one Of the pillars i'm the mining building
an automobile tire hangs on a support.
The sign simply states thar 1t Is am
automobile tire made of Utah mineral
rubber in salt Lake CRY. by the
Hydrocarbon Manufacturing company.
q local concern. The crowds look cur
iously at the auto tire. and feel II WITH
their hands. Most OF the people smile
obviously at the idea OF mineral rub
her But the real story behind that
single auto tire Of mineral rubber
IS fraught with enough romance and
rathos 10 make a good novel from real
life Briefly, "a Salt Lake city man,
by the name OF La Belle. spent his life
In searching for minerals which. when
combined In certain manner would
taken the place Of rubber After cx-
perimeuting for years. he finally struck
the charm In the ro-carbonate. Ia
Belle. az the climax OF hs
success refused half million
dollars for half interest In
the formula OF the secret process. Then
Ia Belle died. That Is the skeleton OF
the story. But Ia Bellies work lives.
aud his great invention bids fair 10 put
the rubber trust out OF business. be-
cause Utah has enough immense beds
or the hydrO-carbonate to make min
cral rubber until doomsday
This mineral rubber auto tire looks
like rubber. feels like rubber and smells
like rubber u is rubber And 1t Is
so much stronger than ordinary veg
ctahle rubber that there a. no conn
puflHun between the two whom 10 comes
TO actual tensile and endurance tests.
UNIVERSITY EXHIBIT.
One OF the most interesting ana ox
tenslNe exhibits is that OF the I'ulver-
sity OF Utah including a perfect as
say laboratory iu charge OF Prof r
H. Bradford OF the department or
mines az the university. ana q mag
nincent collection of classified ores and
minerals 10 charge of Prof Pack OF the
department Of geology
IN The ASSAY exhibit. students Of the
university carry on ASSAYS for an
mining men who bring ores The OUT
IN includes "A small ore crusher. "a two
horse power pulyerzcl and the variots
articles and chemicals used iu good
assay laboratory One of its most m-
lerestlhe features rs pair OF nne de-
hcate scales manufactured by leusser.
~ the salt Lake Mine. Smeltcr and
supply company Tho samIlIng MIN
Us another good feature. Tho ASSAYS
run completely from the start 90 the
finish
The University of Utah exhibit of
ores and minerals Includes specimens
OF thc finest mines bon the state n
Eola- silver copper lead zinc. mer-
curry qua other metals Louis Paddl-
SON ANA J.. r.. Dobhs. two a. of a.
students. run the assay laboratory and
explain tho details of the work ably
% the interested visitors
CONCENTRATION AT WORK.
An exhibit which attracts the crowd
rs thc Dykes Universal concentration.
which pos constantly at work Hugh
J Dykes, the Inventor who is a san
Lake city man explains the process
and action of the concentration 90 the
spectators. n ls machine that works
Win three simultaneous motions. have
lnE "a head ercussion motion. side
rocking motion, ana tau-shaking
motion al the same time Tho faIIo