The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-03-13
A PERMANENT MINING EXHIBIT
by James G.. Givens.l

Mining men generally note that tie senate has passeda bill appropratinr
$4,000 to make a mining exhibit in GoIdfeld during the session IF the American
mining congress 1t is to be hoped that the house will pass the am bill
making the same appropriation.
1t would be well at this time that mining men generally get together and
make this exhibit a permanent thing in Goldfeld. Use the $1,000 appropriated
by the legislature to found an exhibit that will be % only a honor to the
mining business itself, but also a place of interest that will add to the attrac
tfveness of this city.
When in San Francisco son time ago, my attention va directed to a
collection Of minerals and things relating to minerals and mining to be seen
in the Southern Pacific railway station of that city.
This collection is both interesting and instructive. 1t is arranged and
classified in a n calculated to please not only the man who understands
place the interest is held by the information to be obtained and the onlookr
is likely to continue his investigation of the subject of mines at some future
The main object of this collection is Ia set forth the mineral wealth and
possibilities of California, yet it is educational in the most pronounced degree.
The Ia from the manufacturing eenterso of the East, or from the agricultural
centers of the middle West and South, learns something from actual experience
man he understands mining, the maj from Alaska the a from brtlsh
Columbia, the mar from Australia and New Zealand, the nan from Idaho,
Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Washington and Montana; the man
from every mining center, foreign or domestic, seeing ths collection as =
whole, compares it with the minerals in the class with which he is familiar.
However proiudiced he may be in favor of his W section, he must acknowl
edge the possibilities sin a mining center having mines that make o great
"a showing. Such a collection makes men think. 1t makes them desire some
interest in 50 great a business opportunity. 1t brings mel into the business
That collection Of minerals is a constant advertisement to the travelling public.
Why moi have a similar collection here not temporary, but permanent
In a collection of this kind the ores are first collected. then classified by
kinds and values; by camps and districts; by mines and lodges; some spei
mems ire polished, others lief, in the rough; SON great mines like the No
hawk are shown in miniature, exterior elevations and depressons; interior
tunnels passages md workings complete. show to the most skeptical that
mining is a business for earnest, honest men Of sound brain n bushes
ability.
that the ores if put in a collection such as described will make just IS
enl public as the on in San Francisco. Every mining company of standing
ought to aid in making such a collection permanent.
Within the past four years the growth of that part of Nevada of which
GoldGeld is the center has been phenomenal The mineral production has IS
founded the world. Men come here from all parts of the world to see or
themselves Such a collection would b. most onvinelng 10 me p9yer te
miner, the manager, the mn who looks on and the nal who works that there
is 10 greater place for mining than just here These mel would by eompari
son, by contrast, by many other ways peculiar 70 eah maSiauai a' cs'
reach the ame conclusion as to the greatness of Goldfeld as a mining center
is but earnest of what the future holds or thu mining mn ne makes ths
his field of operations Make the exhibit permanent.