Arizona republican., 1911-11-12


 bestos from the Bass mines in the Grand Canyon attracted more curious comment than any other exhibit
 Everyone wanted to know what it
 was good for and if it would really
 burn.
 County by county the exhibits were never so good. A much greater mum
 Der of very large specimens had
 been sent in from the best known mines and these were placed on ter raced shelves that gave them better lighting and grouping than in the past. Nearly all of the ores exhibited at other fairs had been left in place and theaddition of these large blocks and entire encouragement of the whole added tremendously to the value and attractiveness of the various county spaces
 The Old Dominion had sent about twenty large blocks of beautiful ore. illustrating the different levels of that group-as fine a lot of ore as was ever seen at an Arizona exhibit and a strong example of the telling effect of large specimens.
 The Mascot mine. in the Dos Ca beZas district, had sent in some fine. big blocks of ore. Thomas Barcroft of the Cobalt Copper had a very handsome exhibit and in every county the tendency was toward larger and more striking single and group speci- mems. Very interesting were the ex- hibits from some of the old mines of Arizona, around which a romantic glamour hangs. The Tip Top was again tn the front with some good things; the famous old Peck was rep resented by a little silver bar from it's historic past; the Tombstone mines had a most beautiful group of ores. large. richly colored specimens gath cred by MT. Gray at the request of Frank NJ. Murphy.
 The interest in gold and gold mines was shown by the crowd that gath cred around the case where several gold bars were displayed and also along the shelves where the Tom Reed and Gold Roads ore from Mo have county and the exhibits from the other gold mines of the country. A group of specimens from the Bare
 
 son. shared in this interest in gold bearing lodes.
 The young county of Greenlee had a notable group of copper ores from the Arizona Copper company and an other copper exhibit that divided at tention with all the other beautiful things was that sent by the Calumet Arizona company.
 Almost. it seemed. part of the historical group was some large speci- mems from the Magma property, near the old Silver King. This ore. which came from the S00-foot level, was es- pecially attractive.
 The Miami showed one of the com plete mill groups, ore. concentrates. etc. and the Ray Consolidated had another exhibit of this valuable type. Such comprehensive groups have more educational value than any amount of unrelated specimens.
 The oil shale from the Verde val ley is the forerunner of new min ing industry for Arizona, and it is to be hoped that flowing oil wells may send their product to next years fair
 Fine gypsum was shown from the Verde and other parts of Arizona. and the Gila tufa in a fine block illustrated a most adaptable building material. for it can be cut with saw or axe and shaped to decorative uses as well as solid construction.
 Near the big doors on the farther
 f1 big blocks of gray-dark ore was the core of crowd that lasted rom Monday morning till Saturday night. In the seventies and early eighties siIch an exhibit of silver ore would have been all in the days work, but in 1911 more people asked what IL was than there were to question the fireproof qualities of the asbestos.
 This ore from the Monte Cristo mine twelve miles east of Wicken- burg. would have raised stir in those old silver days. and there IS chance enough that it will put that section on the map again in the fu- ture. It was a wonderful display, which included a large plate-glass man of the various mine levels, sheii upon shelf of glass upon which strips Inf white paper indicated the work ings and the dip of the vein.
 Arizona has a great mining region almost unknown to most of her peo- nIa and the first exhibit ever shown from the country north of the Grand Canyon was the ore from the Grand GuIch Copper mine, a property that ships nothing under 30 per cent ore , rich and strange deposit in world of red sandstone.
 Grouped among the mining exhlbits were objects of other use, notaplN models of a concrete headgate for irri- yating ditches, which was invented bv | w. Woolf of Tempe. This in vention will meet a special need Of farmers and could be varied in size to suit the orchard or truck garden ,r any spot where water control was an object
 It would be impossible to mention all the notable things in the county exhibits Such complete reports have been given year by year that the new things have been selected for special mention.
 In one case group of old maps of Arizona held crowd all day long. They showed the country when Utah and New Mexico claimed the whole i