The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1912-05-02
MINERAL EXHIBITION AT PANAMA EXPOSITION


Lewis r. Aubury formerly mneraogist of Califor-
na the author of article in the Mining and Engineering
journal which gives idea of the benefits the mining in
dustry and all mining states will udcous aver-
Using and representative displays the Panama exposition in
San Francisco in 1915. He saws:
The maPacifc International exposition which will
take place IN San Francisco in 1915 will without doubt be rich
IN all its departments manufacturing industrial arts fine arts
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS with it's allied industries of horticulture
ana viculture and general aingarmy and navy and their
equipments electricity in the multitude of forms in which is
now employed, etc. Among the exhibits historically cond
cred and also because they represent the of majority
large enterprises of the latter day. will be interest
ing or instructive than those that are included under the
general head of mines and mining
For exhibition purposes will be seen at glance that the
territory west OF the Missouri river expected to supply
the greater portion of the mining samples and mining macn
cry in the mines and mining department This portion of the
United States has produced the great values in the precious
metals for this country Herein the great deposits of gold
silver petroleum. "copper" ron COAL gems of many varieties
ead and to be BRIEF all minerals that cassed industrial
ana structural The joint annual output at present of the
country west of the Missouri minerals of various kinds
must be estimated in value in hundreds of millions of dollars
and that is not by the maximum of production of
which the area is capable On the contrary the production
increasing in quantities and in annual aggregated values The
mineral supply is practically nexhausbe
There will be greater representation of the mnerazed
lands west OF the Missouri and the Pacific of the United
States in the mines and mining show the exposition in 1915
than of any other portion of the world That is clearly
Swallowed by existing conditions In the first place the area
west Of the Missouri river the of any minerazed
portion OF the United States by direct of travel
Francisco In the next place the mining industry of this
large proportion of the total of the United States has,
many years. been engaged in producing minerals vast
scale and mineral production of its leading industries
as it justly of it's principal boasts In this general de-
scripon of territory included Alaska which prodgo,
rich in minerals The states west of the Missouri
cude the following that mineraized largely California
Washington, Oregon Nevada Utah. Wyoming, Arizona New
Mexico, Idaho Montana, Oklahoma, portion of the l
koas and Missouri also, the territory Of Alaska and the Phil
ppnes together with other great that less mineral
led There other part of the world of equal size thai
has so many known mining regions is there extent Of
mining territory that at all approaches this of
cation by established regular routes of travel with
exhibition point such San Francisco will be in 1915
10 advertise the mineral resources of California will nat
uray be result of the expoon but that will not be the
only result nor the only aim by any Just in proper
ton to the extent to which the mining states and territorial
advertised by exhibits and by appropriate and reliable
reading matter that will be of making known the exist
of minerals and the facilities for producing and marketing
these minerals expectation be reasonably entertained by
each subdivision west of the Missouri river that profit will fol
low in the shape of investments and what naturally follows
These are but general considerations but they contain
enough that suggestive possibly to call the attention of the
mining world to the fact that California will welcome mining
with without exhibits but that exhibits will greatly in
erest hundreds of thousands of visitors and not least will in
erest the mine operators of the great mineral state of Caor
MIA.
CALIFORNIA; mineral products amount to fully $780,,
100000 year. They embrace all the precious metals "copper"
quicksilver petroleum. tungsten gems and gem materials
magneste manganese lead baryes edspar asphalt side
product every variety of building stones and cays vast
quantities, iron COAL SALT Soda borax and altogether fifty
substances.