The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-20
NEVADA TO HAVE
GREAT EXHIBIT
WILL BE FINEST EVER
DISPLAYED
(By Sam G.. Dunham)
Special to News and Tribune

SAN FRANCISCO. June IL
Geo. T. Mills, Nevada commissioner
to the Panama-Pacific international
exposition, in a letter to Charles E.
Van Barneveld, chief of the depart
ment of mines and m~etallurgy, states
that his office now has underway
the preliminary preparations for the
collecting of the greatest mineral ex-
hibit the United States has ever see
at any exposition" In concluding
his letter, Mr.. Mills writes: I'VE
have the leading and most progress
sive men in the state in this line
all greatly interested, and they are
lending us their aid magnificently. l
had the pleasure of meeting a large
number of mining men of Nevada at
a statewide meeting of the repre-
sentatives of all interests in Reno
Saturday, and was particularly i'm
pressed with the enthusiasm display
ed by them in the collecting of what
they all agree will be a mining ex-
hibit that will open the eyes of the
entire world"
1t is announced by the bureau of
about completed the plans for the
Nevada building, which will be one
of the most attractive structures in
the state group. With an appropria-
ton of 500, 900 1t his disposal,
Commissioner Mills is confident that
the so-called "Sagebrush State will
provide an exhibit of general re-
sources thai will be a revelation to
most visitors to the exposition and
will effectually ,dispel the popular
mi%sconception which has arisen from
this derisive misnomer. 1t will show
that Nevada leads the world in the
quality of it's apples, potatoes and
many other products of the soil,
while in sheep and cattle raising she
offers opportunities hat are not sur
passed by any section of the great
west.
Mineral Display
But is is in her mineral display
and in the exemplification of her up
tO-date methods and processes in
mining and metallurgy that Nevada
will achieve her greatest distinction
at this most comprehensive of all
worlds eXpositions. Now that the
legislature of Nevada has so gen.
erously provided for the official rep
resentation of the state at the expo
sition, it is incumbent upon indi-
vidual mining men throughout the
state, as a matter of state pride, to
cooperate with Commissioner Mills.
Particularly should the Commissioner
have the enthusiastic cooperation of
the people of the Comstock, whose
tremendous output of silver and gold
saved the credit of the nation, at a
time when not only it's political in
tegrity but also it's financial status
was in danger. t..
Others among the older districts
from a practical point of view should
participate in the collecting of a
record-breaking display are Eureka,
with a record of $50, 900, 900, in sill
yer and lead; Phoebe, wit ha produc-
ton of $4,000, 900 in gold; Austin,
which produced $4,000, 900 mostly
in gold, and Silver Peak with an out
put of more than $4,000, 900 in gold
to her credit.
Coming down to the present day.
Tonopah, now recognized as the
greatest silver-gold camp in the
world, with a gross production in
twelve years of nearly $4,000, 900
and a dividend record of over $780,
600 600, can surely be depended
upon to assume a chief place in the
state exhobit. Goldfeld, with a to-
tai production of more than $780,
600, 600 and a dividend record of
nearly $4,000, 600 in less than ten
years, can easily contribute the most
attractive display of rich gold speci-
mems ever seen at an International
exposition, and will nc doubt respond
in a way that will do credit to her
enterprising mining men, who are al
ways found in the forefront of any
movement for the upbuilding of the
state.
Nevada is First
While Nevada for the last few
years has occupied only third or
fourth place in the statistical state.
ments of the production of gold in
the United States, it is a fact gen.
orally recognized that she stands
first by a margin of several million
dollars in the output of gold and
silver recovered from quartz mining
The supremacy of California and
Alaska in the production of the pre-
cious metals, as shown by the gOv-
eminent statements, is due to the
large proportion of placer gold Sc
cured by hydraulic and dredging
methods. both of which methods are
short-lived when compared with the
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