Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-12-17
STATE EXHIBITS
ON 4 RED BALL
! FOR SAN DIEGO
Greater Part Of Those Loaded
Here Consists of Minerals
From Every Section Of New
Mexico,

play az The state building at the Pam
ainn-california exposition in San Die
so next year were loaded at Santa Fc
ana Albuquerque yesterday afternoon
ana are now on the way to California
as part Of O red ball freight train. II
VIII arrive Monday and President II.
II. Twltchell of the board OF EXPOSE
ton managers declares that Il will De
IN place In the building before De-
cember 20. down to the last little de-
tail.
The portion loaded ut Albuquerque
consisted mainly of mining displays
and mineral specimens. Fayette A..
jones' president of the State School
OF Mines and director OF the mineral
dssplay for New Mexico at the expo
sition, stated that he expected the dis
play TO bring In fully as much new
capital for mining development as did
the exhibit AZ the st. Louis exposition
a few years ago.
From All Mining Districts.
The exhibit contains several thous-
and specimenk' he said. and eyery |
mining district In New Mexico Is rep /
resented. We have not only all the
usual minerals, such as gold, silver, |
copper and others which are popular
~ associated with the western country |
but others in which New Mexico Is |
even richer than some fields already !
we'll developed. Among the rarer
minerals TO be ON display are tantalite
the ore OF tantulium: tungsten ore
OF which we have large deposits: sa-
which contains many of the
rarer minerals, including chromium:
meerschaum. asbestos. mica and sui
phur. OF which New Mexico has an
immense quantity In several deposits.
In this connection | may say that II
has always leen mystery to me why
the sulphuric acid manufacturers
have 40 long overlooked the great
Of sulphur which exist in
New Mexico and which can be mined
NJ practically no expense. There Is
another important source of sulphur In
the state. and that is the pyritic ores,
many of which are treated for their
metallic content In such way that
the sulphur gases escape. These could
be captured easily and sulphurie acid
made by the contact process from
them.
Display Brought Capital.
I'VE also have same gold ore from
the Pinos Altos district in southwest
tern New Mexico which IL worth
800, 000 a ton and an ingot Of bullion
from the Mogollon district IN western
Socorro county.
THE immediate result OF the dis
play az the st. Louis exposition was
the introduction into the state OF -four
Or five millions of dollars for deyel-
,pment work which has brought many /
times that amount into the conmun
ny In other ways since. | fully ex
pect that this display Will do as wen.
II is not as though The specimens we
have were from Isolated and little
known points. each specimen repre-
,ents a known deposit OF some valua
Die mineral. We are able to show
what is IN New Mexico. not merely
what we think is here.
Mining Industry Leads.
1T is not generally known. but the
mining industry Of New Mexico over
hadows all other industries combined,
not excepting agriculture and the
'aisng OF livestock The government
igurcs for production in 1918 indi-
'ate that more than S17. 500. 900 worth
" valuable minerals were taken from :
he ground In that twelve months !.
II the state, The 1914 production
would have been more than 100000
700 but for the depression In copper
'aused by the European war. An
'thcr little known fact IL that coal |
PRODUCES but one-third Of this revc-
Tue, being only one-half as valuable
o the state as the metals"
Mr.. Jones said that his duties as
resident OF the New Mexico School of
lines would prevent his being con-
family al the New Mexico building
ut that he hoped to be there at stated
through the year. the COM
missioner Of publicity. 4. +. Koehler. 4
r.. having charge Of the minerals in
lis absence. He stated that on the I
occasion OF his visits he would deliv-
r q series of lectures on the states =
mineral resources which he hoped to I
make interesting to the iayman as
yell as 20 the professional mining
nan. Arrangements have been made
a series OF special lectures
n mining and minerals of the state
III be delivered by the force under
lr. KoehIer
Twitchell to Go soon.
Chairman. -Twitchclls will leave in
few days for his first visit TO the
xposition building since the state de-
ided on making display at the san
,iego fair. lie will supervise the
ctual setting up of the exhibits and
Ill generally arrange matters pre-
aratory TO the opening of the build
w. Heretofore he has handled all
xposition matters through the exec
tive offices here and in Santa Fe. v
Chairman Twitchell said that he q
ad been requested by the director b
eneral of the exposition to inform
i'm OF how many New Mexicans