The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-04-22
Mr.. Sehwerd's Letter.
San Francisco, April

San Francisco, April l3, 1916.
Editor Miner Wallace, Idaho.
Dear Sir-An article in The Miner
of March 25 was called to my atten-
tion by someone sending me a mark
ed copy of the same
This article is entirely misleading
ard has not confined itself to the
truth of the exhibit. The gentleman
in question must have thought he was
doing some wonderful gumshoe work
when he spied the tags to the capitol
building He makes it appear that
the ores on exhibit were from pre-
vous exposition, when as a matter Of
fact, there are none of the ores on
exhibit that were ever at a previous
exposition, and this tag that is mark
ed from the capitol building, If he had
looked carefully he would have seen
1t on everyone of the ores, as It Is
shipping tag used by this commission
to centraliZe the display material al
Boise. Every exhibitor knows and Is
familiar with this tag Whenever
unlocked the ores ! tore off this ship
ping tag and placed 1t by the rock
from which it was taken so as to be
sure and make double check on my
ores so that when we started in to
make our readers for all the ores we
could then remove the old shipping
tags.
Ores All Labelled.
The man In question is again wrong
in what he says about the ores not
being labelled, when MS a matter OF
fact every ore has its reader, desig-
mating the kind of ores. whether it con
tans lead, zinc, quartz, siderite or
whatever material 1t contains, it Is
labelled with assay values, owners
name, etc.
1t is the opinion of the majority
that counts with this exhibit The ex-
hibit is boing we'll advertised by the
mining men that see it.. In fact, we
have people coming in from New York
City Chicago ST Louis and other
points stating that they wish to see
the Idaho mining exhibit, that so and
so, and so and so has told them about
| 1t. Now, / believe that this kind OF
advertising is bringing results.
Show Up States Resources.
After reading the article | was 60
ing to pass 1t up as silly, but my sec
ond thought was that there might be
something said about it on account of
the various exhibitors who are inter
ested. ! am too busy down here to
bubble with newspaper stuff that is
written by some disgruntled person
| We are here for a purpose, and that
purpose is to try and show up our re-
sources in the best possible way so as
to bring the proper results to the
state.
Exhibit AS II Is.
! ] wish to tell you little about the
true condition Of our exhibit We
have a space 61x49 feet For the
background we have in relief a typical
Idaho mountain range. This range Is
60 feet long by Is feet deep and Is
feet high. At the base of this range
/ have a series Of cross sections "
relief showing the various veins and
fault system within our state In
front of this we have table so feet
long by feet wide that has the Sho-
shone county lead-silver- zinc depos-
its and their mill products well dis
played with readers on every one of
them. Fronting this table we have q
"copper" table q feet long by 5 feet
wide showing the various copper ores
OF the state To the left and right o.
| this copper table there is 2-tier gold
! table h feet square Facing the gold
tables on each side there are tables
10 feet long by 6 V feet wide that have
lead, silver, zinc and gray copper ores
from various parts of the state. In
front Of the copper tables alongside Of
these 10-foot tables there are two
tables one on each side ~ by feet
on one of these tables we have anti
mony ore, molibnite, tungsten, nickel
nickel cobalt and stream tin. ON the
other table is coal. iron ore. gypsum
lime and shale with finished cement
products, phosphate rocks and sand
lime brick materials In the center Of