The Cordova daily times., 1921-05-24


 Daily Times) ).-National interest in the twenty-fourt annual convention of the American Mining Congress and the National Exposition of Mines and Mining Machinery which will open in Chicago, Monday, October IF, is evi- denced by the fact that already most of the metal, oil and mining states in the west have reserved space in the exposition and are laying plans to participate in what promises to be, one of the most interesting national expositions ever attempted.
 Chicago, this year, is to be the scene of the first exclusively mining show ever attempted, and the general committee of arrangements of which Hon. Francis s. Peabody of Chicago, is executive chairman, is laying it's plans along broad and comprehensive lines for the visualization of the min ing industry to the nation at large upon such basis that there will re- suit more definite knowledge of the importance of mining in the national program readjustment.
 The Chicago Coliseum has been leased for this mining exposition. A great electric fountain will play it's myriads of colors upon the Alaskan exhibit which will occupy the center of the show, and, with the mining operators of Alaska backed by the governor of that territory, thoroughly aroused to the importance of bringing Alaska into public notice at this time, it is expected that the Alaskan ex- hibit will be one of the most inter- esting of it's kind ever made in the United States
 1 Grouped around the great electric fountain and the products of Ameri- cas- Horthern-most mining camps will appear the various states, in- cluding Minnesota, which will exploit her vast storehOuses of iron and un- | limited millions of tons of conner cial peat; Montana, which although, until recently known most widely as being the greatest copper producing state on this continent, is now break ing into the public eye with unusual petroleum possibilities; Washington, with her silver and copper, her vast storehouse of magnesite which have released the United States from com mercial bondage to Austria, with the newly found copper fields and vast coal resources; California, which first made possible the gold standard for the world through the unlimited hid den wealth of the gold in her hills, with hundreds of various minerals and n-metalliferous substances, with her petroleum, marble and onyx; Nevada which in itself is treasure-house sui 1 ficient for the nation at large, and | which has already assembled one of the finest mineral exhibits ever made ] by any state in the union; Utah 1 whose hills are filled with almost un- limited and undeyeloped mineral SUD- | plies, with coal and marble as a commercial background and with an incoming petroleum field which is now attracting the attention of the | world; Colorado. noted for gold, sill yer, lead, zinc, coal, phosphate, pot 1 ash, and innumerable substances which have brought, and will still bring, unlimited wealth to the people of that state; Wyoming, until re- gently practically unknown as min eral producer, but which now occu- pies leading place in the petroleum world, and whose hills are filled with iron, copper, asbestos and many other commercial substances; Oregon, with her great resources in gold, platinum, silver and many other wealth-produc- ing commercialized deposits; and Ari- zona, underlaid with wealth of cop per, gold, asbestos and similar metals and minerals.
 Surrounding the states will appear the various exhibits of the coal pro- ducing centers, some of the exhibits being made by states officially and