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The most prominent feature of the exhibit, however, is a solid silver, life-size statue of the celebrated actress, Ada Rehan, standing on a globe which in turn rests on a base of solid gold. The whole work represents several hundred thousand dollars worth of precious metals, all the products of Montana mines.
Wyoming makes a neat and effective exhibit. It consists largely of coal in columns and blocks, jars of petroleum, blocks of sulphate of soda and sulphate of magnesia, "lode" tin ore and stream tin ore from the northeastern part of the state, adjoining the Dakota tin region, iron ore, copper ore, auriferous quartz, lead carbonate, asbestos, agates, clay, sulphur, building stones, etc.
Colorado makes a fairly good display of its silver-lead ores, copper ores, gold ores, coal and manufactured lead and copper. Some of the building stones and iron ores of the state are shown, but these materials are not fully represented. An instructive feature of the exhibit is a series of cases of gold nuggets, dust gold and sheet gold from Breckenridge, Colorado. Many of the important mining camps in the state are represented, especially Aspen, Leadville, Creede, Cripple Creek, etc. The exhibit is fairly good, but a state of such immense mining wealth as Colorado could have made a much better one.
The Utah exhibit contains a large amount of valuable material, but it too much crowded and badly arranged. The desire for a display of brilliantly contrasted colors has in some cases entirely upset the systematic arrangement of the exhibit, and has given part of it the appearance of the toy boxes with pieces of minerals glued on the outside that are sold to confiding tourists in our western states as works of art and value. The exhibit represents the varied mining industries of the territory, among the most important substances being coal, gilsonite, albertite, elaterite, asphalt, oil shales, sulphur, salt, iron ores, copper ores, silver and gold ores, building stones, etc. The exhibit of articles "japanned" by the gilsonite varnish are of interest. Some large specimens of silver-lead ores and ores containing chloride of silver are characteristic of the mines producing them.