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Union Telegraph Company, and was prepared to ship vitriol on a 

 larger scale and of the highest quality, but the consolidation of the 

 smelter interests of the country resulted in the closing down of the 

 Argentine smelter with its interesting by-product of vitriol. 



In the upper part of the case, the lola Portland Cement Company 

 had a small exhibit, showing the materials from which the cement 

 was made, the finished cement, the briquettes of cement broken, to 

 show the high tensile strength. This was only a small exhibit, as the 

 main exhibit was made in the cement building outside, in the raining 

 gulch. The cement industry has developed very rapidly in the 

 past few years in Kansas, and it was a source of regret that we could 

 not persuade the companies to make a united exhibit in the Kansas 

 space. Elaborate plans had been made with this end in view, but 

 they failed to materialize at the last moment. 



BUILDING STONE. 



Kansas building stone was shown in eight- and ten-inch cubes from 

 the quarries of the state. Very few quarries were willing to contrib- 

 ute to this exhibit ; so we collected the stone and had it cut at the 

 expense of the state. From a number of the quarries we had the 

 stone donated and even cut into the desired form. This stone exhibit, 

 while incomplete, was large enough to attract attention. The blocks 

 were arranged on white enameled supports, set on a sloping series of 

 shelves five feet in height and ten feet in length. The top shelf con- 

 tained ornamental jars of white silica or tripoli from Burr Oak, and 

 concentrates of lead and zinc. The sandstone and limestone blocks 

 of different colors were exhibited from the following quarries: 



GLASS. 



Our great glass industry was brought to the attention of visitors by 

 a fine exhibit of table glassware from the Cherryvale Glass Company, 

 bottles from the Coffeyville Bottle Glass Company, and the crude- 

 materials for glass manufacture from within the state's limits. There 

 was an exhibit of the glass sand from Fredonia, contributed by Long 



