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eight feet wide and ten and one-half feet high. In this mantel were 

 placed their various types of red and buff brick, making an artistic 

 exhibit, which was said by experts to be the finest mantel erected at 

 the fair. This exhibit was made by the company at their own expense. 

 The new Coffeyville Roofing-tile Factory made an exhibit of roof- 

 ing-tile, with a picture of their plant placed above it. In color, finish 

 and strength these tile had no superior in this building. This in- 

 dustry was started after the fair opened and is building up a large 

 business. 



CONCLUSION. 



Kansas, through her mining exhibits, established a reputation as a 

 mineral state in the minds of the visitors from home and abroad. 

 The question, "What has Kansas to show in mineral lines?" was 

 answered by this display. This phase of the state's resources is one 

 not as well known nor as well advertised as it should be, and the re- 

 sults of this complete advertisement of the mineral resources is bound 

 to bring rich returns in the future. 



It certainly will repay the state for its money expenditure, the 

 commission for its time and anxiety involved in its preparation and 

 installation, and the people of the state who have aided in the collection 

 of the materials. 



At the close of this great exposition our exhibit of the Kansas 

 mineral products was appreciated so highly that it was sought after 

 by some of the leading museums of the country. The National Mu- 

 seum, at Washington, wished to take it entire and set it up in the new 

 government museum. Some of these demands, with the honor in- 

 volved, were hard to refuse, but it seemed best to the chief of this de- 

 partment and to the commission that this collection, so nearly complete, 

 and collected at the expense of the state, ought to be preserved at 

 home as a permanent memorial of the exposition and as a standing 

 advertisement of our mineral wealth. It was deemed best to send it 

 to Topeka, to be set up in the museum room of the Kansas Academy 

 of Science, in the state-house, open to public inspection. Thus in 

 one room the stranger and citizen can see what Kansas has in mineral 

 wealth. It will there prove an educational force, and will be worth 

 more than its money value to the state. The exhibit is now installed 

 in Topeka, in the Academy of Science museum, open to the public. 



This exhibit received two gold medals, twenty-two silver medals, 

 and fourteen bronze medals. 



