390 The American Geologist. December, 1893 
Only those who have personal acquaintance with the large re- 
sources of this greal state will appreciate how much of value 
has been omitted. 
South Dakota. 
Gold and Bilver smelting ores from the Cora Mining com- 
pany, Red ('loud Mining company and Keystone Mining Com- 
pany; gold ore from Lawrence county and Hawkeye. Lead 
and silver ores from the Tornado, Lawrence county. Spruce 
gulch, Posslan and the Belle Eldredge. Siliceous ores for the 
chlorination process are shown from the Buxton and Mark 
Twain. Lawrence county. 
A column of ores from the Ilomestake (the largest gold-pro- 
ducing mine in the United States) from Pennington county. 
Tin ore from the Cyclone and Custer. 
A specimen of carved sandstone by Reardon of Buffalo 
(lap. (uster county, indicates a good fine-grained building 
-tune and praiseworthy native talent. 
Tennessee. 
A small space was divided between Tennessee and Louis- 
iana. Products of the former were (besides bituminous and 
cannel coals, sandstone, marble, fire clay, and bricks made 
from it) hematite with 50 p. c. Fe. from the Eureka mine: 
iron ores from the Walden Ridge mines (all the above from 
Ilarriman ) ; and specimens marked magnetite from Carter 
county. 60 p. c. Fe.. which were mostly hematite with a par- 
tial admixture of magnetite, 
The display was very unsatisfactory and showed that the 
important mining interests of this state had been unaccount- 
ably neglected. 
Louisiana. 
The only exhibit from Louisiana was the Petite Anse rock 
salt, of which a block had been carved to represent "Lot's 
( not Lottery's) wife.*" Iron pyrites, black oxides, gold and 
silver quartz, zinc ore and quartz are given also in the cata- 
logue, but were not observed. 
Li ah. 
Gold, silver and lead ores are shown from the districts 
which follow: Ophir, Willard. Park City, Stockton. Miners- 
ville, Ashley Fork, Big Cottonwood, Silver Reef ( no lead). 
