Park County’s Mining Display at National Exposition  

            In August 1882, the city of Denver was chosen for the National Mining Exposition.   The write up and description of Park County’s Pavilion is as follows:

          “The Denver News says of the Park county pavilion: ‘Park county has a very attractive show, both as to the pavilion and its contents. The former is pure white, being relieved by artistic bands of gold. It might be remarked that the spectators have volunteered further relief in black finger marks on once spotless pillars. These marks will be effaced, and likewise the perpetrators, at the next offense.  

          In the center of the pavilion is a stack of gold ore which represents a great number of mines. One line of specimens represents a line of contact which can be traced for fourteen or fifteen miles from Montgomery to Horseshoe. These mines, many of them of established reputation, are the Hoil, Ketsby, Hope, Colorado Springs, Ruby, Adrian, Criterion, Excelsier, Fanny Barret, London, Hasness, Weston, Sherwood and Mudsill. Samples are shown from the Ten- Fourty, the first Park county mine, which was discovered in 1867 by Charles Mullen, brother of the commissioner. Its name was taken from the United States bonds then in vogue, but not in Colorado to any alarming extent. It has been a steady producer since that time, and now ranks among the best.’ ”