Show lammersdorf LAM CABINET U of U gets rich min eral specimens collection consists of specimens from all the mining districts in the state R R wooley of the U of afu ofu U of mines arrived here last sunday sunda to pack and ship the splendid cabinet of minerals which mr air charles lim has given to the university the collection comp comprises ilses the beba cabinet of uta utah minerals known in the state mr and mrs Lam lammersdorf Lammers dort will i leae here in about a month for a tour of the principal places of in of the old world ih dis posed of their home the villi lam on west second north street to dr steiner some time bince and the latter takes possession on oil mra ma all the furniture and fixtures ti tures go with nith the sale and mr where he could olace was si eking I 1 i place his extensive ete exten nive give c abinet of mm min brals he thought of the school of mines which the stati conducts ard it occurred to him that if the cabinet was given to the school it would be of some value to the students in all the years to come accordingly he made the th gift a week ago and it was received with expression of praise from the officers of the state school as well as all the mining men in the irate and the the ot or tile the heralded news nes nes newspapers papers gift the cabinet represents the patient labor of 30 nears era collections ml ali and his good wife came to utah upwards of thirty years since he followed mining in all the camps he was one of the in the territory tern tori poin pointers cers in the gintic tintic district a and n d s saw w the properties there when they were not much more than peets he saw the sir str elting operations at ho mansville when smelting smelling sm elting processes were caude comp compiled ired to the processes process ea of today he ha gather gathered cd specimens ns from all the mines he came in contact N with ith in the collection are to be found t the finet specimens mens of bilkei ore including native horn silver liver ruby leaf and wire silver as well as all the other boinis to be found in the mines of the state copper cobalt mercury mercure and every aneti ariet of ore imaginable is contained in the cabinet in addition to the val valuable specimens there all kierl of geological specimens fossils and antique relies of former ages and rites rices many of the specimens specimen s are of great intrinsic a i well uell as of educational value the cabinet represents thousands of dollars on account of the of the minerals contained therein the specimens sp eicens have occupied a prominent place in the library at villa Lam lammersdorf there are six shelves each about four feet wide and 12 inches in depth on these shelves are arranged over three thousand pieces of ore formations of ea surpassing rp assing beauty and r are ire geo geological logical specimens brightly colored frow from mineral solutions hold the attention of the spectator mr air lammersdorf Lam his each ach specimen catalogued cataloguer catalo gued for reference fos fossils ils from lake bonne ville and petrified sage brush trunks highly mineralized from silver reef are two of the interesting things as well as a piece of birds eye porphyry with horn silver and a piece of soapstone bearing belver mr can tell interesting thing of the early history of mining in utah he remembers the discovery of horn silver in eureka he tells the story of a certain well known property which was being worked there and the horn silver was all going over the dump the men who owned the property were money and some of the men amplo ed were gengl without their wages among them was a dutchman who was waa assayer for the company lie ile made a demand for the wages due him amounting amo to about boj the company could not pay him he offered to take the old dump for his pay and the company was only too willing to give this the result was the dutchman cleared up bL verill thou thousand and dollars out of the dump be for forthe the values bere ere discovered lie he knew the horn silver ore was being thrown away avay when the officials woke up to thi the fact that the assayer had bad been getting high values out of tle the dump they tried to catch him but he had flown to f alifornia but this led to the recognition of the horn born |