International exhibition Glasgow 1901
Official catalogue

188 Queensland. light blue on plan. fields—Charters Towers, Gympie, Rockhampton (which includes the world-famed mountain of gold, Mount Morgan), Croydon, Etheridge, Ravenswood, Palmer, and Clermont. There are, in addition, four minor obelisks, to indicate the productive power of Queensland in base metals. All these obelisks have at their bases samples in bulk of the ores of the various metals. A special mineral attraction is the uniquely designed Mercury Fountain, which being supplied with a charge of three tons of quicksilver, largely produced from the Cinnabar Mines of Queensland, shows to the wondering gaze a metal flowing like water, and yet withal so heavy in itself as to carry on its surface large pieces or weights of iron, which may be seen floating in the basin of the fountain. Close to this is an interesting model of a complete crushing plant. This, driven by electricity, and with its tiny stampers pounding away at the hard quartz, and with its silver-lined plates saving and amalgamating the gold, may be found carrying on its work just as the larger sized plant does in actual mining. Again, on the other side of the Court, may be seen in full work a pithead frame with all safety gear appliances, in fact, everything as used in any mine, but on a smaller scale. Both these last exhibits come from Messrs. Edward Chester & Co., of Renfrew. The three are a great attraction. There is also a fine display of tools used in mining, including rock drills and working models of mining machinery. A pearl shell trophy is erected at the west exit of the Court, to illustrate the value and importance of this pi’oduct. An interesting and unique exhibit will be found in another shell made of cedar and intended for presentation to General Baden-Powell. It contains a look-out door, and in a recess has a bar of pure gold, sent by the gold miners of Croydon to indicate their opinion of the distinguished service to the Empire of this brave soldier. Two enormous pieces of pure metallic copper, weighing over a ton each, and won from the earth in their present form, are objects of interest to the curious, and also a scientific curiosity in the shape of the door of a pump as it now appears after twenty years’ submersion in a copper mine. There are some articles as well evidencing the other principal products of Queens- land, especially wool and timber, and a model of a newly designed suction dredger, the “Samson ” (designed by Mr. Lindon Bates), lately erected atNewcastle-on-Tyne, tried in the Suez Canal successfully, and now, with its 5000 H. P., pursuing its regular work in the harbours and rivers of Queensland. A detailed descriptive Catalogue of the several exhibits of this Court is being prepared, and may shortly be obtained gratis from the attendants. The Court is under the direct management of a Queensland Government officer, Mr. George Randall, who has for his assistant Mr. George W. Cornish, of London. For the information of all who desire to know more about the products and prospects of Queensland, either the official representative of the Government of Queensland in London, the Hon. Sir Horace Tozer, K. C. M. G., or in his necessary absence, Mr. C. S. Dicken, C. M. G., Secretary for Queensland, will remain in Glasgow, and may be found in the offices attached to this Court