Due to the failure of the Legislature to make an appropriation, it was left to the Commercial Club of Birmingham to raise funds by popular subscription to make an exhibit of the mineral resources of the State. It happened that Alabama had no State building, its only representation was in the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy, facing the south entrance.
The central figure was the huge iron colossus of Vulcan. This was one of the more interesting and striking objects in the entire Exposition. Grouped around the figure were the coals, iron ores, cokes, steel rails, fire and cement clays, porcelain clays, glass, sand, etc., produced in the Birmingham district and elsewhere in the state.
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