The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-10-17
The TERRITORIAL FA,R.


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the straw that will break the long
suffering endurance Of your read
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The Territorial fair, held within
two mikes OF the city OF Denver,
completed its fifth and last day of
exhibiting yesterday. 1t was
warm and dnsty during the week,
but the wind blew but little and
the street sprinklers did good work,
SO We suffered very little inconven-
fence from the dust. "a
The grand feature of the fair
was its department of minerals.
One entire room was filled with
specimen ores of great size, and
cabinets. fhe largest sample
rock, weighing 5000 pounds, was
bro6eht ifom NE = eose,1nine. on
Nc. LlncoiAs IN che centsae Of the
room Was = pile OF - silver bricks,
the product Of one month rom
the Pelican lode, Georgetown,
worth $50, 4OS.7O;- these were sur
mounted by brick of gold from
Central City, worth about $14, 900.
By the way, did you ever have the
pleasure of seeing and lifting one
of those bricks of gold. This one
was about two inches thich, and
perhaps five inches wide by ten
long, and weighed acknowledgement
pounds. The gold nuggets from
Summit county weighed from:One-
half ounce to seven ounces, and
with the saucers Of gold dust, look-
ed very tempting. Some specimen
ores coHtaiAing free gold from
Prlnterboy lode, at Fairplay, had
been placed in q glass case and
put in the bank for safe keeping.
The terrible fire at that place last.
week burned the bank and melted
the glass and ore together, pro-
ducing a curious conglomerate.
z The next room was partly filed
with stuffed and preserved animals.
A large buffalo; deer pursued
by six wolves; a silver lion; ante
lopes, bears, snakes and oposums
were among the rest. A large case,
filed with beautiful. birds, nicely
mounted, was an elegant affair.
: L win not enter into q descrip-
ton of fine arts and manufactured
articles, for Colorado is not be-
hind her sister States in these
things, and it would tire your
readers if i undertook to enter IN
to q detail of them. aha-s
Passing these and entering the
vegetable department I win aston
ish you with this display, I think.
Foremost of all stands a wagon
load of potatoes, Breese Peerless.
Each potatoe averages one and
one-fourth pounds, and forty
makes a bushel. Truly they were
peerless. And such monsters IS
those Early Rose potatoes were,
took away my unbelief in regard
to Colorado potatoes. Cabbages
and caulifiowers, squashes and
pumpkins We'd with each other IN
point of size. Onions, tomatoes,
turnlps, beans, beets, and cucum-
bers were all very fine, showing
that vegetables are a success here.
There was some corn on exhibit
ton, but it looked very inferior to
me when / thought of the corn at
our county fair last year. Last
but best of all was the display of
wheat and rye. Large, white, full
kernels, and perfectly clean of any
seeds or other matter. art
There was the finest display of
butter I ever saw, and it was per
fectlon itself in that line. Colo
RADIO makes delicious butter the
year round, but it commands fab
ulous prices here, and States bat
ter is largely used.
The fruit show was almost moth
ing. One small table of preserves
and jellies, made of foreign fruit,
and q few specimens of fruit from
Kansas that made me ashamed of
hei, was about ali. 2 The honey de-
partment was fine. Chickens
plenty, and 1 sigh to think &C hay
ing given sixty cents for every
small chicken eaten this year.
The display of shOrt-horn and
Devonshire cattle was very fine
Indeed, some of these animals
were superb. There were also
Herefords, Attorneys and Jerseys
The Galloway cattle were certain
" the last to ever take premiums
for beauty, but it is said they car
live where a goat would starve.
The number of horses was mo-
very large, but there were some
very fine animals. My Impression
is that more attention is paid tc
racing horses than really ought &c
be, compared to that paid tx
horses for more domestic pur
poses. ss 20 ~ 7sf q d I5sss- s-.aa +
Hogs were there; among then
the Berkshire and Chester White
and the display of sheep was exten
sive.. There were Cotswolds direc
from Canada, and Spanish Meri
noes from near Denver and hide
pendence, Mo. Sheep raising i
one of the attractions here.
Trotting, pacing and runnin
races occupied the afternoons, an
the foot race was won by 9 grea
fellow from Boulder, who can ru
3 four m lies at a heat. liaazd
Ina general way / think care
full observer would say that i
point OF excellence very littl
fault could be found, but the nun
: Der of things exhibited was quit
limited owing to the yonthfalnel
q OF your sister territory.
v $500 M. L. f.