The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-10-01
KANSAS FRUIT.
Tho Finest Display at the Chicago
Exposition.
What the People Of Chicago
Think of Kansas PRODUCTS.

V1St to0 feOpl0 OF C0lcegO
Think Of Kansas Products.
From Oar Special Correspondent
CHICAGO, Sept. 25. 1874.
We left Leaven~orth Thuredsy evening
at 4 O'Clock. on the Chicago. Rock I-lani
4 Paci6c Railroad, and arrived here mex,
day sb n. the same hour. Our fruits, eraius,
aod vegetable, ga here Saturday moraing.
asd We Immediately commenced uor acliog
and arranging cur goods snd arranging our
tablss. And By ri n, h ID ab mt h al of it out;
Mooday and Tuesday - finished up. and
opened ont th. tines: display Of fruits ON ex-
hitition. That ve have III. hes. Lection
Il nov ooncsd-d BY all oomp.,i,ors.
Our Nebraska friends are here With
creditabIe variety Of farm produces. but
everything falls short In s'z.; their fruit.
e-pesis!ls, docs 60: come up TO expectations.
I,sa is here in full forcs, and take, the
lead in vege' able, and probably grains.
They chow ruupSins that measure over
seven feet in sircumfereIce. In mel n. We
dispute the championship with them; our
solhc ion. grown BY A. V. Brown, Of cur
couo,y. end Il ein being 30 pesr the same
sig. that ii can only be determined by sexual
messlremsn' They have a magnificent,
collection Of o;htr vegetable. both in siz. ,
ard va. ley. The grains, fruits and vege-
tab e, shown BY Lyon county at our State
Fair are here, and are credit mt orly 10
Lyon county, but to the Stat. II her peo-
pie could sse them here in comparieon with
the tiiminutive products Of otter States they
would sill feel prouder Of their county.
The leading characteristic Of our State, SIS
shown BY tn 8 - veil - former exhibitors s,
is h.r fruit. especially her apples. This i,
nov the sixth year in succession that We
have shown fruits in other S;afes, and at all
times with the same UNIFORM succsss. Cali
fornia re uly always be ais Us in rize. hut in
color, q ,vor and number of varieties grown
70 perfection, we have AZ all times .xCelIed
and even in size. we're We {, masks that d
leading point, We could comI are iavorab'y,
as times even with c lilo: nis. In or col.
lection mere We have plate of G.ori Mon. ii
grown BY Theodore Deul, # Paramount. The
Ia,gest Of which measures f teen inche,
round. We also have several variei - tn n
Wyandotte county, that measure four,ee,
inches ard oser, scd attract much a,teoiioo
In Vegetables We do o; make much IL /:
dnI lay. Neither have We = large variety o
grain, but what Ne have is credit.ble. A
compile OF hill, Of coIn, grown By J. S Va,
Winkle, Il Pleasant kid.e, has a Grove
around il nearly all the time. The ears az
up 70 high that il takes . tall man TO resci
them. One little fellow c,u.ed much mer
riment yesterday, after vain'y try ing to ACT
them, ky exdlsiming: "Weii. be gu derned
hev heern tell Of Corn that lad ter hev
ladder 10 cit TO the y arr, bot never seen i
before" Two varie les Of corn. grown b,
w. II. Thomas. of Salt Creex vsl!ey, ell,
take tee eye Of the pork raisess Of III State
None of the ears are less than one foot j,
length, and one is sixteen and half inche
in leogth, and ten inche, in c;rcuDfeIenc.
This collection took the 6rst pr tmium a
the State Fair.
Cur apple. opened out in tine condition =
not brulse about them, and are Colcrei III
nicely, and make much better sppesranc
than 1t the State Fair. The other rIuit
have changed more or les, and 90 not shov
60 we'll.
In nv report Of contributors neslec;.,
to men ion thst II james q. Kerr, Who fur
niehed very fine collect on If q vsrietie
OF srp!es and 10 OF pears.
The Interstate ExpCs ltiOp, 20 far AZ d :
plsy is concerned, 10 grand sucxss.
haze not had time YET TO examine in detail
all the departments.
Tho building covers two entire blocks am
il filled, literally full, with the choicest pso
ducts OF industry. The north end in file,
with agriculture al implements from all part
Of the land. and such . Gi.plsy have neve
seen squsled. The rOu,h end il one vas
sreenhoure, filed and 'astefuIly nrrsnges
With the choicett productions OF tic flor:
cnl'urists Of the surrounding country.
90 the east side The art gallery is ii ,,et
And contains ore Of the 6nert collect Ons o
painting i. has ever BEEN my fortune to be
hold. The central part OF the building i
filed BY merchants and manufacturers viii
their waEes and products of every imaginabl,
ttyle and variety, from an e!sb ,raie thcu.
| eand dollar die-s down to u rocket bandker
Oh e., from 4 s'esm pump 20 a monks,
wrench
| Ar0uLd the entire main kilding runs /:
| gallery about thirty feat in width, the out
side Of which Is divided into ctioos, wher,
isrm protucts, fruits, rs,ln al displays anC
many other things are di-plsyed. The in
side Of the gallery is one vas, promenad,
around the entire building. from any poin,
ct which we have an elevated view Of the in.
tesior Of The building
Altogether, the building. the di.pl.y and
al the interior arrapgemen,s shows . skill
| and tsste # high order in is management.
Another feature Of this exhi bi ion would
like to call attention &c. II "a claimed by
most pessons that snccessful Fair c,nnot
Be held without paying large premiums,
while here u the FMS: difplsy l have ever
witn ssed, and / am told not one d. lar in
premiums 10 to be p.id, nor has any ever
been offered.
Tomorrow ve start for home We have
turned cur fruits over to c. N. Pr.r, the
vide swske AID ens r.etic Lind Agent # the
Kansas Pacific Railroad, who will continue
them on txhibi ion q. Kansas fruits grown
en- the line of the ir road.
We had tue pleasure of meeting mary
kansans here, among we're Tnomas Leonard
and Major Sleeper Of our place.
F. NELLHoUsE