Arizona citizen., 1875-10-09
RAILROAD EyTERPRIsE.
A Wonderful Collection for the Gen. tenniaI Exhibition by the Several Pacific Railways.

FacAuC AsalihayS.
 i Yesterday a representative of tho
 Bulletin was admitted to the rooms O
 the Central Pacific building on Town send street, where the superb collec
 tions of Pacific coast specimens for ex
 hibitiOn at Philadelphia are being st0r
 ed away and classified. The exhibi
 ton will be made under the immediate
 auspices of the company, although aI urgent appeal has been received from
 the Smithsonian Institution, asking
 that the privilege of making the dis
 play be granted to that management
 For the past eighteen months, the land department of the corporation has been industriously seeking out and gather ing together the finest mineral, cereal Iornithological and geological collec ton ever secured on this coast. Be. sides this the exhibit will embrace-in
 fact, already embraccs-some of the largest collections of marine, land and
 fresh water shells ever shown. More 1 over, specimens of all the coals of the | Pacific region have been secured. They represent fully one hundred different grades, from the finest Shasta to the cOmmonest slate mixed stone. The
 timber of the coast is represented by
 specimens, green, polished and petri-
 lied. There are also cuts from old .monarchs of the forest, whereOn ap- ! |proXlmate estimates of the rainfall for two centuries past are made in the
 rings which indicate the yearly growth. : To convince the incredulouS ones of
 the accuracy of estimating the mOis-
 ture of past decades and centuries by ! this method, butt cut is shown which
 was taken from tree planted seven teen years ago, and the records of rain fall thereon engraved compared with the annual registers preserved on paper ' by official meteorological societies. IL 1 is an easy task to satisfy the observer ! that the variation in the estimates is hardly perceptible, and on this basis the amount of moisture in the past is apprOXimated.
 It would require the space of an or dinary volume to mention the full list iof specimens embraced in this collec- ton, for they represent birds of every plumage, animals of every species, to-
 gether with curious alkaline forma- itions, pesoliteS, marble polished and
 rough, sandstone pummice, honey- icombed lava light enough to float, fOs- siliZed fish, borings from arteSlan wells, curious relics of armOr breaStplates, fossil reptiles, chronological speci-
 meus, etc. In the line of cereals the
 tallest corn stalks and the heaviest Sheaves of barley and wheat. together with thrashed grain in properly label ed bottles, are fitly represented. The mineral resources of the coast will be lndeXed by samples of copper and sil- yer ore, gold quartz, nuggets, etc The labor of gathering together the neces- sary specimens is not vet completed. From the early ripening grain of 1876, additional collections will be secured. and as new discoveries are made and curious relics found, efforts will be put forward To procure whatever there may be in them worthy of holding q place in the cabinet of the company. The collection as it now stands has been classified with the utmost care. The cabinet for the safe keeping of the rar- est and most valuable shells Is a model of beauty in design, and withal, con venient in is construction.
 During his recent visit t0 Philadel- phi-, Wu q. lIar;in. agent ot the Cal ifOrlis Immigrant Union, ascer,ained by conference with thc Centennial Manage-s that ln- Uai.n PaciEa and kan,4s Pacific railroad companies nave joined together and arranged for the erection of a building separate from ,ne regular halls Jf ,he oNhib;- ton for the special purpose of displav- ing the product. oi kausa>. Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. The railway ouIiGjl- "iil b. two stories in aei-l., lhe h-s, toor i3 6e uad ,or showing lhe vast array of minerals. ce- reals, and fruit collected from The Statcs and Territories named, while the second will be divided into sleeping apartments for ;he convenience of in- teresled exhibitors. IL is understood that a vigorous effort will be made up OR the part o1 progressive CalifOrnians, headed by NIT. Martin, to induce the Central Pacific to join the corporations first named and provide space by en- larging the building for a full display Df products, mineral, agricultural and !. pomological, from the States of Cali ! Iornia, Nevada and Oregon. If the . of Pacific coast enter ! prise should become thoroughly enlist ed in the Centennial cause, the exhib- | ts from this region would as;onish the world of spectators 8; Philadelphia. f IS. F. Bulletin, Sept 21