The Arizona sentinel., 1876-07-01
YUMA. A. T.. SATURDAY, JULY 1876.

| DTOuRNG In0u GrI0u 10 SCult IL
but only succeeded in saturatine
the goods with sea- water. The
Commissioners of those countries
are working hard to repair dam
ages, but with only partial success
as many Of the finer goods were
rendered utterly worthless.
The number of visitors to the
grounds has been daily increasing,
as was expected, and yesterday
$4,000 persons deposited their fif.
ty cents and passed through the
different turnstiles. The number
of paying entrances so far have
been about 400, 1000, and as natur-
al consequence Centennial stock
is on the rise.
To begin the description of ex.
hibits / will take a country which
I can complete in this letter, and
I find such an one in Queensland.
The relative and intrinsic import
ance of this and the other divi.
sions of Australia, are we'll shown
in their display here, and those
who seek for them not expecting
to see much will go away most
agreeable disappointed
A thousand square feet of wall
are devoted to maps and charts Of
different parts of the country; the
lowlands, the hilly districts and
the more mountainous ones, with
immense herds of cattle and sheep
grazing along the bouncing
streams, or upon the vast uplands.
The prices of the differeht sections
are marked at from one to five
dollars per acre. Much of the
wilder and more romantic scenery
is also represented by innum era
BILE photographs. The most pro-
minent exhibit upon the ground
space of 1000 square feet is a gild-
ed pyramid over twenty feet in
height, and three feet square at
it's base, which represents the
bulk of gold which the Queens
land gold mines produced between
1868 and 1875. The weight repre-
sented by this pile is over IS tons.
and its value only the paltry sum
of S35, 100000.
The richness of the Australia
Goldruffs is also we'll displayed.
Copper and tin are also there in
abundance, in pyramids of ingots
and in their natural state. Speci-
men of chrane and spiculariron,
and the alloy of iron, and anti
mOny found in various parts of
the colony are also tastefully ar.
ranged on all sides. Bituminous
coal, one of their chief products is
shown in every form, one variety,
which when polished looks. like
rose wood except in color looks is
particularly noticeable. Varie-
gated marbles, skulls of anti dilu-
vian mammoths. Angora wool,
specialties in sugar and wheat, a
collection of native hard woods
polished, fossilfirous and volcanic
rock specimens, beautiful butter
flies, examples of the thick even-I
fibred GidG Reb,t$G or Queensland
hemp and Kangaroos and Walla-
O1OO AOA LII Ci1O UoldAOC VI ChO CA
hibit of this distant and inper-
fectly known country. None of
the articles are for sale, but every
thing is put in its most attractive
and practical form to induce i'm
migration, as the people out there |
seem to think they are lonely
although their popula-
tion has increased over 500 hun
dred per cent since 1860.
The billiard tournment, which !
has just ended was remarkable for
the large runs and high averages
made. Sexton, who took the first
prize of $2500, did the most won
derful playing, and executed the
highest runs ever made in pub
lie match, he ran 251 and 287 max
ing an average of so in the latter
game. Joe Dion made an aver
age of so, the next highest aver
age recorded. GARNER took the
second prize.