New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-07

Mimbres Mill and Mining Company will later place
exhibition one months product IN silver oa;
mems of all the minerals OF the Territory, colectcu
by The Aeic- Mcrodn aud Mining Aers.
There are also shown collection oil the RoIa
flagree work of the native Santa Fee jewelers,wltn
Pueblo pottery, consisting of quantity decorated
Jars aud pitchers and grotesque figures, and Navajo
blankets. n. 10,
Wyoming. owing to Governor Ioyts efforts, has
sent twenty boxes of specimens. CONSISTING 81
copper, Soda iron and silver. and including piock
of soda which weighs 500 pounds ,e-...
Montana contributes ores from Bntte ana Summit
Valley. including ore from the Vulcan NINE assay .
ing $500 ounces OF silver, and specimens iron 'n'
Sheridan assayIng 900 ounces.
From the Black Hills OF DAKOTA come eolu oIos
with some silver. with gold and SILVER sPsclmen,s
from Idaho, and coal, iron ana lead ron
There are also few woods and minerals nom
Central America, with examples OF petruactiohs
and cGystallizations.
MECHANICS AGRICULTURE AND ART.
The machinery exhibit in the south wing and
annex includes rotary and pumping engines, diIlis,
crushers, aInalgamatoTs, machines Tor eXcaVatlhg
and operating shafts, tubes and all mining Impie-
ments while maps and plans illustrating the weIk-
ing of mnrs interesting to the mining engineers
who meet here ON August . IN the convention Ct
the American Institute. The machinery Is from
New-York. Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and Gin
cihnati, ,,.,
The main feature of the agricultural exhibit is
the display of cereals from Kansas. Later theIe
will be shown a collection OF lora peculiar to the
mountains. Colorado shows grams. but most OF the
fruit to be shown will probably come from the
valleys OF New Mexico and southern california.
The railroad exhibits form an interesting part OF
the Exposition. Tho Denver and Rio urande
Railroad will later bring up the Ute cher lgnatlo
and band of ms followers, who are to encamp near
the building. The Union Pacific sho VS. cereals and
fruits. The AtchisUn, Topeka aud Santa re us
plays tasteful arches OF the stalks OF different
varieties of corn. frnoed with wheat sheayes ana
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record Of the crop yields of Kansas. Besides wheat
sheaves there cOrnstalks nineteen feet hlgn
pyramids encrusted with wheat corn, oats ana
rye. glass cylinders filled with grain silk cocoons
and sorghum syrup, and large collection oil GOLD,
silver and copper ores. including an oDelisk
twenty-five feet high encrustod with minerals
Denver has seen the gentle Oscar, and therefore
yearns for high art. so among the ores ana
machinery there ls an art collection. N the inner
northeast angle of tbc gallery where 800 paintings
have been brought together in rough room WIN
pine board walls, which would vet suffice were I
not for the wretched hight. There are several
paintings shown at tho last National Academy OK
hieition, q number from Philadelphia, and few
from Boston. Among the familiar signatures L
found the names OF George II. story, j. u Nlcol
McCOrd, Van Film, PARIS and Thomas Moran.
Near by is shown a large collection OF photographs
of Rocky Mountain scenery taken ny Nlilli,h H.
Jackson who accompanied the Hayden survey
GENERAL IMPRESSIONS
Necessarily have been able to do little more
than pass cursorily over TIE features OF this EXPOSE
ton. But | have been impressed with the truth OF
remark have heard again and again from visit
OTIS here that this Exposition shows in most
striking way the realization Of Mr.. Greeley
prophecies concerning the future development OF
the West
A striking thing 10 an Eastern man is the charac-
ter of the crowd assembled by this Exposition.
Every one carries samples of in his pockets and
the talk IL all of mill runs, prospects ana Strikes
There are bronzed prospbctors TO he met mere VINO
have dared the pers attending every new mining
excitement for the last twenty Yeal'. lou near
one man qnietly alude 10 the time when he was
chased two DAYS by the Utes, and another tells OF
being lost III the mountains killing his mutt, anu
walking till his bleeding feet could carry hun no
further. The gaming spirit peculiar to the adVcn-
,uIous miner has produced plenty of men with
windy romantic histories, who are now iounCug
capitalists hungry mining sharks and Spectators
side bv side with the honest brOnzed miner who
actually produces the wealth which they uso rs
the stak es in their gambling. There are men here
too with darker histories. one was pointed out 10
me "a pleasant Ooblng fellow, with BABY In ms
arms-whO narrowly escaped lynching at LeadVllle
last winter, and now resides elsewhere, rs he con
siders the climate of Leadville unsuted to his
health. 90
This Exposition will close on September 30, but
many of the ores will remain and the building he
used for permanent exhibition Another building
is to be erected for next years Exposition Within
a few davs the clergymen of Denver have come out
with a card earnestly protesting against the open
ing of the Exposition building on Sundays-a pro-
test which it is feared will not have warm sup