Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-11-12
GEO. I'll. BLAKE. Publisher.

produced anything better than 1.-THE
ague shakes" can make such an elab-
crate display. Evidently somebody
there does something besides shake.
In minerals she exhibits gold, silver,
iron ore. galena, copper, magnetic
ore, zinc, lead, oil and soap stone,
coal, etc. Crystal rock, brought from
Crystal Mountain, is as beautiful as
collection Of finely cut prisms; the
brilliants, from the Hot Springs, are
masquerading all over the country as
diamonds, and sometimes deceive eX-
perts. Tufa, from the same place
resembles soap suds dotted with SCOT.
A large case of minerals contains
many treasures, and some beauties.
A petrified shoe, found twelve feet
below the surface, near Helena, Ark.
after the sand slide and cyclone last
April, looks like an old settler. Ev-
identity It's owner forsook it long ago,
and it has since gradually changed
until now it is like iron-the only
piece of petrified leather ever saw.
The finest assortment of fruits
peaches, pears, plums, berries, ETC.
on exhibition is in this booth. They
are preserved in alcohol, and are
beauties. The vegetable kingdom is
also fully represented, and the State
Blind Asylum shows some fine speci-
mems of silk cocoons. The nation
woods, willow, grains, grasses, wool,
cotton, etc. etc., help to make up
what every one pronounces a very
fine exhibit, and when 1 read the
motto:
ssArkansas can blow her own horn,"
l thought she need not be modest
for she had plenty worth blowing
about. Once the state gets railroads
and drainage, and the world will hear
there is something there besides "the
shakes
TENNESSEE,
like each of the states mentioned,
has its booth tastefully and hand
somely decorated. The roof of the
pagoda is supported by pillars of ma
tive woods, highly polished-one
each of black walnut, oak, ash, lau-
rel, sugar maple, cherry and red gum.
These are onl y few of the speci-
mems of valuable timbers which are
so abundant in the Tennessee forests.
Lumbermen have been cutting it for
years and still there Is no voice
raised in protest SO vast are the
wooded lands. The specimens of
marble are beautiful indeed, and
something no state in the Union can
excel-even if they can approach it.
In the new state department at Wash
ington are several tablets made from
these variagated marbles, and the
demand for them is steadily increas-
ing. Our specimen, enclosed in a
frame SX10 is more like a picture
than a piece of stone. The only
piece like it / have ever seen is in
the State House of Georgia. The
two are almost identical, but this lat
ter is accredited to Vermont. Can
any one tell me what quarry it came
from? The minerals of Tennessee
are exceptionally fne-coal, copper,
iron, zinc-and so on through the list.
A look at them gives some idea of
the wonderful wealth which has lain
undeveloped all these long years,
and would have never seen the light
had slavery continued, for slavery
and progress were ever sworn enc
mics.
The products of the soil-fruit,
vegetables, grain, grasses, sorghum,
millet, tobacco, nuts, cotton, ETC.,
are all represented, and the county
of Haywood alone makes a display
elaborate enough to stock a county
fair.
The old things are Bible of great
age and a pair of child's shoes made
in Richmond, Va, in 1870.
Tennessee makes a most admira-
BILE exhibit and is already reaping
benefit from it, over 700 men from
the north west having registered at
the office of State Commissioner of
Agriculture, at Nashville, since Oct.
1st, and each of them on the lookout
for home. Tennessee is state of
varied resources, many of them un-
developed. No finer iron ore; no
better coal no higher grade of zinc,
copper or lead, can be found, and
mines seem inexhaustible. Mineral
paint is to be had for the grinding /;
fine clays, for pottery, abound; tim
Der handsome enough to decorate a
palace is so plenty it is made into
! kitchen furniture; and in eastern
Tennessee marble is so abundant the
roads are McAdamized with it, and
the man who wants to sell his farm
cheerfully offers to throw the raw
material for grave-stones in without
extra charge.
TRUFAX.
NdshUille, Tenn, Oct. 1.
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