The Nevada picayune., 1885-03-26
Our Exposition Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent.


 the verdict of every one after view ing this colossal Worlds Fair, and one that must result ill immeasura- blc value 10 the whole cuntIy. It is of such vast proportions, and comprises so many departmentsJas to puzzle and confound the cores pondent in his efforts to portray it.
 Think of the Main building alone covering over thirty acres, (33 it is said. ) and every nook and corner all the vast floor and the vast gal leries filled with variety of Eyhibi- tiOns; from all lands, from every cline and sei. Every device of man, of art, is here represented and in competition.
 Nearly half a million square feet of space in this building is devoted to the display of machinery alone, and is fully occupied. There are nearly l2O different steam engines, and representing 1000 horse pow CT; many of these are used in oper- ating machinery, and are supplied with steam from main battery of 5l large boilers, and with miles of shafts, pnlleys and myriads, of wheels Tn operation, the scene sim ply batlies description. In this de- partment is represented all the lat est and best modern inventions in wood and iron working, farm and factory implements and devices, from the smallest pin papering ma chine up to the heavy cotton com press, whose pressure power is 2500 tons and weight 41OO0O pounds the largest machine on the ground. Of cotton. corn, wheat, sugar, and other farm and crop working i'm plements and machinery, there is no end.
 The forcin exhibits in the main building are of wonderful interest though not so extensive as were shown in the Centennial Exposition several nations there rcpreseted, having no official exhibits here. But the absence of these Is fully atoned for ill splended private dis. plays, and by Jamaica, the Repub- lie of Honduras, British. Honduras, Guatamala, Mexico, China and Ja- pan, whose respective governments, severally send magnificent repre- sentations of their natural resour- ces, woods, ores, grains, medicinal substances, manufactures and arts, making most gratifying exhibition of their industrial and social pro- gress.
 The most extensive of these for eign exhibits is that of Mexico, which covers ten thousand feet space; and astonishes everyone with both excellence and it's magni tude. In all varieties of leather, cloth and of the more delicate fab. rlcs, the skill of her artists and mechanics is shown to be scarcely a whit behind tn at of our own or of any other people, and at one bound Mexico has here achieved the respect and admiration of the world. Her government, with rare liberality, appropriated four hun dred thousand dollars to defray the expense of this display, and it will return to her twenty-fold in capital, which will thereby b, at. tracted to her country. Japan makes in addition toa general, most remarkable educational ex. hnbt, scarcely second to that made by our own government, and ccr, tainly superior to those made by some of our own states. Her books, school apparatus and furni. ture, are all of the best character, and her higher and common.schools are fully abreast of the ago in me thods and aims.
 Siam also has small space in the foregoing section, which is occu pied with very small and humble exhibit, calculated to attract the attention of tile missionary, and to awaken the sympathy of every vis- itor. It is composed of few cas- es, filled with samples ofthe coarse cotton goods of which the garments ot her poor people are made; an ola-time loom on which the cloth is woven, and the simple hand.tools with which her cotton is cultivated are also shown. The spaces alIot. ted tO Franco Great Britain Rus