The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1885-03-28
OR EXPOSITION LETTER.

tue Wnolc country. IL IL ol sucn VAST
proportions, and comprises SO many
departments as to puzzle and confound
the correspondent in his Efforts to por-
tray it. Think Of the Main building
alone, covering over thirty acres, (33
it is said and every nook and corner,
ali the vast floor and the vast galleries
filled with variety ef Exhibits, from all
lauds, from every cline and sea. Ey-
cry devise Of man, Of art, is here rep
sesented and in competition.
Nearly half million square feet of
space in this building is devoted to the
display Of machinery alone, and is
fully occupied. There are nearly 150
different steam engines, and represent
ing 1000 horse power; many OF these
are used in operating machinery, and
are supplied with steam from main
battery OF 81 large boilers, and with
miles Of shafts, pulleys and myriads OF
wheels in operation, the scene simply
battles description. In this department
/ is represented all the latest and best
| inve tnns in wood and iron working.
farm and factory implements and de-
vices, from the smallest pin papering
machine up to the heavy cotton com
press, whose pressure power is 2500
tons aud weight 10000 pounds, the
| largest machine ON the ground. OF cot
ton, corn, wheat sugar, and other
farn and crop working implements
and machinery, there is no end. The
foreign exhibits intthe man building
are # wonderful in crest, though not
so extensive as were shown In the Cen
ten.al Exposition, several nations there
represented, having no official exhibits
here. But he absence of these is fully
atoued for IN splended private displays,
and by Jamaica, lie Republic of Hon
dlras. British Honduras, Guatemala,
Mexico, China aud Japan, whose re-
spectiye governments seyerally send
magniiicent approximations Of their
natural resources, woods, ores, grams.
medicinal substances, manufactures
and arts. making a most gtafif. lng ex
h bition of their industrial and social
progress
The most extensive OF these foreign
exhibits is that Of Mexico, which GOV.
ers space of 10000 feet, and aston
irbss everyone with both magnitude
and excellence In all varieties OF
leather. cloth, ard the finer fabrics the
SIX il of her artists and mechanics is
scarcely whit behind that of cur own
or Of any other people, ana at che
bound Mexico has here achieved the
respect and admiration Of the world
Her government, with rare lioerslity,
appropriated 100000 to defray the
expenses OF this display, aud it will re
turn to her tweDty-iold in capital,
which viii thereby be attracted to
their country.
japan makes III addition to a cener
al, u most remarkable educational
show, scarcely second to that made by
our own government, and Ger alnly SUI
per or to that made by some of our
States. Her books, school apparatus
and furniture, are all Of the best char
aeter, and her hiaher and common
schools are fully abreast Of the age in
methods and aims.
Sam also has small space in the
foreign section, which is occupied by IA
very small and humble exhibit. calcu- !
lated t, attract he atten ion If the
missionary and awaken the sympathy
of every visitor II IS composed Of IA
few cases, filed with samples of the
coarse cotton goods OF Which garments
Of her poor people ate made; on eld-
time loom ON which the cotton is wo-
ven, aud the simple hand tools With
which their cotton is cultivated, are
also shown. The space allotted to
France, Great Britain, Ru sia, Ger
many, Italy and to the South Ameri-
caunfry, are wholly occupied III this
building, with pr ate eAhnbils ON sale,
and comprising fine goods, cloths,
glass aud bronze wares, with many
curious specimens peculiar to those
countries.
A wonderful exhibit in the furniture
department is that Of chairs, rattan
and reed furniture, If theas NJ di-i
fereut designs, shown by Haywood
Bros, q 90, of Gardner, Mass., e.
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